Your privacy at Rizo
What we use, what stays on your device, and the choices you have.
Searching and reading news
You can search without signing in. Your search text passes through Rizo’s hosting service to Brave Search to retrieve results. Homepage news is fetched using a general headline query and cached for visitors; it is not personalized to your browsing history. Images load from third-party URLs supplied with results, which may receive standard connection information such as your IP address.
Weather and decorations
The homepage shows a National Weather Service forecast for New York by default. You may choose a listed U.S. city or request your location. Location access requires your browser permission; coordinates are rounded to roughly one kilometer and sent through Rizo to the National Weather Service to retrieve a forecast. Rizo does not save your weather location to your profile or analytics. Hosting providers may keep request logs. Decoration preferences stay in your browser, and holiday dates use the New York calendar.
Saved links and settings
Rizo My Way’s hidden website list, My Finds, folders, personal notes, and your theme are saved in this browser’s local storage. They do not sync across devices. You can delete My Finds from Settings or remove all local site data using your browser settings. Your most recent search is saved in this browser to offer a resume shortcut in My Daily Five. You can clear it there. Hidden websites are filtered on your device and are not sent as preferences to Brave. Restore websites or reset the list through Rizo My Way.
Language and translation
Your interface language is saved in this browser. Spanish translates main interface controls; third-party content and some information pages remain in their original language. Optional browser translation or Google Translate is provided by those services, which may receive page contents under their own privacy policies. Rizo does not automatically send page text to a translation service.
Voice search
The microphone starts only after you tap it and allow access. Your browser’s speech service may process audio remotely. Rizo receives recognized text for you to review and submit. You can stop listening or revoke microphone permission in your browser settings.
Service providers and usage limits
Hosting, sign-in, and search providers may retain request logs under their own policies. Rizo stores shared request counters without search text to enforce usage limits. Abuse-prevention counters also use a daily hash of the network address supplied by our hosting provider. Raw network addresses are not saved in these counters; expired counters are removed on subsequent API requests. Shared networks may share a limit. These operational protections remain active when analytics is turned off. No advertising or third-party visitor analytics script is currently installed. Rizo uses first-party aggregate analytics for page views, browser sessions, feature clicks, and search service performance. A random session token stays in session storage; the server keeps a daily hash for session counting, clearing prior-day session hashes on subsequent visits. Aggregate metrics are retained for up to 90 days. Analytics do not store names, email addresses, IP addresses, search text, or clicked article URLs. The homepage displays today’s browser-session count. Detailed reports are owner-only. You can opt out of browser activity analytics in Settings; Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control are also respected. Operational search counters remain active to enforce limits.
Sign-in and external sites
Publisher links and optional Google searches open other websites whose privacy practices apply there.