Privacy

Only if you accept in the banner shown on your first visit, the site loads Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited), which sets cookies (_ga) and records the pages viewed, where you came from, your approximate country, your device type and the newspaper links you click. We use it only to know which pages are read. Advertising, ad personalisation and Google signals are switched off, and the data is not shared with other Google products. If you decline, or until you choose, no request is made to Google. You can change your choice at any time with the "visitor analytics" link in the footer; declining after accepting deletes the Google Analytics cookies. Legal basis: your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time without affecting processing already carried out. The _ga and _ga_PHMXWKL39G cookies last up to 2 years in your browser, and the data is kept in Google Analytics for no more than 14 months.

What you type in the search box (and the topic, country and period filters) goes to the Veramundi engine, which searches the headline archive and returns the results. It uses no cookies, and we do not store searches or link them to anyone; the query address may only stay in the technical logs kept for a few days, described below. The words you follow are still stored only in your browser.

For each page opened, the site records only the page address (for example, /tema/guerra) and adds 1 to that day's total. It uses no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and does not record your IP, the exact time, where you came from or anything that identifies you or links two visits by the same person. It tells us which topics, countries and leaders readers care about most, and the totals stay with us. As no personal data is involved, we do not ask for consent for this.

On opinion column pieces we also count reading time: while the piece is on screen and the reader interacts with the page, the browser adds up the seconds and, on leaving, sends only the piece's address and that number (reads under 5 seconds are not counted). We keep only the totals for each piece. How many times each piece was opened and its average reading time are also shown to its author, in their reserved area, and never on public pages.

If you click “Get alerts” on a leader's page, or “Follow author” on the profile of an opinion columnist, and allow it in your browser, we store your browser's push subscription (a delivery address created by your browser's push service, without your name, and two keys to encrypt the message), your language and the leaders and authors you follow. We do not store your email, name or IP address. It is used only to send you the alerts you asked for. Each alert goes through your browser's push service: Google (Chrome, Edge and Android), Mozilla (Firefox) or Apple (Safari); it is encrypted, and that service cannot read its content. The subscription is deleted when you stop following your last leader or author, when you revoke permission in your browser, or when the push service ends it. Legal basis: your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time with the same button.

When you tap the heart on an opinion piece or columnist, your browser keeps a note for itself (in local storage, not a cookie) that you did, and Veramundi adds 1 to that piece's or author's total. We do not store who tapped it, nor the IP address. The total is not shown on the site.

The words you follow, the region you choose to always open, your language, the map layer and view you chose, the country for the polls on the home page, the choice between the World and a country in the top stories (and the country you chose), the government you formed in «Form your government», the ministries you starred on the Government page, whether you have seen the invitations to the layers and to open the Observatory, your analytics choice, the «Breaking news» strip you closed, the «Breaking news» strip of an edition that you closed, whether you have seen the guide to members of Parliament, whether you have seen the suggestion to install the app (with a count of pages viewed, up to 99, kept only in the browser), and, in the app, the edition you chose, what you follow and the stories you saved (with the headlines and the summary, to read them offline), and a copy of the public list of newspapers are stored only in your browser's local storage (localStorage). They are not sent to Veramundi. You can delete them at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser. So that Veramundi can open as an app, your browser also stores a simple page saying you are offline (no news and none of your data) and, if you use the app, a copy of the app page and its scripts, so it opens offline.

The site, its fonts and its map are served by Veramundi itself; the only request to another server is Google Analytics, and only after you accept (alerts, if you turn them on, arrive through your browser's push service). When you click a headline you go to the newspaper's site; when you click a share button (WhatsApp, X, Facebook, Bluesky, LinkedIn), that service opens. The share buttons and the images for sharing (of stories, polls and the Observatory map) are made by Veramundi itself; the shared link carries only the page and, in the Observatory, the selection you made on the map. Each has its own privacy rules, and Veramundi sends them nothing before you click.

The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes requests (including your IP address) to deliver the pages and protect the service. Veramundi's technical logs are kept for a few days only, to detect faults. Cloudflare also tells us the country you are visiting from (inferred from the IP address), which the site uses only to show that country's polls and highlights on the home page by default and to choose the app's edition; it is not stored. The connection is always encrypted: http:// addresses move to https:// and the browser is told to use only https:// on this site (HSTS). Legal basis: the legitimate interest in keeping the site running and secure (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Veramundi shows the name, role, photograph and public words or acts of people in public life (political leaders, election candidates, members of Parliament, current and former members of the Government, commentators and analysts). This data comes from public sources: the papers and channels we read, official sites, Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, always with the source shown. It is used to inform about public life. Legal basis: legitimate interest and freedom of expression and information (Articles 6(1)(f) and 85 GDPR and Article 24 of Portuguese Law 58/2019); party membership only appears when the person has made it public (Article 9(2)(e) GDPR). We do not gather data about private life. Anyone who appears can ask for a correction, object to the processing or ask for their photograph to be removed, using the contact above.

If you write to the contact above, your address and message are used only to reply to you and are deleted once the matter is settled, unless the law requires keeping them.

Google, Apple, Mozilla and Cloudflare may process data outside the European Union, in particular in the United States. Google, Apple and Cloudflare are certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, recognised by the European Commission as an adequate safeguard, and apply the Commission's standard contractual clauses.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to and port your data, and to withdraw consent at any time. Just write to the contact above. You can also complain to the Portuguese data protection authority (CNPD).