Short version: we collect the minimum needed to personalize your feed, we keep it to ourselves, and we don't sell it or run third-party ads. We do use Google Analytics to understand aggregate traffic.
Account. If you sign in, we store your email address, when you joined, and the preferences you set: topics and keywords you follow, sources you mute, stories you save, and your email-digest setting.
Reading activity. We log which stories are viewed, opened, searched for and listened to, along with the page you arrived from (the browser's referrer) and your browser's user-agent string, which we use to tell real visitors from crawlers and to see which sites send us traffic. For visitors who aren't signed in, this is tied only to an anonymous random id — not to a name or email — and we do not store your IP.
Activity and preferences power the personalized "For you" feed (e.g. demoting stories you've already read), the Following feed, and aggregate usage stats that help us improve the product. Your preferences and reading history are never sold or shared with third parties. We do use Google Analytics to measure aggregate traffic (pages viewed, rough location, device) so we can see what's working; it is not tied to your account or email, and there is no advertising on the site.
Two first-party cookies: bf_sid, a random anonymous id used for the
activity log (1 year), and a session cookie that keeps you signed in. In addition,
Google Analytics sets its own cookies (e.g. _ga) to measure aggregate
traffic. The third-party requests the site makes are to Google Fonts (for fonts) and
Google Analytics (for traffic measurement).
Your email is used solely for sign-in and — only if you opt in — the daily or weekly digest. You can switch the digest off at any time from your profile. No marketing mail.
You can unfollow, unmute, unsave and switch off the digest yourself at any time. If you want your account and its data deleted, ask us via the contact page and we'll remove it.
BrevFeed is a young, actively developed product and this note will keep growing into a fuller privacy policy (with a named data controller and contact address) as it matures. Last updated July 2026.