Cookie Policy
What this page covers
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and similar technologies INCLUDED NEWS uses on includednews.com, why we use them, and how you can control them. It works alongside our Privacy Policy, which describes personal data handling more broadly. Questions about anything here can be sent to support@includednews.com.
What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file a website stores in your browser. Some last only until you close the tab (session cookies); others remain for days or months (persistent cookies). Cookies set by the site you are visiting are first party cookies; cookies set by other companies whose technology appears on the page, such as an advertising network, are third party cookies. Related technologies such as local storage and pixels do similar jobs, and we use the word cookies to cover all of them on this page.
The categories we use
Strictly necessary
These make the site work and cannot be switched off through a consent banner: they handle things like security, load balancing and recording your cookie choices themselves. They do not track your reading habits for any commercial purpose.
Preferences
These remember choices you make, such as a dismissed notice or a display setting, so the site does not ask you again on every visit. Losing them costs convenience, not access.
Analytics
These help us understand, in aggregate, which stories are read, how long pages take to load, and where readers come from. We use this to decide what to cover and what to fix. We look at totals and trends, not at any individual reader’s history.
Advertising
Advertising funds free access to this site. Ad networks that serve our ads may set third party cookies to deliver ads, cap how often you see the same one, measure whether ads were viewed, and, where you have consented, personalise ads based on your interests. These cookies are controlled by the networks that set them, under their own privacy policies, and we do not have access to the profiles they build.
Consent, and where it applies
Where the law of your region requires consent for non essential cookies, we show a consent notice before setting them, and analytics and advertising cookies wait for your answer. You can accept, refuse, or choose by category, and you can reopen your choice later through the cookie settings link on the site. Refusing non essential cookies does not block you from reading anything we publish. Where personalised advertising is refused or unavailable, ads may still appear, but they will be less tailored to you.
Controlling cookies in your browser
Independently of our notice, every major browser lets you view, block and delete cookies:
- block third party cookies while allowing first party ones;
- clear all cookies for a single site, including this one;
- browse in private or incognito mode, which discards cookies when the window closes;
- install reputable extensions that manage trackers site by site.
Check your browser’s help pages for the exact steps, as they change with each version. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may break parts of any site, including this one.
Third party opt outs
Major advertising networks participate in industry opt out programmes that let you refuse personalised advertising across many sites at once, and most modern mobile operating systems offer a device level setting that limits ad personalisation. These controls operate outside our site, but they apply to the same networks that serve ads here, so they are worth knowing about.
Do Not Track and similar signals
Browser signals such as Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control are handled as your region’s law requires. Where a signal has legal force where you live, we and our consent tooling treat it as an opt out of the corresponding cookie categories.
Changes to this policy
As we add features or change providers, the cookies used by the site will change too, and this page will be updated to match, with a revised effective date. If a change means a new category of non essential cookies, consent will be requested again where the law requires it. The current version of this page is always the one that applies.
