Transparency Report

Cookie Policy & Data Usage

Last revised: May 12, 2026

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To maintain the high-performance environment required for Real Narrative News, we use cookies to power our analytics, personalize content, and sustain our infrastructure through advertising. This disclosure explains how these tools support our mission and how you can control them.

I. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored by your browser when you visit a website. They allow sites and third-party services to remember information about your visit — such as your preferences, session state, or browsing behaviour — to improve performance and deliver relevant content and advertising.

II. How We Use Cookies

We use first-party and third-party cookies for the following purposes:

Essential / Functional
Required for the site to operate correctly (e.g. navigation, session management).
Analytics
Help us understand how visitors interact with our content so we can improve the experience.
Advertising
Used by Google to serve personalised ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
Preference
Remember your consent choices and settings across sessions.

III. Third-Party Partners & Google Advertising

We work with Google LLC as a third-party vendor to provide analytics and advertising services on this site. Google uses cookies — including the DoubleClick cookie — to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other sites across the internet.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising at any time (see Section V). For more information, please review Google's Privacy Policy.

EXTERNAL PARTNERS

Google Analytics (analytics.google.com)
Traffic analysis, audience measurement, and content relevance tracking. Data is processed under Google's data processing terms.
Google AdSense / DoubleClick (google.com/adsense)
Revenue generation through interest-based and contextual advertising. Google may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect data about your device and browsing behaviour to serve relevant ads.

IV. Cookies We Use

The table below lists the specific cookies set on this site, their provider, purpose, type, and retention period.

Cookie Name(s)	Provider	Purpose	Type	Duration
_ga, _gid, _gat	Google Analytics	Distinguishes unique users, throttles request rate, and tracks sessions for traffic and content relevance analysis.	Analytics	_ga: 2 years / _gid: 24 hours / _gat: 1 minute
IDE	Google (DoubleClick)	Used by Google to register and report user actions after viewing or clicking an ad, for the purpose of measuring ad effectiveness and serving targeted advertising.	Advertising	1 year
DSID	Google AdSense	Used to identify a signed-in user on non-Google sites in order to serve personalized advertisements.	Advertising	2 weeks
test_cookie	Google (DoubleClick)	Checks whether the user's browser supports cookies.	Functional	15 minutes
NID, CONSENT	Google	Stores user preferences and consent signals for Google services.	Preference / Consent	NID: 6 months / CONSENT: 2 years

V. Your Rights & Opt-Out Options

You have the right to accept, decline, or withdraw consent for non-essential cookies at any time. You can exercise your rights through the following channels:

Opt out of personalised Google advertising
Visit adssettings.google.com to control how Google uses your data to personalise ads.
Opt out via the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI)
Visit optout.networkadvertising.org to opt out of interest-based advertising from participating companies.
Opt out via the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA)
Visit optout.aboutads.info for additional opt-out options.
Browser-level cookie controls
You can block or delete cookies directly in your browser settings. Note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of some site features.

VI. EEA, UK & California Users

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or California, you have additional rights under the GDPR, UK GDPR, or CCPA respectively. We rely on your consent as the legal basis for setting non-essential cookies (analytics and advertising). You may withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.

Where required by applicable law, we obtain your consent before placing advertising or analytics cookies using a Consent Management Platform (CMP). If you are presented with a consent banner upon visiting this site, your choices will be respected and stored accordingly.

VII. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, regulation, or our business practices. When we make changes, we will revise the "Last revised" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

VIII. Contact Us

For questions or requests regarding this Cookie Policy or your personal data, please contact us at contact@realnarrativenews.com.