What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file a website places in your browser. It lets the site remember things between visits — like the theme you picked, or whether you’re signed in — and lets us understand, at an aggregate level, how the site is used.
What we use
We keep this list short and honest. If we add anything, we update this page.
- Strictly necessary.A small set of cookies required to serve the site — for example, to remember which theme you selected (dark, light, or reader) so the site doesn’t flash the wrong palette when a page loads. These are not used for tracking.
- Preferences. If you sign in to a National Reformer account (once accounts exist), we set a session cookie to keep you signed in.
- Analytics. We may use a privacy-respecting analytics tool to count pageviews and understand which stories readers reach. Where we do, we configure it to anonymize IP addresses and to not build persistent profiles on individual readers.
We do not use advertising cookies to build behavioral profiles across the web. If a partnership ever changes that, we’ll update this page and give you a clear choice.
Third-party services
Some pages may load resources from third parties — for example, embedded video from a video host, or fonts from a font provider. Those services may set their own cookies according to their own policies. Where reasonable, we prefer providers with strong privacy practices.
How to control cookies
You can clear or block cookies in your browser at any time. Most browsers let you do this per-site or globally. If you block strictly necessary cookies, some parts of the site — like remembering your theme choice — will not work.
Help pages for common browsers:
Do Not Track
Browser “Do Not Track” signals are not a settled standard. We do not currently change site behavior based on the DNT header, but we also do not use tracking practices that DNT was designed to defeat.
More information
Our full data handling is described in our Privacy Policy. Questions: privacy@nationalreformer.com.