Viche shows how different newsrooms cover the same event. About a reader it keeps exactly what the «Following» feed, bookmarks and comments need — and says so plainly.
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The account
Kept: a handle, an e-mail address for sign-in, follows of topics, regions, storylines and sources, bookmarks, comments, comment votes, muted authors, «less of this», error reports, digest and device-notification settings, and — only if you turned it on — reading history: which events you opened.
A stored setting is not a delivery: Viche does not send digest e-mails or device notifications yet.
No real name is required. Apart from the reading history you turn on yourself, no behavioural event is tied to the account: where you lingered and what you searched, Viche does not record.
Two buttons in the account: «Export» hands over everything listed in one file; «Delete» closes the account after a week's grace, after which the data is erased.
Visit statistics
PostHog keeps them on EU servers — and only after your «Yes» on the first visit. Under a random browser id: no name, no address, no account; a signed-in reader is indistinguishable in the statistics from one who is not.
The site works the same without. Turn it off here or in your account — the switch below.
Kept for: 12 months
Search
The words you search go to Viche's database to be answered. Requests are counted — up to 120 searches and 300 suggestions a minute — by network address for a reader without an account and by account for a reader with one; the counter lives two hours and keeps no words. They never enter the statistics: the query parameter is cut from every event in the browser.
Abuse protection
So the site stays up, every action is counted in a window of a minute to an hour and forgotten after two: by network address for a reader without an account, by account for a reader with one. The basis is the legitimate interest of keeping the service available; the counter keeps a number, not the action.
How to withdraw
The switch above turns statistics off immediately and remembers the choice in this browser. The account is deleted from the account page.
Questions and requests
Questions about privacy and your data: [email protected].
An outlet appealing its classification writes to the same address under the methodology's rules; a mistake in an event goes through “Report an error” below it.
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