Privacy Policy

Compliant with Republic Act No. 10173 (Data Privacy Act of 2012). Last updated: October 2026.

The short version

Pinas.cc is a static website. We do not have user accounts, and we do not run a server that stores your personal data. What little state exists lives in your own browser.

What is stored on your device

  • Saved articles (bookmarks) — stored in your browser's local storage. They never leave your device and are deleted when you clear site data.
  • Newsletter interest email — if you enter an email in the Pinas Daily box, it is saved to this device's local storage only. No email is transmitted to us or to any email provider (described in the next section).

Newsletter signup (Pinas Daily) — how it works in each build

This build of the site does not send your email anywhere. The Pinas Daily box is a device-local placeholder: whatever you type is saved to this browser's local storage on this device only, is never transmitted to us or to any email provider, and disappears when you clear site data.

If a hosted signup form is enabled in a future build, submissions will go directly from your browser to our chosen email provider, Buttondown (buttondown.com), with a double opt-in confirmation email — never through a Pinas.cc server. That build will replace this paragraph, and Buttondown's handling of your address will be governed by their privacy policy ↗.

What we do not collect

  • No accounts, passwords, or government IDs.
  • No server-side analytics or advertising trackers.
  • No sale of personal data, and no sharing of personal data for advertising or profiling.

Hosting & logs

The site is served by Firebase Hosting's global CDN. Like all web servers, CDN infrastructure processes IP addresses and request metadata transiently to deliver pages; these operational logs are governed by Google's/Firebase's data practices.

Your rights

Under the Data Privacy Act you may request access to, correction of, or erasure of personal data we hold. Because Pinas.cc itself holds none on a server, the practical remedy for anything this site stores is clearing your browser's site data for pinas.cc. Questions: corrections@pinas.cc.