Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep. Browsers also offer other kinds of storage, such as local storage, which works in a similar way without sending anything back to a server on every request. Horizon uses browser storage only for the things described below. Nothing here is used to build a profile of you or to follow you around the internet.

• Staying signed in. When you sign in, your session is kept in your browser so that Horizon recognises you on the next page and you are not asked to sign in again. Without it, the member area cannot work.
• Reading comfort. Your choices for larger text and reduced motion are kept so they apply the next time you visit.
• Your cookie choice. The decision you make here is remembered so that we do not ask you again, and so that your preference is respected.
• While you have the site open. A short-lived copy of basic app settings is kept in your browser's session storage so pages load quickly, and it disappears when you close the tab.

All of these either keep Horizon working or hold your own settings, so they are always active. None of them is shared with advertisers or data brokers.

Horizon sets no advertising cookies, no social media pixels and no cross-site tracking, and nothing here follows you around the internet. There is no profiling of you and no automated decision making about you.

Our platform provider does keep basic usage figures on our behalf: how many pages are viewed, and when a member signs in. That measurement sits with the provider, on its own systems, and Horizon adds no cookie and no tracking script of its own for it. It is not used to build a profile of you, it is not used for advertising, and it is not sold. If you would rather it did not run at all, write to us and we will switch it off.

Payments happen on Stripe's own secure pages, and the billing area for your membership is provided by Stripe. Stripe may set its own cookies there for security and for processing your payment. Those are covered by Stripe's own privacy and cookie notices, not by this page.

Community and private conversations take place on Zoom. When you join a meeting, Zoom's own cookies and privacy notice apply.

The photographs on our pages are fetched from Unsplash, so your browser makes a request to Unsplash's servers when a page loads. Unsplash sets no Horizon cookie, and nothing about your use of Horizon is shared with them.

You can change your preferences at any time using the button below or the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page. Your choice takes effect straight away.

You can also clear or block browser storage in your own browser settings. Please note that blocking the essential storage means you will not be able to stay signed in to Horizon. To remove what Horizon has stored, clearing site data for widehorizon.app is enough.

Horizon stores only what it needs to work, plus your own settings, so there is nothing non-essential in your browser to consent to and no cookie banner gets in your way. We show you a short notice and keep a record of your preference anyway, so that if anything non-essential is ever added it will only run if you have allowed it. You can read more about our approach in the Privacy Policy.