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What this site stores about you, why it stores it, and how to have it removed. Short, because there is not much of it.
The Meridian is published by an individual, not by a company. There is no registered legal entity behind it: one person decides what is collected and what happens to it, and is responsible for it under data protection law.
For anything on this page, including a copy of your data or a deletion request, write to contact@themeridiannewsdecoded.com.
Two things are collected, and only if you volunteer them: your email address if you sign up to the newsletter, and your email and password if you create an account. Nothing else. Reading the site anonymously collects nothing at all.
There are no analytics. There is no advertising network. There are no third-party scripts of any kind on the pages you read.
Signing up stores your email address, the date you signed up, and a single word recording where the sign-up came from. That is the whole record: no name, no reading history, no identifier tying it to anything else.
The list is write-only from the side of the website. The public site can add an address and cannot read, change, or list what is stored. That is enforced by a database rule rather than by convention, so a flaw in the website cannot expose the list.
No newsletter has been sent yet and no address has left the database. When sending begins, this page will name the company that delivers the mail, because that company will necessarily handle your address. Until then, ask at contact@themeridiannewsdecoded.com to be removed.
Creating an account stores your email address and a password. The password is never stored as you typed it: the authentication service keeps a one-way hash, and this site never sees or handles the original.
Alongside the account sits a small profile: your role, reader or editor, and for people who write here a display name and a short biography. Display names and biographies appear publicly on stories, so treat those two as published rather than private.
Signing in sets a session cookie so you stay signed in between pages. It is not used to track you and is not readable by anyone else.
Accounts and the newsletter list are held in Supabase, which provides the database and the sign-in system. It processes this data on the instructions of the publisher and for no other purpose.
There is no self-service delete button yet. Write to contact@themeridiannewsdecoded.com from the address on the account, or naming the address on the newsletter list, and it will be removed. You do not have to give a reason.
Removing a newsletter subscription deletes the row entirely. Removing an account deletes the login and the profile with it. Anything you published while an editor stays published, because the stories belong to the publication rather than to the account.
None. The advertisement slots on the site are reserved empty space: they load nothing, set nothing, and report nothing to anyone.
It does not sell reader data. It does not run trackers. It does not build advertising or interest profiles. It does not share anything with anyone beyond the service provider named above. These are statements about how the software is built today, and this page will change before any of them stops being true.
Data protection in North Macedonia is governed by the Law on Personal Data Protection, which follows the same structure as the European GDPR. In broad terms you can ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, and complain to the national supervisory authority if you are not satisfied with the answer.
Every one of those requests goes to the same place: contact@themeridiannewsdecoded.com.