Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. Local storage works the same way. We use them in three groups: necessary, analytics and advertising.
Your choices
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, we use analytics and advertising cookies only after you allow them.
Elsewhere they are on by default, and you can turn either group off at any time.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we turn advertising off automatically.
Advertising tags never load on the EvidencePulse, HypeCheck, checkout or account pages, whatever you choose.
We remember your choice for 6 months. You can also delete cookies in your browser settings.
Necessary
Always on. The site cannot sign you in, take payments or stay secure without them.
What it’s for
Set by
How long
Remembers your cookie choice
2 Minute Medicine
6 months (30 days if set automatically)
Keeps you signed in, shows the right Sign in or Sign out button, and remembers account preferences
2 Minute Medicine
Session, or 14 days with "Remember me"
Keeps your cart and checkout working
2 Minute Medicine
Session to 2 days
Counts the free articles you have read
2 Minute Medicine
28 days
Random ID that links your EvidencePulse requests in this browser (local storage)
2 Minute Medicine
Until you clear it
Prevents payment fraud
Our payment processor
Up to 1 year
Checks checkout payments for fraud (checkout only)
Payment and fraud-prevention services, on their own domains
See their policies
Lets you pay with a digital wallet at checkout
The wallet provider, on its own domain
See its policy
Checks that sign-ins and checkouts come from people, not bots
A bot-protection service, on its own domain
See its policy
Protects the site from bots and attacks
Our security and content delivery provider
Usually 30 minutes
Analytics
Optional. These tell us which reports people read and how they find us.
What it’s for
Set by
How long
Counts visits and shows how the site is used
An analytics service
Up to 2 years
Counts visits and pages viewed
A second analytics service
Up to 1 year
Counts page views (sets no cookies)
Our content delivery provider
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Records how you reached us, such as a search or a campaign, so a subscription is credited to it
2 Minute Medicine
Session
Advertising
Optional. These show sponsor ads, which keep most reports free, and measure our own ads.
What it’s for
Set by
How long
Measures sign-ups and visits from our own ads and lets us show our ads to past visitors
The advertising platforms we use, on this site and on their own domains
Up to 90 days on this site; see their policies for their domains
Shows sponsor ads and measures them
Our sponsor-ad provider and its ad partners, on their own domains
See their policies
Counts pages viewed and remembers the referring site to pace and target sponsor ads
2 Minute Medicine
Up to 400 days
Other services
Some pages load code libraries from a public content delivery network, which receives your IP address so it can deliver the files. It sets no cookies. Our fonts are served from this site.
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