Umbral — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 5 September 2026

The short version: Umbral has no account and no servers of our own. We collect nothing about you, we have no analytics, and there is nowhere for your data to be sent — everything the app learns about your interests stays on your iPhone.

What we collect

Nothing. There is no sign-up, no user id, no analytics SDK and no crash reporter. We operate no server that receives data from the app, so there is no database anywhere with anything of yours in it. This is the same on the free plan and on Umbral Pro.

What stays on your iPhone

All of it, and it is never copied off the device:

Deleting Umbral removes all of it. There is no copy for us to delete on your behalf.

Requests the app makes

Umbral is a reader, so it has to fetch things. Every request goes straight from your iPhone to the publisher — nothing is proxied through us, and no request carries any identifier for you:

What those publishers do with an ordinary web request is governed by their own privacy policies, not this one.

On-device intelligence

The relevance scoring uses Apple's Natural Language framework, and the written note uses Apple Intelligence, on devices that have it. Both run on your iPhone. Story text is not sent to us, to Apple, or to anyone else in order to be scored or summarised.

Notifications

Your daily briefing is scheduled locally by the app. There is no push server, so no notification ever travels through anyone's infrastructure to reach you.

Purchases

Umbral Pro is an auto-renewing subscription sold through Apple. The transaction is handled entirely by Apple, and we never see your name, your payment details or your Apple Account. The app reads only whether a valid subscription exists, from Apple's signed on-device receipt.

Advertising

There is none, on either plan, and no advertising or tracking SDK is present in the app.

Children's privacy

Umbral is a technology news reader, not directed to children, and it does not knowingly collect data from anyone — children included.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new "Last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Contact ing.campos.alejandro@gmail.com.

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