Privacy Policy

Effective November 9, 2026 · Frontier Recap is operated by Havard Solutions, LLC

This policy explains what information Frontier Recap (frontierrecap.com) collects, why, who receives it and the choices you have. Frontier Recap is operated by Havard Solutions, LLC, an Alabama limited liability company based in Mobile County, Alabama (“we”, “us”). Questions go to support@havardsolutions.com.

The short version

Reading the news needs no account. There are no analytics, and fonts are served from this site.
Ads come from Google AdSense, and they wait for your choice. No ad code loads and nothing is requested from Google until you click Accept in the ad and cookie panel. Reject keeps ads off. A Global Privacy Control signal counts as a refusal.
The forum asks only for a username and password. It does not ask for your email address.
Recaps are written by an AI model (Anthropic’s Claude) from the publisher’s reporting. No information about visitors or forum members is sent to Anthropic.
We do not sell personal information for money. You can change your ad choice at any time with Cookie settings at the foot of every page.

What we collect and why

When you read the news

The news pages are static files. They do not ask for, or send us, anything about you. A few small items are kept in your own browser’s local storage, and only when you use the feature that needs them: the stories you save, your light or dark preference, and your ad choice. They stay on your device and are never sent to us. The Cookie Policy lists each one.

Server and security logs

Like every website, our hosting provider, Hostinger, receives the technical details of each request: your IP address, the page or file requested, the date and time, your browser’s user-agent string and the referring page. Hostinger and its content delivery network use this information to deliver pages and protect the service, and keep it in standard access and error logs under its own retention schedule. We use these logs only to run and secure the site.

Forum accounts

If you create a forum account, we store:

your username and the date you joined;
your password as a one-way hash (Argon2id where the server supports it), never as readable text;
the discussions and replies you post, with their dates. These are public;
reports you send to moderators, with your username and the reason you give. Only moderators see reports.

We use this information to run the forum: to show your posts under your username, keep you signed in, and moderate. The forum sets one session cookie (frontier_forum) when the forum page loads, whether or not you sign in, so that sign-in and form protection work. To limit abuse, the forum counts sign-in, sign-up and posting attempts. Each count is stored under a keyed hash of your IP address rather than the address itself. It expires within two hours and is cleared the next time the forum checks a limit.

When you contact us

If you email us, we receive your email address, your message and anything you attach, and use them to answer you and keep a record of the request.

Following a story link

Source links take you to the publisher’s own site. What happens there is covered by that publisher’s privacy policy, not this one.

Advertising and Google

Frontier Recap is paid for by advertising served by Google AdSense. Ads load only after you click Accept, and never when your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. Until then the page does not contact Google at all.

After you accept:

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
Google and its partners may place and read cookies in your browser, or use web beacons, similar technologies and your IP address, to collect information as a result of ad serving on this site: for example to choose ads, limit how often you see one, measure ads and detect fraud.
Google explains how it uses this information here: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings, and opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info. On this site, the simplest choice is Reject, which stops ads from loading at all. If you accepted earlier, choose Cookie settings and then Reject. Ads stop from the next page you open, and the site clears the advertising cookies Google set on frontierrecap.com. Cookies Google set on its own domains are controlled through Google’s settings and your browser.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland may also be shown Google’s own consent message after accepting here. That message records the choices Google needs for those regions; rejecting there limits how ads are served to you.

We do not give Google your name, email address or anything else that identifies you directly. We do not use precise location data.

How recaps are written

Every story page links to the original report. Most also carry a recap written by Anthropic’s Claude, an AI model. To write a recap, we send Anthropic the publisher’s name, the headline and text from the publisher’s public article page or feed. Nothing about our visitors or forum members is included. Recaps are not checked by a person and can contain errors; see the Terms of Use.

News stories can mention people. If a recap mentions you and is wrong, or you want us to review it, write to us; we will correct or remove it where appropriate.

Hostinger hosts the site, the forum and its database, and delivers pages through its network. It processes request data and stored forum data on our behalf.
Google serves ads, and only after you accept. Google acts under its own privacy policy.
Anthropic receives publishers’ article text to write recaps. It receives no visitor or member data.
GitHub stores the site’s code and runs the daily build. It receives no visitor or member data.
Authorities and others where the law requires it, for example in response to valid legal process, or to protect the rights, safety and property of our users, the public or us.
A successor, if Frontier Recap is sold or transferred, subject to this policy.

We do not sell personal information for money. When you accept ads, Google and its partners collect online identifiers (such as cookie IDs and your IP address) and information about your activity on this site for personalized advertising. Some US state laws, including California’s, treat that as “selling” or “sharing” personal information, or as targeted advertising. It happens only if you accept.

To opt out, choose Cookie settings and then Reject, or turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser. No account or verification is needed. Your choice applies to the browser and device you make it on. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16.

Global Privacy Control

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, Frontier Recap treats it as a request to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information and of targeted advertising. No ad code loads, nothing is requested from Google, and the ad and cookie panel says so. The signal applies on every page, even if you accepted ads before turning it on.

Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, including in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas and other US states with privacy laws, you may have the right to:

know what personal information we hold about you and get a copy of it;
correct information that is inaccurate;
delete your information;
opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising (see above);
appeal our decision on a request;
not be treated differently for using these rights. The site works the same whether or not you accept ads.

We do not use personal information for profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects, and we do not collect sensitive personal information. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland have similar rights, including the right to object and to complain to their data protection authority. There, we rely on your consent for advertising, on our contract with you to run your forum account, and on our legitimate interest in running and securing the site for server logs and abuse limits.

The Privacy requests page explains how to make a request, how we confirm it is you, and how to appeal. You may use an authorized agent.

Children

Frontier Recap is a general-audience news site and is not directed to children. Forum accounts are for people aged 13 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account or given us information, write to us and we will delete it.

How long we keep information

Browser storage (saved stories, theme) stays on your device until you clear it. Your ad choice is kept for 12 months, then you are asked again.
Forum session cookie: expires after seven days. The session record on the server stops working at the same time and is cleared by the server’s routine clean-up.
Abuse-limit counts: expire within two hours and are cleared the next time the forum checks a limit.
Forum account, posts and reports: for as long as the account exists, unless a moderator removes them sooner. Content a moderator hides is kept in the database for moderation records until the account or content is deleted.
Server logs: under Hostinger’s standard log retention.
Emails and privacy requests: as long as needed to handle your message. We keep a record of privacy requests and how we handled them for 24 months.
Backups of the forum database are overwritten as newer backups replace them; deleted information can remain in a backup until then.

Security

The site is served only over HTTPS. Forum passwords are hashed, session cookies are Secure, HttpOnly and SameSite, every forum change is checked against a per-session token and the site’s own address, and the forum’s data is stored outside the public website folder. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a unique password for the forum and do not post anything you want to keep private.

Changes to this policy

When we change this policy, we update the date at the top. If a change affects how ads use your information, the ad and cookie panel asks for your choice again.

Contact

Havard Solutions, LLC, Mobile County, Alabama. Email support@havardsolutions.com. See also the Cookie Policy, Privacy requests and Terms of Use.