Privacy Policy

You can read The Daily Borg without giving us anything. The site shows ads from Google, and Google uses cookies to serve them. Here is exactly what we keep, what Google does, and how to choose.

1. If you subscribe

We store your email address, a phone number if you choose to give one, and the topics or officials you asked to follow. These are stored as you typed them, in our database, so that we can send you what you signed up for. They are not encrypted or hashed, so treat the phone number as optional and skip it if you would rather not.

We do not sell, rent, or share subscriber lists with anyone: not advertisers, not data brokers, not campaigns. Ask us to delete your record and we will.

2. If you leave a comment

We store the comment text, the display name you chose, and the email address you signed in with. Your comment and display name are public. Your email address is not shown on the site; it is visible only to site administrators, who use it to moderate and to contact you if there is a problem with a comment.

3. What your browser stores

This site uses your browser's local storage. It holds:

• Your light or dark theme choice.
• The edition label you were last shown.
• The officials you have chosen to follow.
• For site administrators only, a marker showing you are signed in to the admin tools.

All of that lives on your device. Clearing your browser data removes it.

Google, which serves our ads and our consent message, also sets cookies and similar identifiers so it can show ads, limit how often you see the same one, measure them, and remember your privacy choices. Section 5 explains them and how to turn them off.

4. Server logs and analytics

Our host records ordinary request information such as page addresses, timing, and general location, in the same way any web server does. We keep a simple count of page views so we know what is being read. We do not build advertising profiles ourselves. Google may, as section 5 explains.

5. Advertising

The Daily Borg shows ads served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.

You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google's My Ad Center (opens in a new tab), or opt out of many third-party vendors' cookies at www.aboutads.info/choices (opens in a new tab) and, in Europe, www.youronlinechoices.eu (opens in a new tab).

How Google uses information from sites that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites (opens in a new tab)

We do not choose the ads you see. Advertisers have no say in our reporting or in the Borg Record.

6. Your choices

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a message asks for your consent before Google uses cookies for ads. You can change your answer at any time with Privacy and cookie settings at the bottom of every page.

In US states whose privacy laws let you opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for advertising, Google shows a Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link on every page of this site.

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser. Ads will still appear, but they will be less relevant to you.

7. Payments

Paid subscriptions are handled by Stripe. Card details go to Stripe directly and never touch our servers. We keep only the identifier Stripe gives us so we know which subscription is yours.

8. Public officials

The Borg Record holds information about public officials taken from public records: official rosters, published fact-check rulings, and recorded votes. That material is already public and is not personal data we collected from you.