Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 2026-06-28 Last Updated: 2026-06-17

This Privacy Policy explains how Newseeze, Inc. ("Newseeze," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and shares information when you use the Newseeze Chrome extension, web dashboard, and related services (the "Service").

If you do not agree with this Policy, do not use the Service.

1. Information We Collect

Newseeze is designed to minimize the collection and storage of personal information.

Where practical, we rely on specialized service providers to handle authentication, payment processing, and email delivery rather than storing that information directly ourselves. As a result, Newseeze generally maintains only the information necessary to operate user wallets, process article purchases, administer publisher relationships, provide support, and comply with legal obligations.

1.1 Information you provide

• Account information: your email address and, if provided, your name, managed on our behalf by Clerk, Inc.
• Payment information: processed by Stripe, Inc. Newseeze never sees or stores your full credit card number. We receive confirmation of successful payments (amount, currency, timestamp, last 4 digits of card) to record wallet top-ups.
• Support communications: email you send us and our responses.

1.2 Information collected automatically

• Reading activity: which articles you unlock, from which publisher, at what price, and when. We use this to keep your wallet accurate and to show your reading history.
• Wallet activity: top-up amounts, deductions, balance.
• Technical data: browser type and version, extension version, coarse geographic region (from IP), and error logs necessary to operate and debug the Service.
• Publisher request data: if you request support for a publisher that is not yet a Newseeze partner, we log the domain and a hash-derived identifier so we can track aggregate demand.

1.3 Information we do NOT collect

• We do not track your general web browsing. The Chrome extension is designed to activate only on pages where a known paywall is detected, and is intended to read only the minimum page data needed to (a) identify the publisher and (b) render our overlay.
• We do not read or transmit the contents of articles you view, other than the URL and publisher identity needed to process a purchase.
• We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
• We do not use invasive tracking technologies such as cross-site advertising cookies or fingerprinting.

2. How We Use Information

We use the information above to:

• Provide the Service (authenticate your account, manage your wallet, unlock articles)
• Process payments and remit publisher royalties
• Send service-related emails (receipts, low-balance warnings, security notices)
• Operate, maintain, debug, and improve the Service
• Enforce our Terms of Service and detect fraud or abuse
• Comply with legal obligations
• Aggregate reading demand for product planning (e.g., which publishers to partner with next) — always in anonymized, aggregated form

We do not use your information for targeted advertising, and we do not sell or "share" your personal information as those terms are defined under California or similar state privacy laws.

3. How We Share Information

We share information only in the following ways:

Publishers receive aggregate readership statistics, unlock counts, and revenue totals. Newseeze does not provide publishers with individual reader identities, account information, or personal reading histories.

To the extent specific transaction records are directly at issue in a revenue-share dispute with a Publisher we may share only the minimum data necessary to resolve the dispute. Absent a revenue-share dispute, Publishers do not receive reader profiles, reading histories, or personal identifiers. Newseeze is not building behavioral advertising profiles or selling data.

4. Data Retention

• Active accounts: retained while your account is open.
• Closed accounts: financial records retained for 7 years to comply with tax and audit obligations. Other personal data is deleted or anonymized within 90 days of account closure, except where legal process requires longer retention.
• Publisher request logs: aggregated demand metrics retained indefinitely; individual request records anonymized within 180 days.
• Server logs: 30 days.

5. Security

We use industry-standard measures to protect your information, including encryption in transit (HTTPS/TLS), encryption at rest for databases and backups, signed webhooks, rate limiting, and restricted administrative access. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach occurs that affects you, we will notify you as required by applicable law.

6. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to:

• Access — request a copy of the personal information we hold about you
• Correct — update inaccurate information
• Delete — ask us to delete your personal information, subject to our legal retention obligations
• Object / Restrict — object to certain uses or ask us to restrict processing
• Portability — receive your data in a portable format
• Withdraw consent — where processing is based on consent
• Non-discrimination — we will not deny service or charge different prices because you exercise these rights

To exercise these rights, email privacy@newseeze.com from the address associated with your account. We will respond within the time required by applicable law (typically 30–45 days).

California Residents (CCPA/CPRA)

In addition to the rights above, you may request information about the categories of personal information we have collected, disclosed, or "sold" (we do not sell) in the past 12 months. You may also request that we limit our use and disclosure of any sensitive personal information, and you may opt out of any automated decision-making, in each case to the extent required by applicable California law. You may designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf.

EU/UK Residents (GDPR/UK GDPR)

Our legal bases for processing are: performance of a contract (to deliver the Service), legitimate interest (to secure, improve, and operate the Service), compliance with legal obligations, and consent (where specifically requested). If you are located in the EU or UK and wish to contact our representative, or if you have questions about our processing, please email privacy@newseeze.com. You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Data Controller

For purposes of applicable privacy laws, including the GDPR, UK GDPR, and similar state privacy laws, Newseeze acts as the data controller with respect to reader account information and purchase activity processed through the Service.

Our service providers, including Clerk, Stripe, Neon, Resend, and Railway, process information on our behalf pursuant to contractual obligations and applicable law.

7. Children

The Service is not directed to children under 13 (or under 16 where required by applicable law). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or the applicable higher age in your jurisdiction). If you believe we have collected such information, contact us and we will delete it.

8. International Transfers

Newseeze is based in the United States and our vendors (Clerk, Stripe, Neon, Railway) operate primarily in the United States. If you access the Service from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States. Where required by law, we use appropriate safeguards (such as Standard Contractual Clauses) for such transfers.

9. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Chrome extension uses Chrome's built-in extension storage (chrome.storage.local) to hold your session token and small amounts of UI state. It does not set browser cookies for tracking.

The Newseeze dashboard (when launched) may set first-party session cookies strictly necessary for login. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. If the changes are material we will notify you by email or in-product notice before they take effect. The "Last Updated" date at the top reflects the most recent revision.

11. Contact

Newseeze, Inc. c/o Best Delaware Registered Agent LLC 8 The Green, Suite F Dover, DE 19001

Email: privacy@newseeze.com