Privacy & submissions.

What the request form collects

The form collects your selected request type, subject, message, public source link, and any name or email you choose to provide. A timestamp and receipt identifier are stored with the submission.

How it is used

Submissions are kept in a private editorial inbox to review questions, case suggestions, sources, and corrections. They are not automatically published. If you provide an email address, it can be used to follow up on your message.

Form security

A session cookie protects the form against unwanted submissions. A protected, temporary hash of the connection address is used to limit repeated requests. The form does not accept file uploads.

Visitor counts

Shared campaign labels on our own promotional links let us count arrivals through a specific announcement. These labels are the same for every reader and do not identify individual subscribers. Other query strings are not saved in the visitor report.

We use private first-party counts to understand which pages are read and which websites refer readers. These counts do not use analytics cookies. We store page totals, public page names, and referring website names, without full referral URLs, search terms, or form contents.

To estimate visitors and visits, we temporarily use a daily salted hash of the connection address. This is a pseudonymous estimate, not a count of identified people. Shared networks, changing addresses, and bots can affect it. The daily hashes are retained for the current and previous Pacific day, at most about 48 hours; aggregate daily counts are retained for 90 days. Known automated and marked test requests are kept separate from visitor counts.

External services

Video links and thumbnail images connect to YouTube. Fonts may load from Google Fonts. Court and evidence links open the original publishers’ sites, which have their own privacy terms.

Requests about your information

Use the question form to ask about access, correction, or deletion of a submission. Include its receipt identifier if you have it.