Privacy Policy

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1. Cookies

fyiGoogle does not require an account, and does not collect names, emails, or other personal information to read articles. The site sets a small number of first-party cookies purely to make the site work correctly:

• brand-slug — remembers which of the network's sites you're on, so the UI themes correctly.
• theme — remembers your light/dark mode preference.

Neither cookie is used for advertising, tracking across other sites, or identifying you personally. Separately, Google, as this site's ad-serving vendor, sets its own third-party cookies to serve and measure ads — see the Google AdSense Disclosure below.

2. Google AdSense Disclosure

This site is a Google AdSense publisher: ads shown throughout the site are served by Google. As a third-party vendor, Google uses cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.

You can see or opt out of personalized advertising served by Google at Google Ads Settings, or opt out of participating vendors' personalized ads generally at aboutads.info.

3. Third-Party Services

Beyond the first-party cookies above, this site relies on the following third-party services to operate, each governed by its own provider's privacy policy:

• Google — serves as this site's ad-serving vendor via Google AdSense (see the disclosure above), and may also be used for site analytics and tag management.

4. Browser notifications

If you choose to enable notifications, your browser handles that permission entirely on its own — fyiGoogle never sees a device token, email, or any identifying information about you as a result. Notifications are generated locally in your browser by checking for new articles while a tab is open; nothing is sent to a push service or stored about you server-side.

5. Third-party links

Articles link out to third-party news publishers. Once you leave this site, that publisher's own privacy policy applies, not this one.

6. Server logs

Like most web servers, ours may log basic technical request data (IP address, user agent, requested path) for operational purposes such as debugging and abuse prevention. These logs are ours alone — they're not shared with or used to build Google's advertising profiles, which are governed by the Google AdSense Disclosure above instead.

7. Children's privacy

This site is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.

8. Changes

This policy may be updated at any time; continued use of the site constitutes acceptance of changes.

See the Terms of Use for the rest of the legal terms governing this site.