This policy explains what information Crosswire News ("Crosswire," "we," "us") collects when you use the website at crosswirenews.com and the Crosswire News apps for iPhone and Android, how that information is used, and the choices you have.
Crosswire News groups coverage of the same story from left-leaning, right-leaning and alternative or independent outlets, links to those articles, and shows a neutral summary written by AI. The summaries are generated from the headlines and text of published news articles. No information about you is used to write them.
Like most websites, our servers and our hosting and security provider (Cloudflare) automatically record basic technical information when your browser or app connects to Crosswire News. This can include your IP address, browser and device type, the page or data requested, the referring page, and the date and time of the request. We use this information to keep the service running, measure performance, prevent abuse and fix problems. Logs are kept only as long as they are needed for those purposes.
The website and apps use your device's local storage (and, on the website, the browser's offline cache) to remember:
This information stays on your device and is not sent to us. You can remove it at any time by clearing your browser's site data for crosswirenews.com or by deleting the app.
Breaking-news alerts are optional and are available only in the iPhone and Android apps. If you turn them on, Apple or Google assigns your device a push token, and we store that token and the device platform (iOS or Android) so we can send alerts. The token is not linked to your name, email address or any account. Alerts are delivered through Apple Push Notification service and Google Firebase Cloud Messaging, which process the token to deliver messages to your device.
Turning alerts off in the app deletes your token from our servers. Tokens that have not been refreshed for 60 days are deleted automatically. You can also turn off notifications at any time in your device's settings.
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. Crosswire News does not use its own cookies to track you. We use local storage only for the on-device features described above.
Third-party services that appear on our pages, including Google (for advertising) and TradingView (for market prices), may set their own cookies or use similar technologies such as web beacons, pixels and device identifiers. These are controlled by those companies under their own privacy policies.
Most browsers let you block or delete cookies in their settings. If you block third-party cookies, Crosswire News will still work, but ads you see may be less relevant.
Crosswire News may display ads served by Google AdSense and other advertising partners. When ads appear:
You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Google's My Ad Center (also available through Ads Settings). You can opt out of personalized advertising from many other third-party vendors at www.aboutads.info/choices and optout.networkadvertising.org. Even if you opt out, you may still see ads that are not personalized, which can still use cookies for purposes such as limiting how often you see an ad and preventing fraud.
To learn more, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and How Google uses cookies in advertising.
If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we will ask for your consent before personalized ads or advertising cookies are used, as required by law and by Google's policies, and you can change your choice at any time.
When you open the Markets section, a market price widget loads directly from TradingView (tradingview.com). TradingView may receive your IP address and browser information and may set its own cookies, under the TradingView privacy policy. Market data shown may be delayed and is provided for information only.
Story photos are credited to the news outlet that published them and load directly from that outlet's servers. When your device loads a photo, that outlet (or its image provider) receives your IP address and basic browser information. We ask browsers not to send the Crosswire page address with these requests.
Every story links to articles published by third-party news outlets. When you open one of those links, you leave Crosswire News, and the outlet's own privacy policy and cookie practices apply. We do not control and are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites.
We use the limited information described above only to:
We do not sell your personal information for money, and we do not ask for or collect your name, email address, contacts or precise location.
Depending on where you live (for example, California, Colorado or the European Union), you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to opt out of targeted advertising. Because we have no accounts and keep very little information, there is usually nothing tied to you personally, but you can contact us using the details below and we will respond as the law requires.
Crosswire News is served over encrypted HTTPS connections. We keep information only as long as it is needed for the purposes described in this policy: push tokens until you turn off alerts or for up to 60 days without a refresh, and technical logs for a limited period for security and troubleshooting. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work to protect the information we hold.
Crosswire News is a general-audience news service and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and we do not knowingly allow personalized advertising to be shown to them. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us and we will delete it.
We may update this Privacy Policy when our services or the law change. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Significant changes will be noted on this page before they take effect where possible.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to make a privacy request, contact us at:
Crosswire News
Email: support@crosswirenews.com
Website: crosswirenews.com
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