Privacy policy

What loads when you open a page

Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity session replay and Adsterra advertising load by default. They do not wait for Accept. Reject stops these integrations, reloads the page to discard already loaded vendor code and frames, and remembers that choice for 180 days. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track also prevent these integrations from loading. Cookie settings in the footer lets you change the choice.

The Google Consent Mode v2 default is denied for ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization, and granted for analytics_storage. ads_data_redaction is enabled before Google configuration. The page then applies the stored choice; a first visit without a refusal is treated as granted. These settings describe the implementation and do not treat silence as an affirmative consent action.

This site has no user account, checkout or newsletter form. Browser requests to third parties disclose connection information such as your IP address and browser details to those providers. The controls below apply to this site's integrations; they do not delete cookies that another site or a provider has already stored.

Google Analytics 4

Measurement ID G-ZQYYY0020N loads its script from www.googletagmanager.com and sends measurement requests to Google Analytics endpoints, including google-analytics.com and its regional subdomains. Google Analytics measures page visits and may use first-party _ga and _ga_<measurement-id> cookies. Google documents a default cookie lifetime of two years, which can be changed in its configuration.

Reject sets the GA opt-out flag and all four Consent Mode storage signals to denied, then reloads into a page that does not request the Google tag. We do not publish a property-level data retention duration because it has not been verified in the account. See Google's privacy policy and Analytics opt-out add-on.

Microsoft Clarity

Clarity project z9ulcwejsp loads from www.clarity.ms and may use additional clarity.ms subdomains and Microsoft endpoints such as c.bing.com. It provides click, scrolling and session-replay analysis. The site passes Clarity's consentv2 signals as granted when the integration is allowed and denied on Reject.

Microsoft lists _clck and _clsk first-party cookies and CLID, ANONCHK, MR, MUID and SM among cookies that Clarity may use. Which cookies appear depends on the provider and browser. Their documented purposes and retention are in Microsoft's cookie list; see also Microsoft's privacy statement. Reject prevents the Clarity script from loading on the reloaded page.

Adsterra advertising

Adsterra publisher 3403020 supplies NativeBanner_1 (32139559) and SocialBar_1 (32139560). Both loaders request bicea.org by default; creatives and measurement can involve additional advertising hosts selected by Adsterra. The Native Banner uses an article-end slot. The Social Bar is a floating placement with a Close ad button. The configured placements have adult advertising disabled.

The advertising provider and its demand partners may receive IP and browser information and use cookies or similar identifiers for advertising delivery and measurement. We do not invent a fixed list of demand-partner cookie names or retention periods. See Adsterra's privacy policy. Reject disables both placements on the reloaded page. Closing the Social Bar hides that placement and remembers the close for 180 days; it does not disable Analytics, Clarity or the Native Banner.

YouTube only after Play

Video buttons are a local facade. No YouTube iframe or thumbnail is requested on the initial page view. Pressing Play creates an iframe from www.youtube-nocookie.com; the player may then request YouTube, googlevideo.com, ytimg.com and Google-related delivery endpoints and disclose your IP and browser information. See Google's privacy policy. Reject does not undo a separate Play action; closing or leaving the page removes the player.

Local storage and contact

These localStorage records remain in your browser. They are not first-party cookies, and a denied record does not prevent the essential page content from loading. You can remove these site-specific records in your browser settings or change the integration choice through Cookie settings.

For questions about this policy or personal information in correspondence, write to [email protected]. Mail you send is used to respond and handle corrections or rights requests. Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights of access, correction, deletion or objection and the right to contact your data-protection authority.

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