What Daybreak knows about you

Draft for legal review. Not in force.

For the child. Written to the paper's own register — short sentences, ordinary words, nothing talking down. Shown in the app, not only on a website.

Daybreak is a newspaper. Newspapers do not usually know anything about the person reading them. This one knows a little, and this page is us telling you what.

What we know

Your first name. Whoever set up Daybreak typed it in, so your profile has your name on it instead of someone else's.

Roughly how old you are. Either the year you were born — just the year, never the day — or an age range Apple tells us, if that is how it was set up. Either way it is only used to write the paper at the right level for you.

The topics you picked. Space, sport, whatever you chose. It changes the order the stories come in.

Which stories you have opened, whether you finished them, and whether you came back to one again. That is how the paper knows which ones are new to you — and coming back to a story is not a thing you can get wrong.

Something you should know

A grown-up in your house can see which stories you have read, and whether you went back to one. They set up Daybreak, and there is a page that shows them.

We are telling you because you should not find that out by accident. If it bothers you, that is a fair thing to say to them.

What we do not know

We do not know where you are. We do not have a photograph of you. We do not know your surname, and we do not have an email address for you. We do not know how long you spent on a page, or how long you listened for, or which bits you read twice.

There is nowhere in Daybreak to type anything, so there is nothing you have written for us to keep.

Nobody outside Daybreak is told anything about you. There are no adverts here, and no company is paying to find out what you like.

How long we keep it

The list of stories you have read is thrown away after a month. Not hidden — gone. That is true both on the iPad and on our side; the iPad keeps its own copy so the paper still works without the internet, and it forgets at the same time we do.

Your name and the topics you picked stay until somebody deletes the account.

If you want it gone

Ask the grown-up who set Daybreak up. They can delete the whole thing, and when they do, everything above disappears.

If you want the longer version written for grown-ups, it is the Privacy Policy.