Cookie Policy
What this page covers
This page explains every kind of cookie and similar technology used on myworldnews24.com: what it is for, who sets it, roughly how long it lives, and how to refuse it. It is written to be read, not merely to exist. If you only want the practical part, skip to “Your choices” at the bottom; the tools there work regardless of how much of the middle you read.
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store, so that something can be remembered between page views. Related technologies such as localStorage, pixels and software development kits do similar jobs, and we use the word “cookies” for all of them here for readability.
Essential cookies
A small number of cookies are required for the site to function at all. They do things like remember that you have already answered the consent banner, balance traffic across servers, and protect forms against abuse. They contain no advertising identifiers and are not used to track your reading across other sites. Because the site cannot work properly without them, they are set without consent, which is the standard treatment for strictly necessary cookies under privacy law. Most live for a single session or a few months at most.
Preference cookies
If the site offers a setting you can change, such as a dark or light reading mode, your choice is stored so it survives your next visit. These cookies identify a preference, not a person. Deleting them costs you nothing but the convenience of the remembered setting.
Analytics cookies
We count readers so we know which stories are read, which pages are slow and where visitors come from in aggregate. Analytics cookies allow repeat visits to be counted as one reader rather than dozens. We configure analytics to work with shortened IP addresses where supported and we look only at aggregate reports. Nobody at MYWORLDNEWS24 can, or wants to, pull up the reading history of an individual visitor. Where the law where you live treats analytics cookies as requiring consent, they are not set until you agree.
Advertising cookies
This is the category that deserves the most honest explanation, because it is how the site is paid for. Advertising on myworldnews24.com is served by third-party advertising networks. When an ad loads, the network may set or read cookies in your browser to do some or all of the following: cap how many times you see the same ad, measure whether an ad was viewed or clicked, detect fraudulent traffic, and, where you have consented, build interest profiles used to personalise the ads you see here and on other sites that use the same network.
Three things you should understand about these cookies:
- They belong to the networks, not to us. We cannot read them, and the data they gather sits with the advertising partner under its own privacy policy as well as our contractual requirements.
- They are consent-gated where the law requires it. In regions with consent rules, personalised advertising cookies wait for your yes. If you say no, ads still appear, chosen contextually from the page you are reading rather than from a profile of you.
- Refusing them does not break the site. Every article remains readable with advertising cookies declined.
Embedded content from other platforms
News stories sometimes embed material that is itself the news: a video, a chart, a public post from a social platform. When your browser loads an embed, the platform that hosts it may set its own cookies exactly as if you had visited that platform directly, and its own policies apply. We use embeds when they serve the story and we prefer privacy-respecting embed modes where platforms offer them, but we cannot control what a third-party player does inside its own frame. If this concerns you, browser-level tools described below block third-party cookies effectively.
How long cookies last
Session cookies disappear when you close the browser. Persistent cookies carry an expiry set by whoever created them: our essential and preference cookies typically last from a session up to twelve months, analytics identifiers commonly last from a few months up to two years, and advertising cookie lifetimes are set by each network, generally between thirty days and thirteen months in consent-regulated regions. Whatever the expiry, you can delete any cookie at any time through your browser.
Your choices
- The consent banner. Where consent rules apply, the banner you saw on first visit is the master switch for non-essential cookies. You can reopen it and change your answer at any time via the cookie settings link in the site footer.
- Your browser. Every modern browser lets you view, block and delete cookies, and can block third-party cookies wholesale while leaving first-party ones alone. The help pages for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge each document the steps.
- Industry opt-outs. Self-regulatory programs run opt-out pages covering many advertising networks at once, including youradchoices.com and youronlinechoices.eu. Opting out generally means less personalised advertising rather than no advertising.
- Do Not Track and similar signals. Where a recognised legal opt-out signal such as Global Privacy Control applies in your region, our consent tooling is configured to honour it.
Changes and contact
When our cookie usage changes materially, for example if we add an analytics tool or change advertising partners in a way that alters the categories above, we update this page and, where required, re-ask for consent rather than assuming the old answer still stands. How cookies fit into the bigger picture of data handling is described in our Privacy Policy. Questions go to support@myworldnews24.com with PRIVACY in the subject line.
