Privacy Policy for the Political Affairs App
Effective date: November 11, 2026
Horizon Tech Services operates the Political Affairs Android app, a companion reader for the Political Affairs website. This policy explains how information is handled in the current demo and testing release. For privacy questions or requests, contact support@horizonbuilt.cc.
1. Information Used by the App
Content and connection information. When you browse, search, download, or play content, the App requests articles, images, audio, video, and related resources from the publication or the server supplying them. Those services receive connection information such as your IP address, request time, requested resource, and technical request details. Catalog search terms and filters are sent to the publication to return results and may appear in access logs. Searches within your downloaded Library are processed locally.
Information on your device. The App stores reading preferences, recent searches, saved articles, history, collections, reading positions, listening progress, and playback queues. Reading positions may include a short passage of article text. Offline packages can include article text, images, supplied audio, and associated metadata. These records are stored in app storage and may be included in operating-system backups, depending on your device settings.
Demo access. The demo may use shared access credentials supplied to testers or included in the testing build. These authorize access to the demo website. The current demo does not provide personal reader-account registration or server synchronization of personal bookmarks and reading progress. Website staff accounts are separate from ordinary app reading.
Feedback you choose to share. The App lets you prepare feedback and copy it or share it through another app. Optional app version, operating-system information, and timestamp are included only if selected. Feedback is not automatically sent to a support server. If you email us, we receive your email address, message, and anything you choose to include.
Content requests, search terms, saved titles, and reading or listening records can reveal your interests. Local storage and ordinary network requests should not be treated as anonymous.
2. How Information Is Used
Information supports delivery of requested content, search, offline reading, playback, saved preferences and progress, technical support, and service security and maintenance. The demo App has no integrated advertising, audience-analytics, push-notification registration, or automatic remote crash-reporting service. Your operating system, Google Play, and service providers may separately handle diagnostics under their own settings and policies.
3. Hosting and Other Services
The current demo website, media, database, and backups are stored on a server operated by Horizon Tech Services. Public traffic passes through Cloudflare, which processes requests and network information to deliver and protect the service. Cloudflare is not used to store this demo's backups. See the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
Support email is handled through our email service provider. Loading externally hosted media sends requests to its provider. Opening links in your browser or sharing through another app is subject to that service's privacy practices. Background playback can display titles and playback state on your lock screen or connected media devices.
Service providers process information needed to provide their services. Information may also be disclosed where required by law. Hosting on our server does not mean that no third party processes network information.
4. Storage and Retention
Local preferences, history, and saved metadata remain until removed through available app or device controls. Recent searches retain up to ten unique entries. Device Saved has a 50-record limit. Downloaded content generally has seven-day offline eligibility after its last successful check. Cleanup occurs during app operation, including startup and resume; seven-day eligibility does not guarantee immediate deletion of every file or metadata record.
Server access and error logs are retained for operation and troubleshooting. The current demo does not have an automatic age-based deletion limit configured for its Docker logs. A separate daily cleanup targets publication activity records older than 90 days; that period does not apply to all server logs.
Local server backups are made approximately every six hours and currently have no automatic age-based expiry. They may retain historical database and file copies after information is removed from the active service. Support correspondence remains in our support mailbox unless removed; there is no fixed automatic deletion period for that correspondence.
5. Your Choices and Deletion Requests
You can remove available categories of local information using the App's controls. Removing a saved item does not necessarily clear history, downloads, or other copies. Clearing Android app storage or uninstalling normally removes the App's local data, subject to device backup and restoration behavior. Shared files, exported ZIPs, clipboard contents, browser data, and recipient copies have separate lifecycles.
To request access to, correction of, or deletion of information held by Horizon Tech Services relating to the Political Affairs App, email support@horizonbuilt.cc with the subject "Political Affairs privacy request." Describe the information or message involved. We may need information to verify and locate your request. Do not send passwords. Some information may remain in backups or be retained for security or legal reasons; we will explain applicable limitations when responding. The demo has no personal reader account to delete within the App.
6. Permissions and Security
The Android App uses internet access, network-state information for download preferences, and background media-playback capabilities. It does not request camera, microphone, location, contacts, photo-library, broad storage, or advertising-ID access. Media playback controls are not push notifications.
The configured demo website and offline asset downloads use HTTPS. External links and resources have their own transport and security settings. App storage is not encrypted by the App itself; device security and backups affect protection. No system can guarantee complete security. Protect your device and avoid sharing credentials or sensitive information in feedback.
7. General Audience
Political Affairs is a general-audience political journal. Readers of all ages may read its content. The demo does not require readers to provide their age or create a personal reader profile. If you believe a child has sent us personal information that should be removed, contact us at the address below.
8. Changes and Contact
We may update this policy as the demo develops or the service changes. We will post revisions here and update the effective date. Features such as personal-account synchronization will need updated disclosures before they are enabled for this service.
Operator: Horizon Tech Services
App: Political Affairs
Privacy and support: support@horizonbuilt.cc