Cookie policy
Reading publishers.news sets none of our cookies in your browser. The few we use are our own and technical, and only for people who sign in to the newsroom panel. Our statistics work without cookies, and YouTube videos do not load until you press play.
A cookie is a small file that a website stores in your browser to remember something from one page to the next. The law treats other ways of storing data in the browser in the same way; we explain them all here.
publishers.news cookies
Reading the site needs none: the language is part of the address (English pages start with /en). Every cookie in this table belongs to the newsroom panel.
| Cookie | What it is for | How long it lasts | Who it affects |
|---|---|---|---|
sb-dwwhojozuwoykjwtvfzn-auth-token (sometimes split into .0, .1…) | Keeps the newsroom panel session open. | Until you close the browser. If you tick «Mantener la sesión abierta en este dispositivo» (keep me signed in on this device) when signing in, 30 days from your last visit | The newsroom only |
sb-dwwhojozuwoykjwtvfzn-auth-token-flow-…-code-verifier and …-flows-code-verifier | Check that the panel sign-in link is opened in the same browser that requested it. | Until the link is used (at most 1 hour, the life of the link) | The newsroom only |
pn-keep | Remembers that, when signing in, you asked to stay signed in on this device. It is only created if you tick that box, and it is deleted when you sign out of the panel. | 30 days from your last visit | The newsroom only |
These are first-party cookies: publishers.news sets them and only publishers.news reads them. None of them identifies you to third parties or follows you across other websites.
Statistics without cookies
To find out which pages are read and how fast they load, we use Vercel Web Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights. They store no cookies or other data in your browser: each visit is counted with an identifier calculated from the request itself, which is discarded after 24 hours, and we only see aggregated data. Our privacy policy explains more.
Other data in the browser
In the newsroom panel only: while someone is writing, the editor keeps in their browser (localStorage, keys pn-article-…) a copy of the text not yet saved, so that it is not lost if the tab closes, and a one-off message (sessionStorage, pn-flash). Both are deleted on saving.
Security checks
If the firewall of our hosting provider, Vercel, needs to check that your browser belongs to a person — during an attack on the site, for instance — you will see a verification page, and your browser will remember the check for one hour. On preview versions of the site, which only the team sees, Vercel also uses its own access cookies.
YouTube videos
Some interviews and news stories include a YouTube video. Nothing from YouTube loads when you open those pages: where the video goes you will see a box with a Play the video button and a notice. Only if you press it does your browser connect to YouTube, in its privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), and the video starts. If you browse without JavaScript, the button opens the video on youtube.com.
From that moment Google may store its own cookies and other data in your browser (for example YSC, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, __Secure-YNID and __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN). According to Google's cookie policy, they are used for the security of the service, to remember preferences and for analytics. Google decides on them, not us, and they are not needed to read the page: if you do not press play, YouTube receives nothing.
Why we do not ask for your permission
Article 22.2 of Spain's Information Society Services Act (LSSI) requires your consent before cookies are stored in your browser, except for those strictly necessary to provide a service you have asked for. The Spanish Data Protection Agency's guide on the use of cookies includes among these user-interface cookies chosen by the users themselves, authentication cookies for the duration of the session, and security cookies.
publishers.news's own cookies are of that kind: the panel cookies (sb-… and pn-keep) only exist in the browser of someone who signs in to the newsroom panel, and reading the site creates none. The panel session ends when the browser closes, unless the person signing in expressly asks to stay signed in on that device. Our statistics use no cookies. That is why the site shows no cookie banner.
YouTube's cookies are a different matter: they are not necessary, which is why the player only loads when you decide to watch a video, with the notice next to the button.
How to delete or block them
You can view, delete or block cookies in your browser's settings. If you block publishers.news cookies, the site can still be read, in both languages; only signing in to the panel will not work.
Changes
If we start using other cookies, we will add them to this page before using them and, if they are not strictly necessary, we will ask for your permission.
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