FeedWell Privacy Policy

FeedWell is an ad-free RSS reader. It has no accounts, no analytics, and no server of ours behind it. This policy explains what stays on your device, and exactly which network connections the app makes to do its job — because an RSS reader has to fetch the things you read.

What We Collect

Nothing.

FeedWell has no sign-up or sign-in and no servers of ours that receive your information. It contains no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, and no tracking identifiers of any kind. SeMo Lab never sees your feeds, your reading history, your notes, or anything else — there is no system on our side that could receive them.

Data Stored on Your Device

Your subscribed feeds, cached articles, saved articles (with their highlights and translations), notes, reading positions, and settings are stored in the app's private storage on your phone. Downloaded offline-translation language models are stored there too. None of it is uploaded to us — it stays on the device until you delete it or uninstall the app.

Network Connections

FeedWell only talks to the internet in service of features you use:

The feeds and articles you read. The app fetches your feeds, article pages, and their images directly from the publishers' own websites. Like any browser or reader, those websites see your device's IP address and the pages requested. FeedWell strips ads and tracking scripts from what it displays, and it subscribes you to nothing by default — no publisher is contacted until you add a feed.

Translation uses Google. When you translate an article online, its text is sent to Google Translate; detecting an article's language also sends a short sample (about 300 characters) to Google, and a saved article that was translated offline may be re-translated online automatically when you reopen it with a connection. Downloading an offline translation model fetches it from Google's servers. Google's handling of these requests is covered by Google's own privacy policy. If you use offline translation with downloaded models, the article text itself never leaves the device.

Finding a feed from a site address. If you paste an ordinary web address instead of a feed address, the app fetches that page and looks for a feed link in it, then tries up to eight likely feed addresses on the same site until one works. Those requests go to the site itself and reveal your IP address to it, exactly as visiting the site would. This happens only while you are adding a feed.

Adding a feed, as a last resort. If a feed can't be reached directly when you add it, the app retries through public relay services (such as allorigins.me or codetabs.com). Those services see the feed's address and your IP — never your reading history. This only happens while adding a feed.

That is the complete list. FeedWell sends no telemetry, checks for no updates, and makes no request you didn't cause. One practical note: if you subscribe to a feed served over plain http://, that traffic is unencrypted on the network, as it would be in any reader.

Backups You Create

The backup feature writes your feeds, articles, saved articles and main settings into a single unencrypted file, which you save or share wherever you choose — nothing is uploaded anywhere by the app, and we never see it. Once exported, that file's security is in your hands.

Separately, Android's own device backup may include FeedWell's data in the backup tied to your Google account, like it does for most apps. That copy belongs to your account, is managed by Android, and never reaches SeMo Lab.

Permissions

FeedWell needs internet access and network state to fetch feeds and articles, and vibration for the optional reading reminder. Notification permission is requested only if you turn that reminder on, and the reminder is scheduled entirely on your device — it is not a push notification, and nothing is sent from anywhere.

Alongside those, the app declares a number of permissions Android never prompts you about, listed here because Google Play shows them in the app's permission details: wake-lock and restart-after-reboot, so a scheduled reminder survives a restart, and a set of launcher badge permissions used to show an unread count on the app icon. None of them give the app access to your data.

It does not request location, camera, microphone, or access to your contacts, photos, or files beyond backup files you explicitly pick. As of this version it also strips the unused storage and overlay permissions that earlier releases inherited from its framework, so they are not requested at all.

Children and Minors

FeedWell collects no personal data from anyone, of any age, and therefore collects none from minors. The app contains no advertising, no in-app purchases, and no user-to-user communication.

Because no information ever reaches SeMo Lab, there is nothing for a parent or guardian to request the deletion of. If you have any concern about a minor's use of the app, contact us at info@semo-lab.com.

Your Rights

Privacy laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export, and delete the personal data a company holds about you. SeMo Lab holds no personal data about FeedWell users, so there is nothing for us to retrieve, amend, or erase. We do not sell or share personal information, because we never receive any. Where a feature sends content to another company — such as Google, for translation — that processing is governed by that company's policy, and you can simply not use the feature.

You keep full control of the data on your device: remove feeds or saved articles at any time, clear cached data from Settings, or uninstall the app to erase everything it stores. Exported backup files, and any device backup in your own Google account, remain under your control.

Changes to This Policy

If FeedWell's privacy practices ever change, this page will be updated and the date above revised. Material changes will be described here rather than quietly amended.

Contact

For privacy questions about FeedWell, contact: info@semo-lab.com