Privacy

Last updated 26 July 2026. Plain English, no dark patterns. If anything here is unclear, email [email protected] and we will explain it.

The short version

We collect your email address and the list of things you want to hear about. We use them to send you one email a day. We do not sell your data, we do not advertise to you, and we do not run any analytics or tracking scripts on this site.

You can get everything we hold about you deleted by emailing [email protected]. We will action it within 30 days.

What we collect, and why

Your email address
To send you the daily briefing you asked for, and to sign you in. Sign-in uses a one-time link rather than a password, so we never store a password for you.
The people, companies and topics you track
This is the product. We search podcast transcripts for these terms to build your briefing.
Your optional notes on why you track something
You can add a short note (“why I care”) to any tracked item. We pass it to the AI model that writes your briefing so the summary is relevant to you. You can leave it blank.
Optional preferences about you
If you tell us your role, goals, or preferred tone and depth, we use it to shape the writing. All optional.
Basic technical data
Your IP address is used transiently to rate-limit abuse of our signup and search endpoints. We store a counter against it, not a history of your browsing.

Cookies

We use one cookie, and only once you sign in: it keeps you signed in. That is it. We run no analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies, on this site or in the app, which is why you are not seeing a cookie banner.

Cloudflare Turnstile runs on the signup form to block bots. It is designed to work without tracking you across sites.

Automated processing

Your briefing is written by an AI model (Google Gemini) from podcast transcripts, using your tracked terms and any notes you added. It is a summarisation tool: it does not make any decision about you, and there is no profiling that produces a legal or similarly significant effect. A human does not review each briefing before it is sent to you.

Who else processes your data

We use these providers to run the service. They process data on our instructions.

ProviderWhat they doRegion
SupabaseDatabase and sign-in (magic links)EU/US depending on project region
RailwayApplication hostingUS
CloudflareWebsite hosting, CDN, and the Turnstile anti-bot checkGlobal edge
MailgunSending your daily email and sign-in linksEU/US
Google (Gemini API)Writing and summarising your briefing from podcast transcriptsUS
Pod EnginePodcast and transcript search dataUS

How long we keep things

We keep your account and tracked topics for as long as your scoop is active. Past briefings stay available on your page so you can look back at them.

If you ask us to delete your account, we remove your email address, your tracked topics and your briefings. Ask and it is done — you do not need to give a reason.

Your rights

If you are in the UK or EU, you have the right to access a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, object to how we use it, and take it elsewhere. Exercise any of them by emailing [email protected] — one email is enough, and there is no charge.

If you think we have got it wrong, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk, or your local supervisory authority.

Stopping the emails

Every briefing has a one-click pause link in the footer that works without signing in. You can also pause or delete your scoop from your account page.

Contact

scoop.fm [email protected]