ANYTIME LLC

Privacy Policy

Effective September 7, 2026

Anytime LLC, based in California, USA, operates the Anytime app and anytime.day. This policy explains how we handle personal information when you visit our website, create a station, read or listen to stories, and ask questions.

Information we collect

• Account information. Sign in with Apple provides an account identifier and, when you share it, an email address or Apple relay address. We store internal account and station identifiers, device-session credentials, and any profile name or photo you provide.
• Your station. We store your interests, preferences, saved and followed stories, reading activity, listening history, playback state, and queue. Preferences or free-form information you choose to provide can reveal personal interests or beliefs. Earlier app versions offered additional viewpoint preferences.
• Questions and replies. We process the text you submit, relevant conversation history, story context, AI responses, citations, and generated reply audio. Avoid including confidential information you do not want processed by the service.
• Voice input. With your permission, the app uses Apple speech recognition to turn speech into text. Recognition may happen on your device or through Apple, depending on device support. The app sends the resulting question text to Anytime; this question path does not send your microphone recording to our own servers.
• Location. You can search for a city without allowing device location. If you choose “Use my location,” the app obtains a device location and uses geocoding to identify your city. Current onboarding rounds coordinates before saving them. Older saved locations may have greater precision. Weather and air-quality services receive the stored coordinates needed to answer your request.
• Usage and technical information. We process activity such as opening, reading, saving, skipping, or listening to a story, along with limited product milestones and timing. Hosting and security services also process connection information such as IP addresses, request details, device or browser information, and error logs.
• Reports and contact. We process information you include when reporting an article problem, emailing us, or making a privacy request.

How we use information

We use this information to sign you in, restore your station, personalize topic selection and presentation, answer questions, generate speech, provide local features, save your choices, operate reminders, investigate reports, prevent abuse, and understand whether the product works. We also use information to meet applicable legal obligations and respond to requests.

General product analytics events do not include your question text or precise coordinates. New account-identification events use an internal identifier and platform rather than an email address or name. Older analytics records may contain email or name information sent by previous versions. Analytics identifiers and reading activity are pseudonymous, not anonymous.

Service providers and other disclosures

We use service providers to deliver Anytime. The provider used for a feature may change with our configuration:

• Hosting and storage: Cloudflare operates API, database, media, and backup infrastructure. The website is published using OpenAI Sites and Cloudflare.
• Authentication, speech recognition, and geocoding: Apple supports these app features. Some city and weather searches also use Open-Meteo.
• AI questions: the configured question-answering service, currently Perplexity Sonar, receives your question, recent conversation, and relevant story and source context.
• Generated speech: Fish Audio, or a configured Google Gemini speech fallback, receives reply text to produce spoken audio. That reply text may reflect information in your question.
• News preparation: OpenRouter and configured model providers help write, format, and analyze reporting. News and search providers supply source material. These processes are distinct from the question-answering path.
• Product analytics: our analytics service stores account identifiers and usage events to measure reliability and product use.

Providers may retain information under their own terms, settings, and legal obligations. This policy does not promise that every provider uses zero retention or excludes all model improvement. Links to publishers or other services take you to their own websites and privacy practices.

We may also disclose information when reasonably needed to comply with law, protect people and the service, investigate abuse, complete a business transaction subject to appropriate protections, or carry out your instructions. The website does not include advertising pixels, and we do not use your station activity to run behavioral advertising.

How long information stays

We retain account information and station preferences while needed to operate your account, until you change or delete them, or as required for security, legal obligations, and dispute resolution. The service uses the following retention controls; scheduled deletion can be delayed by temporary service failures:

• Raw feed activity and limited activation milestones are scheduled for removal after 30 days.
• A current Ask conversation holds a limited number of turns. Starting or ending a conversation clears the previous transcript. Inactive conversations expire after 24 hours.
• Generated Ask audio is scheduled for deletion after 30 days. Its access link is short-lived and tied to the device session that created it. Previously downloaded copies cannot be recalled.
• Article-problem reports are retained for up to 90 days; published corrections can remain with the story.
• Recent stories cached on your device are limited to 30 stories and 30 days. Signing out clears the app’s account cache. Reminder preferences may remain device-local.

Some operational, accounting, security, and analytics records have separate retention needs. Backups and provider records are not necessarily erased at the same moment as live account data. Backup expiry depends on the relevant service and configuration; we do not promise a fixed erasure date for every backup.

Account deletion and security

You can request account deletion in the app’s Account settings or by contacting us. We verify the request to protect your account. Deletion removes account and station data from our live database, revokes sessions, and schedules removal of associated media and downstream analytics. Provider cleanup may take additional time; failed cleanup remains subject to retry or operator follow-up. Some limited deletion records may remain while that work is pending. We may retain information where the law permits or requires it.

We use access controls, expiring device credentials, protected on-device storage, and other safeguards. No system can guarantee absolute security. A signed-in device may read previously cached stories while offline until its local session expires or it learns the session has been revoked.

Your choices and privacy rights

You can change station settings, remove saved or followed stories, choose a city manually, disable microphone or location access in device settings, turn reminders off, sign out, or delete your account. Browser and device settings may provide additional controls.

Depending on where you live and which laws apply, you may have rights to request access, a copy, correction, deletion, restriction, or objection to certain uses of your information, and to withdraw consent where processing relies on it. California residents may also have rights concerning sale, sharing, or certain uses of sensitive information where those activities and legal requirements apply. Contact us to make a request; we may ask for information needed to verify it, and an authorized agent may contact us on your behalf. We will not penalize you for exercising applicable privacy rights.

The landing page does not use behavioral-advertising cookies. We do not change the site’s behavior in response to a browser’s Do Not Track signal. This does not limit rights associated with a legally recognized opt-out preference signal where those rights apply.

Children and international use

Anytime is not directed to children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us so we can investigate and address it. Service providers may process information in the United States or other countries whose privacy laws differ from those where you live.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the service changes. We will post the revised policy with a new effective date and provide additional notice or obtain consent when required by law.