Last updated: 6 September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Crosswise uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit readcrosswise.com.
Crosswise is operated by [LEGAL ENTITY], of [REGISTERED ADDRESS] (“Crosswise”, “we”, “us” or “our”).
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more generally how we collect, use and protect personal information.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites place on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit them.
Cookies can perform a variety of functions. They can, for example:
- keep you signed into a membership account;
- remember preferences;
- help secure a website;
- enable subscriptions and payments;
- understand how visitors use a website; and
- measure website performance.
Cookies may be either:
Session cookies, which are normally deleted when you close your browser; or
Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
Cookies may also be:
First-party cookies, set directly by Crosswise or the platform operating readcrosswise.com; or
Third-party cookies, set by a separate service whose technology is used on the Crosswise website.
2. Similar Technologies
References to “cookies” in this Policy may also include comparable technologies used to store information on, or obtain information from, your device.
Depending on the technologies used on the website, these may include local storage, pixels, tags and similar identifiers.
Where applicable law requires consent for such technologies, Crosswise treats them in the same manner as cookies requiring consent.
3. How Crosswise Uses Cookies
Crosswise uses, or may use, cookies in the following categories.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website and its core services to operate.
They may be used to:
- maintain secure website sessions;
- authenticate members;
- keep subscribers signed in;
- operate membership functions;
- maintain subscription access;
- remember privacy and cookie choices;
- detect malicious or fraudulent activity;
- balance website traffic; and
- enable essential security functions.
Because these cookies are necessary to provide a service you have requested or to operate the website securely, they do not ordinarily require consent where applicable law permits them to be used without consent.
Disabling these cookies through your browser may prevent parts of Crosswise from functioning correctly.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may remember choices or settings that are not strictly necessary to provide the basic website.
They may, for example, remember display preferences or improve particular website features.
Where applicable law requires consent for functional cookies, they will not be activated until you have given that consent.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Crosswise may use analytics technologies to understand how readers use the publication.
These technologies may help us understand matters such as:
- which Crosswise pages are viewed;
- how readers arrive at the website;
- how long visitors interact with particular pages;
- aggregate readership patterns;
- website errors;
- website performance; and
- which features are most useful to readers.
We use this information to improve Crosswise and understand the performance of the publication.
Where analytics cookies or similar technologies require consent under applicable law, they will not be placed or accessed until you consent.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
Crosswise does not need advertising cookies simply to provide its journalism, membership or paid subscription service.
If Crosswise introduces advertising, audience-measurement, remarketing or other marketing technologies that require cookies or similar identifiers, they will be classified separately and, where legally required, activated only after you consent.
Crosswise will update this Policy and its cookie controls if materially new tracking or advertising technologies are introduced.
4. Services That May Use Cookies
Crosswise uses third-party technology to operate aspects of the publication.
These services may include:
Ghost
Crosswise uses Ghost as its publishing, membership and newsletter platform.
Ghost and associated website infrastructure may use technically necessary cookies or storage mechanisms for functions such as member authentication, secure sessions and website operation.
Stripe
Crosswise uses Stripe to process paid subscriptions.
When you interact with subscription or payment functionality, Stripe may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes including payment processing, fraud detection, authentication and security.
Stripe processes information in accordance with its own privacy and cookie documentation.
Analytics Providers
If Crosswise uses an external analytics provider, that provider may receive technical or usage information depending on the configuration selected.
Where such analytics require consent, the relevant technologies will not be activated until you have consented.
The specific analytics services used by Crosswise should be identified in the cookie-preference interface and in the cookie register below.
5. Cookie Consent
Where required by law, Crosswise asks for your consent before placing or accessing cookies that are not strictly necessary.
When you first visit the website, you may be presented with options including:
- Accept All;
- Reject All; and
- Manage Preferences.
Rejecting non-essential cookies will not prevent you from reading Crosswise content that is otherwise available to you or from maintaining a subscription, although particular optional website features may not function.
Crosswise does not treat continued browsing, scrolling or silence as consent to non-essential cookies where affirmative consent is legally required.
6. Changing or Withdrawing Your Consent
You may change your cookie choices or withdraw consent at any time through the Cookie Settings or equivalent privacy control available on the Crosswise website.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before your consent was withdrawn.
Where possible, refusing or withdrawing consent should be as straightforward as providing it.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- view stored cookies;
- delete cookies;
- block particular cookies;
- block third-party cookies; or
- prevent websites from storing cookies.
Browser-level blocking may affect some Crosswise functions, particularly membership login or subscription features.
7. Cookie Register
The specific cookies used by Crosswise may change as the website and its underlying services develop.
The live website should maintain an up-to-date cookie register identifying, where applicable:
| Cookie / Technology | Provider | Purpose | Category | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [TO BE COMPLETED FROM LIVE SITE SCAN] | Crosswise / Ghost | Website operation and membership | Strictly Necessary | [Duration] |
| [TO BE COMPLETED] | Crosswise / consent provider | Stores cookie preferences | Strictly Necessary | [Duration] |
| [TO BE COMPLETED] | Stripe | Payment security / fraud prevention | Strictly Necessary | [Duration] |
| [ANALYTICS COOKIE, IF USED] | [Provider] | Audience measurement / analytics | Analytics | [Duration] |
This register should be updated whenever Crosswise materially changes its website technology.
The cookie-management interface may provide additional real-time information about individual cookies and their durations.
8. Third-Party Websites
Crosswise articles frequently link to external sources, documents, media organisations, government websites, databases and other third-party services.
If you follow an external link, that website may place its own cookies on your device.
Crosswise does not control those cookies. You should consult the privacy and cookie information provided by the relevant third party.
9. Embedded Content
Crosswise may occasionally embed content from external services, for example video, audio, documents, charts or other interactive material.
An external provider may attempt to set cookies when embedded content is loaded.
Where legally required, Crosswise will seek to prevent non-essential third-party cookies from loading until you have provided the relevant consent.
10. Do We Sell Cookie Data?
Crosswise does not sell personal information collected through cookies to advertisers or data brokers.
If Crosswise introduces advertising or sponsorship technologies in the future, this Policy will be updated where necessary to explain how those technologies operate.
11. How Long Are Cookies Kept?
Different cookies remain on a device for different periods.
Session cookies normally disappear when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies may remain for days, months or another specified period, depending on their function.
Crosswise aims to avoid retaining cookie-derived information for longer than reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Specific durations should be shown in the cookie register or cookie-preference interface.
12. Your Privacy Rights
Where information obtained through cookies constitutes personal data, its processing is also governed by the Crosswise Privacy Policy.
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights relating to that information, including rights of access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection and withdrawal of consent.
Further information about those rights and how to exercise them is available in the Crosswise Privacy Policy.
13. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect:
- changes to the technologies used by Crosswise;
- changes to our service providers;
- changes to our website or membership services; or
- changes to applicable law or regulatory guidance.
The current version will be published on this page together with its latest revision date.
Where appropriate, material changes may also result in Crosswise asking you to review or renew your cookie choices.
14. Contact
Questions about cookies, privacy or the technologies used by Crosswise may be sent to:
Crosswise
Email: editor@readcrosswise.com
Website: readcrosswise.com