Privacy
Your data on The Primary Wire
A plain-language summary of how this website handles your data. The full privacy policy is published by Primary.ai, which owns Primary Media Group.
In short
- No advertising cookies.
- Analytics cookies only if you accept them in the cookie banner.
- A few preferences are kept in your browser, and you can clear them.
- You don’t need an account to read anything on the site.
In your browser
If you switch between light and dark mode, follow topics on The Wire or change how Listen reads stories, those choices are saved in your browser’s local storage so the site remembers them. They stay on your device. See exactly what is stored, and clear it, in Cookie settings.
If you accept analytics cookies, Google Tag Manager loads Google Analytics, which records how the site is used (pages viewed, the kind of device, the country) so we can improve it. If you reject them, or don’t choose, it is not loaded. You can change your choice any time in Cookie settings.
If you subscribe
When you sign up for the newsletter, the email address you enter is sent to HubSpot, which sends the newsletter for us. You can unsubscribe from any email.
Other services
Some parts of the page load from other providers, which receive the usual technical details of the request (such as your IP address), as any website you visit does:
- Unsplash for photographs (see Photo Credits).
- jsDelivr and Hugging Face, only if you turn on the AI voice in Listen: they serve the voice software and model, which then run on your device. The text of the story is never sent anywhere.
The typeface is served from this site. Vulnerability feeds such as CISA’s catalog are fetched by our server, not by your browser.
Full privacy policy
Primary.ai’s privacy policy sets out how personal data is collected, used and protected, and your rights over it.