Privacy

Google Analytics tells us how many people opened an article, which articles those were, and roughly what part of the world they were read from. It reports that a piece was opened four hundred times in Zurich. It does not report who opened it. There is no advertising here and nothing is sold, so there is nothing to aim at you afterwards.

Google Analytics leaves two small files in your browser, named _ga and _ga_ followed by a code. They are what let it tell a returning reader from a new one, and they are set when you arrive. They hold no name, no address and no email.

Follow the link below once and this browser stops being counted. Nothing else about the site changes, and you will not be asked again. It has to be done once in each browser you read us in, and again if you clear your browsing data.

If you send us an address for the Friday letter, we keep the address and which language you asked for. Nothing else. It is never sold or passed on. So that robots cannot flood the form, we also store a one-way fingerprint of the connection each signup arrived from: the address itself is never written down, and the fingerprint cannot be turned back into one.

Analytics data is handled by Google and may be held outside Switzerland, including in the United States. It is deleted after fourteen months. Newsletter addresses sit with Supabase, the database service behind this site, and stay until you ask for them to go. To ask what we hold about you, or to have it deleted, write to us through the contact page.