Privacy

Newsburst is a static website hosted by Hostinger. Like any web host, Hostinger receives standard technical information such as your IP address when your browser loads a page.

Story headlines, summaries and sources are loaded from our database at Supabase. Your browser requests them directly, so Supabase also receives standard technical information about the request.

There are no user accounts, no newsletter sign-up and no forms on this site that collect your personal data. We do not use advertising cookies.

We use Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics to measure traffic to this site. They tell us which pages are visited, what kind of device and browser is used, and your approximate location (such as country or city). We use this only as anonymous statistics to improve the site. We do not use it to identify you.

Google Analytics cookies are set only after you press “Accept” in the cookie banner. If you press “Reject”, or make no choice, no analytics cookies are set; Google may still receive a basic, cookieless signal that a page was viewed. Google’s own privacy policy applies to the data it collects.

You can change your choice at any time: Cookie settings.

You can opt out by blocking or deleting cookies in your browser settings, or by installing Google’s opt-out add-on: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Saved stories, your language, your colour scheme and your weather city are kept only in this browser’s local storage. They are not sent to us. Clearing your browser’s site data removes them.

Story videos are YouTube Shorts embedded through youtube-nocookie.com, and video thumbnails are loaded from YouTube. YouTube may set cookies or collect data when you play a video. YouTube’s own privacy policy applies to that.

The weather box shows a default city for each language edition. Only if you tap “Show my weather” does your browser ask for your location, and only if you search for a city is that name sent to look it up.

Your location or chosen city is used only on this device and sent to Open-Meteo to get the forecast. When you tap “Show my weather”, your rounded coordinates are also sent to BigDataCloud to look up the name of your city. We never receive them. The choice is kept in this browser’s local storage until you press “Reset to default” or clear your browser data.

Accounts, alerts, subscriptions and payments are coming soon. They are not available yet. We will update this page before any of them launch.