Privacy
DomainFork is designed to be read without an account. We collect as little as possible, and nothing we collect identifies you personally.
DomainFork is free to read in full — there is no metered paywall or reading limit. We store a small amount of information in your browser, never on a server, and none of it identifies you: your light/dark theme choice, your consent choices from the banner below, and short session-only flags (cleared when you close the tab) that remember whether you’ve already seen today’s pop-up or dismissed the sticky ad bar. This category is never optional — it’s what makes the site work at all, not tracking.
If you subscribe to the Daily Briefing, we store the email address you provide, solely to send that briefing and let you unsubscribe. It is never sold or shared with third parties.
When allowed, we measure traffic first-party, as daily aggregate counts per page (how many visits, from which referrer, how far readers get in a story, how long they stay, and whether they use a phone or a computer) — no cookie, no visitor ID, no visitor-level profile, and never shared with third parties. Choose “Customize” in the cookie banner to switch this off; you can change your mind anytime from the footer. Even switched on, nothing here can identify you individually.
If you allow it, DomainFork keeps a small reading profile on your own device: a random device identifier, which desks and stories you have read, and when you last visited. It is used to recognise you when you return, to show a “pick up where you left off” note, and to invite you to the newsletter once you have read a few stories. That profile stays on your device and is not sent to us. What we do receive are anonymous counters (for example, “a returning reader was shown the newsletter invitation”) that cannot be tied to you. Turning it off in Cookie settings deletes the profile.
If you press “Breaking news alerts” in the footer and accept your browser’s own permission prompt, your browser gives us an address for delivering alerts. We keep only that address, use it only to send a small number of important headlines, and delete it when you turn alerts off or your browser tells us it is no longer valid. You can also switch them off in your browser’s site settings.
Direct-sold campaigns are measured with our own aggregate impression and click counts, always. If programmatic advertising (Google AdSense) is active, it only personalises to you — and Google only sets its own cookies for that purpose — once you affirmatively opt in via “Accept all” or the “Customize” panel’s ad-personalisation toggle. Declining still shows ads; they’re just not personalised to you.
| Item | Purpose | Category | Kept |
|---|---|---|---|
| df-watchlist | The markets and desks you chose to follow on your watchlist. Never sent to us. | essential | Until you clear it |
| df-consent | Your cookie choices. | essential | Until you change it or we ask again |
| theme | Light or dark display. | essential | Until cleared |
| Push subscription (held by your browser) | If you press the alert button and allow notifications, your browser gives us an address for delivering breaking-news alerts. We keep only that address, and delete it when you unsubscribe or your browser tells us it is gone. | personalisation | Until you unsubscribe |
| df-sess | Remembers, for this browser tab only, that this visit has already been counted once. | analytics | Until you close the tab |
| df-profile | Which desks and stories you read on this device, a random device id, and when you last visited. Never sent to us. | personalisation | Up to the configured retention (default 180 days) |
| Google AdSense cookies | Personalised ads, set by Google only if you allow ad personalisation. | ads | Set by Google |
YouTube videos on DomainFork don’t load or connect to Google until you press play — clicking the thumbnail is what starts that connection, and it loads through YouTube’s own privacy-enhanced (“no cookie”) domain.
Questions or data requests under the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA): write to us via the details on the contact form.