Privacy

There are no accounts on this site and nothing to log into, so the only thing we collect is traffic data. We use PostHog for it.

What gets collected

• Which pages you look at, and roughly how long you stay.
• Which links you click, including links off to ticket sites.
• Whether you read an article most of the way down. That sends the article, its section, and the venue and city when the piece names them.
• Which set times wallpapers you save: the show, the day, the stage and the file. If you build your own, that adds how many sets you picked, the screen size and the clock format, and never which sets.
• Which of the two subscribe buttons on the calendar page you used, the Apple link or Copy.
• Where you arrived from, so a search engine or a link from a forum.
• Your browser and screen size, and roughly what city you're in, worked out from your IP address.

It sets one cookie, ph_phc_…_posthog, plus a matching entry in your browser's local storage. That's what lets us tell a reader coming back from a reader arriving for the first time.

What doesn't

• No ad trackers, and no advertising on the site at all.
• No session recording. We can't watch you move around a page.
• No selling, sharing, or handing any of it to anybody.
• No profile that follows you to other sites.

One thing worth knowing

Analytics requests go to thesettimes.com rather than to PostHog's own domain. Blockers that work by filtering domain names therefore won't catch them, so if you're running one and assumed it had this covered, it hasn't.

Switching it off

Blocking cookies for this site stops the return-visit part. Clearing them resets it. Every browser has this in settings, usually under privacy, and most private or incognito windows do it for you.

Anything else

The site is static files on a CDN, so ordinary server logs exist the way they do for any website. Event pages carry a map, and its tiles come from OpenStreetMap as the page loads, so OpenStreetMap sees your IP address the way any image host does. It sets nothing. Some recaps carry a few Instagram posts from the night under "From the floor", at the end of the piece. When you scroll down to them they load from Instagram, and from then on Meta sees your visit to that page and sets its own cookies, the same as opening the post on Instagram would. Stop reading before the end, and Meta is not on the page. We don't run a newsletter yet. If we ever do, the signup will say what it does with your address before you type it.

Questions, or want your data out of it? Email hello@thesettimes.com.