The Beirut Journal collects almost nothing about the people who read it. This page says exactly what that means, in plain terms, and it describes what the site actually does rather than what a template assumes it does.
We do not track you
This site sets no cookies. It runs no analytics: no Google Analytics, no Tag Manager, no Meta pixel, no heatmaps, no session recording. It carries no advertising and no advertising technology. There is no third-party JavaScript on the page at all.
We therefore hold no profile of you, no browsing history, and nothing to sell. We could not sell it if we wanted to, because we never collect it.
What the server records
Like every web server, ours writes an access log: the address you connected from, the page you asked for, the time, and the browser string your device sent. Our host, Hostinger, keeps these logs on our behalf for a short period and they are used only to keep the site running and to investigate abuse. We do not connect them to anything else.
If you subscribe to the daily brief
If you give us your email address, we use it to send you the brief, and for nothing else. We do not sell addresses, share them, rent them, or pass them to advertisers. Every email carries an unsubscribe link, and you can also ask us to remove you by writing to the address below. The subscription list is handled by Hostinger Reach, our host’s mailing tool.
If you write to us
Mail sent to the newsroom reaches a mailbox we control. We keep correspondence for as long as it is useful to the story it concerns, and no longer. If you are sharing something sensitive, say so in the first line and tell us how you would prefer to be contacted.
Pictures loaded from other publications
This is the one place where another company can see that you are reading us, and we would rather state it plainly than bury it.
Where an article summarises reporting by another Lebanese outlet, the accompanying photograph is currently served from that outlet’s own servers rather than ours. Your browser therefore makes a request to them in order to draw the picture, and their server can see your address in the ordinary course of serving it. We send those requests with a no-referrer policy, so they are not told which page you were reading. We are moving to hosting these images ourselves, which will end the practice.
Comments
Comments are closed across the site, so no comment data — no name, address, or IP — is collected anywhere on it.
Children
This is a general news publication. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Your requests
Write to editor@thebeirutjournal.com and ask us what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted. In practice the answer is usually that we hold an email address or nothing at all. We will tell you either way.
Changes
If this policy changes we will change this page and update the date below rather than announce it elsewhere. There is no earlier version to compare it against: this is the first.
Last updated 18 August 2026.