Fact Flows Cookie Policy

Welcome to the official Fact Flows Cookie Policy. This comprehensive guide explains exactly how our independent journalism platform (“we”, “us”, and “our”) actively uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to recognize you when you visit the Fact Flows homepage and our associated category pages. It clearly explains what these digital technologies are, why we use them to enhance your reading experience, and your legal rights to control our use of them. For broader information regarding data protection, please review our official Privacy Policy.

1. Fact Flows Cookie Policy: What are Cookies?

As outlined in this Fact Flows Cookie Policy, cookies are small data files that are securely placed on your computer, tablet, or mobile device whenever you visit a modern website. Cookies are widely used by website owners across the globe in order to make their websites work efficiently, load faster, provide analytical reporting information, and serve targeted advertising to keep content free for users.

Cookies set directly by the website owner (in this case, Fact Flows) are referred to as “first-party cookies”. Cookies set by authorized parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies enable specialized features or functionality to be seamlessly provided on or through the website, such as video embedding, interactive content, and analytics tracking.

2. Why We Use Tracking Technologies

Under the Fact Flows Cookie Policy, we utilize both first and third-party cookies for several highly specific reasons. Some cookies are absolutely required for technical reasons in order for our website architecture to operate securely. Other cookies enable us to intelligently track and target the interests of our users to enhance the overall reading experience on our site, whether you are browsing our Technology articles or reading the latest updates in Global Sports. The specific types of cookies we use naturally fall into the following core categories:

• Essential & Required Cookies: These are strictly necessary to provide you with baseline services available through our website and to securely use some of its features, such as access to administrative areas or securely leaving comments on our journalism pieces.
• Performance and Functionality Cookies: These cookies are heavily used to enhance the speed, performance, and functionality of our website but are technically non-essential to its basic use. However, without these functional cookies, certain engaging media (like embedded videos) may become completely unavailable.
• Analytics and Customization Cookies: These tracking cookies efficiently collect information that is used either in an aggregate form to help our editorial team understand how our website is being used, or to help us uniquely customize our website layout for you.

3. Advertising & Google AdSense

4. Third-Party Media & WordPress Integration

Because our digital publication is built on the WordPress CMS platform, specific session cookies are generated when you interact with our dynamic content. For example, if you leave a public comment on our site, you may opt-in to securely saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are strictly for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your personal details again when you leave another comment in the future. These comment cookies will last for exactly one year.

Furthermore, articles on this site may frequently include embedded content (e.g., YouTube videos, X/Twitter posts, infographics). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you have directly visited the other website. These external websites may set their own cookies to track your interaction with their content, completely independent of the Fact Flows Cookie Policy.

5. How to Control Your Cookies

You have the absolute right to decide whether to accept or firmly reject cookies. You can easily set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies at any time. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still actively use our news website, though your access to some functionality and interactive areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary widely from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s official help menu for more detailed information. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your machine and how to delete them, visit allaboutcookies.org.