Questions that come up in the same form in almost every conversation with a publisher. The answers use the same figures that stand on the product pages, put in the context that a sales page does not have room for.
Keeping a media portal running costs between 99 and 1,199 EUR per month including VAT, depending on how much operational risk the portal carries. The figure covers continuous availability monitoring, security updates, coordination with hosting and a defined number of technical hours per month, from 30 minutes at the entry level to 10 hours at the top. Development work, migrations, redesigns, hosting itself and third-party licences are agreed separately and are not part of that figure.
Content entered by a publisher's newsroom and its visitors remains the property of the publisher, and the platform holds an operational copy only in order to run the service. When the partnership ends, the publisher chooses between a free structured export of the entire database in a machine-readable format, or purchase of the operational database at market price if it wants to continue with the same structure elsewhere. There is no retention period during which the data stays with the platform after the agreement ends.
For a publisher's web system, the European digital wallet changes one thing: instead of asking a user to upload a document and then storing it, the system requests a specific proof and receives it already verified from the user's wallet. Age verification returns a threshold rather than a date of birth, so the portal learns that the user is over eighteen without learning when they were born. Wallets are issued by member states, not by platforms, and registration of the party that verifies credentials goes through the competent national authorities.