Privacy Policy

Effective July 4, 2026

Pod Your Way turns articles you choose — sent by email or saved with our browser extension — into audio episodes on your personal podcast feed. This policy explains what we collect, why, and what we do (and don't do) with it.

What we collect

• Account information. Your email address, a hashed password, timezone, and plan tier.
• Emails you send to your save address. When you (or a newsletter you subscribed with your save address) email yourslug@podyourway.com, we receive and store the sender, subject, and message body so we can turn it into an episode, show it on your account pages, or forward verification emails back to you.
• Articles you save with the browser extension. The extension sends us the readable text of a page only when you click its button, along with the page URL and title. It never reads pages you don't explicitly save, and it stores your API token only in your own browser.
• Service records. Article processing status, episode metadata, monthly usage counts, and error logs needed to run the service.

How we use it

For exactly one purpose: producing your podcast. Article text is converted to speech, merged into an episode, and published to your private show. We also use your email address to send you service messages — for example, forwarding a subscription-confirmation email that arrived at your save address, or telling you an article failed to process.

Service providers

Producing your episodes involves a small set of processors, each receiving only what it needs:

• Text-to-speech providers (OpenAI and Google Cloud Text-to-Speech) receive article text to generate audio.
• Transistor hosts your podcast feed and episode audio. Your feed URL is unlisted; anyone you share it with can access your episodes.
• Cloudflare routes email addressed to podyourway.com.
• Render hosts our application and database.
• Sentry receives error reports (configured to exclude personal information).

What we don't do

• We do not sell your data or share it with anyone for advertising.
• We do not track your browsing. The extension acts only on your click; the website uses only essential cookies (login session and CSRF protection) — no analytics or advertising trackers.
• We do not use your content to train models or for any purpose other than producing your episodes.

Retention & deletion

Article text and episode records are kept while your account is active so your feed keeps working. Held or filtered emails are kept temporarily for troubleshooting and then removed. To delete specific content or your entire account and its data, email us — we'll complete deletion requests within 30 days.

Security

Traffic is encrypted in transit (HTTPS). Extension tokens are stored only as cryptographic hashes and can be revoked at any time from your account page. Passwords are hashed with Django's standard password hasher.

Contact & changes

Questions or requests: privacy@podyourway.com. If this policy changes materially, we'll note the new effective date here.