Privacy.

We measure visits to understand which stories reach our readers. A first-party cookie named hb_visitor assigns your browser a random identifier for up to one year. It is used to estimate unique visitors, not to identify you by name.

Our traffic records contain a hashed identifier, the day, public page path and story identifier, page-view count, referring website or campaign source, and approximate country. We do not store IP addresses, full referral URLs, or the order or exact times of page visits in these analytics records. Country lookup happens on our server; no visitor IP is sent to a third-party geolocation service.

We respect browser Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals by skipping analytics collection. Clearing cookies resets your visitor identifier. Admin sessions use a separate login cookie.

Country estimates use GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind. Country estimates and visitor counts may be affected by VPNs, blocked tracking, shared browsers, or cleared cookies.