Cookie policy

What a cookie is

A cookie is a small file a site asks your browser to keep, so it can recognise you on your next visit. Most sites use them to hold a login, remember a preference, or follow you between sites to build an advertising profile.

What this site sets

Every page loads Google Analytics, which measures how many people visit and what they read. It sets two cookies, _ga and _ga_1DPCW4ZNB8, which give your browser a random identifier so a return visit can be told apart from a first one. Both last up to two years. Google's own privacy terms apply to what it collects, and Google offers abrowser add on that turns it off.

Nothing else on the site sets a cookie. There is no login to hold and no advertising. If you switch the site between dark and light, that choice is remembered in your browser's own storage, not in a cookie, and it never leaves your device.

What this site counts

To see which ideas people read, the site keeps its own daily totals. It counts how many times each page was read, how long it stayed open and how far down it was scrolled, where the visit came from in general terms (a search engine, a social site, a link, typed in), and whether the screen was a phone, a tablet or a computer. It also counts the ideas that were opened, the categories and orders chosen, the View on Reddit links followed, and whether the subscribe form was accepted.

Each of these only adds one to a total for the day. Nothing is kept about you: no cookie, nothing stored in your browser, no identifier that links one visit to the next, no IP address, and nothing you type, your email address included. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, nothing is counted at all. The totals are kept privately, on the same Cloudflare account that hosts the site, and are never sold or shared.

What other people set

The subscribe form posts your email address directly to Kit, the provider that runs the list. That request goes to Kit rather than to this site, and Kit's own cookie and privacy terms apply to it.

Every idea links out to the thread it came from. Following one of those links takes you to Reddit, which does set cookies. Nothing on this page covers what happens after you leave.

If this changes

If what the site sets or counts changes, this page is updated before it ships and the date at the top changes.

For anything on this page, email contact@aaezekiel.co. The legal page covers what is collected and how the list works.