Privacy Policy

What we collect

When you read Meridian, our hosting, security, analytics, and advertising systems may process standard technical data such as IP address, browser, device, pages viewed, referring URL, approximate location, timestamps, and cookie or similar identifiers.

If you subscribe, contact us, send a tip, or manage newsletter preferences, we process the details you provide, such as email address, message content, consent status, delivery records, and unsubscribe records.

Cookies, ads, and analytics

We may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and similar identifiers for analytics, fraud prevention, site security, ad measurement, frequency capping, and ad personalization where allowed by law and user settings.

Third parties, including Google, may place or read cookies or use web beacons and IP addresses as a result of ad serving on this site. Google explains how it uses information from sites and apps that use its services at How Google uses data.

How we use information

• Publish and deliver pages, feeds, newsletters, and reader services.
• Measure readership, troubleshoot performance, and improve article discovery.
• Protect the site from abuse, spam, fraud, and security incidents.
• Respond to reader messages, corrections, tips, and subscription requests.
• Serve, limit, measure, and improve advertising where advertising is enabled.

Your choices

You can block or delete cookies in your browser, use device privacy controls, unsubscribe from newsletters through the link in each email, and contact us to request access, correction, or deletion where applicable.

Contact

For privacy questions, corrections, or data requests, email [email protected]. For editorial standards and correction handling, see our Standards and Corrections pages.

Last updated: June 9, 2026