Media Bezirgan App Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 22, 2026. Last updated: October 22, 2026.
The short version
The app has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. We don’t sell or share your information. We only receive what you choose to send us: a tip, an alert choice or a newsletter signup.
What stays on your phone
Stories you save (text and photos), your text size, your recent searches and similar settings are stored only on this device. Deleting the app removes them.
What the app requests from the internet
To show stories, the app loads our RSS feed, story pages, images and search results from mediabezirgan.com. Like any website, our host (Wix) receives standard request data such as your IP address. Search runs on your device: the app downloads the text of our published stories from our Wix site and keeps a copy on the phone, so your search words are never sent anywhere.
Videos
Videos play in YouTube’s embedded player, run by Google. When you play a video, YouTube may collect information under Google’s privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy).
Email you send us
If you report a problem or send a tip by email, the message goes from your own email app to pr@mediabezirgan.com. We use it only to respond and to report. Ask us at the same address to delete it.
Tips sent in the app
If you send a tip with the in-app form, your message (and contact details only if you choose to add them) is stored in a private database on our Wix site that only our newsroom can read. We use it only to report and to reach you if you asked us to.
Alerts
If you turn on alerts, the app saves an anonymous push token from Apple/Expo and your choice (a story, a topic or all stories) in a private database on our Wix site. It contains no name or email. We use it only to send the news alerts you chose, through Expo’s push service and Apple: an automatic alert when we publish a new story (all news or your topics) and when a story you follow is updated, at most one per story. Between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Mountain Time we hold alerts and send them together after 7 a.m. News alerts never contain marketing. Turn alerts off in the app or in Settings at any time.
Why we collect it, and consent
We collect a news tip, an alert choice or a newsletter email only when you choose to send it, and only for the purpose shown next to it. Newsletter signup needs a box you tick yourself. You can withdraw consent at any time.
How long we keep it
Push tokens: until you turn alerts off or Apple reports the token is no longer valid. Newsletter signups: until you unsubscribe, then only a record of the unsubscribe. Tips: as long as our reporting needs them, then deleted.
Where it is stored and how we protect it
Tips, alert choices and newsletter signups are stored in private collections on our Wix site that only our newsroom can read. Wix may store data on servers outside Canada, including in the United States, where it may be accessible under local law. If a breach creates a real risk of significant harm, we will notify you and the privacy commissioner as the law requires.
Your rights
You can ask what we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it, including your newsletter email. We reply within 30 days. If you’re not satisfied, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner or, in Québec, the Commission d’accès à l’information.
Payments
The app does not take donations or payments of any kind.
Children
The app is a news app for a general audience. It isn’t directed at children and we don’t knowingly collect information from them.
Who is responsible
Abdusselam “Mocha” Bezirgan, founder and editor-in-chief, is responsible for personal information at Media Bezirgan. Questions or deletion requests: pr@mediabezirgan.com, or Media Bezirgan, PO Box 93015 Calgary RPO Stampede, AB, T2G 0X6. We handle personal information in line with Canada’s PIPEDA, Alberta’s PIPA and, for readers in Québec, Law 25.