The short version: this website uses no tracking, analytics, or advertising cookies.
This website (safeandinformed.com) does not set cookies for tracking, analytics, advertising, or profiling. We do not use Google Analytics, advertising pixels, or social-media trackers on the site. The only third-party component we load is the optional Google "Preferred Sources" button on the home page — described in section 4 below.
We use a small amount of browser local storage (not cookies, and never sent to a server for tracking) only where it is strictly necessary:
Browsing the public directory, downloading OPML/Excel files, suggesting a source, or reporting a broken feed does not require or set any cookie.
To prevent abuse of the anonymous "suggest a source" and "report broken" forms, our server temporarily counts requests per IP address in short-lived, in-memory counters. Your IP address is used only for this rate-limiting and is not stored alongside your submission and not used to identify or track you. See our Blog Help Privacy Policy for details.
Our home page includes an optional Google "Add to Preferred Sources" button, which lets you tell Google Search you'd like to see more of Safe & Informed in Top Stories. Rendering it loads a small script from Google (news.google.com). We do not use it for analytics, advertising, or tracking, and we receive no personal data from it. If you interact with the button, Google may set its own cookies and process data under Google's own privacy policy. The button is entirely optional — the site works fully without ever using it, and it appears only on the home page.
Cookies are a web-browser concept and generally don't apply to the mobile app. The free (Lite) version of the app shows advertising via Google AdMob, which may use device identifiers subject to your consent. That is covered in the Privacy Policy, not here.
If we ever introduce cookies, we will update this page and, where required, ask for your consent first.
This website is operated by Safe and Informed S.R.L. Questions about this policy? Reach us via the Support page.