Privacy Policy

Effective October 17, 2026

The short version: we collect as little as we can: your email if you make an account, which stories you open (so we can count your free reads), and your settings. We never sell or share your information for advertising, and you can download or delete everything yourself in Settings at any time.

Who we are

Levra ("we", "us") is a news service at levra.news. Questions about this policy or your information go to hello@levra.news.

What we collect, and why

Information	Why
Email address (if you create an account)	To sign you in with a one-time code and send you account emails.
Month and year of birth (asked once at sign-up)	Only to check you are 16 or older. It is not stored; we keep only that you confirmed your age.
Where you live (North/South America or a European country) and your time zone	To show prices correctly (including VAT in Europe) and reset your free stories at your own midnight.
Stories you open, and which day or week	To count your reads against your plan's limit and let you reopen stories for free.
Topics and people you follow, and your settings	To build your feed the way you asked.
Days you open Levra	To measure, in total, how many readers come back. Not used for ads.
Your choices: agreeing to our terms, marketing emails (optional), cookie and ad choices, each with the date and version	To respect your choices and show we did.
Error reports you send, and an email if you choose to add one	To fix mistakes in stories and reply to you.
Guests: a random anonymous ID and the stories opened that day	To give guests 1 free story a day without an account. No name or email.
Waitlist: your email, when you joined and confirmed	To email you once when Levra launches, if you joined the waitlist.
Payments (when paid plans open)	Handled by Link, Stripe's checkout and the seller of record for Levra purchases. We receive your plan, renewal date and payment status, never your card number.

We don't ask for your name, address or phone number. Levra's stories are written by AI from news articles; your information is never used to write stories or train AI.

Storage on your device

Levra stores a few things in your browser so it works: your sign-in, your settings, your reading count and your privacy choices. These are strictly necessary and need no consent. We currently use no advertising or analytics cookies. If we add them, we'll ask first where the law requires it (for example in Europe), and you can change your choice anytime in Settings > Privacy choices. We honor the Global Privacy Control signal.

Who helps us

A small number of service providers process information only to provide their service to us:

Supabase: our database and sign-in (United States).
Resend: sends sign-in codes and account emails.
Cloudflare: hosts the website and protects it from attacks.
Stripe / Link: payments, once paid plans open (Link is the seller of record and has its own privacy policy).
Google Fonts and jsDelivr: deliver the fonts and code the pages use, so they receive your IP address when a page loads.

Some of these providers process data in the United States. Where European law requires it, transfers rely on approved safeguards such as standard contractual clauses or the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

We don't sell or share your personal information, and we don't give it to advertisers.

How long we keep it

Your account and everything attached to it: until you delete your account.
Reading counts: as long as your account exists, so the limits work.
Guest records: no longer than needed; inactive guest records are removed regularly.
Waitlist: until you unsubscribe or we launch and email you; unconfirmed sign-ups are deleted after 30 days.
Payment records are kept by Link/Stripe as long as tax law requires.

Your choices and rights

Download your data: Settings > Your data > Download my data.
Delete your account: Settings > Your data > Delete my account. It's removed at once, and any subscription is cancelled first.
Correct your information, or object to how we use it: email hello@levra.news. We reply within 30 days.
Marketing emails are optional, and every one has an unsubscribe link.
Depending on where you live (for example the EU, UK or California), you may have further rights, including to complain to your local data protection authority. We treat everyone's requests the same way.

The legal bases we rely on in Europe: providing the service you asked for (your account, reading counts, settings), your consent (marketing emails, optional cookies, the waitlist), and our legitimate interest in keeping Levra secure and measuring overall use.

Age

Levra is for people aged 16 and over. If you're younger, please don't create an account. If someone under 16 signs up, their account is deleted straight away. If you believe a young person has given us information, contact us and we'll delete it.

Security

Your information is stored with access rules that let each reader see only their own data, connections are encrypted, and sign-in uses one-time codes instead of passwords. No system is perfectly secure; if something goes wrong that affects you, we'll tell you.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date above. For significant changes, we'll let account holders know by email or in the app before they take effect.