Cookie Policy

To understand how many people read each article we rely on a privacy-respecting analytics tool that counts pageviews, time on page and the broad path readers take through the site. The tool masks IP addresses, does not build cross-site profiles and gives us only aggregated reports. If you prefer not to be counted, decline the analytics bucket when the banner appears or set Do Not Track / Global Privacy Control in your browser — we honour both. Numbers that the tool reports to us are rounded and never attached to a reader's identity.

You are always in charge. Every modern browser has a Privacy or Clear data panel that shows which cookies are stored and lets you remove them in one click. In Chrome open Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies; in Safari — Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data; in Firefox — Preferences → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data. On mobile you can block all cookies entirely, or allow only first-party cookies, which is a good compromise for most news-style sites including ours. Browsers also expose a per-site switch so you can allow cookies on a shopping site and block them on a reference guide like this one.

If you prefer a more automatic approach, several browser extensions clear cookies as soon as you close the tab — Cookie AutoDelete is a common free option. Private or Incognito windows drop every cookie they created the moment the window closes, so opening the site in a private window once is a one-shot way to read without leaving any trace. On shared devices (a family laptop, a school computer) it is worth enabling browser profiles so cookies set under your profile do not spill into another family member's profile.

Australian readers may also find the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) guidance on tracking helpful, and European readers may want to review the European Data Protection Board's cookie guidelines. These documents explain the legal background behind consent banners and the way regulators treat analytics tools, which can be useful if you are deciding how much tracking you accept across the web as a whole, not just on this site. Changing a cookie setting is reversible at any time — nothing you do here leaves a permanent record, and you can always re-enable analytics later if the balance of trust shifts in a tool's favour.

Space9.bet sets a very short list of cookies. There is a session cookie that lets the site remember basic settings such as the dark/light preference during your visit. There is a consent cookie that records whether you accepted the analytics bucket, so the banner does not reappear on every page. The analytics bucket adds a visit cookie that groups your pageviews into a single session for the counter. We do not set advertising cookies, we do not use social login cookies and we do not re-target readers across other websites. Every cookie set by the site has a plain-English description in the consent banner the first time you open a page here.

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to keep. The next time you visit the same site, the browser sends the file back, which is how a site can recognise a returning reader, keep you logged in or remember that you already dismissed a banner. Cookies on their own are not programs — they cannot read your hard drive, they cannot install software and they cannot access another website's data. They are the oldest tool a website has for keeping a bit of state between page loads, and most of the web relies on them for basic functions such as language preference or shopping cart state.