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App Privacy

Last updated: October 13, 2026

The Access Information News app for iPhone, iPad and Android is published by Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. It shows the newest issue of Access Information News and the issues before it. This page explains what the app does with information. In short: there is no account, no advertising added by the app and no tracking.

What the App Does Not Do

  • It never asks you to sign in or make an account.
  • It adds no advertising of its own and uses no advertising identifiers. The issues it shows are the newsletter itself, so they carry the newsletter’s sponsors, its Featured Advertisement and its classified advertisements, exactly as the website does.
  • It contains no tracking code from other companies, and on iPhone and iPad no analytics code from other companies either. On Android, Google’s translation (ML Kit) reports its own diagnostics to Google, as described under On Android below.
  • It does not sell, share or rent any information about you.
  • It does not track you across other apps or websites.

What Stays on Your iPhone

The app keeps these on your iPhone only, so it works without a connection:

  • The words of every issue, 2022 to today, so Search works with no connection: the older issues’ words come inside the app, and recent issues are downloaded whole soon after you first open the app, along with each new issue as it comes out. Any other issue you open is kept on your iPhone.
  • The articles you save for later, and your notes and highlights.
  • Where you left off in each issue.
  • Which issues you have opened and which articles you have reached, for the New and Opened marks.
  • The words and names you follow with Topic Alerts. When the new-issue notification arrives, your iPhone looks through the new issue for them itself. A copy of them is kept in the iPhone’s keychain, where the part of the app that handles notifications can read them.
  • Your settings: text size, appearance, reading font, colors, line spacing, Listen speed and voice, emoji, the buttons under each article, where links open, how stories show, the language you translate into, notifications and reading counts.

None of it is sent to us. Your saved articles, notes, highlights and settings are part of your iPhone’s own backup, if you use one; the downloaded issues are left out of it, since they can be downloaded again. Deleting the app deletes them from this device, except the keychain copy of your Topic Alerts words, which iOS keeps until the app is installed again (it is then replaced) or the iPhone is erased.

What the App Asks the Internet For

  • Issues: the app downloads issues, including the older issues from November 2022 to March 2026, from WordPress.com, which hosts accessinformationnews.com, the same way your browser does when you visit the website. When a new issue comes out, the app may download it in the background, so it is ready to read. Like any website, WordPress.com receives your iPhone’s internet address when it sends an issue. Its privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/
  • Links: when you tap a link in an issue, the page opens inside the app in Apple’s Safari viewer, in its Reader view when the site has a story to show, or in the Safari app if you choose that in Settings. The site you visit, for example YouTube or a news site, receives your visit as it would in Safari, under its own privacy policy. A link to an issue on accessinformationnews.com opens in the app itself.
  • Sending us a story: Send to Access Information News, in the Share sheet of Safari and other apps, opens our Submit an Article form with the story’s link and title filled in. It is the same form as on our website, run for us by Formsite; nothing is sent until you tap Submit, and what you send goes to Formsite and to us, as it does from the website. We keep a story you send for as long as we need it to consider it; to have yours deleted, write to publisher@accessinformationnews.com 📧️.

Apple Features the App Uses

  • iCloud: if you are signed in to iCloud, your saved articles, notes and highlights, settings, Topic Alerts words and where you left off in each issue are also kept in your own iCloud account, so they appear on your other Apple devices. We cannot see them. Deleting the app does not delete these iCloud copies: they come back if you install the app again on a device signed in to the same iCloud account.
  • Translation: Translate uses Apple’s own translation, which runs on your iPhone. The issue’s words are translated on the device; the first time you choose a language, iOS may download it from Apple.
  • iPhone search: the articles of the issues on your iPhone are added to the iPhone’s own search, on your iPhone only. You can turn this off in iPhone Settings, Apps, Access Information News, Siri & Search.
  • Calendar: Add to Calendar opens Apple’s own New Event screen. The app cannot see your calendar, and nothing is added unless you tap Add.
  • Sharing: Share opens Apple’s Share sheet with the article’s title and a link to it on accessinformationnews.com; Share Issue sends a link to the whole issue, or a text file or EPUB book of it made on your iPhone. The app never sees who you send it to or where you save it.
  • Siri: when you ask Siri to search the issues, Siri passes your words to the app, which searches the issues on your iPhone.
  • Ratings: after you have used the app on four different days, it may show Apple’s own request to rate it. Apple decides whether it appears, and your answer goes to Apple, not to us.

