Cookies & Tracking Policy

1. Overview

Aevum News is committed to transparent data practices. This policy explains how we, our partners, and our service providers use cookies, pixels, device fingerprints, and other tracking technologies when you visit or interact with our websites, mobile applications, and digital newsletters.

By continuing to use Aevum News services, you consent to the practices described herein. We encourage you to read this policy alongside our Privacy Policy to understand how your data is collected, used, and protected.

2. What Are Cookies & Tracking Technologies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. Tracking technologies include web beacons, pixels, local storage, SDKs, and device identifiers. We use these to:

• Ensure secure, functional access to our platform
• Analyze traffic patterns and content engagement
• Personalize content recommendations and ad delivery
• Verify subscriber status and prevent fraud
• Measure the effectiveness of editorial campaigns

3. Categories of Cookies & Trackers

4. How We Use the Data

Aevum News processes tracking data for legitimate business interests and, where required, with your explicit consent. Our usage includes:

1. Editorial Optimization: Understanding which stories drive meaningful engagement to improve journalistic impact.
2. Subscription Management: Verifying premium access and synchronizing your reading progress across devices.
3. Advertising Operations: Serving contextual and behavioral ads through trusted ad servers, ensuring you don't see duplicate ads across our properties.
4. Security & Fraud Prevention: Detecting automated scraping, credential stuffing, and invalid traffic patterns.

5. Third-Party Services

We partner with reputable technology providers to deliver our platform. These parties may set their own cookies or trackers subject to their respective policies:

• Analytics: Google Analytics 4, Adobe Analytics, internal attribution models
• Ad Tech: Google Ad Manager, Xandr, Magnite, index exchange networks
• Content Delivery: Cloudflare, Fastly, AWS CloudFront
• Social Integration: Twitter/X, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube embeds (triggered only when you click/share)
• Consent Management: OneTrust, Cookiebot, or equivalent CMP providers

Our CMP (Consent Management Platform) records your preferences in a cmplbxconsent cookie and respects Global Privacy Control (GPC) and CCPA/CPRA Do Not Sell signals.

6. Managing Your Preferences

You control how we track you. Options include:

• Use the Cookie Center in our footer to toggle categories on/off
• Configure browser settings to block third-party cookies
• Opt out of advertising networks via NAI and EDAA
• Use navigator.doNotTrack = 1 or GPC header flags
• Request data deletion via our Contact Portal

Blocking strictly necessary cookies may impair site functionality. Analytics and advertising cookies can be disabled without affecting core news access.

7. Updates to This Policy

We update this policy as technology, legal requirements, and our practices evolve. Material changes will be posted here with a revised effective date. Significant modifications will trigger a site-wide notice and CMP re-consent prompt. We encourage periodic review.

8. Contact & Compliance

For questions about this policy, to exercise your rights, or to report tracking concerns:

Data Privacy Office
Email: privacy@aevumnews.com
Mail: Aevum News Inc., 1200 Media Plaza, Suite 400, New York, NY 10018
DPO: dpo@aevumnews.com

We comply with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PECR, and regional digital privacy frameworks. Requests are acknowledged within 10 business days and resolved within 30 days.