Privacy Policy
Short version: no sign-up, no tracking cookies, no ads, and your watch progress never leaves your device. We use privacy-friendly analytics that can't identify you, so there's no cookie banner to click.
Who we are
Bingerun (this website, bingerun.com) is operated from Norway. For any privacy question,
or to exercise your rights below, contact hello@bingerun.com.
We are the data controller for the limited processing described here.
What we collect
Bingerun has no accounts and no login. We do not ask for your name, email, or any personal information to use the site, and we do not sell or share personal data — we don't collect it directly. The only information processed is the minimum needed to deliver and secure the site (below) and aggregate, non-identifying analytics.
Your progress is stored on your device
When you tick off entries in a watch/reading order, favourite a series, or build a list, that data is
saved in your browser's local storage (keys beginning with iol: and
bru:) on your own device. It is never transmitted to us. It stays until you clear it — use
the "Reset progress" button on a page, or clear your browser's site data for Bingerun. This is a
first-party preference you set yourself, so it requires no consent banner.
Analytics — privacy-friendly and cookieless
To understand which pages are useful, we use cookieless, aggregate analytics (such as Plausible or Cloudflare Web Analytics). This kind of analytics:
- sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device;
- does not track you across other sites and does not build a profile of you;
- measures traffic in aggregate (page views, referrers, country, device type) — it cannot identify you.
Where an IP address is briefly used to count a visit, it is processed in a non-identifying way and not stored. Because nothing is read from or stored on your device, this needs no consent under EU/EEA ePrivacy rules — which is why you don't see a cookie banner. Our lawful basis under the GDPR is our legitimate interest in understanding, in aggregate, how the site is used so we can improve it; this is balanced against your privacy by using a tool that cannot identify you.
Security & server logs
The site is served through a content-delivery and security network. To deliver pages and protect the
site from abuse, that provider transiently processes connection data including your IP address and
request metadata, and may set strictly-necessary cookies (for example Cloudflare's
__cf_bm / cf_clearance) used only to tell humans from bots. These are not used
to track you across sites and, being strictly necessary, require no consent. Such operational/security
logs are minimised and retained only briefly.
Service providers (processors) & international transfers
We rely on Cloudflare (content delivery, DNS, security, and cookieless analytics), a US-based provider, under a data-processing agreement. Any transfer of operational data to the US relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, with the EU Standard Contractual Clauses as a fallback. We do not currently operate user accounts; if we later enable optional accounts and cross-device sync (via Supabase), we will update this policy with that provider, its location, and the transfer mechanism before turning it on.
Advertising
We do not currently show ads, and we use no advertising or marketing cookies or pixels. If we introduce advertising in future, it may use cookies or similar technologies — and we will update this policy and present the appropriate consent controls before any such cookies are set.
Affiliate & outbound links
Some "where to watch/read/play" links may be affiliate links — see our disclaimer. Outbound links lead to third-party sites with their own privacy policies, which we don't control.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to access, correct, or erase your personal data, to object to or restrict processing, and to data portability. Because we hold essentially no identifying data about you, there is usually little to act on — but you can always reach us at hello@bingerun.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority; in Norway that is the Data Protection Authority, Datatilsynet.
Children
This site is general-audience and is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
Changes & contact
We may update this policy as the site grows; the "last updated" date above will change. Questions? Email hello@bingerun.com.