Privacy Policy

This policy explains what information is collected when you visit viewtime.net, by us and by the companies we work with, and the choices you have.

The short version

• ViewTime has no accounts, no comments and no newsletter, so we don’t ask for your name or email address.
• We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which doesn’t use cookies.
• When we show ads, our advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies. Where the law requires it we ask for your consent first, and you can opt out.

Information we collect

When you visit

Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes the technical information needed to deliver the site and protect it from abuse, such as your IP address, your browser type and the pages you request. This information is kept in server logs for a limited time.

Traffic statistics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see how many people visit and which pages they read. It doesn’t use cookies or similar storage on your device and doesn’t follow you across other websites. We see these statistics only in aggregate.

When you email us

If you write to us, we receive your email address and your message. We use them only to reply and to handle your request, and we keep them only as long as we need to.

Cookies

ViewTime does not use its own cookies to track you. When we show ads, our consent tool stores your privacy choices in your browser so it doesn’t have to ask again, and our advertising partners may set cookies as described below. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings.

Advertising

ViewTime is free to read and is funded by advertising. When ads are running, we work with advertising partners, such as Taboola for sponsored recommendations below our articles. These partners may use cookies, device identifiers and similar technologies to show ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure results and, where allowed, show ads based on your interests. Their use of this information is covered by their own privacy policies, including Taboola’s privacy policy.

If ViewTime shows ads from Google, Google and its partners use cookies to show ads based on your visits to this and other websites. You can turn off personalized ads from Google in Google’s Ad Settings, and you can read how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Your choices

• EU, UK and similar places: we ask for your consent before our partners use cookies for advertising, and you can change your mind at any time.
• United States: some state laws treat sharing information with advertising partners for targeted ads as a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. You can opt out at any time.
• Global Privacy Control: if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.

When we show ads, a “Privacy choices” link will appear at the bottom of every page so you can make or change these choices.

Videos and links to other sites

Share buttons on our articles are plain links: no code from social networks runs on our pages unless you choose to visit them. When an article includes a YouTube video, we show a preview image from YouTube, and the YouTube player loads only after you press play. Once it loads, YouTube may collect information under its own privacy policy. Links to the sources of our articles lead to other websites with their own privacy practices.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask for access to, correction of or deletion of personal information about you, to object to or restrict how it is used, and to opt out of targeted advertising. Because ViewTime has no accounts, we usually hold very little information about you, mainly any emails you send us. To make a request, email contact@viewtime.net. For information collected by an advertising partner, you can also contact that partner directly. We will not treat you differently for using these rights.

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom: we rely on our legitimate interest in running and protecting the site for server logs and traffic statistics, and on your consent for advertising cookies. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

ViewTime is meant for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Where information is processed

Our service providers, including Cloudflare and our advertising partners, may process information in the United States and other countries.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The date at the top of this page shows when it last changed.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to contact@viewtime.net.