Privacy Protocol — The Focus Digital

At The Focus Digital, we believe reader privacy is a fundamental architectural requirement. This document outlines how we collect, process, and safeguard information when you access our publication.

Information We Collect

The Focus Digital collects minimal telemetry necessary to maintain and optimize the publication. We do not run Google Analytics or any other third-party analytics service. Our hosting provider (Cloudflare) may process standard server logs (such as IP address and request data) for security and performance.

Direct Correspondence

The Focus Digital is an open-access technical publication. We do not require user accounts or registration to read our dispatches. If you contact our editorial desk via email, your address and message are used solely to respond to your inquiry.

Cookies and Local Storage

We utilize browser local storage to persist your visual mode preference (Warm Archival Paper vs. Darkroom Obsidian) and advertising cookies set by Google and its partners.

Essential storage: Preserves display mode state (`theme`)
Advertising cookies: Used by Google AdSense to serve and measure advertisements

Advertising and Google Cookies

This site uses Google AdSense to display ads. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
You can opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info.
Learn more in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Consent for Visitors in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland

If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, a Google-certified consent management platform will ask for your consent before cookies or local storage are used for personalized advertising. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time through the consent settings link shown on the site; if you decline, Google may show non-personalized ads that use cookies only for frequency capping, aggregated reporting, and fraud prevention.

Third-Party Infrastructure

Google AdSense: Contextual advertising delivery
Cloudflare: Edge caching, DNS, and DDoS mitigation

Your Rights (GDPR / CCPA)

Right to know & access: Request details on any personal data held
Right to opt-out: Disable cookies via browser controls, Google Ads Settings, or the consent settings described above
Right to deletion: Request removal of any direct email correspondence records

Contact

Privacy Desk: [email protected]
Editorial Desk: [email protected]