Privacy Policy
What this page is
CREATE MORE FLOW is free to read and paid for by advertising, which means data about your visit passes through more hands than we would like. This page says whose hands, what they get, and how you stop most of it. We have tried to write it in plain language rather than in the fog these documents usually arrive in.
You do not have to give us anything to read a story. There is no account, no registration wall, and no email demanded before a breaking update. Most of what is collected is not a file about you as a person, it is a record of requests and pages, a distinction that matters rather less to advertising technology than it should.
What we collect
Log data arrives whether anyone asks for it or not. Our host and content delivery network record the IP address making the request, the browser it reports, the page requested, where you arrived from, and the time. That is simply how a web server works, and it is how we tell a genuine traffic surge on a big story from a script trying to knock us over.
On top of that sit analytics, an email address if you subscribe to a newsletter, a name if you post a comment, and whatever you choose to put in a message to us. Advertising is the noisy part. The ad server and the exchanges bidding on our inventory set their own identifiers, cap how often you see a given advertisement, and, where you have consented, select advertisements from a profile built elsewhere. We run no device fingerprinting and we never ask for your precise location.
Why we process it, and on what basis
The purposes are short to list. Serve the site and keep it standing when a major story multiplies our traffic in minutes. Count readers, because knowing which stories are read and finished is how we decide what to cover more of. Send newsletters people asked for. Moderate comments, block abuse and invalid ad traffic, sell and serve advertising, and keep what the law requires us to keep.
Under the GDPR and comparable regimes, consent covers analytics, advertising, and the newsletter, and withdrawing it costs you no articles. Legitimate interest covers server logs, security, and aggregate measurement, because a site that cannot see its own traffic cannot stay up. Legal obligation covers the narrow rest. Nothing here feeds an automated decision about a person, because we do not make decisions about people. We publish stories.
Who else receives it, and where it goes
We describe recipients by category, because the specific companies change and a list frozen in prose is stale within a quarter: our host and delivery network, our analytics provider, the ad server and the programmatic exchanges with their downstream partners, the newsletter service, the infrastructure behind comments, and, rarely, an adviser or an authority acting on a valid legal request.
Real time bidding fires a request at many companies at once, and we will not pretend we can name every one from memory. The consent manager holds the list that is actually current. Your email address is not sold, swapped, or rented, and confidential sources are not identified to anyone. Those providers run servers in several countries, so your data is processed outside the country you are sitting in. Where data covered by European or UK law moves somewhere without an adequacy finding, the transfer runs on standard contractual clauses or another approved mechanism.
Cookies, and the banner
Strictly necessary cookies keep the site working and remember your consent choice. Analytics, preferences, and advertising wait for consent where the law requires it, and refusing them breaks nothing you came here to read. The categories, who sets them, how long they last, and how to change your answer are set out at length in our cookie policy. If you clicked through the banner quickly, the consent manager reopens from the footer link on every page.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct, delete, or restrict it, object to processing we run on legitimate interest, withdraw a consent, and take what you gave us in a portable form. You can complain to your data protection authority without coming to us first. Write to support@createmoreflow.com with PRIVACY at the front of the subject line, and we aim to answer within a month.
One limit, plainly. Where a request is really an attempt to erase or rewrite published journalism, data protection law in most places carves out journalism, and we treat the matter as a question of accuracy instead. If a story is wrong about you, that is a correction, and our corrections policy says what happens next.
Readers in California and similar regimes
If you are in a place with a sale or share opt out, you can exercise it. We take no money for handing over anyone’s personal information, but serving behaviourally targeted advertising can count as sharing under some statutes, so we treat it that way rather than argue about wording. Use the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information control in our consent manager, or write with PRIVACY in the subject. We also honour the Global Privacy Control signal, which is quieter and more effective than any button.
How long things are kept, and children
Server and delivery logs are held for around thirty days, then discarded or reduced to counts with no identifier attached. Event level analytics is capped in the provider configuration, typically around fourteen months. Aggregate reports that simply say a story was read a certain number of times are kept indefinitely, because they contain nothing about any individual. A newsletter address stays until you unsubscribe.
This is a general news site for adults. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age at which consent is required where you live. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has given us something, write with PRIVACY in the subject and we will delete it and confirm.
Changes, and where to write
When this policy changes in a way that affects you, the date below moves, a short note sits at the top of the page for a while saying what shifted, and where the law requires fresh consent we ask again rather than treating an old click as permanent. Everything here routes to support@createmoreflow.com, and other ways to reach us are on our contact page. If a paragraph here is vague, ask the specific question and we will either answer it or fix the paragraph.
Last updated: August 2026
