Privacy

With your permission we record which subject pages are opened, which sections readers reach, which claims get expanded to their evidence, which studies get opened, and which links between subjects get followed. That is what tells us whether the depth is worth building.

Every one of those events carries only our own identifiers — a subject ID, a section name, an evidence status. There is no user ID, no device fingerprint and no cross-site identifier, because none is collected.

The site search index is downloaded with the search page and runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is transmitted anywhere.

If analytics is switched on, we record that a search happened, roughly how long the query was as a band such as “6–10 characters”, and how many results it produced. Not the query. Our event definitions reject any value that looks like prose, as a safeguard against a future mistake.

With your permission, some substantial pages may carry discreet advertising. There are no pop-ups, no interstitials, no autoplaying video and nothing that covers what you came to read.

Several kinds of page never carry advertising at all, whatever you have agreed to: anything about animal suffering, dangerous species, conservation crises or safety guidance, along with claim checks, study pages and everything in this section of the site.

NatureHQ itself stores one item: your answer to the privacy question, kept in your browser’s local storage under the key naturehq.consent.v1. It contains two true-or-false values and the date you answered. It is not a cookie, it carries no identifier, and it is never sent anywhere.

If you agree to analytics, Google Analytics additionally sets its own first-party cookies once it loads. Those are set by Google’s script rather than by us, they are how it recognises a repeat visit, and they do not exist if you decline. We would rather say so plainly than let “we set no cookies” do quiet work for us.

Clearing your browser data removes all of it, and you will be asked again.

Until you agree to analytics, NatureHQ loads nothing from anyone else at all — no scripts, no fonts, no images, no trackers. Every page you read before answering the privacy question is served entirely from this site.

If you do agree, one third-party script is loaded: Google Analytics. It is loaded at that point and not before, so declining means no request is ever made to Google and there is nothing about your visit for anyone to send later. We switch off its cross-device and advertising-audience features, and it never receives anything beyond our own identifiers — which page, which section, which claim.

Advertising is handled through a shared HEKNO platform service rather than by embedding an advertising provider in these pages, and no advertising provider is connected at present, so no advertisement is requested or shown anywhere on the site.

The site’s content-security policy permits connections only to this site and, where analytics is configured, to Google’s measurement domains. A connection to anywhere else fails rather than quietly working.