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This page says what The LA Globe collects, what it does not, and who else sees anything. It describes what this site actually does today — every company named below is one your browser really talks to when you read a page here — and it is dated, so you can tell when it was last true.

Last updated: August 13, 2026.

The short version

The Globe does not sell your personal information and does not have a reader database beyond an email list you have to type your address into. The tracking on this site is advertising and analytics run by Google, it uses cookies, and you can turn it off — the links are below. The only things you actively hand over are an email address, a letter, or a name on a game leaderboard, and each of those is only what you typed.

What is collected without you doing anything

Server logs. This site is hosted by Netlify, which records the ordinary things a web server records: the page requested, the time, your IP address and your browser's user-agent string.

Analytics. Google Analytics (property G-LRTP24YH0Q) records which pages are read, roughly where in the world the reader is, and what kind of device they used. It sets cookies. It is how this paper knows whether anyone read a story.

Advertising. Google AdSense (publisher ca-pub-9649253958561233) serves the advertisements on this site. Google and its partners use cookies to select and measure ads, and may use what they know about your browsing on other sites to choose them. How that works is described in Google's advertising notice, and you can change or switch off ad personalisation at Google My Ad Center. The Globe does not receive, hold, or have access to whatever Google learns about you; what it gets is a count and a payment.

Other companies your browser talks to on this site

Loading a page here makes requests to a few third parties. A request reveals your IP address to whoever receives it, so they are listed by name rather than described as "our partners".

  • Google Fonts — the typefaces this paper is set in are fetched from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com.
  • National Weather Service — the temperature in the header comes from api.weather.gov, the U.S. government's public-domain weather API. There is no account and no key; the request asks for the latest Los Angeles observation and nothing about you is attached to it.
  • Google — for the analytics and advertising above.

Sports scores are deliberately not on that list. They come from a data provider, but this site fetches them on its own server and passes them on, so the provider never sees you at all.

What you give us on purpose

The newsletter. If you subscribe, the Globe stores your email address and the date you subscribed, and nothing else. It is not sold, rented, or shared. Two honest limitations: there is currently no confirmation email, so a mistyped address simply sits on the list, and there is no unsubscribe link yet — write to editor@thelaglobe.com and you will be removed.

Letters and comments. If you write one, the Globe receives the name and location you typed and the text of your letter. A person reads it before anything appears; nothing is published automatically. If it is approved it is published on the page for everyone to read, so please treat anything you write as public and do not include a phone number, an address, or anything else you would not want printed under this masthead.

The games. The daily games keep a leaderboard. If you put a name on it, that name — up to twenty characters, whatever you typed — and your score are published on that day's board. Your browser also stores a random identifier locally so that playing again updates your existing entry instead of adding a second one. That identifier is a random string, it is not linked to you or to anything else, and clearing your browser storage erases it.

A reader account. Signing in, on the games page, is optional and nothing happens until you use it. If you do, the Globe stores the email address you signed in with (if you use the Google button, Google confirms your address to us — we never see your Google password, and Google tells you exactly what it shares before you agree), a display name, the dates and scores of the daily games you finish, and nothing else. That is what lets your streak follow you between devices. No IP address is stored with any of it, and none of it is sold or shared. The whole record — sign-in and game history together — is erased immediately and permanently by the "Delete account" control on the games page. The one thing deletion cannot recall is a name you already published on a day's public leaderboard, which stays published the way a printed letter does.

Cookies, and how to refuse them

If you are reading from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you are shown a consent notice before advertising cookies are set, through a consent platform certified by Google, and you can change your answer at any time from the same notice.

Wherever you are, you can:

Blocking cookies does not lock you out of anything here — the paper reads the same. The one exception is the optional reader account above: staying signed in is carried by a cookie, because that is the honest mechanism for it, so blocking cookies means signing in again next visit and nothing more.

One thing this site does not yet do: it does not respond to browser "Do Not Track" or Global Privacy Control signals. That is a limitation, not a position, and it is written here rather than left for you to discover.

If you are in California

This paper is a small independent publication and falls well under the revenue and volume thresholds that make the California Consumer Privacy Act binding on a business. It intends to honour these requests anyway, because the thresholds are about the size of the company and not about whether the reader's interest is real. You may ask what the Globe holds about you, ask for it to be deleted, and be told what it is used for.

The Globe does not sell personal information. It should be said plainly, though, that California law defines "sharing" for cross-context behavioural advertising broadly enough that Google's advertising cookies on this site may fall inside it. The controls listed above are how you switch that off, and they work whether or not the law obliges anyone here.

Children

This is a general-audience newspaper. It is not directed at children under 13 and the Globe does not knowingly collect anything from them. If you believe a child has sent something here, write and it will be deleted.

How long any of this is kept

  • Newsletter addresses: until you ask to be taken off the list.
  • Letters: published ones stay with the story they were written about. Ones that are not approved are not published.
  • Game leaderboards: each board belongs to a single calendar day.
  • Analytics and advertising records are held by Google under its own retention rules, not this paper's.

Changes to this page

When this changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be noted on the page rather than made quietly.

Contact

Questions, requests, or a demand to be deleted: editor@thelaglobe.com, with "Privacy" in the subject line. The paper's other policies — sourcing, corrections, photography and independence — are on the masthead page.