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This site uses one analytics service, Microsoft Clarity, and it does not run unless you allow it.You are asked once, with an equally easy “reject” beside the “allow”. Your answer is remembered on your device, and you can change it at any time from cookie settings or the link in the footer.
We do not sell your data, we do not use it for advertising, and the site sets no advertising cookies of its own. This page explains exactly what happens, in the order it happens.
Your choice comes first
On your first visit, and only where the analytics service is available, a banner asks whether Clarity may measure how you use the site. Until you press “Allow analytics”, the Clarity script is not requested at all — not merely put into a reduced mode. That is a stronger promise than “we do not use the data until you consent”, because the request never leaves your browser.
Your answer is stored in your browser's localStorage under the key i365-consent, as a small record containing the version of this policy you were shown, whether you allowed analytics, and the date you decided. It is not a cookie, it is not sent to this site's servers, and it is not visible to Microsoft. The record is kept so that the site can honour your choice on later pages without asking again — and so that a later dispute can establish when the choice was made.
If you clear your browser's storage, or browse in a private window that discards it, the question is asked again. If your browser blocks storage entirely, the choice applies only to the page you made it on, and the banner returns on the next page.
We do not use pre-ticked boxes, implied consent, “by continuing to use this site you agree”, or a second prompt that makes declining harder than accepting. Rejecting is one click, in the same place and the same style as allowing.
If your browser sends a privacy signal
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, or the older Do Not Track (DNT) header, the answer is already no: analytics is switched off, the banner is not shown, and the settings panel explains why the switch is disabled. A browser signal always wins over an earlier choice, including a stored “allow”.
GPC is a legally recognised opt-out signal in California. DNT is not legally binding, but treating it as a refusal is the only reading of “do not track me” that is not a technicality. Clarity itself does not honour DNT; this site honours it by never requesting the script.
What is stored in your browser
Two things, both in localStorage, both on your device, and neither sent anywhere:
theme- Your choice of Light, Paper or Dim. It exists so the next page does not flash the wrong colours. Clearing it resets the site to Light.
i365-consent- The consent record described above: policy version, analytics choice and the date. It exists so you are not asked on every page.
Neither is a cookie. Neither is transmitted to i365.fun, and neither is available to Microsoft. They are the only things this site asks your browser to remember.
Microsoft Clarity — only after you allow it
Clarity is a session-recording and heatmap service. Where it is active it records how a page was used — where the pointer moved, what was clicked, how far the page was scrolled, and the page address — and reconstructs that as an aggregate heatmap and as a replay of a visit. It also receives device and browser information and a pseudonymous identifier that lets Microsoft connect pages into one visit.
The site has no accounts, no sign-in, no forms and no payment fields, so there is no account data for a recording to capture. Clarity is used only to work out which pages are useful. We do not use it to advertise to you, to build a profile of you, or to make automated decisions about you. Microsoft processes the data under its own privacy statement and may act as an independent controller for its own processing; we do not control that independent processing.
Clarity sets two first-party cookies when it is allowed:
_clck- Holds a pseudonymous identifier for this site, so repeat visits can be linked to one visitor. Lasts about a year.
_clsk- Stitches the pages of a single visit together into one recording. Lasts about a day.
Reaching Clarity also causes Microsoft to set cookies on its own domains — among them CLID, MUID, ANONCHK, MR and SM. Those are set by Microsoft, not by this site, and their lifetimes and purposes are Microsoft's, not ours. MUID is Microsoft's cross-site identifier, used across Microsoft's sites for advertising and analytics.
When you allow analytics, the site sends Clarity a consent signal with analytics storage granted and advertising storage denied. There is no advertising on this site, so there is no purpose for which we could grant advertising storage. We also do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.
Managing cookies, and changing your mind
You can withdraw or change your choice at any time, from any page, by opening the cookie settings:
Open cookie settings — or use the “Cookie settings” link in the footer, or the “Manage” button on the banner.
