Privacy Policy

What we collect

• Account details — your email address, optional display name, and time zone.
• Your preferences — the topics and feeds you follow, sub-topics you mute, and your newsletter cadence.
• Reading activity — which articles you save, hide, or mark as read, so your feed and newsletter stay relevant.
• Billing state — your plan, subscription status, and renewal date. Card details are handled by Stripe; Quirl never sees or stores them.
• Usage analytics — pages you visit and basic interactions, plus standard technical details (device, browser, approximate location from your IP), collected through our analytics provider so we can improve the product. You can opt out anytime.

How we use it

To run your account, assemble your personalized feed, generate and deliver your newsletter, send essential account email (welcome, email verification, password reset), and manage your subscription. We use AI only to summarize, rank, and assemble content from the sources you choose — never to fabricate news. Our AI provider receives only the article text it summarizes; we never send it your personal data or who's reading.

Who we share it with

We don't sell your personal data or share it for advertising. Two service providers process data on our behalf:

• Our payment processor, Stripe, which handles billing and subscriptions and receives your billing details under its own privacy policy.
• Our analytics provider, PostHog (US), which receives the usage data described below so we can understand how the site is used. You can opt out at any time — see Your choices.

Quirl also fetches articles from the RSS feeds and news searches you choose to follow; we don't share your identity with those sources. (Our AI provider only ever sees article text, not your personal data — see How we use it above.)

Cookies

Quirl uses essential cookies plus privacy-respecting analytics cookies you can opt out of. See the Cookie Policy for the full list.

Retention

We keep your account data for as long as your account is active. When you delete your account, we remove your personal data, except where we're required to retain limited billing records for legal and accounting purposes.

Your choices

You can update your email, change your password, and manage or cancel your subscription from your account settings at any time. You can opt out of analytics from the Cookie Policy page (or the cookie notice). To request access to or deletion of your data, contact us.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle your data, we'll update this page and revise the date above. For significant changes, we'll give you notice.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email [email protected].