Privacy
The site is free to read. There is no registration: reading needs no name, email address or any other detail that identifies you. An email address is asked for only if you choose to get stories by email. The site never asks you to sign in with Google or YouTube, so it has no access to your Google or YouTube account.
What we record when you read the site
To run the site, improve it and suggest stories you may like, we record how it is used:
- a cookie named trari_v, holding a random code that lets us recognize a returning browser; it is renewed on every visit and expires a year after your last visit;
- which pages you open, which videos you play, which stories or links you click, which interests you pick, which channels you follow, and whether your answers to the "Test your knowledge" questions are right;
- how far you scroll down each page and how long it stays open;
- what you search for on the site;
- the page that brought you here, your browser's language and its type;
- the IP address of the request.
None of this includes your name or email address. Our web server also keeps ordinary access logs (address, page and time), as every website does, for security and operations.
What stays in your browser
Your preferences - the edition you chose, the interests you picked, the channels you follow and the stories you read last - are saved in your own browser (local storage) and are used there to order what we suggest. The stars you earn in "Test your knowledge" and the questions you have answered are kept only in your browser too.
Microsoft Clarity
To see how readers use our pages and make them better, we use Microsoft Clarity. It records how you move through a page - where you tap or click, how far you scroll and which pages you open - and shows it to us as heatmaps and recordings of visits. It is set to hide what you type into our forms.
For this, Clarity sets cookies of its own (such as _clck and _clsk) and sends what it records to Microsoft, which may also use it to improve its own services and for advertising, as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
Phone notifications
If you turn notifications on, your browser gives us a notification address that does not include your name, and we keep it with the channels you follow, so we can notify you when a new story about them is published. The notification travels through your browser's push service (for example Google's or Apple's). You can stop them at any time in your browser's site settings.
If you asked for the day's lead story, we send one notification a day to the same address with that story, even if you follow no channel.
YouTube on our pages
Pictures of channels and videos are shown from YouTube's servers. Videos play in YouTube's embedded player, in its privacy-enhanced mode: the player loads only when you click a video, and from then on YouTube may place and read cookies of its own on your device, under the Google Privacy Policy.
Viewers' comments
Some stories show up to ten public comments from the video's page on YouTube, with the name the commenter uses there and a link to the original comment. We do not show the commenter's picture, and we keep no list of commenters. A comment that is deleted or hidden on YouTube leaves the story within a week, and all comments leave a story after 30 days. Want us to remove your comment? Use "Report a problem with this story" and we will remove it within 7 days.
When you write to us
If you report a story, write to us through the contact page, or ask us to cover a channel, we keep what you gave us - for example your message, the channel link, and your name, email address or Telegram name if you chose to leave them - together with the IP address and the time, so that we can handle it, answer you and prevent abuse. If you asked for alerts about a channel, we use your email address for those alerts only, and every alert has a link to stop them.
If you asked to get stories by email, we keep your email address, the channels and interests you chose and when you confirmed, and use them only to send you those emails. Every email has a link to stop them, and an email that comes back as undeliverable or is marked as spam stops the emails to that address.
When you open a link from one of these emails, your browser keeps two small cookies, trari_r and trari_s, so the site can show you the channels you follow; they last a year, and the page of what you follow has a sign-out button.
When we publish a story about a channel, we email it to the address the channel published, and we record whether the link in that email was opened and how many readers came through the creator's share. If you arrive through such a share, the channel is added to "Your channels" in your browser, and you can remove it with one tap.
How we use the information, and who receives it
We use it to run the site and keep it secure, find faults, learn which stories are read, improve the site, suggest stories to you, answer you and send the alerts and emails you asked for.
Inside Trari, only the people who run the site see it, and only for these purposes. Outside Trari, it is processed for us by the companies that provide our hosting and email services, some of which operate outside Israel. We do not sell your personal information, and we pass it to others only when the law requires it.
Microsoft also receives what Clarity records, as described above.
Your choices
You can delete or block the site's cookies in your browser; deleting them disconnects you from what was recorded before. You can also ask us to delete information about you, through the contact page or the report button on any story.
Creators: the site shows public information about YouTube channels and videos - names, pictures, titles and public counts. To correct or remove information about your channel, use the report button on the story or write to us through the contact page.
This policy may be updated from time to time. The version shown here is the one in force.
This site uses YouTube API Services. Using the site is also subject to the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.