Cookies
This site names every cookie it sets. Some are necessary and are always there; the others measure visits and our ads, and you can refuse them at any time.
br_lang
Necessary. Records whether you read the English or the Portuguese edition, so you are not sent to the other one next time. It lasts 1 year.
br_reserve
Necessary. Set only if you accept a Private invitation. It carries the code that opens the members' pages. It lasts 1 year, and a companion cookie lets those pages see that you are a member.
br_consent
Necessary. Records the answer you gave the banner, so you are not asked again on every page. It lasts 6 months, and then we ask you once more.
_ga and _ga_ followed by a code
Measurement. These are Google Analytics. The first tells one browser from another, the second keeps the state of your visit. Google sets them for 2 years. They let us count readers and see which pages are read; they carry no name, no email address and no payment detail, because we never send Google any of those.
They are set from your first page, unless you refused them on an earlier visit. If you refuse, Google is told not to read or write them: its script still loads, and sends Google only cookieless signals that a page was viewed.
_gcl_au, _gcl_aw and other names beginning with _gcl_
Advertising measurement. These are Google Ads. They tell us whether a visit that began with a click on one of our ads ended in a signup to the Daily Briefing. They last 90 days. This site shows no ads; we use Google Ads only to reach new readers.
Google may use this data for its own measurement under its own policies, but not to show our ads again to people who have visited: personalized advertising is switched off for everyone on this site, whatever you answer. If you refuse, Google is told not to read or write these cookies and to use nothing for advertising.
What is not here
No ads on these pages, no cookie belonging to anyone but us and Google, no tracking pixel of any other company and no fingerprinting. Fonts are served from this site, so loading a page tells nobody else you were here. Your study progress sits in local storage, not in a cookie, and never leaves your browser. Where your visit came from sits there too, under the name br_src: a campaign tag or an ad click identifier carried in the address, the first page you landed on and the site that sent you, kept for 90 days, and sent to us only with a Daily Briefing signup. We do not sell anything about you and we buy nothing about you.
Your answer, and how to change it
The measurement and advertising cookies are on from your first page, and the banner lets you refuse them. Refusing is one button, in the same place and the same size as accepting, and your answer is kept for 6 months. You can change your mind here at any time, and clearing the site data in your browser removes every cookie above along with your study progress.