Withdrawing has immediate effect. The site stops loading Clarity on this and later pages, tells Clarity to end the session and delete its cookies, and deletes the two first-party cookies above. Some cookies Microsoft set on its own domains may remain until they expire or until you clear them; this site cannot delete cookies on another domain. Clearing cookies for microsoft.com and clarity.ms in your browser settings will remove them sooner.
If you would rather not use the site's control, any of these works:
- Global Privacy Control. Turn it on in a browser that supports it (Firefox and Brave do). This site treats the signal as a refusal and never requests Clarity.
- Block the script. Blocking
www.clarity.mswith a content blocker or per-site script settings stops it before it ever loads. This is the option that leaves the least to chance. - The advertising-industry opt-out. Clarity uses the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out system: opt out and select Microsoft. The DAA's Protect My Choices helper keeps that preference after you clear your cookies. This is Microsoft's own opt-out and applies to Clarity on every site, not only this one.
Blocking any of this will not affect how the site works — including your theme choice, which is not a cookie. Clearing your browser's storage does reset the theme.
The legal basis
For readers in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the legal basis for the Clarity cookies and the recording is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, or the equivalent UK GDPR provision), given through the banner and withdrawable at any time. We apply the same opt-in standard worldwide rather than detecting your region and applying a weaker rule elsewhere.
Server logs kept by the hosting provider are used for security, abuse prevention and diagnosing faults. That processing rests on our legitimate interests in keeping the site available and safe (Article 6(1)(f)), and you can object to it using the contact address below. The privacy policy covers that processing and your rights in more detail.
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended (CCPA/CPRA), we do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We honour Global Privacy Control as an opt-out signal. The site collects no sensitive personal information, offers no financial incentive for data, and has no account system that could discriminate against you for exercising a right.
Where Clarity does not run
The script is served on the live site at i365.fun and nowhere else. It is absent from local development and from deploy previews, so the traffic that reaches Clarity is readers on the real site rather than test visits. It is also absent when JavaScript is disabled, and when your browser sends GPC or DNT.
What this site still does not do
- No advertising and no tracking pixels of our own. No remarketing tags, no social widgets, no third-party embeds beyond Clarity.
- No accounts, and no sign-in. There is nothing about you to attach a recording to.
- No profile held about you by us. We do not build a record of what you read, and we have no way to identify you from one.
- No data sold, and none used to advertise to you.Clarity's reports are read to work out which pages are useful, and that is all they are used for.
Search terms
Searching puts your terms in the page address — for example /search?q=compound+interest. That is a URL, not a cookie: it is not stored in your browser, and it disappears when you close the tab. Be aware that a URL is not private, though. Our host records it in the same request logs as any other page address, and Clarity sees it too when you have allowed analytics, because it sees the address of every page it records. A search you would not want attributed to you should not be made here.
Who is involved in serving a page
Three providers handle requests on our behalf, and each necessarily sees the request itself:
- Microsoft
- Analytics, session recording and heatmaps, through Clarity, and only after you allow it. Microsoft receives the page address and the interaction data described above, and sets the cookies named in that section. Its processing is governed by Microsoft's privacy statement, and Microsoft may act as an independent controller for its own purposes.
- Netlify
- Hosting and content delivery. Netlify receives every request to i365.fun — necessarily including your IP address and user agent, in order to return the page — and keeps standard server access logs under its own privacy policy.
- Cloudflare
- Object storage for article images. Images load from a separate domain,
cdn.i365.fun, so your browser connects to Cloudflare directly when a page contains a picture. No cookies are set on that connection.
Only Microsoft receives anything that could be called analytics, and none of the three is given your data for advertising on our behalf.
If this changes
If anything else is added that sets cookies or measures visitors, this page will be updated before it goes live, and the date at the top will change with it. If the change requires a new decision from you, the consent record's version number will change too, and you will be asked again rather than having an old answer stretched over a new purpose. As long as the date at the top is unchanged, nothing above has changed.
Contact
Questions about cookies or this page can be sent to support@i365.fun. See also the privacy policy and the terms.