This policy explains what information the Tickerly application (the "App") and the associated pages on soundica.app process, why, and your rights under applicable laws including the EU/UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Quebec's Law 25, the Korean Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), Singapore PDPA, India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, and the Australian Privacy Act.
This policy applies to the Tickerly app on all form factors and stores it is distributed through — Google Play (smartphone and tablet), Google Play Cars (Android Automotive OS), and the Appning by FORVIA AOSP head-unit store — and to the corresponding pages on soundica.app.
Tickerly is designed to work without a user account and without tracking identifiers. Specifically:
Under GDPR Art. 6(1)(b), the limited processing described above is necessary to deliver the service you have asked for (showing finance and markets headlines in your chosen language, reading them aloud, resuming where you left off). No consent banner is required because we do not set tracking cookies, do not use the data for profiling, and do not share it with advertising partners.
Because the App stores nothing about you on our servers, we have nothing to retain. Soundica may briefly cache aggregated feed responses at the edge, keyed by source URL and section only, never by user. Local user state remains on your device until you uninstall the App or clear it from Settings.
Soundica's backend runs on Cloudflare's global edge network. Requests are served from the geographically nearest Cloudflare data centre, which may be outside your home region. News thumbnails and articles are hosted by each publisher, on infrastructure that may be located anywhere in the world. If you view a story whose origin is outside your country, your network request is necessarily routed across borders at the transport layer. Because no personal data is stored by Soundica, no Standard Contractual Clauses or transfer impact assessments are required for the App itself. Your relationships with each publisher's CDN are governed by their own privacy policies.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you have the right to access, correct, erase, restrict, object to processing, and request portability of your personal data. Because Soundica does not hold any personal data linked to you, requests to access or delete will be answered with "we have no data linked to you." You always have the unconditional right to delete the App from your device, which removes all locally-stored settings.
To exercise these rights, contact Soundica at admin@soundica.app. You may also lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority — for example, the ICO (UK), CNIL (France), BfDI (Germany), Garante (Italy), AEPD (Spain), PIPC (Korea), PPC (Japan), OAIC (Australia), or the relevant Data Protection Board under India's DPDP Act 2023.
Tickerly is a general-audience finance and markets news app and is not directed to children under 13 (under 16 in some EU member states, under 14 in Korea). We do not knowingly collect any data from children.
Headlines, thumbnails, and summaries displayed in the App are retrieved from publicly available finance, markets, and business section RSS feeds published by independent outlets. The App does not reproduce full articles; only the headline and a short attributed publisher excerpt are shown, with a link back to the source. Tickerly does not host, rehost, copy, or transcode this content, does not strip or modify the publisher's attribution, and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any publisher. The App is a news aggregator only and does not consume, license, or redistribute real-time exchange-data feeds, quotes, or any exchange-licensed market-data service.
All network traffic between the App and the Soundica backend is encrypted with TLS (HTTPS). The App requests only the minimum permissions needed (Internet access; foreground-service playback; optional notifications). Local state is stored in the App's private sandbox.
If this policy changes materially, we will update the "Effective" date and, where required by law, prompt you in-app.
General privacy contact — Soundica: admin@soundica.app
Designated copyright / DMCA agent — admin@soundica.app (subject line "Copyright/DMCA — Tickerly"). For U.S. notices under 17 U.S.C. § 512 see the Terms of Service.