The records a visit leaves
Highline keeps the record of a single request for 30 days, and that is the longest anything tied to one reader's connection survives on our side. What lasts longer is anonymous totals, and what travels furthest is the data attached to a click on a partner link.
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What does the server note about each request
Every request that reaches Highline leaves an entry on the server, and that entry is kept for 30 days. It holds the address asked for, the reader's IP address, the time of the request, the address of the page that sent the reader here and the browser string, all belonging to the same single request. When the page address carries campaign tags, those tags are stored together with the request as well. If the delivery provider reports it, an approximate country derived from the IP address joins the record. Nothing in the entry is typed in by anyone; it is the standard trail a web server writes while delivering a page, and after 30 days it is gone.
Whose equipment carries a request on its way
No request travels from a browser to Highline entirely on its own. Each one passes through outside infrastructure providers, the companies that host the site and deliver its pages, and they process the request on our behalf. Hosting keeps the pages available; delivery carries them to the reader. We do not name these providers. The practical point for a reader is simple: the companies that keep Highline reachable are part of the path every request takes, not bystanders to it.
Which records outlast the single server entry
Alongside the per-request entries, Highline keeps combined visit statistics, and these stay with us longer than any individual server record. They contain no IP addresses. What they add up is the number of visits, the browsers used, the countries involved when the delivery provider reports them, the pages read most and the sources that visits arrive from. Together those totals describe an audience as a crowd rather than as separate people. A reader who only browses appears in these figures as part of a count, never as a line of their own.
Does Highline place cookies in the browser
Highline itself sets no analytics cookies and no advertising cookies. A reader's browser receives pages from us and nothing that reports back on its own, and nothing from the site sits in the browser to recognise a returning visit. The records a visit produces live on the server side, under the retention periods stated for them.
What does a click on a partner link send onward
Some pages on Highline link to casinos as partners, and following such a link may earn the website a reward. A click of that kind is recorded separately: the browser string, the IP address, the page and the country. After 90 days the IP address and the browser string are erased, while the record of the click stays without them. The link may also pass details of the click onward, to the casino or its affiliate programme: the address of the website the reader came from, the domain of that website, the address of the page and the reader's country. Once a reader arrives there, the casino is an external website with its own rules and policies, and what happens on it sits outside what is described here.