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Privacy Policy
Last updated: 5 October 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to Gathered ("we", "our" or "us"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and share information when you visit our website.
2. Information we collect
- Usage data: pages visited, time spent and similar information about how you use the site.
- Device data: basic technical data such as browser type, device type and screen size.
- Subscription data: if you subscribe to our newsletter we collect your name, email address and, optionally, your WhatsApp number.
- Contact data: if you contact us, we keep your name, email address and message so we can reply.
3. How we use your information
- To provide, maintain and improve our news curation service and user experience.
- To deliver newsletters and alerts you have opted into.
- To analyse traffic and optimise website performance.
- To respond to your messages and requests.
4. Cookies, analytics and advertising
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use the site. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as pages viewed and approximate location; this information is aggregated and does not identify you personally.
We display advertising through Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to our site and/or other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or aboutads.info. Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
We also store your light/dark theme preference in your browser's local storage.
5. Third-party links
Gathered summarises content from external news sources. Clicking "Read original" takes you to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites.
6. Data retention and your rights
We keep subscription data until you unsubscribe and contact messages for as long as needed to handle your request. You can ask us to access, correct or delete your personal data at any time by contacting us.
7. Contact us
If you have questions about this policy, please use our contact form.