Casewire: True Crime Cases

Casewire: True Crime Cases ("the app", "we", "us") is published by Peidus Products OÜ. This policy explains how the app handles your data. In short: the app needs no account, shows no ads, and runs no analytics. What you follow, what you have read, and how you have set your alerts stay on your device. The only things that leave it are the requests needed to download the news bundle, an optional notification token if you turn breaking alerts on, and the data needed to process an optional subscription.

Information we do not collect

• We do not collect your name, email address, contacts, photos, or location.
• No account, sign-in, or registration is required, or even offered. There is nothing to log in to.
• We do not track you across other apps or websites, and we do not use the advertising identifier. The app contains no advertising.
• We do not build a profile of your interests, and we do not sell or share data with data brokers.

No analytics, no tracking

The app contains no analytics SDK of any kind — no PostHog, no Firebase Analytics, no crash-reporting or attribution service. We do not know which cases you open, how long you read, or whether you finished a video. This is unusual enough to state plainly: we have no product telemetry from this app at all.

Information stored only on your device

The app stores the following locally, using your device's standard app storage:

• which cases you follow, and the alert level you chose for each;
• which updates you have already seen, and when you last opened the app;
• your Nightstand listening progress and sleep-timer preference;
• your notification and quiet-hours preferences;
• your reading-theme choice and whether you have completed onboarding;
• whether your subscription is currently active.

This data never leaves your device, is not transmitted to us, and is permanently removed when you uninstall the app. Because there is no account, it does not sync between devices — a follow made on your phone does not appear on your tablet.

Reading the news bundle

The app's cases, timelines and source lists are published as static files and downloaded from our content service at cdn.casewire.app, hosted on Cloudflare R2. These are ordinary file downloads: the same files are sent to everybody, and the request does not carry any identifier for you or say which case you are reading. As with any web request, Cloudflare processes your IP address and standard connection information in order to deliver the response and to protect the service from abuse. See Cloudflare's Privacy Policy. There is no application programming interface and no user database behind this — it is files over HTTPS.

Video from YouTube

Casewire does not host video. A case's film, and most of the Nightstand catalogue, are played through YouTube's official embedded player inside the app. We use the youtube-nocookie.com privacy-enhanced domain, which reduces the data YouTube collects, but playing a video is still an interaction with a Google service and Google will receive your IP address and player activity for the video you play. We never extract or re-host anyone's video stream. See Google's Privacy Policy. Video thumbnails shown on case screens are loaded directly from YouTube's image servers for the same reason, and are always shown with the publisher credited.

Opening a source article

Casewire links out to the newsrooms it cites. Opening a source opens that publisher's page in an in-app browser view. From that point you are on their site, subject to their privacy policy and their cookies — not ours. We do not receive anything back about what you read there.

Breaking-news notifications

Breaking alerts are optional and off until you allow them. If you turn them on, Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google) issues a device notification token so bulletins can reach your device. That token identifies a device installation, not you, and we hold no other record alongside it. See Firebase's Privacy and Security information.

Bulletins are broadcast to every subscribed device rather than targeted, so we do not need to know — and do not learn — which cases you follow. Your per-case alert levels, quiet hours, and the rule that no bulletin is ever shown during a sleep session are all applied on your device, after the message arrives. You can turn notifications off in the app's settings or in your device settings at any time.

Purchases

If you buy a subscription, the payment is processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play, and entitlements are managed through our purchases provider, RevenueCat, Inc. To enable and restore purchases, RevenueCat processes:

• an anonymous app-user identifier generated on your device;
• purchase and transaction details and your subscription status;
• basic device and platform information needed to validate the purchase.

This information is used solely to deliver and restore your subscription. It is never used for advertising. RevenueCat acts as our data processor. See RevenueCat's Privacy Policy. Your actual payment details (card, billing information) are handled entirely by Apple or Google; we never see or store them.

People named in the news

Casewire reports on real criminal cases, so the reporting it collects names real people. That material comes from published journalism and public records; we link to the original and name the publisher rather than republishing their work as our own. We do not compile dossiers on private individuals, and we do not accept user-submitted claims about anybody.

If you are named in coverage the app surfaces and you believe it is inaccurate, out of date, or unlawfully processed, write to support@peidusproducts.com. Corrections and removal requests are covered in the Terms of Use.

Children

The app is rated for users aged 16 and over and is not directed at children. Its subject matter — serious crime, court proceedings and violent death — is not suitable for a young audience.

Your rights

Because your follows, reading history and settings are stored only on your device, you can erase all of them at any time by deleting the app. For purchase-related data held by RevenueCat, and for any request about coverage that names you, contact us and we will act on it. Depending on where you live (for example, the EEA/UK under the GDPR, or California under the CCPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your personal data. We hold no analytics profile to give you access to, because we collect none.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The "last updated" date above will reflect any changes.

Contact

Questions or requests: support@peidusproducts.com