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Cookie Policy

Learn which cookies Meridian Daily and partners such as Google use for essential functions, analytics and advertising, and how to manage your choices.

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This Cookie Policy explains how Meridian Daily Media, LLC ("Meridian Daily", "we", "us") and our partners use cookies and similar technologies on https://www.meridiandaily.com (the "Site"). It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser or on your device when you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, to remember your preferences, to measure how sites are used and to deliver relevant advertising. Cookies set by the website you are visiting are called "first-party cookies". Cookies set by other organizations, such as analytics or advertising providers, are called "third-party cookies".

We and our partners also use similar technologies, including pixels (also called web beacons), local storage, software development kits and scripts. In this policy, we refer to all of these as "cookies".

Cookies can be session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your device until they expire or you delete them.

When you first visit the Site, a cookie notice banner explains how we use cookies. If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we will only place non-essential cookies (analytics and advertising) after you give consent. Elsewhere, we may use these cookies by default, while allowing you to opt out.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the Cookie Settings link in the footer of every page.

Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential for the Site to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They include cookies that store your cookie consent choices and help protect the Site against security threats. You can set your browser to block them, but some parts of the Site may then not work properly.

Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors find and use the Site, such as which articles are read, how long visitors stay and which devices they use. This information is aggregated and helps us improve our journalism and site performance.

Advertising cookies

Meridian Daily is funded by advertising. We use Google AdSense and Google Ad Manager, and may work with other Google-certified partners, to display ads. Advertising cookies are used to serve ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure ad performance, prevent fraud and, where you have given consent where required, show ads that are more relevant to your interests.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies, including the DoubleClick cookie, enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Typical Cookies Used on the Site

The list below describes common cookies you may encounter. Exact names and durations can change as our partners update their technologies.

Strictly necessary

  • md_cookie_consent (first party, Meridian Daily): stores your cookie preferences. Duration: 12 months.
  • euconsent-v2 (first party, consent management): stores your consent choices in the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework format, where applicable. Duration: up to 13 months.

Analytics (Google Analytics 4)

  • _ga (first party, Google): distinguishes unique visitors by assigning a randomly generated identifier. Duration: 2 years.
  • _ga_ followed by a property ID (first party, Google): maintains session state for Google Analytics 4. Duration: 2 years.

Advertising (Google and partners)

  • __gads (first party, Google): used by Google AdSense and Ad Manager to serve ads, measure interactions and limit how often ads are shown. Duration: 13 months.
  • __gpi (first party, Google): collects information about how visitors interact with ads on the Site for measurement and frequency capping. Duration: 13 months.
  • __eoi (first party, Google): used for security and fraud detection in advertising. Duration: 6 months.
  • IDE (third party, Google DoubleClick, set on doubleclick.net): used to serve, measure and personalize ads across websites. Duration: 13 months (EEA and UK) or 24 months elsewhere.
  • test_cookie (third party, doubleclick.net): checks whether your browser supports cookies. Duration: 15 minutes.
  • NID and AEC (third party, google.com): may be used to remember preferences and help with ad personalization and security. Duration: up to 6 months.

Other certified advertising partners may set their own cookies when serving ads on the Site. These are governed by those partners' privacy policies.

How to Manage Cookies

You have several options to control or limit how cookies are used:

  • Cookie Settings: click the Cookie Settings link in the footer of any page to review and change your choices for analytics and advertising cookies.
  • Google Ads Settings: opt out of personalized advertising from Google at adssettings.google.com.
  • Industry opt-outs: opt out of personalized advertising from participating companies at www.aboutads.info/choices (United States) or www.youronlinechoices.eu (Europe).
  • Google Analytics opt-out: install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
  • Global Privacy Control: we honor GPC signals sent by supported browsers as an opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information for advertising.
  • Browser settings: most browsers let you view, delete and block cookies. Consult your browser's help pages, such as those for Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge, for instructions.

Please note that opting out of personalized ads does not mean you will stop seeing ads. You will continue to see ads, but they may be less relevant to you. Blocking all cookies may also affect how some parts of the Site work.

More Information

To learn more about how Google uses data when you use our Site, visit How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. For more on cookies generally, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for legal, operational or regulatory reasons. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised.

Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies, email privacy@meridiandaily.com or write to Meridian Daily Media, LLC, 1450 Harbor View Drive, Suite 210, San Diego, CA 92101, United States.