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What's stored where
This page lists what Mera keeps, where and for how long. The privacy policy is the legal version.
On your phone
These live in the app's private database. They're deleted when you delete the app or clear Mera's data.
- Facts and your profile
- Topics, including declined ones
- Your feed, reading state and notes
- Chat conversations
- Saved articles, followed stories, publication preferences
- Notification decisions
Backup, if you turn it on, puts an encrypted copy of part of this in your own cloud account.
On Mera's servers, linked to your account
| Data | What it is | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Account | Support ID, internal placeholder address, creation date | Until deletion |
| Sign-in record | App Attest public key, key ID and counter, or a keyed hash of the Android ID | Until you ask for deletion |
| Sessions | No IP address or browser details | Until expiry, one year at most |
| Plan and billing | Subscription status, entitlement, store identifiers | Until deletion. Billing records up to 7 years where the law requires |
| Daily reading usage | Bytes of encrypted text sent to be read, request count, articles delivered, the allowance and when it was reached. No content | 90 days |
| Device settings | Push token, app language, notification hours, processing mode, onboarding stage | Until deletion |
| Push log | Messages sent to a device | 30 days |
| Assistant safety status | Warning count, whether the account is blocked, and the assistant's stated reason | Until deletion |
| Unblock request | A chat transcript, only if you choose to attach one to an appeal | 90 days after review, or 180 days if not reviewed |
| Feedback | Answers you choose to give to an in-app question | 365 days |
| Request timestamps | When your phone asked for articles | 90 days |
Mera's own database backups can hold deleted data until the backups that contain it expire.
On Mera's servers, linked to no account
| Data | What it is | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Topic cache | One entry per topic text, no owner. See Topics and the anonymous cache | 14 days after the last request by anyone |
| News articles | Article records prepared from feeds. See Crawler and feeds | 48 hours |
| Article address records | Used to spot repeats | 90 days |
| Fact-check records | Keyed to the article, with no requester field | 90 days, or 7 days if no fact-checker is named |
Mera's servers also process news articles with AI, for example to translate them. Those results describe the article and are the same for everyone.
Passing through briefly
| Data | Where | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Encrypted AI requests | Inference gateway | 2 hours |
| Encrypted AI results | Inference gateway | 24 hours |
| AI work after decryption | NEAR AI's secure environment | Discarded after processing |
| Crash reports, with an opaque account identifier | Sentry | 30 days |
| Server error logs, which can hold IP address and user agent | Mera's servers | 30 days |
What Mera's servers don't store
- Your facts or a profile of your interests
- A record of which topics you requested
- Which articles you opened, read or dismissed
- Which articles became notifications
- Ranking scores or notes
- Inputs or outputs of AI processing on your data, apart from the safety reason and unblock request above
- Your location, contacts or browsing history
Readable requests
Some features send readable text to a server for a moment. Mera stores none of it against your account, but the server can see it arrives with your session.
| Feature | What's sent | What's kept |
|---|---|---|
| Web search in chat | Search words, through the gateway to a search provider | Nothing. The gateway doesn't log the words |
| Quick fact check in chat | Short search words, built on the phone from one claim and the headline | Nothing |
| Full fact check | The article identifier | A record keyed to the article, with no user identifier |
| Search | What you type, which can go to a service provider with no user identifier | Briefly cached by text, with no user identifier |
| Place search | What you type | Nothing |
| Related coverage | The article identifier and your country, language and publication preferences | Nothing |
| Opening an article from World, Search, a shared link or a followed story | The article identifier | Nothing |
| Topics | See Topics and the anonymous cache | The anonymous cache |
Known gaps explains why these matter.
Other companies
Mera uses service providers for payments, hosting, AI, push delivery, error reports and support. Section 8 of the privacy policy describes them. Support conversations sit with the in-app support provider and are deleted with your account.
When you open an article, you're on the publisher's site, and its own privacy policy applies. Mera doesn't receive data about what you do there. Card images load directly from the address in the feed, so that host can see your phone's network address.