Cookie notice

This notice describes the cookies and similar identifiers used on runneredit.com, what each category is for, how long it lasts, and how to switch things off. It sits alongside the privacy notice, which explains the wider handling of personal information.

1. What a cookie is

A cookie is a small text file a site asks your browser to keep, so that something can be recognised on a later visit. Similar technologies — local storage, service worker registrations and the subscription identifiers a browser issues for notifications — do a comparable job and are covered by this notice even where they are not technically cookies.

2. Categories used here

Category	What it does	Typical duration
Strictly necessary	Keeps pages being served, supports the encrypted connection, and protects the site from automated abuse. Also stores the choice you make in the cookie strip so you are not asked again on every page.	Session, or up to twelve months for the stored choice
Analytics	Aggregated counts of page requests, used to see which entries readers actually open. Read at the level of the whole site, never to build a profile of a person.	Up to twelve months
Messaging and marketing	Set only after you sign up. Our messaging processor, OneSignal, records an identifier so the digest and browser notifications reach the right browser and are not sent twice.	Until you unsubscribe or clear site data

3. The messaging service in detail

Browser notifications on this site are delivered by OneSignal acting on our instructions. To make that work, a service worker is registered from this domain and OneSignal stores a subscription identifier issued by your browser vendor. Nothing in that category is set unless you submit the sign-up form and accept the browser permission prompt, and both steps are separate and optional. What OneSignal holds and for how long is set out in the privacy notice.

4. Your choices

• The strip at the bottom of the page. Accept or decline; your choice is stored locally so the strip stops appearing. Clearing site data brings it back.
• Your browser settings. Every major browser can block or delete cookies for a single site or for all sites. Blocking the strictly necessary category may stop parts of the page working as intended.
• Notification permission. Held by your browser, not by us. Revoke it in the site permissions panel of your browser at any time and messages stop immediately.
• The digest. It goes only to readers who gave express consent on the sign-up form, as Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) requires. Every e-mail names RunnerEdit as the sender, gives a contact address for the desk and carries a working unsubscribe link, and that consent can be revoked at any time. You may also write to the desk at desk@runneredit.com.

5. Changes

If the set of identifiers we use changes, this page and its date change with it. The current version always applies.