Accountability
Transparency is not an obligation for us. It's a choice. Here we explain the rules we follow and how you can reach us.
For details on AI transparency, credibility scaffolding, and source quality, see why you can trust this.
Sources and copyright
ovr.news collects news from public RSS feeds. We don't copy articles. Our AI creates original summaries in new words. The original remains the publisher's property. We always link to the source.
We respect paywalls and access restrictions. If a source blocks access, we accept that. Articles where we cannot retrieve sufficient content are excluded. We comply with the EU Copyright Directive's text and data mining opt-out mechanism (Article 4): publishers who block AI processing via robots.txt are respected.
For publishers: See our dedicated publisher information page for details on attribution, data processing, and how to opt out.
Images
Images on ovr.news come from four sources:
- Source images: The preview image (og:image) from the original article. We don't host these ourselves; your browser loads them directly from the source. If the source blocks this, the image disappears automatically.
- Wikimedia Commons: Freely available images under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Attribution is always shown.
- Unsplash: Images under the Unsplash license. Attribution is shown out of respect, although not required.
- Curated library: A collection of CC-licensed images we maintain ourselves, with attribution and license links.
Privacy
Data controller: Busara.eu, The Netherlands. For privacy questions, use our contact form.
Short version: We collect as little as possible. We don't set cookies, don't track you, and don't show ads. You are not a product here. (Cloudflare's infrastructure may set technical cookies for DDoS protection, outside our control.)
What we don't do
- No tracking cookies
- No advertisements
- No selling data to third parties
- No Google Analytics or Facebook Pixel
- No automatic personal data collection — the only personal data we hold is what you give us directly (contact form, email signup).
What we do
- Cloudflare hosting: Our site is hosted via Cloudflare Pages. They process technical data (IP address) to secure and deliver the site. See their privacy policy. Cloudflare acts as a data processor under a standard Data Processing Addendum.
- Web analytics: We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics service. It sets no cookies, uses no user identifiers, and collects only aggregate page-view data. No personal data is collected or stored.
- Article images: Thumbnail images are loaded directly from publisher servers. Your browser connects to those servers when displaying images. We do not proxy or cache these requests.
- Local storage: Your theme preference (light/dark) is stored in your browser (localStorage). If you sign up for our digest, a flag is also stored locally so we don't show the in-feed signup card to you again. If you dismiss that card without signing up, a 30-day cool-off timestamp is stored so we don't keep nagging you in the short term — after 30 days the card may surface again. None of these values leave your device.
- Article flagging: If you flag an article as irrelevant or commercial, we store the article ID and a timestamp. To prevent abuse, your IP address is temporarily used for rate limiting (max 10 flags per hour) and automatically deleted after 1 hour. The flag itself contains no personal data and is automatically deleted after 90 days.
- Contact form: When you use our contact form, we store your name, subject, and message for 90 days. Your IP address is used for rate limiting (max 5 messages per hour) and deleted after 1 hour. Messages may be forwarded to our inbox via Resend, an email delivery service. Resend processes data in the United States under Standard Contractual Clauses. See Resend's privacy policy.
- Email signup: If you sign up to be notified about a future digest, we store your email address along with a timestamp and the consent text you agreed to. We do not currently send any emails — addresses sit inert until we either launch a digest or write to ask whether you still want to be on the list. You can remove your address at any time at /unsubscribe. Storage is in Cloudflare D1 with EU jurisdiction restriction — your address never leaves EU data centres. Rate limit: max 5 sign-ups per hour per IP, deleted after 1 hour.
Legal basis
Under GDPR Article 6, we process data on the following legal bases:
- Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)): IP-based rate limiting to prevent abuse, web analytics for site improvement.
- Contract performance (Art. 6(1)(b)): Processing contact form messages to respond to your inquiry.
- Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)): Storing your email address for digest sign-up, recorded with the exact consent text shown to you. Withdrawable at any time via /unsubscribe.
Data retention
- Rate-limiting IP addresses: 1 hour, then automatically deleted.
- Article flags: 90 days, then automatically deleted.
- Contact form messages: 90 days, then automatically deleted.
- Email signups: until you unsubscribe. We will also write to ask whether you still want to be on the list at least once if no digest has launched within 12 months of your sign-up.
- Web analytics: aggregate data only, no personal data retained.
Your rights
Under GDPR, you have the right to access, correct, or delete any personal data we hold, as well as the right to restrict processing, data portability, and to object. Since we collect almost no data, these rights rarely apply in practice. But they are yours.
To exercise any of these rights, use our contact form or email busara.eu@proton.me. We will respond within 30 days. You may also file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).
Open source
The scoring filters and training pipeline that power our lenses are public. The site and pipeline code are not yet open source but may be in the future.
Contact
For publishers, privacy questions, feedback, or suggestions: use our contact form.
Last updated: April 2026