This policy sits alongside our Privacy Policy and covers cookies and similar technologies such as local storage, pixels, and software development kits.
What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file that a site asks your browser to store. On your next visit the browser sends it back, which is how a site remembers that you are signed in or that you turned something off. Some cookies are set by us, others by the providers we use.
How we ask for your consent
Strictly necessary cookies are set as soon as you arrive, because the site cannot work without them. Everything else stays off until you accept it in the consent banner. Your choice is recorded and applies until you change it or until the record expires, after which we ask again.
Categories we use
| Category | Consent | Purpose | Examples | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary C0001 | Always on | Keeps you signed in, remembers your consent choices, balances traffic, and protects against abuse. The site cannot work without these. | Session cookie, consent record, security token | Session to 12 months |
| Functional C0002 | Optional | Remembers preferences such as your reading position, saved stories, and whether you have dismissed a prompt. | Reading progress, dismissed banners, language | Up to 12 months |
| Performance C0003 | Optional | Counts visits and traffic sources so we can measure which stories are read and where the site is slow. The reports are aggregated. | Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager | Up to 24 months |
| Targeting C0004 | Optional | Builds a profile of your interests so that promotions for publications and newsletters are more relevant, on this site and elsewhere. | Advertising and remarketing tags | Up to 13 months |
Third party cookies
Performance and targeting cookies are set by providers acting on our behalf, including Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics. Those providers handle the data under their own privacy notices, and none of their tags load until you have accepted the matching category.
Changing your choices
You can reopen the consent settings whenever you like and turn categories on or off. Turning a category off stops new cookies in that category and clears the ones we control.
Browser controls
Your browser can also block or delete cookies, usually under settings for privacy, site data, or tracking protection. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will break sign in and your saved preferences. Deleting cookies also deletes the record of your consent, so the banner will appear again on your next visit.
Global Privacy Control
Where the law requires it, we treat a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser as an instruction to switch off targeting cookies.
Changes to this policy
We scan the site regularly for new cookies and update the table above when something changes. The date at the top reflects the current version.
Contact us
Questions about cookies go to privacy@bytecode.quickkdemo.com.