Cookie Policy

Cookies are small files stored on your device by a website or third-party service. Similar technologies can include local storage, pixels, tags, and embedded content tools. They can help a site work, remember preferences, understand readership, or support advertising and measurement.

This policy is intended to help readers understand cookie use and consent choices under the UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR). It does not claim that every future implementation is already fully compliant; each feature should be reviewed before it is enabled.

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: required for core site functions such as security, page delivery, session handling where applicable, and consent preference storage.
• Preference Cookies: remember reader choices such as interface preferences or display settings.
• Analytics Cookies: help NewsDrift understand how readers use the site, which pages are useful, and where performance can improve.
• Advertising and Measurement Cookies: may support ad delivery, frequency management, campaign measurement, and related reporting if advertising tools are enabled.
• Embedded Content Cookies: may be set by third-party services when articles include external media or interactive embeds.

If reader messages or comments are enabled in the future, they may use strictly necessary cookies or similar technologies for session management, spam prevention, and form security.

Where consent is required, NewsDrift should ask before setting non-essential cookies. Readers should be able to accept, reject, or manage cookie categories.

Silence, scrolling, or continued browsing should not be treated as consent where affirmative consent is required.

A future cookie banner or preference center should allow readers to manage non-essential cookie categories before analytics, advertising scripts, or third-party embeds that require consent are enabled.

You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Browser controls may affect how some site features work.

Third-party services may set their own cookies when used for embeds, analytics, advertising, or measurement. Their cookies are governed by their own policies and controls.

Cookie use may change as NewsDrift adds features. Questions may be sent to contact@newsdrift.co.uk or through the contact page.