Your privacy
Cookies and your choices
Necessary cookies support security and forms. You can choose whether to allow detailed analytics. Basic daily page counts may continue without analytics cookies, whatever you choose here.
What we store in your browser
| Name | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| heard-in-ai-session | Secure forms and the current site session. | 120 minutes of inactivity |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Protect forms against requests sent from another site. | 120 minutes |
| reader_push | Let this browser manage the story push notifications you requested. Set only when you enable push. | Up to one year |
| hia_cookie_choice | Remember whether you allow detailed analytics. | 180 days |
| hia_analytics | Recognise this browser on later visits, after you accept detailed analytics. | Up to 180 days |
Editor sign-in may also set Laravel’s remember-me cookie if the editor selects that option. Readers do not need an account.
We use a local browser preference, hia_privacy_pending, if a cookie choice has not finished saving. It stops detailed analytics until the choice is saved. It contains no visitor ID. If you choose light or dark mode, we keep that choice as hia_theme in your browser. It is not sent to us.
What we count
When basic page counting is on, we keep a daily total for each public page for up to 180 days. It uses no analytics cookie or visitor ID and stores no IP address, browser details, referrer, query string or campaign tag. Rejecting detailed analytics or sending a browser privacy signal does not stop this count.
After you accept detailed analytics, we count page views, visits and return visits with a random browser ID. An engaged article read means at least 30 seconds with the page visible and reaching 75% of the article text. These are estimates of reading, not proof that someone read every word.
We keep the referring website’s domain or short campaign source, medium and campaign labels when a link provides them. We do not store full referring links, search terms, email addresses or browser fingerprints in detailed analytics. If you subscribe from an article while detailed analytics is allowed, we can count that article’s confirmed signups.
Changing devices or clearing cookies creates a new browser count. Refusing detailed analytics means your visits do not appear in the browser and visit reports. Browser privacy signals, including Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control, keep detailed analytics off.
Your choice and detailed analytics records expire after 180 days. Rejecting removes the analytics cookie and stops further detailed collection. Existing statistics remain until they expire; any link from this browser to a newsletter signup is removed.