Privacy Policy

This policy explains what information The Dispatch collects and how it's used. We only describe services this website actually uses — nothing more.

Account information

If you create an account to comment or access editorial tools, we store your email address, a display name, an optional short bio, and an optional avatar image. Sign-in is passwordless: we email you a one-time code, and you're authenticated by entering it. We don't store passwords for accounts created this way. Session information is kept in your browser's local storage, not in third-party tracking cookies.

Newsletter subscriptions

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we store the email address you provide and the page you subscribed from, solely to send you the newsletter and let you unsubscribe. We don't sell or share this list with third parties.

Comments

Comments are linked to your account and are reviewed before appearing publicly. Deleting your account removes your comments.

Page views and analytics

We log basic page-view data (the page visited, referring page, and timestamp) in our own database to understand which stories are being read — this is not shared with advertisers or data brokers. We do not currently run third-party analytics (such as Google Analytics) on the site. If that changes in the future, this policy will be updated to reflect it before any such tool goes live.

Cookies

We use the minimum browser storage needed for the site to function — for example, keeping you signed in. Beyond that, our advertising partner also sets cookies on this site — see "Advertising" below for what that involves.

Advertising

The Dispatch shows ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners use cookies, device identifiers, and similar technologies to serve ads on this site, measure how they perform, and — where permitted — personalize which ads you see based on your visits here and to other sites. We don't control what data these cookies collect or how long they're retained; that's governed by each vendor's own privacy policy, not ours.

Google's own summary of this, which we're required to link to, is available at How Google uses information from sites that use our services. A full list of third-party ad technology providers that may serve ads on this site is published by Google at Google's ad technology providers.

Your choices: you can opt out of personalized advertising from Google at Google Ads Settings, and from many other ad networks at once via aboutads.info/choices. Opting out doesn't stop ads from showing — it means the ads you see are no longer based on your browsing activity. You can also block cookies generally through your browser's settings, though doing so may affect how parts of this site (and others) work.

Your choices

You can update or delete your account information at any time by contacting us, and you can unsubscribe from the newsletter using the link in any newsletter email.

Questions

For any privacy question, see our Contact page.