Privacy

This page says what happens to information about you when you read Parafraz. Parafraz publishes the website and is responsible for it. Write to contact@parafraz.net with any question about this page.

What you never have to give

Parafraz has no accounts, no sign-up or contact forms, no comments and no newsletter. You can read every page without telling us anything.

If you write to us, we use your address and your message to deal with what you wrote about, and for nothing else.

What the server records

Like most web servers, the one that runs Parafraz keeps a log of the requests it receives: the address asked for, the time, the IP address and the description your browser gives of itself. The log keeps the website running and protects it from misuse. It is deleted automatically after a short time.

What a page sends to the advertising service

Parafraz carries advertising from an advertising service. For that, your browser sends the service:

• for each advertising space: the website, the page, its language and the size of the space;
• when a page loads: the page and its language, the parameters in the page’s address (such as the campaign identifiers an ad adds to its link when you arrive from one), the address of the website you came from without its path, how your browser shows the page (in a normal window or inside another app, for example), and whether the screen supports touch.

Your browser sends these without cookies. The service uses them to show the advertising and to decide whether the page takes you on to another page, as described below. It does not keep them.

A check that a visit comes from a person

Some pages and advertising spaces run a check from a traffic-quality service that the advertising service uses. It reads technical details of your browser and your connection to tell visits by people from visits by automated programs. It runs whatever your measurement choice is.

When a page takes you on

After a page loads, or after that check, the advertising service may send your browser on to a page outside Parafraz. The address of that page then carries identifiers of the advertising campaign that brought you, including Google’s click identifier when there is one, so the visit can be measured there. That website’s own privacy page applies to what happens there.

Measurement, only if you allow it

Parafraz uses Google’s tag to measure the advertising that brings readers to the website. The tag starts with all of its storage turned off. Until you choose Allow, it sets and reads no advertising cookies, although Google may still receive basic signals without cookies, such as that a page loaded; that is how Google’s consent mode works. If you choose Allow, the tag may store and read Google’s advertising cookies.

Google describes what it does with this information in how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Your choice is kept in one cookie and in a copy in your browser’s local storage, both named on the cookies page, where you can change it at any time.

What you can do

• Change your measurement choice on the cookies page, as often as you like.
• Block or delete cookies and site data for this website in your browser’s settings.
• Write to contact@parafraz.net to ask what we hold about you. Apart from email you sent us and the server’s short-lived log, we hold nothing.

Changes to this page

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.