Privacy Policy
Last updated: 22 August 2026
Lantery is operated by Individual Entrepreneur Andrei Taranenko, registered in Georgia. This policy explains what we collect, why, and what you can do about it. It is written to be read, not to be survived.
What we collect
Your email address. It is how you sign in — we send you a link instead of asking for a password. It is the only personal detail we ask for.
What you subscribe to and what you have read. Your feeds, folders, saved articles, and read state. This is the product: without it there is nothing to sync.
Basic technical logs. IP address, browser type, and timestamps for requests, kept so we can debug failures and detect abuse.
Nothing else. We do not ask for your name, your address, or your payment details. We do not use third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking scripts, and we do not build a profile of you for any purpose other than running the service you asked for.
We never see your card. Payments are handled by Paddle as merchant of record. Card details go to Paddle and never reach us.
Why we are allowed to hold it
Under the GDPR, our lawful basis is:
- Performance of a contract — your email, subscriptions and read state, so the service can do what you signed up for.
- Legitimate interests — technical logs, to keep the service working and secure, balanced against the minimum retention below.
- Legal obligation — records we are required to keep for tax purposes.
We do not rely on consent, because we do not do anything with your data that would require it.
Who else touches it
We use a small number of providers to run the service. Each sees only what it needs:
| Provider | What it handles |
|---|---|
| Paddle.com Market Ltd | Payments, invoicing, sales tax. Merchant of record |
| Our hosting provider | Servers and database where your account lives |
| Our email provider | Delivery of sign-in links and service notices |
We do not sell your data, share it for advertising, or hand it to anyone else except where the law requires it.
Your data is stored on servers in the European Union.
How long we keep it
- Your account data — while your account exists.
- Articles from your feeds — 30 days of history on the free tier, longer on paid. Read items older than a year are pruned unless you starred them.
- Technical logs — 30 days.
- Records we must keep for tax — as long as Georgian law requires.
When you delete your account, we delete your account data. Backups roll over within 30 days.
Your rights
Wherever you live, you can:
- Get a copy of everything. Export is one click, on every tier including the free one, and it keeps working after a subscription ends. Subscriptions, folders, saved articles and read state, in OPML and JSON. You do not need to ask us, and you do not need to be paying.
- Delete your account, from settings, without contacting anyone.
- Correct your email address, from settings.
- Ask what we hold, object to processing, or ask us to restrict it — email support@lantery.app and we will answer within 30 days.
- Complain to a supervisory authority in your country if you think we have handled your data wrongly.
We built export and deletion into the product rather than into a form you have to fill in, because a right you have to request is weaker than one you can exercise yourself.
What we can be compelled to disclose
This section exists because a vague answer here is worse than no answer. If you are in a situation where it matters what you read, you need the facts, not reassurance.
What we hold that identifies you: your email address, the list of feeds you subscribe to, and which individual articles you have opened. These are linked together. Anyone with access to our database can determine which sources a given email address follows and what it has read.
We do not have a way around this. Lantery polls your feeds on our servers — that is how it syncs your read state across devices without draining your battery. It means the subscription list has to be readable by us. There is no version of this product where the server does the work and cannot see what the work is about.
What we do about legal requests:
- We disclose data only where we are legally required to do so under law that actually applies to us, and only against valid legal process. We do not act on informal requests, emails without legal basis, or demands from authorities with no jurisdiction over us.
- For users in the EU and EEA, we will not transfer your data to an authority in a third country except through a lawful channel — a mutual legal assistance treaty or another international agreement, as the GDPR requires. A foreign authority's order is not, by itself, a lawful basis.
- We will tell you if your data is requested, unless we are legally prohibited from doing so.
- We keep as little as we can, so there is as little as possible to hand over: technical logs for 30 days, article history bounded by your tier, and nothing at all when you delete your account.
What this is not. Lantery is a reading tool. It is not a privacy tool, it is not anonymous, and it is not designed to protect anyone from a government. If your safety depends on nobody knowing what you read, use tools built for that purpose — Lantery is not one of them, and we would rather say so plainly than let you find out later.
Cookies
We set one cookie: the session that keeps you signed in. There are no analytics cookies, no advertising cookies, and no third-party trackers, which is why you will not see a consent banner.
Children
Lantery is not directed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If we change this policy in a way that affects you, we will email you before it takes effect.
Contact
Individual Entrepreneur Andrei Taranenko Registered in Georgia