Oswego Crier collects no personal data. There is no account to create, no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics, and no tracking of what you read.
Nothing you do in this app is sent to Isophoric Studios or to anyone else. There is no server holding a profile of you, because there is no profile and no server that would hold one.
Information we collect
None. The app does not ask for your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, microphone, or location, and it has no field in which you could supply them.
It contains no advertising network, no analytics package, no crash-reporting service, and no social media software development kit. It does not read your device identifiers, does not build an advertising profile, and does not fingerprint your device.
Because nothing is collected, nothing is sold, shared, rented, or disclosed to anyone, and there is nothing for a data breach to expose.
What the app keeps on your device
Your preferences are saved locally so the app behaves the way you left it. They stay in the app's private storage on your own phone, are never transmitted anywhere, and are not readable by other apps.
| Stored value | What it holds |
|---|---|
| hidden_feed_urls | News sources you chose to hide |
| notify_critical_region_alerts | Whether severe weather notifications are on |
| notify_rss_alerts | Whether news notifications are on |
| delivered_alert_ids | Weather alerts already shown, so you are not told twice |
| delivered_article_links | Articles already shown, for the same reason |
| delivery_seeded | Whether the app has run its first check yet |
Uninstalling the app deletes all of it. No copy is held anywhere else, so there is no account to close and no deletion request to file.
Where the app connects
Oswego Crier reads public information published by government agencies and local news outlets. Your device requests those pages and feeds directly, the same way a web browser would. No identifier, no preference, and no record of your reading is attached to those requests.
- City & countyoswegony.gov and oswegocountyny.gov, for announcements, the municipal calendar, and county notices.
- Local newsOswego County News Now, Oswego County Today, The Oswegonian, and WRVO Public Media, by public RSS feed.
- Weather & hazardsNational Weather Service, Storm Prediction Center, National Hurricane Center, and the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.
- Water & airUSGS and National Water Prediction Service river gauges, NOAA Tides and Currents, NDBC buoys, Iowa State Mesonet observations, and AirNow air quality.
- Emergency managementFEMA shelter and disaster declaration listings, and county emergency feeds.
Each of these operators receives an ordinary web request and may keep its own server logs, which typically include an IP address. That is the operator's own record under its own privacy policy, not ours, and it is the same record that visiting their website in a browser would produce. None of these services requires an API key or an account, and no key or account of yours is involved.
Notifications
Weather and news notifications are off until you turn them on, and Android or iOS will ask your permission before the first one is sent. Turning them on lets the app check the same public feeds on a schedule while it is closed, and post a notice on your device when something new appears.
Notifications are generated on your phone from public feeds. There is no push server, no device token registered with us, and no third-party messaging service, so nobody is told that you were notified.
You can switch either toggle off in Settings, or revoke the permission entirely in your device settings, at any time.
The alert siren
The siren plays a tone stored inside the app and briefly raises your media volume so it can be heard, restoring your own volume level when you cancel it. It does not use the microphone, does not record anything, and does not contact any service. Nobody is alerted when you sound it.
Links out of the app
Opening an article, a resource link, or a support link hands the address to your own browser, and what happens next is between you and that site under its own privacy policy. The support links go to Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee; if you choose to give, those companies handle the payment entirely, and Isophoric Studios never sees your payment details.
The web version
Oswego Crier also runs in a browser. Because most of the sources above do not permit direct browser access, the web version routes its requests through a small relay hosted alongside the page, which fetches the same public feeds and caches the responses so they can be reused by everyone. That cache holds public feed content only; it stores nothing about the visitor whose request prompted the fetch.
Like any website, the host keeps standard server logs. The web version sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and saves the same handful of preferences listed above in your browser's local storage, which clearing your site data removes.
Children
Oswego Crier is a general-audience civic information app and is not directed to children. Since it collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children.
Your rights
Privacy laws including the GDPR and the CCPA give people the right to see, correct, export, and delete the personal data a company holds about them. Isophoric Studios holds no personal data about users of Oswego Crier, so there is nothing to produce, correct, export, or delete. We do not sell or share personal information, because we have none to sell or share.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of the app changes what it collects, this policy will be updated before that version is published, and the effective date at the top will change with it. Collecting nothing is a design decision, not a temporary state.
Contact
Questions about this policy or about the app can be sent to sanctionedresistance@gmail.com.
Oswego Crier is made by Isophoric Studios.
It is an independent app, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the City of Oswego, Oswego County, the National Weather Service, or any news outlet whose feed it displays.
It is not an emergency alerting system and is not a substitute for 911. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.