Cookie Policy

1. What this policy covers

This Cookie Policy explains how hayracetravel.com handles cookies and similar storage inside your browser. The site is published by Hayrace Media LLC, a registered Rhode Island Limited Liability Company based in Providence. This page works alongside the Privacy Policy, which covers personal information, and the Terms of Use, which govern the site. It was last updated on July 20, 2026, and it applies to every page of this gazette. We keep the language plain because storage practices deserve the same clarity as good walking directions. If you only take one thing from this page, take the inventory in section four.

2. What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to save on your device. Your browser returns that file with later requests, which lets a site remember settings between visits. First party cookies are set by the site you are reading, and third party cookies come from outside services. Session cookies vanish when you close the browser, while persistent cookies stay until an expiration date or a manual cleanup. None of this is sinister by definition, though cookies can carry tracking when sites choose to allow it. Cookies are also the reason many sites greet you with banners, since rules in many places require consent. This page uses the word storage where precision matters, because our one entry lives outside the cookie jar.

3. What local storage is

Local storage is a separate shelf that modern browsers give each website for small pieces of text. Unlike a cookie, a local storage entry is not attached to requests and never travels with them automatically. The entry stays on your device until the site removes it or you clear your browsing data. This gazette relies on local storage rather than cookies, for one small purpose described just below.

4. The full inventory, honestly

Many cookie policies unfold into long tables of trackers, so we want to be unusually clear here. As of the date above, hayracetravel.com sets no cookies at all, neither first party nor third party. The site stores exactly one first party value in local storage, and nothing else under any circumstances today.

• Name: hr_gate_choice_v1
• Type: first party local storage entry, not a cookie
• Possible values: all or basics
• Set when: only after you press a button on the notice card
• Purpose: remembers your storage choice so the card does not reappear on every page
• Lifetime: until you clear site data for hayracetravel.com in your browser
• Transmission: none, the value never leaves your device and is never sent to us

The site also writes nothing to session storage, IndexedDB, or any other browser database. No other identifier, fingerprint, pixel, or beacon is present anywhere on these pages. You can verify this yourself: open your browser's developer tools, find the storage panel, and read our short list. The whole inventory fits in one line, which is how we intend to keep it. If that inventory ever grows, this page will list every new entry before it appears.

5. Strictly necessary storage

The single entry above falls into the strictly necessary category under most storage guidance. It exists only to record the answer you gave, which spares you the same question on every page. Storage that merely remembers a consent decision does not itself require consent, which is a tidy little paradox. The value is two short words at most, and it identifies a choice rather than a person. You can still remove it whenever you like, using the steps described later in this policy.

6. Optional measurement storage

The gazette currently runs no measurement or analytics storage of any kind, first party or third party. We count nothing about you, and the pages load no script that would do such counting. If consent-based measurement is ever enabled, it would activate only for readers who chose the fuller setting. Before any such change, this policy would be rewritten to name each entry, its purpose, and its lifetime. Readers who chose the basics would keep reading exactly as they do now, with nothing added.

7. Optional advertising storage

The same honesty applies to advertising: there is none on the site today, and no advertising storage exists. If consent-based advertising is ever enabled, related storage would switch on only after you choose "Fine by me". Until that day, no advertising entry, cookie, or identifier will be written by this site. Any future change would also bring an updated inventory here, dated and described in plain words. The order of events will always be consent first, storage second, never the reverse.

8. How the notice card works

On your first visit, a small card titled "Before you read on" appears near the top left corner. Its element name is hrNoticeCard, in case you want to find it in your browser's developer tools. The card offers two buttons, and the site waits quietly until you pick one of them.

• "Fine by me" records the value all, which permits optional storage if any is ever introduced with consent.
• "Just the basics" records the value basics, which keeps the site to strictly necessary storage only.

Either choice is respected on every page, and neither unlocks anything hidden in the background. The card does not block the text behind it, and reading on without answering stores nothing at all. The card then stays away for as long as the stored value remains in your browser. Private browsing windows discard local storage when they close, so the card will greet you there each time.

9. Changing or withdrawing your choice

You can change your mind at any time, and the method is refreshingly low tech. Clear this site's data in your browser, which removes hr_gate_choice_v1 along with anything else stored here. On your next visit the notice card returns, and you may answer it differently than before. Switching from the fuller setting to the basics takes effect the moment the new value is saved. Because nothing optional currently exists, both answers lead to the same quiet reading experience for now. There is no account to close and no dashboard to hunt through, because the site keeps no account of you.

10. Managing storage in your browser

Every major browser lets you review, restrict, or delete cookies and site data without any special tools. The paths below reflect current desktop versions, and menu names may shift slightly as browsers update.

• Chrome: open Settings, choose Privacy and security, then Site settings, then view permissions and data stored across sites.
• Firefox: open Settings, choose Privacy and Security, scroll to Cookies and Site Data, then choose Manage Data.
• Safari: open Settings, choose the Privacy tab, then Manage Website Data, where each stored site can be removed.
• Edge: open Settings, choose Cookies and site permissions, then manage and delete cookies and site data.

Each of these screens includes a search box, so typing hayracetravel brings our entry straight up. Deleting our entry simply brings the notice card back, with no other effect on your reading. Mobile versions of these browsers keep the same controls under similar names, usually inside a privacy menu. Browser help pages describe the exact clicks for each version better than any outside summary can. If you prefer a broader sweep, every browser can clear all site data for a chosen time range.

11. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Some browsers send signals such as Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control with every request. Sites vary widely in how they honor those signals, which is a polite way of saying many ignore them. Ours is a simple case: with no tracking storage in use, there is nothing for a signal to switch off. The site already behaves the way those signals ask every site to behave. If optional categories are ever introduced, we will state here exactly how such signals are treated.

12. Industry opt-out programs

Beyond browser settings, two industry programs let you opt out of interest based advertising across many sites at once. The Digital Advertising Alliance runs a choices page at optout.aboutads.info, which you can type into your address bar. The Network Advertising Initiative keeps a similar tool at optout.networkadvertising.org, reachable the same way. We print those addresses as plain text on purpose, since this gazette links out to no one. These programs matter mostly for the wider web, because hayracetravel.com serves no interest based advertising today. Opting out through those programs limits interest based advertising, though it does not remove advertising from the web generally. They are still worth knowing, the way a good transfer is worth knowing before you ever need it.

13. Third party services and server logs

The pages of this gazette load no third party scripts, fonts, frames, or embedded players at all. The font files are served from our own address, which keeps outside servers out of your reading. That is why no outside company has a way to place storage on your device through our pages. Our hosting provider keeps short lived technical logs, which are described in the Privacy Policy. The contact form hands your message to a form delivery service only at the moment you send it. Neither process writes cookies or storage into your browser from our pages.

14. Changes to this policy

When storage practices change, we will update this page first and adjust the date at the top. Meaningful changes will be described in the text itself, not buried in a silent revision. The current version is dated July 20, 2026, and it reflects the site as actually built. We suggest a glance at this page whenever the notice card asks you a fresh question.

Contact about this policy

Questions about cookies, storage, or this policy are welcome, and a person reads every letter. Write to [email protected] for storage and data matters, since that desk handles privacy questions.

• Publisher: Hayrace Media LLC, a registered Rhode Island Limited Liability Company
• Email for this policy: [email protected]
• Mailing address: 50 Kennedy Plaza, Providence, RI 02903, United States
• Phone: +1 (401) 421-5836
• Hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Eastern Time

We usually answer within two business days, counted against the office hours above.