Cookie policy

Last updated: August 14, 2026

Cookies are small files a site stores in your browser. We use them to keep the site working, to understand how it is used, and to show ads that pay for the reporting. This page explains each category and how to change your mind.

Strictly necessary

Always on

Keep the site working: your Newsroom sign-in session, security checks and remembering that you dismissed the cookie notice.

Typical lifetime: Session up to 12 months

Analytics

Optional

Count page views and sessions so we know which stories readers enjoy. Includes our own page-view counter and Google Analytics when enabled.

Typical lifetime: Up to 24 months

Advertising

Optional

Google AdSense uses cookies to serve and measure ads, and to limit how often you see the same one. With consent these may be personalized; without it you still see ads, just non-personalized ones.

Typical lifetime: Up to 24 months

Advertising cookies and Google

We serve ads with Google AdSense. Google and its partners may set cookies to deliver and measure ads. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, a Google certified consent message appears before any advertising cookie is set, and your answer is stored and honored. You can revisit that choice from the privacy link Google places in the ad frame, or manage personalization at adssettings.google.com.

Changing your choice

You can reopen the cookie notice on this site at any time and choose again.

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the site from working.

More information

See our privacy policy for what we do with the data, or write to hello@paddockbuzz.com.