Cookie Policy

Effective date: September 30, 2026

The short version

Money & World uses one tool that sets cookies: Google Analytics. We use it to count how many people read each article and how they found us. That is the only reason it is here.

We run no advertising, no advertising pixels, no retargeting tags, and no social media widgets. Google Analytics is the only service we load from another company's servers.

What changed on September 30, 2026

Until September 30, 2026, this page said that Money & World set no cookies and loaded nothing from anyone else. That was true. We have now added Google Analytics, because without it we cannot tell which reporting is useful to readers and which is not.

We promised on this page that we would tell you before we switched anything on, rather than quietly start tracking you and update the policy afterwards. This page went live in the same release as the analytics code.

The cookies

Cookie	Set by	Purpose	Lifespan
`_ga`	Google Analytics	Tells one visit from another, so we can count readers rather than page loads	2 years
`_ga_SWSFJSES8E`	Google Analytics	Keeps track of a single visit (session)	2 years

Those are the only cookies this site sets. We do not set cookies for advertising, and we do not use these to follow you onto other websites.

How we have set Google Analytics up

Google signals is off. Google does not link your visits here to your Google account.
Ad personalization is off. Our analytics data is not used to show you ads, and our property is not linked to Google Ads.
Global Privacy Control is honored. If your browser sends a GPC signal, Google Analytics does not load at all. No cookie is set and no request goes to Google.
Readers in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland get analytics with cookies switched off by default. Google receives an anonymous ping that a page was viewed, and no analytics cookie is written to your device. We do not show a consent banner, so we never switch it on.
Google's own processing is described in Google's privacy policy and in how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

What our server unavoidably knows

When your browser asks our host for a page, the request necessarily carries your IP address, the page you asked for, your browser type, and the time. That is how the internet works, and a server cannot send you a page without knowing where to send it.

Our host keeps those connection logs briefly, for security and abuse prevention, and we do not use them to build a profile of you. Our Privacy Policy has the detail.

Turning it off

You do not need our permission to block analytics, and the site will work exactly the same without it.

Turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser or a privacy extension. We stop loading Google Analytics entirely.
Install Google's opt-out add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Use a tracker blocker. We will not break the site to stop you, and we will not nag you about it.
Block or delete cookies in your browser:
- Chrome: Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies
- Safari: Settings, then Privacy
- Firefox: Settings, then Privacy and Security
- Edge: Settings, then Cookies and site permissions

If this changes again

If we add any other cookie or any other outside service, we will list it here by name, purpose, and lifespan before it goes live, and we will ask you first where the law requires it.

Questions

Write to privacy@moneyandworld.com.

Last updated: September 30, 2026.