Cookies and local storage

Short version: Pigskin Nightly sets no advertising cookies. One first-party identifier counts return visits, and you can switch it off below.

Strictly necessary

• Cloudflare security cookie (__cf_bm, and occasionally cf_clearance): set by our content delivery network to tell real visitors from automated traffic. Expires within 30 minutes to a day. Cannot be switched off without breaking the site.

Audience measurement

• pn_vid (local storage, plus a first-party cookie of the same name sent only to our statistics endpoint, because some browsers clear local storage after a few days): a random identifier created the first time you visit, so we can count how many readers come back and how often. It is first-party only, used for nothing but our own visitor statistics, never shared, never combined with other sites and never used for advertising. It is not renewed on each visit: it expires 13 months after it was created. On our servers we keep only a salted hash of it. It is not created at all if your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track.
• pn_src, pn_ft (session storage): the campaign tag and first page of your current visit, cleared when you close the tab.

Third-party content

Embedded videos use YouTube's privacy-enhanced player, which sets cookies only if you press play.

If we add advertising or analytics

Visitors in the EU/EEA and UK will see a consent banner before any non-essential cookie is set, and this page will list every cookie, its purpose and its lifetime. Visitors in California will get a "Do Not Sell or Share" control (see the privacy policy).

Managing cookies

You can delete or block cookies and local storage in your browser settings at any time. Blocking the Cloudflare cookie may prevent the site from loading.