Privacy policy

This site is run by the Boring News team, the data controller under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Contact: info@boringnews.eu.

• Daily 08:00 Reading and alerts. You choose the daily email, alerts, or both. Signup is double opt-in: we first send one confirmation email, and you are added to the list only when you press Confirm on the page its link opens. Once confirmed, our email provider stores your email address, the edition you signed up from, which of the two lists you chose, the time you agreed, the time you confirmed and where you signed up (the website). We use it only to send you what you chose. The legal basis is your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)). Every email has an unsubscribe link. After you unsubscribe, your address stays in our email provider's list, marked as unsubscribed so you are not emailed again, until we delete it or you ask us to. If you never press Confirm, you are not added to the list, but the provider's logs of sent emails keep your address for its log retention period, and the confirmation link contains your address in a signed token, so it can appear in our hosting provider's request logs. Open and click tracking is switched off in our email account.
• App launch signups. If you sign up to hear when the app launches, we store your email address, the time you joined and the fact that you agreed. We use it only to tell you when the app launches. The legal basis is your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)).
• Your country, roughly. When you open the front page, our host tells us which country your connection comes from, so we can show your edition. We use it once for that redirect and don't store it.
• Server logs. Our hosting provider records technical data such as IP addresses when pages are requested, to keep the site running and secure. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in security (Article 6(1)(f)). We don't use these logs to identify or profile visitors.

We don't use analytics or advertising networks, and fonts are served from our own site. The only cookie is bn_country, set when you pick an edition yourself, so the front page opens it next time. It holds just the edition code and lasts a year. A preference you asked for doesn't need a cookie banner. Sponsors are shown as plain, labelled text and links, with nothing that tracks you.

• Website hosting, which may be in the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses.
• The service that stores app launch signups, under a data processing agreement.
• Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, France) sends and stores our email: the confirmation email, the Daily 08:00 Reading and alerts. It acts as our processor under a data processing agreement.

We never sell or share your email with anyone else.

Launch signup emails are kept until we've sent the launch email and for at most 12 months after the app launches, or until you ask us to delete them, whichever comes first. Daily Reading and alert addresses are kept while you are subscribed. After you unsubscribe, your address stays in our email provider's list, marked as unsubscribed so you are not emailed again, until we delete it or you ask us to.

You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your data, object to its use or withdraw your consent at any time by emailing info@boringnews.eu. Withdrawing consent doesn't affect anything done before. You can also complain to the Data State Inspectorate of Latvia (Datu valsts inspekcija, dvi.gov.lv) or the authority where you live.

Email signups are for people aged 16 and over. If you're younger, please don't sign up.

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