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Privacy

This site is a set of static pages. It has no reader accounts, no advertising and no comment system. The forms on this site send what you type to Bernstein’s website, which stores it and handles it for Insights.

Forms

  • Newsletter: your email address, the page you subscribed from and the time and IP address of your request and of your confirmation, which we keep as the record of your consent. You are subscribed only after you click the link in the confirmation email, and every issue has an unsubscribe link. The address is used to send the newsletter, through our email provider Resend, until you unsubscribe.
  • Questions, corrections, profile claims and toolkit requests: what you write, the page you sent it from, your email address and name if you give them, and your IP address. They are read by the editorial team to answer you, to write public answers without your name unless you ask to be credited, to correct pages, to review a claim or to send the toolkit.
  • Spam protection: every form uses Google reCAPTCHA, which loads a Google script on pages with a form and sends Google information about your browser and how you use the page so it can tell people from bots. Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Cookies and analytics

We use Google Analytics to see which pages are read and how readers find them, so we can improve them. It runs from your first visit, and a notice at the foot of the page says so. You can opt out there, or at any time under Cookie settings at the foot of any page.

  • What is measured: pages viewed, how you arrived (a search, a link or directly), your approximate country, and your device and browser type. No advertising features are switched on.

  • Where it goes: measurements pass through Bernstein’s own tagging server at flux.bernstein.io before they reach Google Analytics, which stores them for Bernstein.

  • Cookies: Google Analytics sets cookies whose names start with _ga on insights.bernstein.io. Our tagging server also sets an FPID cookie, which identifies your browser to it across bernstein.io sites and lasts up to two years.

  • How long it is kept: Google Analytics keeps event data for 2 months and data linked to a browser for 14 months, then deletes it.

  • Opting out: click Opt out on the notice or under Cookie settings. This stops the measurement and removes the _ga cookies, and we remember it in your browser until you change it. The page cannot remove FPID, but nothing is sent with it once you opt out; you can delete it in your browser’s settings. If you click OK instead, we show the notice again after six months.

  • Visit counts: we also count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, from Cloudflare, which hosts this site. It sets no cookie, stores nothing in your browser and does not identify you: it records the page, where you came from, your country, your device and browser type, and how fast the page loaded. It runs whether or not you opt out of Google Analytics.

  • In your browser: we keep your choice itself, and your theme and reading settings if you change them, in your browser’s local storage. They never leave your device.

  • Privacy contact: Paul Reboh, insights@bernstein.io.