Who we are
The Birthday Chronicle is a trading name of Richard Wilde. Our address is 61 Bridge Street, Kington, HR5 3DJ, United Kingdom. We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office, registration number ZC241707. If you have any questions about this policy or your data, contact us at hello@dayiwasborn.co.uk.
What cookies and browser storage are
Cookies are small text files a website can store in your browser. Local storage is a similar way for a website to keep small bits of information on your device, without an expiry date built in the same way cookies have. We use them to remember your choices, like which country you've picked. We don't use them to find out your name or other personal details.
Strictly necessary storage (no consent needed)
These are essential to how the site works and can't be switched off.
| Name | Type | Purpose | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
diab_country | Local storage | Remembers the country you picked on the decade and sweets pages | Until you clear your browser storage |
Analytics
We use two tools to see how many people visit the site and which pages are popular.
Vercel Analytics is cookieless — it sets no cookies and uses no local storage, and it doesn't identify you individually or follow you across other websites.
Google Analytics, provided by Google, does use cookies — _ga and _ga_XY02CV5GJY, listed in the table below — to tell one visitor from another. It also tells us when someone starts or completes a newspaper purchase. If you're visiting from the UK, the EEA or Switzerland, these cookies are only set after you've consented through the consent tool described below. If you don't consent, no Google Analytics cookies are set; Google still receives a basic cookieless signal that a page was viewed.
We don't run any advertising cookies of our own.
Advertising and consent (Mediavine Journey)
Mediavine is our advertising partner. Their “Journey” ad system runs the adverts you see on this site, and shows its own consent banner to UK/EU visitors — built on the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) and powered by consentmanager.net. The banner's first screen offers “Accept all” and “Settings”; “Reject all”, and the option to choose purpose by purpose, are inside “Settings”. Before you make a choice, the only cookies set on our site are the consent tool's own, which record that choice once made.
If you choose “Reject all” (inside “Settings”), you'll still see ads, but they should not be personalised to you. Mediavine works with a number of advertising partners, and the specific ones active for you, along with what each sets, are listed within the consent tool itself — open “Update Privacy Settings” in the footer to see them or change your choice at any time. We don't maintain our own list of their cookies here, and we don't run any accept/reject logic of our own for advertising — Mediavine's consent tool handles that.
No ads run on the page you land on after buying a newspaper.
| Name | Type | Purpose | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
__cmpcc | Cookie (first-party, set by consentmanager.net) | Part of the consent tool's own record-keeping | Set by the consent tool, not disclosed to us |
__cmpconsentx… | Cookie (first-party, set by consentmanager.net) | Records your consent choice | Set by the consent tool, not disclosed to us |
_ga | Cookie (first-party, set by Google Analytics) | Analytics — tells one visitor from another | Up to 2 years |
_ga_XY02CV5GJY | Cookie (first-party, set by Google Analytics) | Analytics — keeps track of your visit | Up to 2 years |
growme_version | Cookie (first-party) | Grow version info | Set by Grow, not disclosed to us |
grow-faves:* and growMeSnowplowUserInfo | Local storage | Grow feature state, and a visitor/session identifier used for Grow analytics | Set by Grow, not disclosed to us |
collector_cookie | Cookie (third-party) | Set by Grow's analytics collector, on Grow's own domain, not ours | Set by Grow, not disclosed to us — we can't delete it from our site; you can remove it via your browser's settings |
Grow by Mediavine
Grow is a Mediavine feature that lets readers save content they like and helps us understand how the site is used. It's covered by the same consent banner as our other advertising — the cookies and storage in the table above are only set by Grow once you've consented via Mediavine's banner, which loads Grow directly; we no longer load or gate it ourselves. See Mediavine's privacy policy for what it collects and how it's used.
Changing your mind
You can change your consent choice — for advertising and for Google Analytics — at any time using the “Update Privacy Settings” link Mediavine adds to our footer.
Payments
When you buy a newspaper, you're taken to Stripe's secure checkout page, which is run by Stripe on its own website and may set its own cookies under Stripe's cookie policy.
Controlling cookies in your browser
Most browsers let you see, delete and block cookies through their settings, and you can also clear a site's local storage the same way. Blocking or deleting cookies may affect how well some parts of this site — and others — work.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time as the site changes.