BYTE MURASU / OUR COMMITMENT

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A small, honest privacy policy.

The front-page reader brief requests browser location permission to match your position to a supported city on your device. GPS coordinates are not sent to our server or stored. Only the selected city and automatic/manual preference are saved in browser local storage. The server requests city-centre forecasts from Open-Meteo and dated spot/reference rates from Gold API and Frankfurter; we do not send reader identifiers to these feeds.

Reading does not require an account. Optional Google/Facebook/LinkedIn sign-in stores a provider identifier, display name, email (when shared), and account creation time. We do not request Gmail mailbox or repository access. We count public newspaper page views and distinct anonymous browsers using a random first-party cookie and a server-side hash, retained for 90 days. No raw IP, precise location or referrer is stored. Do Not Track is respected. These counts are estimates of browsers, not people. We do not serve advertising trackers or collect payments.

Sign-in uses a short-lived security cookie (10 minutes) and a revocable HttpOnly reader session cookie (7 days). Provider access tokens are used only during sign-in and are not stored. The account page lets you sign out or permanently delete your stored reader identity and all sessions. Matching email addresses across providers are not automatically merged. Reader login grants no editorial permissions; the studio uses a separate editor password and revocable eight-hour HttpOnly session with CSRF protection. Local print and automation clients can also use Basic authentication.

Saved article titles, quiz choices and puzzle progress stay in browser local storage. Saved reading is limited to 100 articles until you remove them; puzzle progress is retained for up to 14 daily puzzles. No account is required for these features.

WhatsApp and Facebook share links contact those services only when you choose to open them. You review and send the post there; the newspaper does not post automatically.

The server may process request logs for operation and error diagnosis. A production operator should configure retention and access before launch. The local SQLite database contains editorial content and audit history.

Approved YouTube videos load only after a reader clicks to consent. Requests then go to YouTube’s privacy-enhanced embed domain and are subject to its policies. Speech playback, when available, uses the browser’s speech service; device and browser providers may process text.

External source links open websites with their own privacy policies. Stories may be submitted through our form or editor@bytemurasu.com once its mailbox is connected. Story preparation may send the supplied story text to our configured AI provider for translation and editing. Sender emails and original submissions remain private; only editor-approved copy and contributor credits become public.