1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit our progressive news platform. They help us provide you with a better experience when accessing our liberal news content, democracy coverage, and political analysis. Cookies allow our civil rights journalism website to remember your preferences and improve the delivery of our progressive journalism content.

2. How We Use Cookies

Civic News Review uses cookies to enhance your experience with our democracy coverage and liberal news platform. We use cookies for several purposes:

2.1 Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for our progressive news website to function properly and cannot be disabled. They include:

• Session cookies that maintain your login status
• Security cookies that protect against cross-site request forgery
• Load balancing cookies that distribute traffic efficiently
• Cookies that remember your cookie preferences

2.2 Analytics Cookies

We use analytics cookies to understand how users interact with our civil rights journalism content and political analysis:

• Track which democracy coverage articles are most popular
• Monitor time spent reading our progressive journalism content
• Analyze user behavior patterns on our liberal news platform
• Improve our government accountability reporting delivery

2.3 Preference Cookies

These cookies remember your preferences for our progressive news services:

• Newsletter subscription preferences for our democracy coverage
• Display preferences (dark mode, font size)
• Language and region settings
• Accessibility preferences for our civil rights journalism content

2.4 Marketing Cookies

We may use marketing cookies to deliver relevant progressive news content and measure the effectiveness of our campaigns:

• Track the effectiveness of our liberal news advertising
• Deliver personalized political analysis recommendations
• Measure engagement with our democracy coverage campaigns
• Retarget users who have shown interest in our civil rights journalism

3. Third-Party Cookies

Our progressive news platform may contain cookies from third-party services that help us deliver better democracy coverage and liberal news content:

3.1 Analytics Services

• Google Analytics: Helps us understand how users engage with our civil rights journalism
• Social Media Analytics: Tracks sharing of our political analysis content

3.2 Content Delivery

• CDN Services: Ensure fast delivery of our progressive journalism content
• Video Platforms: Enable streaming of democracy coverage videos

3.3 Social Media Integration

• Twitter/X Integration: For sharing our liberal news articles
• Social Sharing Buttons: Enable easy sharing of our government accountability reporting

4. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have control over the cookies used on our progressive news platform. You can manage your preferences in several ways:

4.1 Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can:

• Block all cookies from our liberal news website
• Delete existing cookies from your browser
• Set your browser to notify you before accepting cookies
• Block third-party cookies while allowing first-party cookies

4.2 Cookie Consent Banner

When you first visit our democracy coverage platform, you'll see a cookie consent banner where you can:

• Accept all cookies for the full progressive journalism experience
• Reject non-essential cookies
• Customize your cookie preferences by category
• Learn more about each type of cookie we use

4.3 Opt-Out Tools

You can opt out of specific tracking services:

• Google Analytics: Google Analytics Opt-out
• Social Media: Adjust privacy settings on individual social platforms
• Ad Personalization: Use the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out tool

5. Impact of Disabling Cookies

If you choose to disable cookies on our progressive news platform, some features may not work properly:

• You may need to log in repeatedly to access subscriber-only civil rights journalism content
• Your preferences for our democracy coverage display may not be saved
• Personalized political analysis recommendations may not be available
• Some interactive features of our liberal news platform may not function
• We may not be able to remember your newsletter subscription preferences

6. Cookie Retention

Different cookies have different lifespans:

• Session Cookies: Deleted when you close your browser
• Persistent Cookies: Remain on your device for a set period (usually 30 days to 2 years)
• Preference Cookies: Stored until you change your preferences or clear your browser data
• Analytics Cookies: Typically stored for 2 years to help us improve our progressive journalism content

7. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies on our progressive news platform, please contact us at: