The 5 PM Tapes (5pmtapes.com) is built to be quiet and respectful of your privacy. We do not run advertising networks, behavioral analytics, tracking pixels, or user accounts.

1. Cookies & Browser Storage

We use a single functional first-party cookie and minimal local browser storage solely to remember your interface preferences:

  • Theme Cookie (5pm_theme): Saved only when you click the Light / Dark button so pages load in your chosen reading colour (light or dark). Expires after 12 months; contains no unique identifier.
  • Local Storage (ntm-theme and 5pm-vote-*): Stored locally inside your own browser to mirror your theme preference and remember whether you already clicked thumbs-up or thumbs-down on an entry.

2. Reader Reactions & Notes

If you choose to react to an entry or post a Reader Note:

  • Reactions store only aggregate up/down counters per entry.
  • Reader Notes store the display name or alias you type (defaulting to Anonymous), the text of your note, and the calendar date (YYYY-MM-DD) in Cloudflare Workers KV so the note can be shown on the page. Please do not include your real full name, email address, phone number, or sensitive personal details inside public notes.

3. Hosting & Fonts

This site is served via Cloudflare Pages and loads the Newsreader typeface from Google Fonts. As with any website on the internet, Cloudflare and Google receive standard network request metadata (such as IP address and browser user-agent) transiently to deliver pages, fonts, and DDoS/bot protection under their respective privacy policies. We do not log, sell, or profile visitor IP addresses.

4. Updates

If this site's technical setup changes in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated directly on this page.