What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What Inshorts does with your data
Inshorts says it builds marketing profiles and shares data with affiliates and service providers who may sit outside India. Data is deleted 180 days after you delete your account, except anything it deems necessary for its own purposes. No cookie, AI-training or biometrics disclosures.
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
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Inshorts’s own policy says “We do not disclose Your Personal Information to any third parties other than to Inshorts’ affiliates, third party service providers or other trusted business or persons, who may be situated outside India, pursuant to a lawful contract and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measure.”
Our summary permits disclosure of personal information to its affiliates, third-party service providers and other 'trusted business or persons', expressly including recipients situated outside India, and a later clause records the user's consent to that sharing for the Permitted Uses.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
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Inshorts’s own policy says “However, We may use Your Personal Information for the following purposes: (i) To build up marketing profiles; (ii) To aid strategic development, data collection and business analytics; (iii) To manage our relationship with advertisers and partners;”
Our summary lists building marketing profiles from personal information, and managing its relationship with advertisers and partners, among the permitted uses of that information.
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Keeps your records long-term
Held on after you stop using the service.
What this costs you. Years after you delete the app, the record is still sitting there — and every year it sits there is another year it can leak.
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Inshorts’s own policy says “This Personal Information is deleted from our servers 180 days after You delete the App or cancel/terminate your user account on the App, except to the extent storage of such data, including Your Personal Information, is necessary for Our purposes and/ or required under applicable laws.”
Our summary commits to deleting personal information 180 days after the user deletes the app or terminates the account, but attaches an exception for whatever storage the company considers necessary for its own purposes — an exception with no stated time limit and not under the user's control.
What the policy does not mention
These are uses Inshorts’s policy is silent on. Silence is not a promise — it means the document does not say, and we do not infer either way.
- Follows you onto other websites and apps
- Processes your face or other biometrics
- Trains AI models on your content
Inshorts is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does Inshorts do with my personal data?
According to Inshorts's own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-14, it discloses 3 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, keeps your records long-term.
Can I withdraw my consent from Inshorts?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does Inshorts track me for advertising?
Yes — Inshorts's published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one Inshorts declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-14. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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representative. The DPDP Act 2023 commences in stages up to May 2027, so a request
made today asks for voluntary compliance and records the date you asked.
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