Privacy policy
Effective September 13, 2026
What this site is
beatreports.com publishes "Beats" — short, AI-drafted, human-reviewed report pages on a rotating set of topics. Each Beat is written by an AI model from web research, then read and approved by a named editor before it goes live. The site can be read without creating an account or submitting any personal information.
Information collected automatically
- Standard technical access data (IP address, browser type, pages requested, timestamps) that Amazon CloudFront, which delivers every page on this site, may retain briefly for operational and security purposes. This is infrastructure-level logging, not an analytics product, and this site's own code never reads it.
Cookies & local storage
This site's own code sets no tracking cookies and runs no analytics. The editor console at /beatscontrol/ uses your browser's local storage to hold a sign-in token so an editor stays signed in between visits. That token identifies an editor's session to this site only, is not used to track anyone elsewhere, and clearing your browser's site data or signing out removes it.
Advertising (Google AdSense) not yet live
This site is not currently showing ads. Once approved, Google AdSense will serve ads on Beat pages: Google and its advertising partners use cookies (including the DoubleClick/advertising cookie) and similar technology to serve ads, which may be personalized based on your visits to this and other sites, unless you opt out. You can see and manage the categories of ads shown to you, or opt out of personalized advertising entirely, at Google's Ads Settings, and see how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
For visitors in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, ads will not be enabled until you've made a consent choice through an on-page prompt, in line with Google's Consent Mode requirements — you won't see ads (or the cookies behind them) before that choice is made.
Your choices
- Opt out of personalized advertising (once ads are live) at Google Ads Settings or, industry-wide, at aboutads.info (US) / youronlinechoices.eu (EU).
- Clear this site's local storage (browser settings → site data, or the "sign out" control in the editor console) to remove your sign-in token at any time.
Third-party services this site talks to
None of these are used for advertising or tracking today:
- Anthropic Claude and xAI Grok — generate the draft text on Beat pages, from public web research; no visitor data is sent to them.
- Amazon Web Services — hosting (S3, CloudFront, Lambda, Cognito).
Children's privacy
This site is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Changes & contact
This policy may be updated as the site's features change; the date at the top reflects the latest revision. Questions about this policy can be sent to the site owner.