Privacy.

Reading the site

Cage Dispatch does not require registration. Our fonts and local photographs are served with the site. Some pages also display editorial photographs through SmartFrame's official image player.

Our hosting provider may process technical request information, including IP addresses, browser details and request times, to deliver pages, prevent abuse and operate the service. This is separate from article content.

Optional audience measurement

With your permission, we use Google Analytics 4 through Cloudflare Zaraz to understand visits and page views. Analytics can use a pseudonymous browser identifier stored in cookies, together with page paths, referring sites and technical browser information. We do not send contact-form messages, names or email addresses to Analytics.

You can accept or reject analytics in the consent dialog and change your choice using Analytics settings in the footer. Rejecting analytics does not prevent you from reading the site. A separate preference cookie remembers your choice. If your browser blocks the consent service, analytics remains unavailable.

Our configuration removes URL query parameters before sending measurement data and does not enable advertising features or Google Signals. User-level analytics data is retained for two months. Google and Cloudflare process measurement information under their own privacy policies: Google and Cloudflare. The analytics choice applies to audience measurement; the external photograph services described below have separate controls.

SmartFrame photographs

Reviewed SmartFrame photographs load automatically on the articles, homepage features and story previews that use them. Opening one of these pages connects your browser to SmartFrame and its delivery or advertising partners; there is no separate photo-loading button.

The photograph may include advertising, and those providers may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser details and referring page. SmartFrame's cookie policy describes viewing-time session storage and advertising frequency controls. Providers may use cookies or similar technologies under their own policies and controls. See SmartFrame's privacy policy and cookie policy for details.

Full article and featured photographs retain the provider's controls and attribution. Small story previews use SmartFrame's official thumbnail mode, with photographer and provider credit beside the image. If its photograph cannot load, the local fallback and its separate credit remain available. The fallback's reuse license does not apply to the SmartFrame photograph.

If JavaScript or the provider is unavailable, we show a separately licensed local photograph. A failed full article photograph can be retried using the button beside its fallback. Browser privacy settings or content blockers may prevent external photographs from loading.

Links to other sites

Our source references and photo credits link to external websites. Those sites have their own privacy practices. Simply reading an article here does not require opening those links.

Contact information

The contact form stores the message, request type, article URL and any name or email address you choose to supply in a Cloudflare-hosted editorial inbox. These submissions expire after 30 days. You do not need to supply a name or email to report an error.

Requests may be processed with AI assistance to help identify the article and assess the evidence. We use the information to handle the request, not for advertising. Do not send confidential medical information or other sensitive personal records.

To limit automated abuse, the form uses a short-lived hash derived from the request's IP address and the current hour. This technical record expires after one hour. The IP address itself is not stored with the editorial submission. Our hosting provider may retain its own operational request logs.

For questions about information you have supplied, use the contact page and identify the request you are referring to.