We use cookies and similar browser storage for three purposes: keeping you signed in and your session working, measuring how the site is used, and measuring advertising. The first purpose is required for the service to function. The other two are optional and are switched off until you allow them.
2. Your Choice and How to Change It
When you first visit, we ask for your choice and load nothing optional until you make it. You can accept all, accept only what is necessary, or choose per category. You can change your choice at any time from the cookie banner controls; clearing your browser storage for this site also resets the choice. Declining the optional categories does not restrict any part of the service.
3. Necessary (Cannot Be Switched Off)
These are set by us, not by third parties. They hold your sign-in session, your anonymous device identifier, and your cookie choice itself. Without them you cannot stay signed in or complete a purchase.
4. Third-Party Vendors — Analytics
If you allow the Analytics category, we load Google Firebase Analytics (Google Analytics 4) provided by Google LLC. It records page views and feature usage and sets Google analytics identifiers. It is not loaded at all unless you allow this category. Google's own controls and privacy information are available at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
5. Third-Party Vendors — Advertising
If you allow the Advertising category, and only if the site operator has configured that channel, we may load: Meta Pixel provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. (connect.facebook.net) to measure ad conversions; TikTok Pixel provided by TikTok Ltd. (analytics.tiktok.com); and Microsoft UET provided by Microsoft Corporation (bat.bing.com). Each of these vendors sets its own identifiers and receives your IP address and the pages you view on this site. None of them is loaded unless you allow this category. Vendor opt-out and privacy controls: Meta at facebook.com/privacy, TikTok at tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy, Microsoft at account.microsoft.com/privacy/ad-settings.
6. Advertising Identifiers Without Third-Party Scripts
For one advertising channel (NewsBreak) we publish only an identifier in the page's own HTML metadata. No NewsBreak script is loaded and no request is made to NewsBreak from your browser by us. It is listed here for completeness.
7. Not Used
We do not use cookies or similar technologies for facial recognition or biometric identification, for real-time location tracking, or to build profiles about the people you search for. Advertising measurement described above concerns your visit to this site, not the subjects of your searches.
8. Retention
Necessary session identifiers last for the duration of your session or until the sign-in expires. Your cookie choice is stored until you clear it. Third-party vendor cookies are set and retained by those vendors under their own policies, linked above.
9. Questions
Write to [email protected] with any question about this policy or to ask what is currently set in your browser.
Necessary
Required
Session management and authentication cookies. Required for the service to function.
Analytics
Optional
Usage statistics and performance monitoring to improve our service.
Advertising
Optional
Optional advertising cookies. Require explicit user consent before activation.