Privacy
Infotify for Android · last updated 3 September 2026
Infotify is published by Nativia Solutions. This page describes what the app keeps, what its news service receives, and what neither of them collects. It is written to be read rather than to be survived, and it says what actually happens rather than what a policy is allowed to permit.
There is no account. Infotify never asks for a name, an email address, a phone number or a sign-in, and it has nowhere to put one. Nothing you read is filed against a person.
What stays on your phone
All of this is stored by the app in its own storage on your device. None of it is sent to us.
- The subjects you chose, so your feed can lead with them.
- Articles you saved, in a database on the phone.
- Recently loaded articles, cached so the app opens with something to read and works for a moment without a connection. You can clear the cache from Settings.
- Your settings, such as the theme.
Uninstalling Infotify, or clearing its storage from your Android settings, removes all of it. There is no copy anywhere else to remove.
What the news service receives
Infotify does not talk to news providers directly. It asks our own service at
infotify-api.nativia.co, which fetches the news and passes it back.
That service receives:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| The request itself — a topic or a search term, a language, a page number | To fetch the right headlines |
| The IP address the request came from, as every web request carries | To stop one source of traffic from exhausting the service for everyone else |
These are not joined to a profile, an identifier or a history. There is no identifier in the app to join them to.
What is written down, exactly
The rate limiter is the only part that keeps anything, and what it keeps is a counter: one small file per address per minute, named after a SHA-1 of the IP address and the timestamp to the minute. It records how many requests arrived, and nothing else — no paths, no search terms, no user agents, no articles. Those files are deleted within a day, on the same sweep that clears the news cache.
We would rather be plain than flattering about that hash: hashing an IP address is not anonymising it. There are few enough possible addresses that anyone holding the file could work backwards to the original. So treat it as what it is — your IP address, held for at most a day, counted and used for nothing else.
Why the service exists at all
Two reasons, and both of them are yours as much as ours. It holds the news provider’s key on the server instead of inside every installed copy of the app. And it caches each request for a few minutes, so a thousand people asking for the same headlines are one request rather than a thousand — which also means the provider upstream sees our server asking, not you.
Where the news comes from
Headlines, summaries, publication dates, publisher names and images come from a third-party news aggregator, which collects them from publishers. Our service makes those requests; the aggregator does not receive your IP address or anything else about your device.
Opening an article takes you to the publisher’s own page. From that point you are on their website, under their privacy policy, not ours.
Notifications
If you allow notifications, Infotify can remind you about the day’s headlines. The reminder is scheduled by the app on your phone and fetches through the same service as everything else. Nothing is pushed to you from our servers, and turning notifications off in Android settings ends it.
What Infotify does not do
- No advertising, and no advertising identifier is read.
- No analytics or crash-reporting service is built into the app.
- No location, contacts, photos, files, calendar or microphone.
- Nothing is sold, rented or shared with anyone for their own purposes.
Children
Infotify is a general news reader and is not directed at children. It does not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age, because it does not collect information about people at all.
Deleting your data
Everything the app holds is on your phone: uninstall it, or clear its storage in Android settings, and it is gone. If you would like to ask us anything about this, or want the service’s operational records checked for a particular address, write to contact@nativia.co.
Changes
If Infotify starts doing something this page does not describe, this page changes first, and the date at the top changes with it.
Contact
Nativia Solutions — contact@nativia.co