Privacy

This site collects no personal data from its readers. Below is what gets stored, where it lives and how it is deleted.

• espectro sets no cookies on readers, which is why there is no consent banner;
• There are no user accounts, no registration forms and no tracked newsletters. There is one place, and one only, where this site receives something a reader typed: the voluntary blind survey (in Portuguese, since the headlines are), which asks for no name and no email and is explained in detail below;
• We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits, see which pages are read and measure performance. The service uses no cookies, no browser storage and no fingerprinting. It sends the page address, the referring site, the approximate country, the browser and device category, and performance timings. Cloudflare discards the IP address at its edge and shows us aggregate results only;
• The server’s access logs keep truncated (anonymised) IP addresses and are deleted after 14 days. They exist to detect abuse and breakage and to produce aggregate visit counts (which pages were read, how many times), without cookies and without identifying anyone;
• We sell no data, build no reader profiles, and never join these counts to the survey or to the history stored in your browser.
• The only advertising this site can show is its own: static boxes, served by us, labelled «projeto da casa» (a project of the house), pointing at another site by the same author. There are no ad networks, no third parties choosing what you see, and this site does not measure the click.

What gets stored, and it stays on your computer

Three keys in your browser’s local storage, under these exact names, and nothing else. You can check the full list in your browser’s storage panel, and if you find a fourth key written by this site, that is a bug of ours and we want to know about it.

Two of them never leave your computer. The third exists only if you joined the survey, and that one is sent, being the only one that is, and the paragraph dedicated to it says why, what it carries and what it does not.

espectro.leitor.v1 holds what the page O meu espectro (in Portuguese) needs to count which side of the spectrum your reading has come from: three short lists, holding the short name of each outlet whose article you opened and how many times, the outlets and sections you chose to follow, and the date of the first record.

espectro.tema.v1 appears only if you press the button that switches between the light and the dark theme, and what sits in it is the word claro or escuro, nothing more. Until you press it the key does not exist, because the site follows your system preference and stores nothing for doing so. It exists so the choice survives onto the next page, and it is read before the page is drawn so you do not catch a white flash on the way to dark.

espectro.painelista.v1 exists only if you entered the blind survey. Inside it are two things: 22 random characters your own browser generated, and the side you placed yourself on when you joined. Neither came from us and neither says who you are. They exist only to keep your answers together, so that no newspaper gets a rating built from the same people or from one side only.

This key is sent, and it is the only one of the three that is. It goes with each answer you give, because without it the answer cannot join your earlier ones. What goes is the identifier, the side you declared, the headline you were reading and the answer you gave. Name and email are never asked, and the address you connected from is not recorded. Nothing goes from the other two keys, because what you read on the rest of the site does not enter the survey and the survey does not enter your reading. Delete this key and you disappear from the survey; the answers stay here with no way to link them to you or to each other.

It is not a cookie, and the difference is technical: a cookie travels with every request your browser makes to the server, which is why cookies serve to follow people. Local storage does not travel on its own; it only leaves if some code reads it and sends it. On this site, only the survey reads and sends the panelist key, when you press an answer. The separate Cloudflare Web Analytics request carries the page and performance timings, and it reads none of the three keys and never carries your reading history.

We do not store the article’s title, the hour or the story. A list of what-at-what-time would be a reading history, and on a shared computer that history would be a problem we had created with nothing to gain. Even so, anyone with access to this browser can open that page and see the tally, exactly as they could see your browsing history.

The tally is deleted with the Apagar tudo (delete everything) button on the page itself, which removes the espectro.leitor.v1 key whole, and only that one, because it is the only key that button knows. The theme stays as you left it until you press the switch again, and clearing the site’s data takes all three. There is no server copy of the first two, so there is nothing to request from us and nothing we could recover. In another browser, or on another computer, the page starts empty, because there is no way to link the two, and that is by design.

The survey’s answers stay on our server, and there is a consequence it is fair to state before anyone answers. Since we store no name, no email and no address, we have no way of finding out which answers are yours. If you want them deleted, write to us with the identifier that sits in the espectro.painelista.v1 key, because it is the only thread that exists, and without it neither we nor anyone else can pull on it.

For any question about personal data (GDPR), write to contacto@oespectro.eu. There is also a Portuguese version of this page.