Privacy
Last updated 11 November 2026 (v3)
TTnow has no ads that follow you, no analytics service and no tracking cookies. You can read all of it without an account. The app invites you to create one, and you can say no.
Kept on our server, only if you create an account
- The email address and/or mobile number you type, so TTnow can reach you about your posts and important changes. They are not verified yet, and they are never shown to other people: your name in Talk stays a random bird name.
- Whether you asked for TTnow news, and when you signed up. We only send news if you ticked that box.
- The account is linked to this phone's key, so a post you make can be traced to the email or number you gave us. We give that to police or anyone else only on a court order or production order.
- The internet address you signed up from, for 30 days, to stop abuse.
Delete your account any time under You › My account. The email, the number and the news choice are removed straight away.
Kept only on your phone
- Stories you save, the areas you follow, your appearance setting and which reports you've already seen.
- Your approximate location, if you use Near me. It is rounded to about 1 km on your phone before it is used.
This stays in your browser's storage. Clearing the app's website data, or deleting the app, removes it.
Kept on our server, only if you turn on alerts
- The push address your phone's maker (Apple, Google, Samsung or Mozilla) gives us so we can send you an alert. It doesn't identify you.
- The areas and policing district you follow, which kinds of alert you want, your quiet-hours and daily-limit choices, and how many alerts you were sent today.
- If you ask for alerts about replies to your Talk posts: a scrambled copy of your Talk key, so the alert reaches the right phone.
- If you use Near me alerts: your location rounded to about 1 km, and the distance you picked.
Turning off alerts in the You tab deletes all of this from our server straight away. If your phone stops accepting alerts, we delete it automatically.
Kept on our server, only if you post in Talk
- A random key your phone makes the first time you post. We store a scrambled version of it, never your name, number or email, and give you a random name like "Kiskadee 4821".
- What you post, your Useful votes, reports you make and people you block.
- Which posts you follow, and messages a moderator sends you about your posts (for 90 days).
- The internet address a post came from, for 30 days, so we can stop abuse and answer a lawful request. After 30 days it is deleted.
- A photo, if you are a trusted contributor and attach one to an Info post. Location and camera details are stripped out before it is stored.
You can delete your own posts at any time from the post's menu. Under You, "Delete my Talk name and posts" removes every post, vote, report and block and your bird name. Two things stay: a scrambled key with a count of rule breaks, so a banned phone can't come straight back, and hidden copies of posts that are under a legal complaint.
If you send a complaint or report a problem
- "Legal problem with this post": your name, how to reach you and what you told us, plus a hidden copy of the post, for 2 years in case a court asks for them. Only moderators see this.
- "Report a problem" or "Contact TTnow": what you wrote and, if you gave it, how to reach you. The internet address is kept for 30 days.
Police and court requests
We give information about a user to the police or anyone else only on a court order or production order. We log every request and publish yearly counts on the About page.
Not in use today
Two features are built but switched off. This page will be updated before either is turned on.
- Automated screening of posts. If turned on, the text of a new post (not your key or internet address) would be sent to Anthropic's Claude service to flag posts for a human moderator to check. It would never remove a post by itself.
- Phone verification. If turned on, a Trinidad and Tobago mobile number you choose to verify would be sent to a messaging provider to deliver a code. We would keep only a scrambled copy of the number, never the number itself.
Plain counts
We count how many phones open TTnow each day and each week in each district, as plain totals. Your phone tells us "count me" once a day; nothing about the phone is sent or kept with the count.
Sponsors
A sponsor's name may appear on the weather, radio, Good News or district pages, never on crime reports, curfew notices or Talk. It is plain text from our own server. Sponsors get no information about you, and tapping the name takes you to their site.
What we don't keep
We don't keep logs of who visits or what you read. Apart from Talk posts, our server only holds your internet address for one minute to stop abuse.
Other services the app uses
- News outlets: story photos load from the outlet's own site, without telling it which page you came from. Opening a full story takes you to the outlet, whose own privacy policy applies.
- OpenFreeMap and OpenStreetMap supply the map.
- Radio stations: when you play a station in Audio, the sound streams straight from that station's own server.
- Cloudflare carries the app's traffic and protects it from attacks.
- Apple, Google, Samsung or Mozilla deliver alerts to your phone.
Children
TTnow is a news service for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13.
Contact
Use Contact TTnow or report a problem under You in the app.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.