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Privacy & analytics

TWIS uses two analytics systems for different jobs: readership measurement and site-performance measurement.

TWIS readership analytics

Merrin Analytics records page views, article engagement thresholds, the page and title, referring hostname, broad device and browser type, and approximate city, region, or country.

A random TWIS-only visitor token can stay in this browser's local storage for up to 12 months so repeat visits can be estimated. The collector does not store that token, your IP address, precise location, full referrer URLs, browser fingerprints, or an identity shared with other websites.

For articles, TWIS records only whether a privacy-safe engagement threshold was reached. Exact reading time and exact scroll depth are not sent.

Cloudflare performance analytics

Cloudflare Web Analytics is kept separately to measure aggregate page use and real-user performance. Cloudflare states that Web Analytics does not use cookies or localStorage for usage metrics and does not fingerprint individual visitors.

Your choice

You can turn TWIS readership analytics off on this device at any time. This removes the existing TWIS visitor token and stops future Merrin Analytics page-view and engagement sends from this site. You can turn it back on later. This control does not change Cloudflare's separate cookie-free performance analytics.