Privacy Policy: what changed
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- Adds optional Google Reader prompts on blog articles under their own default-off Cookie settings choice, which earlier analytics or advertising choices do not enable.
- Adds an Add as preferred source button on blog articles: activating it after its notice consents to loading Google's client and measurement for that request, with no lasting consent saved.
- Keeps both off under Global Privacy Control; reloading cannot undo information already sent to Google.
Wording changes
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Google reader prompts
Our blog can show optional newsletter prompts through Google Reader Revenue Manager. The Reader prompts choice in Cookie settings controls this service. It starts only after you turn that choice on, and Global Privacy Control keeps it off. Your earlier analytics or advertising choice does not turn it on.
We rely on your consent (Article 6(1)(a)) for this service and its measurement.
When the reader service loads, your browser contacts Google. The service runs its own usage measurement and may use cookies or similar storage. If you choose to sign up, Google asks for your email address and, if requested, your name. Google sends the information you agree to share to Namegarage. The prompt explains that transfer before you continue. Signing up is separate from allowing the reader service to load.
You can turn off Reader prompts in Cookie settings. A reload removes the service from the current page. Google controls its service records and retention; contact us at the address in Section 1 about information held by Namegarage. See Google's Privacy Policy [https://policies.google.com/privacy] and Google's reader-service terms [https://news.google.com/swg/legaldocs/tos/swgtos.html].
Google preferred-source button
Namegarage blog articles offer an optional Add as preferred source button. Its notice says that using it loads Google's service and allows its usage measurement. Activating the button after that notice gives consent to load Google's preferred-source client for this request and its measurement (Article 6(1)(a)). We do not save a lasting consent grant for this button. This choice is separate from Reader prompts, analytics and advertising.
Nothing from this client loads on an idle visit. When you activate it, your browser contacts Google, which receives the public article address, your IP address, browser or device information and service-interaction events. Google's service may use cookies or similar storage. Google opens its own preferred-source flow and handles the selection; clicking the button does not sign you up for a newsletter or a paid subscription.
Global Privacy Control keeps the embedded client off. Private addresses, operator sessions and unavailable browser storage also keep it off. The ordinary link still opens Google's preferences page without loading the client on our page; using your browser's Open link in new tab action keeps that link behavior. The client is not offered on podcast or archive pages.
To stop the client in the current document, reload or leave the article and do not activate the button again. Reloading cannot undo information already sent to Google or a source preference you confirmed there. Google controls its service records, retention and source preferences; see Google's Privacy Policy [https://policies.google.com/privacy]. Contact us at the address in Section 1 about information held by Namegarage.
Google — analytics, advertising, optional reader prompts, and advertisingthe preferred-source client, described in theSections next2 sectionand 4.
The preferred-source button described in Section 2 can load a Google service that may use cookies or similar storage. Its own notice and your activation supply consent for that request; saved Cookie settings choices do not enable it. Global Privacy Control keeps this client off.
Reader prompts have their own, default-off choice. Turning on Analytics or Advertising does not enable Reader prompts. The reader service runs only on blog articles, never on domain-sale pages, checkout pages or podcast pages.
Use Cookie settings in the footer to reopen the controls. Outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland no banner appears, andGoogle Analytics runs without asking; Cookie settings is where you turn Google Analyticsit off. Blog articles may still ask for the separate Reader prompts choice. Turning off a loaded purpose requires a reload to remove its scripts; the page warns before reloading if it contains entered form data. Finish or copy unsent entries first. Global Privacy Control overrideskeeps bothall optional purposes to off. An old combined acceptance requires a new choice; an old refusal remains a refusal.
Your color-theme choice and a versioned analytics/, advertising preferenceand reader-prompt preferences in host-local local storage, with no application expiry. Clear this site's data to remove them. We keep no server-side consent record.
Wherever you live, you may ask us to show you the personal data we hold about you, correct it, ask us to delete it, or send it to you in a portable form. We assess erasure requests against ongoing obligations, documented financial and agreement purposes, and holds described in Section 5. We retain the permanent promotional suppression record to honor your opt-out, the record of a blocked address, and a withdrawn consent record, which is kept in reduced form, as Section 5 explains. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests — including the request record, the email engagement record, the phone lookup result, the offers we start, Cloudflare's page measurement, which a Global Privacy Control signal stops, and Google Analytics where it runs without asking, which Cookie settings or a Global Privacy Control signal turns off — and you may withdraw consent to deal subscriptions, to deals and news from the contact form, and to analytics, advertising and advertisingreader prompts without giving a reason and without affecting anything you have already done on the site.
All effective dates are stated in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).