What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device — whether that's a computer, tablet, or smartphone — when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, provide a better user experience, and supply information to the site owners.
When you visit Aevum News, our servers send a small amount of data to your browser, which may be stored as a cookie. This allows our website to "remember" certain information about your visit, such as your language preference or the fact that you have previously visited our site.
💡 Key Principle
No cookie we set can directly identify you personally. All data collected via cookies is aggregated and anonymized to protect your privacy. We never sell your personal data to third parties.
Why We Use Cookies
At Aevum News, we use cookies for several important purposes that help us deliver the best possible experience to our readers:
- Authentication & Security: To keep you logged in securely and protect your account from unauthorized access.
- Preferences: To remember your personalized settings, such as preferred language, region, and content categories.
- Performance: To understand how our website is used, identify issues, and continuously improve the reader experience.
- Content Delivery: To ensure articles load quickly and multimedia content plays smoothly across all devices.
- Reader Engagement: To help us understand which topics interest our readers most, enabling us to produce more relevant journalism.
- Advertising (Opt-In): With your consent, to display relevant sponsored content that helps fund our independent journalism.
Types of Cookies We Use
We categorize cookies into five distinct types, each serving a specific function. Understanding these categories helps you make informed decisions about your privacy settings.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are fundamental for the website to function. They enable core features like user authentication, security, and session management. They cannot be disabled because the site depends on them.
Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting anonymous, aggregated data. This information helps us improve site performance and content organization.
Preference Cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you've made — such as your username, language, or region — and provide enhanced, more personal features.
Targeting Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners with your consent. They may be used by these companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites.
Social Media Cookies
These cookies enable you to share our content on social media platforms and allow those platforms to integrate with our site, such as through share buttons or embedded content.
Our Cookie Inventory
Below is a comprehensive list of cookies set by Aevum News. This table is regularly reviewed and updated to ensure accuracy.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may allow trusted third-party services to set cookies on your device. These partners help us provide essential functionality, measure performance, and — with your consent — deliver relevant advertising.
Our Trusted Partners
- Google Analytics: Provides anonymized website usage statistics to help us improve our platform. Data is aggregated and no personal identifiers are shared.
- Cloudflare: Provides security and performance optimization. Sets cookies to protect against DDoS attacks and accelerate content delivery.
- Meta (Facebook): Powers our social sharing buttons and, with consent, helps us understand how our content is shared across social platforms.
- Google Ads: With your explicit consent, helps fund our journalism through targeted but anonymous ad impressions.
🔒 Our Commitment
We carefully vet every third-party service and only work with partners who meet strict privacy and security standards. We do not allow any third party to set cookies without providing clear notice and, where required, your explicit consent. Each partner's privacy policy governs how they use data — we encourage you to review these policies.
Manage Your Cookie Preferences
You have several options to manage or disable cookies on Aevum News. While essential cookies cannot be disabled (they're required for the site to function), you can opt out of all other categories at any time.
Cookie Consent Manager
Click the "Cookie Settings" link at the bottom of any page to customize which categories of cookies you accept. Changes take effect immediately.
Browser Settings
Most browsers let you control cookies through their settings. You can block all cookies, delete existing ones, or allow only specific sites.
Newsletter Preferences
If you subscribe to our newsletter, use the preference center in any email to adjust what content and marketing cookies we use.
Ad Opt-Out
Visit Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) to opt out of personalized advertising across the web.
Browser Instructions
Here are quick links to manage cookies in popular browsers:
⚠️ Important Note
Blocking or deleting certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website. Features like personalized content, login sessions, and reading progress may not work as expected. Essential cookies cannot be disabled.
Your Rights & Choices
Depending on your location, data protection laws may grant you specific rights regarding how we process your data through cookies and similar technologies:
- Right to Access: You can request a copy of any personal data we hold about you, including data collected via cookies.
- Right to Rectification: If any of your stored preferences or data is inaccurate, you can request correction.
- Right to Erasure: You can ask us to delete your data and reset all cookie-based preferences.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You can limit how we use your data, including opting out of analytics and advertising cookies.
- Right to Data Portability: You can request your data in a structured, commonly used format.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: If we rely on your consent for cookie processing, you can withdraw it at any time without affecting the legality of prior processing.
- Right to Object: You can object to processing based on legitimate interests, including direct marketing.
🌍 Applicable Regulations
We comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and other applicable data protection laws. Our cookie practices are designed to meet the highest global privacy standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can browse Aevum News with only essential cookies enabled. These are required for basic site functionality such as security and session management. However, some features like personalized content, reading progress tracking, and analytics-driven improvements will not be available without additional cookies.
No. Aevum News does not sell, trade, or transfer any data collected through cookies to third parties for their marketing purposes. Our business model is reader-supported, and we are committed to protecting your privacy. Analytics data is aggregated and anonymized.
Cookie duration varies by purpose. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies have specific expiry dates ranging from 24 hours to 2 years, as detailed in our Cookie Inventory table above. We regularly review retention periods to ensure we only store data as long as necessary.
Blocking all cookies may prevent you from accessing certain features such as logging in, saving preferences, or reading content in your preferred language. The site may still be browsable, but your experience will be limited. We recommend allowing at least essential and functional cookies.
While traditional HTTP cookies are primarily a web technology, mobile apps may use similar local storage mechanisms. Our mobile application follows the same privacy principles outlined in this policy. For details specific to the app, please refer to our Mobile Privacy Policy.
We review this policy regularly and update it whenever we make significant changes to our cookie practices. We'll notify readers of material changes through prominent notice on our website or via email to subscribers. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision.
Questions About Our Cookie Policy?
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding how Aevum News uses cookies or handles your data, our privacy team is here to help.
We're Here to Help
Our Data Protection Officer and privacy team are available to address your inquiries within 30 days.
✉ privacy@aevumnews.comYou may also write to us at:
📬 Postal Address
Aevum News — Data Protection Officer
42 Press Avenue, Suite 800
New York, NY 10001
United States