Your privacy and controls

Hosted in the EU, on our own servers

Our core stack (the app, the databases, object storage and search) runs on servers we manage in the European Union (Germany). There is no US hyperscaler in the path.
Your account, reading history and personalization never leave the EU, so they aren’t exposed to US data-transfer regimes (the Schrems II problem). European data, under European rules.
Self-hosting our core keeps your account and reading data on infrastructure we control, rather than rented from a US hyperscaler.

We measure traffic with Umami, which we self-host on our own infrastructure, never a third-party cloud.
It is cookieless: no cookies, no localStorage, no cross-site identifier. It counts visits with a daily rotating signal that can’t tie your activity together across days or sites.
It records only anonymized aggregates: page views, referrer, country. It cannot single out an individual. Processed under legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); no consent-banner gymnastics required.

Like any modern publisher, we run advertising and measure whether it works. We use Meta (and X when we enable it) to do this, sharing a limited set of events and hashed identifiers, never your raw email or phone number, and never the articles you read.
In the European Economic Area this runs only if you consent. You can turn it off anytime in the consent banner or in Settings then Privacy, and we honor the Global Privacy Control signal.
This measurement data goes to the United States, where Meta is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, with standard contractual clauses as a fallback.
Everything else holds: we don’t sell your data, we don’t profile what you read for advertisers, and your account and reading history stay on our EU infrastructure.

Pollar is AI-assisted and human-edited. Summaries and the daily brief carry a visible AI disclosure. We don’t pass machine-written text off as hand-written.
Our sourcing, methodology and corrections process are published openly in our editorial standards, aligned with European media-credibility norms (EMFA).
Published in four EU languages: English, Polish, German and French. Each member state is treated as equally relevant.
And the AI itself runs in the EU: when you personalise your feed, your typed preferences are interpreted on Google Cloud Vertex AI in the Netherlands (europe-west4). What you enter never goes to a US AI cloud, and we don’t send your email or account identifiers with it.

Pollar is built to WCAG 2.1 level AA, the standard the European Accessibility Act requires: full keyboard operation, screen-reader text alternatives (even for data charts), and a 4.5:1 contrast ratio in light and dark. Colour is never the only signal.
Accessibility is ongoing engineering work, not a launch-day checkbox. We audit it as we ship every change.
We publish a full accessibility statement with a direct channel to report any barrier.