This page explains which cookies and similar technologies diceread.com uses, what each category is for, and how to switch the optional ones off. It supplements our Privacy Policy.
1. What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file that a site asks your browser to store. On the next visit the browser sends it back, which lets the site remember a setting such as your cookie choice. Related technologies — local storage, session storage and small tracking pixels — work in a similar way, and everything said here applies to them as well.
2. Categories we use
| Category | Purpose | Typical lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Keep the site working: remember your answer to the cookie banner, hold the state of the menu and the update form during a visit, and support basic security checks. These cannot be switched off from within the site because pages would stop behaving correctly. | Session up to 12 months |
| Analytics | Aggregated statistics on which sections are read, how visitors arrive and where they leave. The reports are read at group level and are never used to identify an individual reader. | Up to 24 months |
| Advertising and marketing | Set by advertising partners to measure whether a promoted title was seen, to limit how often the same promotion appears, and to report on campaign performance. | Up to 13 months |
Analytics and advertising cookies are optional. They are only set after you press “Accept” in the banner at the bottom of the page.
3. Your choice and how to change it
The banner appears on your first visit and records whether you accepted or declined the optional categories. The record is kept in your browser’s local storage; clearing site data for diceread.com makes the banner appear again so that you can choose differently.
You can also manage cookies in the browser itself. Every major browser lets you block cookies, delete existing ones, or clear everything from a specific site — look for “Cookies and site data” in the privacy section of the settings. Blocking essential cookies may break parts of the site, such as remembering that you already answered the banner.
4. Cookies and push notifications
Browser push notifications do not rely on cookies. They use a service worker file served from this domain and a subscription token issued by your browser vendor, which is stored by OneSignal as our processor. Allowing or blocking notifications is a separate decision from the cookie banner and is controlled in your browser’s site settings; revoking the permission stops the messages immediately.
If you also gave us an e-mail address through the update form, that address is handled under the consent described in the Privacy Policy and is not affected by your cookie choice.
5. Cookies and the Plus membership
Whether you hold a Plus membership is not written into a cookie and is not readable from this site. The state of a membership lives with our mail provider and, for the payment side, with the external payment provider; both are named in the Privacy Policy. Clearing cookies for diceread.com therefore has no effect on a membership, and declining the optional categories in the banner does not limit what a member receives.
6. Third-party services
Cookies in the analytics and advertising categories are set by external providers under their own policies. We do not control the identifiers they issue, and we receive only aggregated reporting from them. Hosting and content-delivery providers may additionally use strictly technical cookies to route requests and protect the site.
7. Updates and contact
If we add or remove a service, this page is revised and the date at the top changes. Questions about cookies on this site: hello@diceread.com