Privacy
How Needle Down handles data.
Needle Down is a static site. No user accounts, no comments, and no tracking cookies are set by this site directly.
Google Analytics (consent-based in the EU)
Needle Down also uses Google Analytics 4 for a fuller picture of how the site gets read. Unlike the cookieless Cloudflare tool, it sets a cookie and a random identifier, so we treat it as consent-based:
- In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland it stays off until you choose Accept on the banner. No cookie or identifier is set unless you opt in.
- Everywhere else it is on by default, which local privacy laws allow for first-party analytics. You can turn it off below at any time.
- Advertising and marketing signals are off everywhere. We run no ads through it and build no ad profiles.
Your analytics choice
Change your mind any time. This turns Google Analytics on or off across every page of this site and takes effect immediately.
Affiliate links
Some outbound links are affiliate links. See the disclosures page.
Contact
Questions or data-removal requests: hello@needledown.com.