Information you provide
Crime Current account registration or Google sign-in supplies your email address and display name. Crime Current stores account credentials in protected form, revocable sessions, saved stories, followed cities and topics, alert preferences, comments and membership status. Payments are handled by Stripe; Crime Current stores provider customer and subscription references but not full card details.
Reading and analytics
Crime Current is structured to measure pageviews, engaged time, scroll depth, article completion, search use, alert signups, referral clicks and aggregate city or topic interest. Reporting should be aggregated whenever possible and never sold as a list of people interested in a particular criminal case.
Reader account features
Saved stories and follows are stored with your signed-in account so they can sync across devices. Comments are public and attached to the display name you choose. Private preferences are not used to infer guilt, personal risk or criminal involvement.
Free-reading meter
The browser stores a rolling list of story slugs and view times so Crime Current can provide four free full reports in each rolling 24-hour period and show a device-local recently viewed list. This information stays in that browser and is used for access and return navigation, not to infer sensitive personal interests.
Retention and choices
You can delete your reader profile, saves, follows, preferences and ordinary alert-interest record from the account page. A minimal email suppression record may be retained after a complaint or suppression request so the address is not contacted again. Other operational records are kept only as long as needed for security, legal compliance and auditability.