Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how personal data is processed by Ivan Maria Spadacenta across Spadacenta digital products, including SocketNews and FreeNewsAPI.

1. Data Controller

The data controller is Ivan Maria Spadacenta, Italy.

Contact: team@socketnews.com

2. Services Covered

This policy applies to Spadacenta digital products. SocketNews is currently the only paid service and the service that collects the most account-related data.

3. Personal Data Collected

SocketNews account data

• Email address
• Password hash
• API key generated by the user
• Subscription and channel status

Billing data

Payments are processed by Stripe. Spadacenta does not store full card details. Stripe may process billing information, payment status, invoices and related data.

Technical data

Minimal technical data may be processed to operate, secure and maintain the services.

Analytics

Spadacenta may use privacy-friendly, self-hosted or similar analytics tools, such as Plausible Analytics or equivalent alternatives, to understand basic website usage without behavioral profiling.

4. Public Information Processing

SocketNews aggregates and processes public information from public sources. The service may use scraping and AI-based processing to generate structured outputs such as summaries, facts, categories, countries, languages, mentioned public figures, organizations, parties, brands and related metadata.

SocketNews does not provide original source content as-is and does not intentionally perform behavioral profiling of users.

5. Purpose of Processing

• Creating and managing user accounts.
• Providing access to subscribed services.
• Processing subscriptions, billing and invoices.
• Maintaining security and service reliability.
• Improving service quality and performance.

6. Legal Basis

Personal data may be processed based on performance of a contract, legitimate interest, compliance with legal obligations or user consent where required.

7. Data Sharing

Personal data may be shared with trusted providers strictly where necessary, including:

• Stripe for payment processing.
• Hosting and infrastructure providers.
• Analytics providers, where used.

Personal data is not sold to third parties.

8. Data Retention

Data is retained only for as long as necessary to provide the services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and maintain accurate billing records.

9. Account Deletion

Users may request or perform account deletion where supported by the relevant service. Account deletion may terminate access immediately and may cancel active subscriptions as part of the deletion process.

10. User Rights

Users may request access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability of their personal data, where applicable under data protection laws.

Requests can be sent to: team@socketnews.com

11. Security

Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to protect personal data. No system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

12. Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. The latest version will be published on this page.