Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 November 2026

In short: you can read Khabarestan without an account, and we do not use advertising or tracking cookies. We count how often stories are read, by country and city only, and we do not keep a profile of you.

1. Who we are

Khabarestan is run by its editors.

2. What we process, and why

Visiting the site (server logs)

When you open a page, our servers and hosting infrastructure process your IP address, the date and time, the requested address, the browser type and the response status. This is needed to deliver the site and keep it secure.

Reading statistics

When you open a story we record the story, the edition (Persian or English), and your approximate country and city. To work out the location we send your IP address to the geolocation service ipwho.is. The result is stored with the view, but your IP address is not stored with it. To avoid repeat requests we keep a cache of looked-up IP addresses and their location, which only our administrators can see. We use this to understand which stories our readers value.

Search

The words you search for are stored together with the edition and the number of results, without any information that identifies you.

Suggesting a correction

If you use a personal “suggest an edit” link, we process the name, e-mail address and phone number you enter, your proposed text, and your IP address, so that our editors can review the suggestion, contact you with questions and prevent abuse. We delete this data when it is no longer needed for these purposes.

Error monitoring

If an error occurs, technical details (such as the requested address, browser type and the error itself) may be sent to our error-tracking provider, Sentry, so that we can fix the problem.

3. Cookies

The public pages do not set advertising, analytics or other tracking cookies. Cookies are used only in the editors’ login area, where a session cookie is strictly necessary to keep editors signed in.

4. Content delivery networks

To display the site we load the Bootstrap style sheets, icons and the Vazirmatn font from the content delivery network jsDelivr. When your browser fetches these files, the network receives your IP address.

5. Service providers

We use service providers for hosting, error tracking, geolocation lookups and sending e-mail to our editors. They process data on our behalf or, in the case of geolocation, receive the IP address described above. They may be located in other countries than yours.

6. Storage period

Server logs are kept for a short period and then deleted. Reading statistics contain no IP addresses and may be kept for as long as they are useful. Correction suggestions are kept until they are decided and for as long as we need them to document the editorial decision.

7. Your choices

You can ask us what personal data we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it. Because reading statistics carry no identifying information, they cannot be traced back to you.

8. Changes

We may update this policy when the site changes. The current version is always available on this page.