This page describes what the public Sayer website collects. It is not a certification of compliance with any particular privacy law.
Reading the public site
You do not need an account to read published articles. The public archive does not require a name, email address, or password.
When you open a published article, the site may record a first-party page view so the desk can see which stories are being read. That record includes the article and a time. It does not include a name, email address, or advertising identifier. Sayer does not sell it.
The page-view request is sent to Sayer’s own servers. The site may keep a small value in your browser so the same article is not counted twice in one visit. That value is not used for advertising.
Search Console
Sayer uses Google Search Console to see how published pages appear in Google Search, including impressions and clicks. Search Console does not load a script in your browser.
Sayer Weekly
If you subscribe to the weekly email on this site, Sayer stores the address you entered, whether it has been confirmed, and whether it has been unsubscribed. A confirmation email is sent before you are added to the send list. You can unsubscribe from any weekly message. Sayer does not sell this list.
The weekly email is sent through a hosted email provider. That provider processes the address in order to deliver the message. See Sayer Weekly.
Advertising
Published article pages may show third-party display ads through Google AdSense when that feature is turned on. Those ads are requested as non-personalized where the site configuration allows. Google and its partners may set or read cookies or similar storage on your device to deliver and measure ads. See Google’s advertising policies. The newsroom desk and staff preview pages do not show ads.
When ads are enabled, the site may also load Google Funding Choices messaging. If an ad blocker is detected on a published article, that tool may ask you to allow ads or support the publication another way. See Google’s Funding Choices help.
What this site does not use
There is no public contact form and no public account registration.
Staff accounts
People invited to the newsroom sign in on a separate staff surface. That sign-in may set a session cookie needed to keep the account signed in. Staff cookies are not required to read the public archive. Signed-in newsroom accounts are not counted in the first-party public reading log.
Messages you send
If you write to the desk, Sayer uses the email address and contents of that message to respond. Those messages are correspondence, not an account on this site.
Infrastructure
Sayer stores publication data and serves this site through hosted infrastructure providers. Those providers may keep ordinary operational logs, such as IP address, browser type, and requested URL, as part of running the service. Those logs are not used on this site to build advertising profiles.
Questions
Privacy questions can be sent to desk@sayer.news. See also Contact and Terms of use.