Who we are
FreshBit is made by dotXline LTD, 37 Maes Y Crofft, Morganstown, Cardiff CF15 8FE, United Kingdom. Contact us at hello@dotxline.com.
What stays on your device
Without an account, everything you do in FreshBit stays on your iPhone, iPad or Mac:
- stories you save, hide or have opened;
- your settings, such as topics, muted sources, appearance and haptics;
- copies of stories you open or save, so they work offline.
Sign in with Apple (optional)
If you choose to sign in, FreshBit keeps a private copy of your saved stories, hidden stories, read history and settings in your account, so they come back after a reinstall and on your other devices. Apple may give us your name and email address, or a private relay address if you choose “Hide My Email”.
Only you can read your account’s data. You can sign out at any time, and you can delete your account in Settings › Account › Delete account. Deleting it removes the account and its cloud copy. What is on your device stays there.
Alerts
If you turn on alerts, your device gets a push token from Apple through the Expo push service. FreshBit stores that token with the choices needed to send your alerts: your topics, keyword alerts, morning brief time, time zone and the stories you follow. It doesn’t store your name with them.
Turn alerts off in Settings to stop them. Alert registrations that haven’t been refreshed for 90 days are removed automatically.
Search and reading
When you search, your search words are sent to the FreshBit server to find matching stories. FreshBit doesn’t save them to your account or to its database.
On supported iPhones, story briefs are written on your device by Apple Intelligence. Article text isn’t sent to any AI service. “Read on …” opens the original article on the publisher’s site, which has its own privacy policy.
What we don’t do
- No advertising.
- No analytics or tracking code in the app.
- No selling or sharing of your data with advertisers or data brokers.
- No tracking across other companies’ apps or websites.
Where data is kept
FreshBit’s server runs on Supabase in the London region (eu-west-2). Alerts are delivered through the Expo push service and Apple Push Notification service.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask to see, correct or delete personal data we hold about you. Email hello@dotxline.com. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).
Children
FreshBit is a news app for professionals and isn’t aimed at children.
Changes
If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.