Cookies keep you logged in, remember your ad preferences, and tell us which articles are actually getting read versus which ones just look good on the homepage. Here's exactly what we set and why.
01. What a cookie actually is
A cookie is a small text file your browser stores when you visit a site, so the site can recognize you on your next visit or request. Some are essential to basic functioning; others exist purely to measure traffic or serve ads. We use "cookie" here loosely to also cover similar technologies like local storage and tracking pixels, since most people searching for this policy mean all of the above.
02. The categories we use
Strictly necessary
Required for the site to function — keeping you logged into a comment account, remembering your cookie consent choice, and basic load-balancing between our servers. These can't be switched off through our cookie banner because the site won't work properly without them, but you can block them at the browser level if you'd rather.
Analytics
We use a privacy-focused analytics tool to see aggregate traffic patterns — which articles get read, roughly how long people stay, and which pages send readers away without reading further. We've configured it to truncate IP addresses and we don't use it to build individual reader profiles.
Advertising
Our ad network sets cookies to avoid showing you the same ad fifty times in a row and to make the ads on our site marginally more relevant than random. If you decline these, you'll still see ads — they just won't be tailored to your browsing.
Embedded content
Some articles embed a tweet, a chart from a third-party data provider, or a video. These embeds can set their own cookies from the third-party's domain, governed by that third-party's own policy, not ours. We try to flag these inline where it's not obvious.
| Category | Typical duration | Can you opt out? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Session to 12 months | Browser-level only |
| Analytics | Up to 14 months | Yes, via the cookie banner |
| Advertising | Up to 12 months | Yes, via the cookie banner |
| Embedded content | Set by the third party | Depends on the provider |
The advertising category is the one that funds most of what we do, so we're not going to pretend we'd rather you turned it off. But it's genuinely optional, the site works fine either way, and the banner isn't designed to bury the "reject" button — we checked.
03. Managing your preferences
You can change your cookie choices at any time using the "Cookie Settings" link in the site footer, which reopens the same banner you saw on your first visit. Most browsers also let you block or delete cookies directly through their settings menu — search your browser's help pages for "cookies" if you'd rather manage it that way, though blocking everything may break parts of the site like comment logins.
04. Changes to this policy
If we add a new analytics or advertising tool that changes what's listed above, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the new cookies start being set, not after.
Questions: privacy@Cryptoblogga.com