Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device when you visit. They let the site remember your actions and preferences over time, keep it secure, and help us understand how our journalism is read. We also use similar technologies such as local storage and pixels; where we say “cookies” in this policy, we mean all of them.

We keep our use of cookies deliberately lean. We use them to run the Site reliably, to remember choices you make (such as dismissing a notice), and to measure — in aggregate — which stories are read so we can improve our coverage.

We do not use cookies to build advertising profiles about you across the web.

Strictly necessary

These cookies are required for the Site to function — for example to maintain security, balance load and remember your consent choices. The Site cannot work properly without them, so they do not require consent.

Preferences

These remember choices you make, such as a dismissed banner or your region, so you do not have to set them again.

Analytics

These help us understand how visitors use the Site — which pages are read and how people arrive — in aggregate and pseudonymised form. They are set only where consent is required and you have given it.

Some cookies may be set by the providers we rely on to deliver and measure the Site, such as our analytics or security partners. These providers act on our instructions and are bound to protect the data they process. Embedded content from other platforms — for example a video or social post — may also set its own cookies when you interact with it; those are governed by the provider’s own policy.

You are in control of non-essential cookies. You can manage them in two ways:

• On the Site — where a consent notice is shown, you can accept or decline non-essential cookies, and change your choice later.
• In your browser — every major browser lets you block or delete cookies through its settings. Doing so may affect how parts of the Site work.

Most browsers also support a “Do Not Track” or global privacy control signal; where the law requires us to honour it, we do.

This Cookie Policy forms part of, and should be read together with, our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal data more broadly. Read the Privacy Policy.

We may update this policy as our use of cookies changes; the effective date above shows the current version. If you have any question about our use of cookies, please contact us.