US state privacy law — California’s CCPA/CPRA and its counterparts elsewhere — gives you a right to opt out of the ‘sale’ or ‘sharing’ of your personal information for advertising. What follows is how that operates on snowballstart.com.

What Is Actually Involved

No money changes hands for your data. The relevant practice is this: where advertising runs, ad partners may receive cookie or device identifiers associated with your browser. Because ‘sale’ and ‘sharing’ are defined broadly in these statutes, that may qualify — so we offer the opt-out regardless. This applies to everyone reading our coverage of Snowballstart on snowballstart.com, whether or not you have ever subscribed or commented.

What Changes

What changes is that your data stops feeding ad personalisation. What does not change is your access to snowballstart.com — every article stays available, and the site behaves identically. Ads may continue, untargeted.

Turning This Off

Easiest first: switch on Global Privacy Control in your browser settings or via an extension — it is detected and honoured on every page load, automatically. Failing that, use the cookie banner where shown, or email hello@snowballstart.com, subject line ‘Do Not Sell or Share’. We never require an account to process an opt-out.

This is one right among several; the rest are in our State Privacy Notice.

Current as of: 2 Aug 2026