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Dialogue Earth Cookie Policy

Last updated: 15th August 2025.

We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors, to better understand how our websites are used, and to monitor how our articles perform.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, improve user experience, and provide information to site owners. A cookie often contains a unique number, which can be used to identify your computer when a user returns to a website that they visited previously.

How We Use Cookies?

We use cookies to:

● Enhance website functionality and your online experience;
● Understand how our website is used (analytics);
● Monitor the performance of our content and articles;
● Enable social media features and integrations.

Some cookies are set by Dialogue Earth (“first-party cookies”), while others are set by third-party services we use (“third-party cookies”). Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our site before or whether you are a new visitor.

Types of Cookies We Use

We use cookies and similar technologies to improve your experience, analyse usage, and provide relevant advertising. Cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers. The cookies listed below are representative examples. The specific cookies used may change over time as we update our services or as third-party providers change their technologies.

Cookie Retention

Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser (“session cookies”). Others remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them (“persistent cookies”). Third-party cookie retention is governed by the policies of the provider.

Managing Cookies and Consent

When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie banner asking for your consent to use non-essential cookies.

You can manage cookies in the following ways:

● Accept or reject non-essential cookies using our cookie settings tool;
● Adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies;
● For general guidance on managing cookies, visit the Information Commissioner’s Office and All About Cookies.

Please note that blocking certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our use of cookies or legal requirements. The latest version will always be available on our website.

Contact Us

For more information about our use of cookies or your data rights, please contact us at: privacy@dialogue.earth.

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Cookies Settings

Dialogue Earth uses cookies to provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser. It allows us to recognise you when you return to Dialogue Earth and helps us to understand which sections of the website you find useful.

Required Cookies

Required Cookies should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

Dialogue Earth - Dialogue Earth is an independent organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of the world's urgent environmental challenges. Read our privacy policy.

Cloudflare - Cloudflare is a service used for the purposes of increasing the security and performance of web sites and services. Read Cloudflare's privacy policy and terms of service.

Functional Cookies

Dialogue Earth uses several functional cookies to collect anonymous information such as the number of site visitors and the most popular pages. Keeping these cookies enabled helps us to improve our website.

Google Analytics - The Google Analytics cookies are used to gather anonymous information about how you use our websites. We use this information to improve our sites and report on the reach of our content. Read Google's privacy policy and terms of service.

Advertising Cookies

This website uses the following additional cookies:

Google Inc. - Google operates Google Ads, Display & Video 360, and Google Ad Manager. These services allow advertisers to plan, execute and analyze marketing programs with greater ease and efficiency, while enabling publishers to maximize their returns from online advertising. Note that you may see cookies placed by Google for advertising, including the opt out cookie, under the Google.com or DoubleClick.net domains.

Twitter - Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you find interesting. Simply find the accounts you find compelling and follow the conversations.

Facebook Inc. - Facebook is an online social networking service. China Dialogue aims to help guide our readers to content that they are interested in, so they can continue to read more of what they enjoy. If you are a social media user, then we are able to do this through a pixel provided by Facebook, which allows Facebook to place cookies on your web browser. For example, when a Facebook user returns to Facebook from our site, Facebook can identify them as part of a group of China Dialogue readers, and deliver them marketing messages from us, i.e. more of our content on biodiversity. Data that can be obtained through this is limited to the URL of the pages that have been visited and the limited information a browser might pass on, such as its IP address. In addition to the cookie controls that we mentioned above, if you are a Facebook user you can opt out by following this link.

Linkedin - LinkedIn is a business- and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps.

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