Privacy & terms
WizPrly News is a product of WizPrly Digital Studio (Pty) Ltd, South Africa. This page explains what happens when you use it.
What we collect
- Your searches. The place you type is used to find it on the map and to look up news about it. Results for a place are reused for 10 minutes so the next person searching it gets them faster (and deleted within two days), and the headlines found for a place are kept for up to 30 days to calculate what's trending there. None of this is linked to you.
- No accounts, no tracking. We don't ask for your name or email, we don't use advertising or analytics cookies, and we don't build a history of what you search.
- Network data. Your IP address is used briefly to stop abuse (a limit on searches per minute) and appears in our hosting provider's short-lived security logs. We don't store it with your searches.
- In your browser only. Your theme and your recent searches are saved in your own browser (local storage). Clearing your browser data removes them.
Services we use
The site is hosted on Cloudflare. To answer a search, our server (not your browser) contacts OpenStreetMap's geocoders (Nominatim and Photon), the GDELT Project's news search and publishers' news feeds, and public social media services (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, Reddit, YouTube). They see our server's requests, not your device. The map on a results page is loaded from OpenStreetMap by your browser, and fonts are loaded from Google Fonts.
Social media posts
Public posts that mention a place are shown separately from news, labelled as unverified, cut to a short snippet, and shown without usernames. We never store them. If a post about you appears and you want it gone, ask the platform it came from to remove it; once removed there, it stops appearing here.
News content
Headlines and short snippets link to the original publisher, who owns the content. Worldwide news search is powered in part by The GDELT Project. We rank stories automatically by how closely they relate to the place and how recent they are; a story's position is not an endorsement. Check important information with the publisher.
Fair use of the service
Please don't use automated tools to scrape WizPrly News or send large numbers of searches. We may limit or block traffic that harms the service for others. The service is provided as is, without guarantees that every source is available at all times.
Your rights
Under South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), and the GDPR where it applies, you can ask what personal information we hold about you and ask us to correct or delete it, by emailing maphutimoviousteffo@gmail.com. Because we don't keep searches linked to people, in most cases there is nothing to return.
Contact
WizPrly Digital Studio (Pty) Ltd · wizprly.co.za · maphutimoviousteffo@gmail.com. Contact us for privacy requests (POPIA / GDPR), to report a problem with a story or a post, or if you're a publisher with questions about how your feed is used.