How Education Pals, Inc. collects, uses, and protects your information.
Last updated: October 28, 2026
Education Pals, Inc. ("Company", "we", "us", or "our") is committed to robust privacy protections. This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") explains how we collect, use, and safeguard information when you use NewsPals. "Site" refers to https://newspals.ai. "Service" refers to our editorial website, newsletter surfaces, and related offerings. "You" refers to you as a reader or newsletter subscriber. By accessing our Site or Service, you accept this Privacy Policy and consent to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of Personal Information as described here.
We collect Non-Personal Information and Personal Information. Non-Personal Information includes information that cannot reasonably identify you, such as anonymous usage data, general demographic information, referring/exit pages, browser types, preferences you submit, and click counts. Personal Information includes your email address when you subscribe to our newsletter, your cookie-consent choices, and your newsletter preferences.
When you view or use the Service, we track information from your browser or application, such as referring URL, browser type, device type, access times, and similar technical data that does not personally identify you. We use cookies and similar technologies as described in our Cookie Policy at /cookies.
NewsPals has no accounts. If you subscribe to our newsletter, you give us your email address. By subscribing, you authorize us to collect, store, and use that address in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The Site and Service are not directed to anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18 without verifiable parental consent where required (including under 13 in the United States under COPPA, applicable EU member-state digital consent ages under Article 8 GDPR, and under 18 in India under the DPDPA). If you believe we have collected such information, contact us at privacy@educationpals.ai and we will delete it promptly.
We use Personal Information to provide and maintain the Service, personalize editorial experiences, send service communications you request, improve the platform, and comply with law. Except as stated here, we do not sell Personal Information for marketing. We share Personal Information with vendors performing services for us (see Sub-processors), when required by law, or with your consent.
We use Non-Personal Information to improve the Service and analyze trends. We may disclose Non-Personal Information to partners and advertisers at our discretion. This Policy does not limit our use of Non-Personal Information.
If we undergo a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, Personal Information may be transferred. You acknowledge such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Policy. An acquirer may continue processing under this Policy. Material practice changes will be posted on the Site.
If you are in the EU, EEA, or UK, we rely on lawful bases under Article 6 GDPR: consent for analytics and marketing cookies; legitimate interests for security and reliability; and legal obligations for billing and lawful requests. You may withdraw consent via Cookie Preferences.
We use cookies as described in our Cookie Policy at /cookies. You may manage preferences via the footer.
We do not sell your personal data. We share information with sub-processors, payment networks, when required by law, or with your explicit consent.
Sub-processors include: Amazon Web Services (hosting, us-west-2, US); PostHog (product analytics, US); Google (Tag Manager, Analytics, and Ads under Google Consent Mode v2, US/global); Meta Platforms (Facebook/Instagram Pixel for ads measurement when you have granted marketing consent, US/global); LinkedIn (Insight Tag for ads measurement when you have granted marketing consent, US/global); TikTok (Pixel for ads measurement when you have granted marketing consent, US/global); and AI model providers used for editorial tooling (US). We update this list before adding processors that handle personal data.
Data is stored and processed in the United States. Transfers from the EU/EEA/UK use Standard Contractual Clauses (2021 modules) with supplementary measures including encryption, access controls, and MFA. UK transfers use the UK Addendum.
We have appointed or will appoint an EU representative under Article 27 GDPR before broad EU launch. Contact details will be listed here when finalized.
We have appointed or will appoint a UK representative under Article 27 UK GDPR. Contact details will be listed here when finalized.
We are not required to appoint a DPO under Article 37 GDPR. Reach our privacy team at privacy@educationpals.ai for data-protection questions or to exercise rights.
We retain data only as long as needed: cookie consent — 365 days; consent audit — 3 years (pseudonymized erasure records retained as required); operational logs — 90 days to 1 year.
If you subscribe, we keep your email address, the time and way you confirmed, your delivery preferences and, while you are subscribed, whether our emails were opened or clicked. When you unsubscribe we delete the open and click history and the IP address and browser details from your sign-up straight away, and we delete the rest of your subscription record 30 days later. If an email to you bounces or is reported as spam, we keep only what we need to stop emailing that address.
NewsPals has no accounts. To have your newsletter data deleted now, email privacy@educationpals.ai from the address you subscribed with. We delete it within 30 days and keep only a one-way code of the address if we must keep it off our mailing list.
Depending on location, you may access, correct, delete, object, restrict, port data, withdraw consent, and complain to a supervisory authority. Contact privacy@educationpals.ai. We respond within 30 days where GDPR applies.
You may opt out of promotional emails via unsubscribe links. We may still send administrative emails such as Privacy Policy updates.
We use encryption in transit and at rest, firewalls, secure socket layers, access controls, and incident-response procedures. No method is 100% secure; you assume risks of providing information online.
We use automated systems to rank and personalize editorial feeds and related article suggestions. These features do not produce legal or similarly significant decisions under Article 22 GDPR. We will update this section if that changes.
We implement technical and organizational measures including encryption, assessments, role-based access, and breach notification where required by law.
The Service may link to third-party sites. Their privacy policies apply when you use them. This Policy applies only to information collected by us through the Site and Service.
We may change this Policy at any time. Significant changes may be notified by email or prominent Site notice and take effect 30 days after notification unless otherwise stated. Non-material changes take effect immediately. Review this page periodically.
Questions about this Privacy Policy: privacy@educationpals.ai. Last updated: October 28, 2026.