Privacy policy

This is a translation for convenience. The legally binding version is the German one: Datenschutzerklärung. In case of any discrepancy, the German text prevails.

This statement says which data we process, for what purpose, where it is stored and for how long. It follows the revised Swiss Data Protection Act (revDSG).

Controller

NetriX GmbH, Gutenbergstrasse 1, 8002 Zürich, Schweiz
anfrage@netrix.ch. Weitere Angaben im Legal notice.

This marketing site: no tracking, no cookies

newskurator.ch embeds no advertising networks, no fonts and no content from outside servers. The only exception is Google Analytics, if we switch it on; there is a separate section on that just below. As long as it is not switched on, the page sets no cookies and transmits nothing to analytics services.

Like every web server, the server keeps a technical log (IP address, time, page requested, browser identification). It serves the operation of the site and the prevention of abuse and is not used to analyse user behaviour.

The page calls a single address at the curator in order to show the number of free demo places. Nothing is transmitted other than the fact that someone opened the page.

Google Analytics, once activated

On this marketing site we may use Google Analytics 4 , an analytics service of Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). It helps us understand how many people visit the site and which sections are read. You can see whether it is currently active in your browser’s developer tools: without activation the page requests nothing from Google.

If it is activated, the following applies:

What is transmitted: pages requested, approximate location, browser and device type, and a random identifier that recognises your device. Google Analytics 4 shortens IP addresses before they are stored; the full address is not recorded.
Where the data is stored: on Google servers, including in the USA. Google LLC is certified under the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which the Swiss Federal Council recognises as providing an adequate level of protection.
Cookies: The service sets cookies (including _ga) in order to recognise returning visits.
Objection: You can prevent collection by blocking cookies for this site in your browser, using a content blocker, or installing the Browser-Add-on von Google zur Deaktivierung .
No advertising: We use the figures only for the reach of this site. Google Signals, remarketing and advertising features are not switched on.

When you request a demo

We process the details you enter in the form:

Name and email address: to send you the confirmation link and then your credentials. It does not work without them.
Company, industry and your description: from these the curator derives the first topics and sources of your demo account. Optional; without them you start with an empty profile.
IP address and time: to limit how many requests can be made from one address per day. Das schützt vor Automaten und davor, dass jemand fremde Adressen anmeldet.

Without your click on the confirmation link, no account is created. Until then we only hold your request. The link is valid for 48 hours; after that it expires. We send no advertising und geben deine Adresse nicht weiter.

If all demo places are taken, you can put yourself on a waiting list. We then store the same details and notify you once, as soon as a place becomes free.

When you use the curator

Account: name, email, encrypted password, role.
What you set up: sources, topics, schedule, profile text.
What the curator collects: articles from your sources and newsletters you forward to your delivery address.
How you read: read state, ratings, reading list, reminders. Your learning profile grows out of these.

The application sets ein Cookie: deine Anmeldung. Es ist technisch nötig und wird für nichts anderes verwendet. Daten verschiedener Mandanten sind getrennt; niemand sieht die Quellen, Themen oder Bewertungen eines anderen.

If you connect a Gmail mailbox, that happens through Google’s authorisation flow (OAuth); wir bekommen kein Passwort und lesen ausschliesslich die Nachrichten des Ordners, den du angibst. Die Freigabe kannst du jederzeit in deinem Google-Konto zurückziehen. Nötig ist sie nicht: Der Weg über die Einlieferadresse kommt ohne jeden Zugriff auf dein Postfach aus.

When you search for a source

Source discovery queries outside services – there is no other way to find a feed. Hinaus geht dabei ausschliesslich dein Suchbegriff, sonst nichts: keine Kennung, keine Angaben zu deinem Konto, nichts aus deinem Briefing.

Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): to find an organisation’s website from its name.
DuckDuckGo: only if Wikidata knows nothing.
Google News: to build a search feed for your topic.
Apple: for the podcast search.
YouTube (Google): for the channel search.
The website itself, where a feed is suspected.

These queries are made by unser Server, not your browser. The services named therefore see our address and not yours; they learn neither who searched nor for which client account. Wir speichern die Suchbegriffe nicht – gespeichert wird nur die Quelle, die du danach selbst hinzufügst.

When you pay

For payments we work with Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., Dublin, mit Konzerngesellschaften in den USA). Stripe ist unser Zahlungsdienstleister und verarbeitet die Zahlung in unserem Auftrag.

You enter card details directly with Stripe, on their page. The News Kurator never sees a card number and stores none.
Transmitted to Stripe: your name or the name of your account, the email address of your account, the amount, the currency and the name of your plan. Dazu eine interne Kennung, damit eine eingehende Zahlung deinem Zugang zugeordnet werden kann.
What Stripe reports back to us: whether a payment succeeded, the identifier of the subscription and the amount charged. No card details.
Transfer to the USA: Stripe may transfer data to group companies in the USA. The basis is the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses beziehungsweise die entsprechenden Garantien nach Schweizer Datenschutzrecht.
Your billing address you enter in the curator; it appears on your invoice and stays with us. It is not passed to Stripe.

Stripe’s own privacy policy: stripe.com/privacy. Wer per Überweisung zahlt, für den entfällt Stripe vollständig.

Where the data is stored

The curator and its database run on our own hardware in Switzerland. The language model that reads and rates articles also runs on this machine; deine Artikel und Newsletter verlassen sie dafür nicht und landen in keinem Trainingsdatensatz. Das gilt für die Bewertung; wenn du eine neue Quelle suchst, geht dein Suchbegriff an die im Abschnitt «Wenn du eine Quelle suchst» genannten Verzeichnisse.
This marketing site and the outgoing mail are hosted by hosttech GmbH in Zurich.
The delivery address for newsletters (in.newskurator.ch) receives mail on a server in Frankfurt (Hostinger, Germany) und reicht sie verschlüsselt an die Schweizer Maschine weiter. Weitergeleitete Newsletter durchlaufen damit kurz einen Server im EU-Raum; gespeichert werden sie erst in der Schweiz.
Payments run through Stripe (Ireland, with transfer to the USA), see the section «When you pay». Without a card payment your data never goes there.
Cloud language model as an exception: A client account may choose a cloud model instead of the local one. Article texts are then transmitted to that provider for rating. Das ist eine bewusste Einstellung, keine Voreinstellung.

How long we keep data

Requests without confirmation: the link expires after 48 hours, and the entry is no longer used after that.
Demo accounts: the demo runs for 14 days. After that your briefing stays readable, but nothing new is added. 30 days after expiry the client account, the user account and all data are deleted, sofern du nicht weitermachst.
Paid accounts: for as long as the contractual relationship exists. On request we delete sooner.
Invoices: ten years. This is not a choice: under Swiss law (Art. 958f CO) accounting records must be kept for that long. Eine Löschung deines Zugangs beendet das nicht; die Rechnung bleibt als Beleg bestehen, mit Name, Adresse und Betrag.
Waiting list entries: until you have been notified, or until you write to us asking to be removed.

Your rights

You may at any time request information about your data, have it corrected or deleted, and object to its processing. An informal email to anfrage@netrix.ch genügt. Wir antworten innerhalb von 30 Tagen. Bist du mit unserer Antwort nicht einverstanden, steht dir der Weg zum Eidgenössischen Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragten (EDÖB) offen.

Security

The connection to this site and to the application is encrypted (HTTPS). Passwords are stored only as a hash, stored keys are encrypted. The server is not directly reachable from outside; access runs through an encrypted tunnel. Backups of the database are made regularly.

Changes

If the way we process data changes, we change this statement. The version shown here is the one that applies.

Last updated: 30 August 2026