Privacy policy

This is an English translation of our Hebrew privacy policy. If the two differ, the Hebrew text applies.

This page explains what data is collected when you use the site. In short: aggregate usage data for measurement. The site has no sign-up and no user accounts, and no ads are shown on the site yet.

The site loads Google AdSense code (site verification; no ads are shown yet).

What is kept in your browser

Some information is kept only in your browser, in local storage, and is not sent to us:

• Preferences: light or dark mode, text size, showing pictures, and the sources you chose to hide.
• Your last visit time: to mark which stories are new since your last visit.
• Followed stories: the stories you chose to follow, and whether you turned on notifications.
• Game progress: if you played one of the daily games, the game keeps your progress, streaks and statistics (see "Games" below).

You can delete this information at any time in your browser settings (clear site data).

Usage measurement (Google Analytics)

To understand how many people use the site and how they reach it, the site uses Google Analytics 4 by Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC. The tool receives:

• The pages viewed, and the site or campaign you came from (for example a Google ad).
• Which articles were opened (source, list type and position in the list), searches you typed, use of filters, and "load more".
• In the games: which game was opened, the start and end of a puzzle, the solving time and use of hints.
• Device type, browser, language, and approximate country or city. Your IP address is not stored in Google Analytics 4.
• A random identifier in cookies (_ga) that tells visitors apart, with no name, email or other details that identify you.

We do not turn on ad personalisation, do not link the data to your Google account, and do not pass it to anyone other than Google. The data also goes to Google Ads to measure ads that lead to the site (how many ad clicks led to an article being opened), with no audiences and no remarketing. The information is used only to improve the site and to measure the ads.

Cloudflare, which hosts the site, may use a technical cookie for security.

Turning the measurement off

You can turn the measurement off at any time:

• With the button below. The choice is kept in this browser only.
• By turning on Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track in your browser: the site respects them and does not pass your visit data to Google Ads. To stop the measurement too, use the button below.
• The button also deletes the measurement cookies (_ga and similar). Deleting cookies in your browser settings alone does not stop the measurement: a new identifier is created on your next visit.

Notifications for followed stories

If you turned on notifications (in the settings, or when you followed a story and agreed), the site sends your browser a notification when a story you follow has a new development. To send it, we keep only:

• Your browser's notification address (push endpoint) and its two encryption keys. The address is created by your browser's notification service (for example Google's, Mozilla's or Apple's), and it includes no name, email or other detail that identifies you.
• The numbers of the stories you follow, and when the last notification was sent (to avoid sending too many: at most one notification per story every two hours, none between 23:00 and 07:00, and up to 5 a day).

There is no account and no personal details. The notification content is encrypted on its way to your browser, and your browser's notification service delivers it. To prevent abuse, when your browser renews the subscription we keep a request counter for a short time. The counter is stored under a hash keyed with a secret key (HMAC) of the IP address (for IPv6: of the part that identifies the network, /64), never the address itself, and the address cannot be recovered from it without the key.

To stop: turn off "Notifications" in the site settings (the preferences button on the Hebrew pages), or block the site's notifications in your browser settings. When you turn them off in the site settings, we delete the data at once. When you block them in the browser or clear the site data, we delete it the next time the notification service reports that the address is no longer active, and at the latest after 30 days in which the browser did not contact us.

Hosting

The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which processes technical data such as the IP address and browser type to serve the pages and protect them from attacks. More information: Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Games

The daily games come from Gridnic. Only the game pages load code from cdn.gridnic.com, which shows the game in a frame (iframe). The other pages of the site do not load it.

• Progress, streaks and statistics are kept only in your browser: in the frame's storage, with a copy in this site's local storage (keys that start with gridnic:). They are not sent to us.
• When a puzzle starts and ends, the frame sends Gridnic one message with no cookies and only counts: which game, the level, the time, whether it was solved and how many hints. No user or device identifier and no page address.
• Like any site, Gridnic receives technical data such as the IP address and browser type when the game loads.

You can delete your game progress in your browser settings (clear site data).

Links and pictures from the source sites

The small pictures beside the headlines load directly from the source sites, without sending them the address of the page you are on. When you click a headline or "full article", the article opens on the source site, and that site's privacy policy applies there.

Your rights

Under the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981, you may review the information kept about you and ask to correct or delete it. We keep no information that identifies you. If you turned on notifications, turning them off in the settings deletes the notification address and the list of stories. For questions and requests: support@newscenter.co.il.

Changes to this policy

When something here changes, we will update this page and the date at its bottom.

Last updated: November 11, 2026