What do you collect?

Aggregate open counts (which section, what hour, what country based on IP). A short opaque device identifier so the same person doesn't get counted twice a minute apart. That's the entire list.

Do you use trackers or ad-tech?

No third-party trackers. No advertising SDKs. No pixels. No scripts served from ad networks. The site loads only its own code plus fonts and the manifest.

Do you sell reader data?

No. There is nothing to sell — we don't collect names, emails (unless you subscribe to the daily digest), locations finer than country, browsing history, or interests.

What about the daily email?

If you subscribe, we store your email address only to send you the digest and to honour unsubscribes. Unsubscribing removes the row.

If I create an account, what exactly do you store?

Three things and only three:

• Your email address (or phone number, if we add SMS).
• The article IDs you have bookmarked.
• The timestamps we created the account and you last signed in.

That is the full list. No name, no photo, no date of birth, no address, no gender, no marketing consent. One-tap deletion removes every row that mentions you — you can verify by checking your bookmarks list vanish server-side after tappingDelete account.

Cookies?

A dark-mode preference and a language preference in localStorage. A short-lived session cookie for logged-in editor accounts on admin.activ.news. None on the reader side that identifies a person.

Analytics of any kind?

We record aggregate opens (device_id hash, section, hour, country) to know whether editors are producing work anyone reads. No individual profile is built. No third-party analytics service receives your traffic.

How long is anything retained?

Ninety days on aggregate reader-open counts. Indefinitely on the daily email address (until you unsubscribe). Corrections and editorial decisions are permanent — that's the point.

Reader-facing data requests?

Because we don't hold personal data on non-subscribers, there's nothing to hand back or delete. Subscribers can request their email be forgotten via Grievance in the footer.