Data Sent to NewsGator

Here is NewsGator’s privacy policy.

What data is sent depends largely on whether or not you use NewsGator synchronization.

Account creation

If you create a NewsGator account, then details of the account are, of course, sent to NewsGator. This includes username, password, and any additional fields you fill out (such as email address).

Syncing

If you turn on syncing, NetNewsWire will send your subscriptions list and status information about your news items. (Since that’s the whole point of syncing!)

NetNewsWire syncs read/unread status, flagged status, clippings, and similar. NetNewsWire also sends additional attention data to NewsGator, so that we may calculate relevance by figuring out which feeds and which items get the most attention. This attention data includes things like which items were emailed, posted to a weblog, and so on. If you don’t want this additional attention data sent to NewsGator, open the Preferences window, click on Syncing, and uncheck the box next to Include attention data when syncing.

Syncing is optional. While we think it’s a cool feature, and we hope you use it, nobody is required to use it.

Without syncing

If you do not enable syncing, then no additional data is sent to NewsGator from NetNewsWire.