Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 5, 2026

Who We Are

Intelligent Fly is a Blush & Ink™ publication owned and operated by Blush & Inc LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

Our website address is IntelligentFly.news.

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Intelligent Fly,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Blush & Inc LLC and the Intelligent Fly publication.

Information We Collect

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, along with limited technical information necessary to operate, protect, and improve the website.

Contact Form

When you use our contact form, we collect the information you provide, including:

Your name
Your email address
The subject of your message
The contents of your message

Contact-form submissions may also include technical information such as your IP address, browser information, submission date, and the page from which the form was submitted.

We use this information to review and respond to questions, story tips, corrections, feedback, and other inquiries.

Contact-form submissions may be stored in our website database and delivered to a designated Intelligent Fly email inbox.

Comments

If comments are enabled on an article, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, along with the commenter’s IP address and browser information for moderation, security, and spam prevention.

An anonymized version of your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use that service. If your comment is approved, your profile image may appear publicly beside your comment.

Automatically Collected Information

Our hosting, security, and website systems may automatically collect limited technical information, including:

IP address
Browser type
Device type
Referring page
Pages visited
Date and time of access
Security and error-log information

We use this information to operate the site, prevent abuse, diagnose technical problems, and maintain security.

Cookies

Intelligent Fly may use essential cookies needed for website functionality, security, administrative logins, and user preferences.

If comments are enabled, visitors may be offered the option to save their name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience.

Embedded content, analytics services, advertising providers, social-media platforms, and other third parties may place their own cookies or similar technologies where permitted by law.

Where consent is legally required for nonessential cookies or tracking technologies, those technologies will be used only after the visitor has been given an appropriate choice.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles may include embedded videos, images, posts, social-media content, or other material from third-party websites.

Embedded content behaves much as it would if you visited the third-party website directly. Those services may collect information about you, use cookies, apply tracking technologies, or monitor your interaction with the embedded content, particularly if you are logged into an account with that service.

Those third parties operate under their own privacy policies and practices.

How We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

Respond to inquiries, tips, corrections, and feedback
Operate and maintain the website
Publish and moderate comments where enabled
Detect spam, fraud, abuse, and security threats
Diagnose technical problems
Comply with legal obligations
Protect our rights, users, website, and services

Where applicable, we process personal information based on consent, our legitimate interest in operating and protecting the website, responding to communications, or complying with legal obligations.

Who We Share Information With

We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate Intelligent Fly, including providers of:

Website hosting and security
Contact-form processing
Email delivery
Spam prevention
Technical support
Embedded video and social-media content

These providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services or meet their own legal obligations.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to a lawful request, protect our legal rights, investigate abuse, or maintain the safety and security of the website.

International Data Transfers

Some service providers may process information in countries outside the European Economic Area or outside the country where a visitor lives.

Where legally required, appropriate safeguards will be used for international transfers of personal information.

How Long We Retain Information

Contact-form submissions may be retained for up to 24 months, unless a longer period is reasonably necessary to handle an inquiry, preserve an important story tip, resolve a dispute, comply with law, or protect our legal rights.

IP addresses connected to contact-form submissions may be retained for up to 90 days for security and spam-prevention purposes.

If comments are enabled, approved comments and their associated metadata may remain stored for as long as the comment remains published.

Technical and security logs are retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for website operation, troubleshooting, security, and legal compliance.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request:

Access to personal information we hold about you
Correction of inaccurate information
Deletion of eligible information
Restriction of certain processing
An objection to certain uses of your information
A portable copy of information you provided
Withdrawal of consent where processing is based on consent

Some information may be retained where required for legal, administrative, security, journalistic, or freedom-of-expression purposes.

To submit a privacy request, please use the form on our Contact page. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

Residents of the European Economic Area may also lodge a complaint with their applicable data-protection authority.

Blush & Inc LLC is responsible for handling personal information collected through Intelligent Fly.

Children’s Privacy

Intelligent Fly is intended for a general audience and is not directed toward children under 13. We do not knowingly request personal information from children under 13 through the website.

Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect personal information. However, no website, database, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as Intelligent Fly adds or changes features, services, analytics, advertising, newsletters, or other technology.

The effective date at the top of this page will be updated when material changes are made.

Contact Us

Questions or privacy requests may be submitted through the Contact page on Intelligent Fly.