Articled is a reading app that helps you discover better writing, save articles, read them in a calm environment, highlight ideas, and build a personal reading profile over time.
This Privacy Policy explains what personal information Articled collects, how it is used, who it may be shared with, and the choices you have.
01 Who operates Articled
Articled is operated by Manifest Base Ltd, a company registered in the United Kingdom.
For the purposes of UK data protection law, Manifest Base Ltd is the controller of your personal information.
Contact: contact@articled.app
02 Information we collect
Account information
When you create an account or sign in, we may collect:
- your email address
- your name, if provided
- your sign-in provider identifier
- account settings and preferences
Article and library information
When you use Articled, we may collect and store:
- articles you save
- article URLs, titles, authors, publication names, images, and other article metadata
- your reading progress
- your highlights
- your saved library and reading history
- articles you dislike, dismiss, or otherwise interact with
Reading and Discover activity
To provide and improve Articled, we may collect information such as:
- articles shown to you in Discover
- articles opened, saved, dismissed, or disliked
- reading interactions
- timestamps of app activity
- general usage events
Tasteprint and personalisation data
Articled may use your saved articles, reading activity, highlights, and interactions to infer themes, topics, and patterns in your reading.
This is used to provide personalisation and to develop your Tasteprint.
Tasteprint is designed to help reflect your reading identity. It is not used to make decisions about employment, credit, insurance, eligibility, or other significant matters.
Device, technical, and diagnostics data
We may collect:
- device type
- operating system
- app version
- crash reports
- performance logs
- approximate region or language settings
- technical identifiers needed to operate, secure, and debug the app
Payment and subscription information
If you purchase a paid subscription or premium feature, payment is handled by Apple or the relevant app store or payment provider.
We may receive limited information about your subscription status, such as whether your subscription is active, expired, cancelled, or in a trial period. We do not receive your full payment card details.
Support and feedback
If you contact us, join a beta, or send feedback, we may collect your name, email address, message content, and any information you choose to provide.
03 How we use your information
We use your information to:
- provide and operate Articled
- create and manage your account
- save, sync, and display your article library
- support reading progress, highlights, and offline access
- personalise Discover
- generate and improve Tasteprint
- understand how people use the app
- fix bugs and improve reliability
- prevent abuse and protect the security of the service
- manage premium access and subscriptions
- respond to support requests
- send service-related messages
- send product updates or marketing messages, where permitted
04 Our lawful bases
We rely on different lawful bases depending on how we use your information.
We use your information to perform our contract with you when we provide core app features such as account access, saving articles, syncing your library, reading progress, highlights, and premium access.
We rely on legitimate interests where necessary to improve Articled, understand usage, maintain security, debug issues, analyse beta feedback, and develop better discovery and personalisation features.
We rely on consent where required, such as for certain marketing messages, optional tracking, push notifications, or similar optional features.
We may process some information where necessary to comply with legal obligations, such as tax, accounting, payment, or app store requirements.
06 International transfers
Some of our service providers may process information outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area.
Where this happens, we use appropriate safeguards, such as contractual protections, standard contractual clauses, or equivalent mechanisms required by data protection law.
07 How long we keep information
We keep personal information only for as long as necessary. In general:
- account information is kept while your account exists
- saved articles, highlights, reading progress, and library data are kept until you delete them or delete your account
- analytics and diagnostic data may be kept for a limited period to improve the app and monitor reliability
- support messages may be kept for a reasonable period so we can manage support history
- payment or transaction records may be kept where required by law
When information is no longer needed, we delete it or anonymise it.
08 Account deletion
You can request deletion of your Articled account by contacting contact@articled.app.
When you delete your account, we will delete or anonymise personal information associated with your account unless we need to keep certain information for legal, security, payment, fraud-prevention, or legitimate business reasons.
As Articled develops, account deletion may also be made available directly inside the app.
09 Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:
- access your personal information
- correct inaccurate information
- delete your information
- restrict or object to certain processing
- receive a copy of your information
- withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- complain to a data protection authority
In the UK, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office. To exercise your rights, contact contact@articled.app.
10 Marketing communications
If you sign up for updates, join a beta, or ask to receive news about Articled, we may send you product updates.
You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in the email or by contacting us. We will not send you marketing emails without a lawful basis to do so.
11 Children
Articled is not intended for children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child has provided personal information, we will take appropriate steps to delete it.
12 Security
We use technical and organisational measures designed to protect your information.
No system is completely secure, but we work to protect Articled against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
13 Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date above.
If we make significant changes, we may notify you in the app, by email, or through another appropriate method.
14 Contact
For questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal information, contact:
contact@articled.app