Privacy
Last updated 11 November 2026
In short
No analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Visitors get no cookies; only people with an account get a login cookie. Everything you see here, including the articles' preview images and the fonts, is served from our own server in Switzerland: your browser only contacts a news site when you click through to an article.
Who is responsible
Pio Gino Steiner, Switzerland · info@piogino.ch. news.piogino.ch is a private, non-commercial hobby project.
What happens when you visit
Our server at Infomaniak, Switzerland, receives your IP address, the time, the page and browser details, written to the server log for operation and security and deleted after 14 days.
Shared news and preview images
When someone with an account shares an article, our server fetches that article's page once, reads its title, description, site name, publication date and preview image from the page's own tags, and stores a copy of the image (made smaller) on our server. The news site sees a request from our server, not from you. What's stored with a post: the link, the title, the summary and “why it matters” the person wrote, the category, the source, the dates, who shared it, and who marked it as important.
Accounts
One account works on all piogino.ch sites: movies.piogino.ch, books.piogino.ch and news.piogino.ch. You can
create one yourself while sign-up is open; no email address is asked. An account holds a username, the public
name shown with what you share, your color, the password as a salted hash (nobody can read it), the time of your
last login (shown to the admin only), and, if you link it, your Telegram chat id. To limit sign-ups by scripts,
new accounts per internet address are counted for an hour, in the server's memory only; the admin is told of
each new account. Logging in sets the cookie piogino_session for all piogino.ch sites, for up to 30
days; it is needed for the login and used for nothing else.
Telegram (optional): you link your chat by sending the bot a code shown only in your account; our server reads the bot's recent messages to find that code and keeps only your chat id. The bot then sends you a short note, e.g. when someone marks your news as important. Telegram is operated by Telegram Messenger Inc.; messages reach its servers outside Switzerland.
You can delete your account yourself (your account → Delete my account): it goes on all piogino.ch sites, with everything you shared there; the admin is told. Or write to info@piogino.ch.
Stored in your browser
news-viewin the session storage of the open tab: your category and people filter; gone when you close the tab.news-themein local storage: light or dark, if you chose one.piogino_session, a cookie: only if you log in.
Your rights
Under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) you can ask what personal data about you is processed, and have it corrected or deleted. Write to info@piogino.ch. You can also contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
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