Privacy
We do not track you.
No analytics, no advertising, no third-party scripts, and no cookies of our own. What remains is described below, in specifics rather than in the abstract.
Last reviewed 4 August 2026·Jurisdiction: United States
What we do not do
Daily Pol runs no analytics of any kind - no Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Fathom, no server-side event tracking. It carries no advertising and no advertising network, and it sets no cookies. There is no third-party JavaScript on any page: no embeds, no social widgets, no fonts loaded from someone else’s server.
There are no user accounts and no comment system. We hold no database of readers, because there is nothing to put in it.
The newsletter box in the footer
There is a newsletter signup block in the footer, and it does not work. The field is disabled, the button does nothing, and there is no mailing list, no email provider and no stored address anywhere. It marks where a signup will go if this site starts publishing again.
If it is ever switched on, this page will say so - with the provider named and what they receive - before the first address is collected, not after.
Fonts
The two typefaces this site uses are downloaded at build time and served from this domain. Your browser makes no request to Google Fonts or any other font host, so no third party learns that you visited.
Search
The search page downloads a single index file from this site and then runs entirely inside your browser. Your query is never transmitted anywhere - not to us, not to anyone. We cannot see what you search for, and we do not log it.
Server logs
Like almost every website, the web server records a line for each request: the IP address, the time, the page requested, the referring page if your browser sends one, and the browser’s user-agent string. These logs exist for security and for diagnosing faults.
They are rotated daily and deleted after 14 days. They are not analysed for behaviour, not aggregated into profiles, not sold, and not shared, except where we would be legally compelled to produce them.
Third parties in the request path
Traffic to this site passes through Cloudflare, which provides DNS and protects against denial-of-service attacks, and through a web application firewall, before reaching our server. These operate on the network path and are not under our control in the way our own code is: Cloudflare processes connection metadata and may set its own bot-detection cookie. That is a property of the connection, not of anything Daily Pol asks it to do - we run no Cloudflare analytics product.
People named in the archive
The 2021–2022 archive contains reporting about named individuals, published by the domain’s previous operator and republished here as a record. If you are named in an archived piece and want it reviewed, write to us - see contact. We will not silently rewrite the record, but we will consider removing a page where there is good reason.
Changes
If this policy changes materially, the revision date above changes with it. This page describes the site as it actually is today; if we ever add something that collects data - a newsletter, say - it will be described here before it ships, not after.
This policy states the site’s technical facts accurately, but has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer, and no legal entity has been named as the data controller. Both are required before this site is made public.