What Strata collects, and what it does not

There are no accounts, no adverts, and nothing is sold. Four things touch your browser.

Measurement

Google Analytics 4 counts page views and records the page, roughly where in the world you are, and your device type. It does not record your name, your email or anything you type.

To tell a returning visitor from a new one, Google Analytics sets two cookies in your browser, _ga and _ga_SFV87FRW92. Each holds a random id rather than your name, and they last up to 400 days. You can block or delete them in your browser settings and nothing on the site changes.

The reader count

While a page is open your browser sends a timestamp to our Firebase database every thirty seconds under a random id that is forgotten when the page closes. No name, no email, no cookie, no page. The same request adds one to a plain count of page loads for the day.

The feedback form

What you type is relayed by FormSubmit and arrives as an email to the editor. Your address is optional and is used only to reply. Nothing is added to a mailing list.

What stays on your device

Your theme choice, the highlights you make on an article, which clear themselves after 30 days, and your progress in Focus. None of it is sent to Strata and clearing your browser data removes it.

The newsletter

In development. No addresses are being collected yet.

Hosting

Served by Firebase Hosting, run by Google, which keeps standard request logs.

Reaching us

Anything you want removed, or any question, goes through the feedback page and reaches a person.