Notifications

If you turn on the new issue notification, Apple gives your iPhone an anonymous code that lets an alert reach it. The app sends that code, and nothing else, to our notification service, which runs on Cloudflare (https://cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/). The service keeps the code and the date it arrived, and uses it only for each new issue: a quiet notification when the issue is published, which lets the app download it with no alert or sound, and the alert itself, normally at 6:00 AM Eastern (at once when an issue comes out between 6:00 AM and 9:00 PM Eastern). The app sends the code again from time to time, so the alert keeps reaching your iPhone if Apple changes it. The code does not identify you. Turn the notification off in the app’s Settings and the code is deleted from our service. If Apple tells us a code no longer works, for example because the app was deleted, we delete it too. The alert also puts a 1 on the app’s icon until you open the new issue. Topic Alerts are made by your iPhone itself, when the alert arrives: it downloads the new issue from WordPress.com and looks for your words in it. Your words never reach our service.

Anonymous Reading Counts

To learn what readers find most useful the app keeps anonymous counts of which issues and articles are opened, saved, read aloud or kept on screen for 5 seconds or more, and which links in them are tapped, and sends them to us once a day. The counts contain nothing that identifies you or your iPhone. You can turn this off in the app’s Settings with the switch Share Anonymous Reading Counts.

The counts are kept on our service on Cloudflare: each day’s totals for 35 days, and the running totals for each issue for as long as the app is published. Because nothing in them identifies you, they cannot be traced to you or deleted for one reader. Turning the switch off stops them at once, and counts not yet sent are thrown away.

Information Apple May Share with Us

If you chose to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone’s settings, Apple may send us anonymous crash reports and usage statistics for the app. You can change that in iPhone Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements.

On Android

The Android app does what the iPhone app does, with these differences.

  • Backup: your saved articles, notes, highlights, settings and Topic Alerts words are part of Android’s own backup, if you use it; the downloaded issues are left out, since they can be downloaded again. Your Topic Alerts words stay on your phone and never reach us.
  • Links open inside the app in a Chrome Custom Tab, or in your browser if you choose that in Settings. The site you visit receives your visit as it would in your browser.
  • Notifications: if you turn on the new issue notification, Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging gives the app an installation ID that lets an alert reach your phone. The app sends that ID, and nothing else, to our notification service on Cloudflare, which keeps it and uses it exactly as it uses Apple’s code on iPhone, and deletes it when you turn the notification off. Firebase also tells Google your phone’s Android version and model, which Google uses only to count how Firebase is used. Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
  • Translation: Translate uses Google’s ML Kit, which translates on your phone; the first time you choose a language, your phone downloads it from Google. ML Kit also sends Google its own diagnostic information: your phone’s model and Android version, an identifier for this installation of the app, the languages you chose, timings and error codes. It does not send the issue’s words. Google’s description: https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/android-data-disclosure
  • Calendar: Add to Calendar opens your calendar app’s own new event screen. The app cannot see your calendar, and nothing is added unless you save it there.
  • Sharing: Share opens Android’s Share sheet; the app never sees who you send it to or where you save it.
  • There is no iCloud, Siri, iPhone search or rating request on Android.
  • Information Google may share with us: if you chose to share usage and diagnostics with Google on your phone, Google Play may send us anonymous crash reports and statistics for the app.

Children

The app is a newsletter about access information for adults. The app itself collects no personal information from anyone, including children; a story you choose to send with Send to Access Information News carries the name and email you type into the form.

Changes and Contact

If this page changes, the date at the top will change. Questions: publisher@accessinformationnews.com 📧️

Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd., publisher of Access Information News.