Last updated: 26 August 2026
This policy explains what happens to your data when you visit creatorrules.com. It describes what the site actually does. If anything changes, this page is updated and the date above changes with it.
1. Controller
The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the GDPR is:
Swen Koertig
Lietzenburger Straße 32
29473 Göhrde, Germany
Email: [email protected]
2. Short version
You can read this site without giving us any personal information. There is no registration, no newsletter and no comment function, and we do not sell your data.
Two things do process data. Advertising is shown on articles, and it loads only if you accept it in the cookie banner. Separately, we count page views to see how the site is used. Both are described in full below, in sections 6 and 7.
3. Hosting and server location
This website is hosted on a server operated by Hetzner Online GmbH in Helsinki, Finland. The server is therefore located inside the European Union, and the website data stored on it does not leave the EU.
4. Server log files
Each time a page is requested, the hosting provider’s server automatically records technical information in log files:
- the IP address of the requesting device
- the date and time of the request
- the page or file requested
- the referring page, if one was transmitted
- the browser type and version, and the operating system
This data is not merged with other data sources and is not used to identify individual visitors. It is processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the technically error-free delivery and the security of the website. Log files are deleted automatically after a short retention period.
5. Cloudflare (content delivery and security)
This website uses Cloudflare, a content delivery and security service provided by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. All requests to creatorrules.com pass through Cloudflare’s network before reaching our server.
To do this, Cloudflare processes your IP address and the technical details of your request. This is necessary to deliver pages quickly from a location near you and to protect the site against automated attacks and abusive traffic. Cloudflare may set a technically necessary cookie in order to distinguish individual visitors from automated requests; this cookie contains no information that identifies you personally and is not used for advertising.
The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the security, availability and performance of the website. Cloudflare, Inc. is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which the European Commission has recognised as providing an adequate level of protection for transfers of personal data to the United States. Further information is available in Cloudflare’s own privacy policy.
6. Cookies and the consent banner
When you arrive, a banner asks whether you accept cookies for advertising. Until you answer, no advertising is loaded and no advertising cookie is set. The page works normally either way.
If you accept, our advertising partner is loaded and may set cookies in your browser. If you decline, nothing from the advertising partner is requested at all, not even the script file. Your choice is stored in a cookie called cr_consent for six months so you are not asked again, and you can change it at any time using the “Cookie settings” link in the footer.
Beyond that, the only cookie you may receive is the technically necessary security cookie set by Cloudflare, described in section 5. The website software (WordPress) sets cookies only for someone logged in to the administration area, which means the site operator, not readers. The comment function is switched off site-wide.
7. Advertising
Articles on this site carry banner advertising supplied by Adsterra, which delivers its ads from the domain highperformanceformat.com. Advertising is what pays for the site.
Nothing is requested from the advertising partner before you accept. Until then the page contains an empty placeholder and makes no connection to any advertising server. Once you accept, the advertising is loaded inside an isolated frame served from our own domain. That frame is sandboxed: the advertisement cannot read the article around it, cannot access your session on this site, and cannot redirect the page you are reading to another address.
To select and measure advertisements, the provider processes your IP address, information about your browser and device, and the page you are viewing. It may store cookies or similar identifiers in your browser.
The legal basis is your consent under Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. You may withdraw it at any time, with effect for the future, through the “Cookie settings” link in the footer. Withdrawing is as easy as giving consent, and the site remains fully readable without advertising.
7a. Reach measurement
To see how many people read the site and which pages and links they use, we load a small counting script from compuwand.com. This is our own measurement, not a third-party advertising analytics product, and the data is not used for profiling or advertising.
The script records the address and title of the page, the referring page if there is one, and an identifier stored in your browser under the key _avid, which allows a returning visitor to be counted as the same visitor rather than a new one. To attribute visits to a country, your IP address is sent to the service api.country.is, which returns a country code. Visits by logged-in administrators are not counted.
The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is understanding how the site is used so that we can improve it. You can object at any time by writing to [email protected], and you can remove the stored identifier yourself at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser settings.
8. Contacting us by email
If you write to us, the details in your message, including your email address and any personal information it contains, are stored so that we can deal with your enquiry and any follow-up questions. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, our legitimate interest in answering enquiries, or Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR where your message relates to a contract or pre-contractual steps.
We keep this correspondence until the enquiry has been dealt with and no statutory retention periods prevent deletion. You may ask us to delete it at any time.
9. External links
Our articles link to official platform documentation and other external sources. Once you follow such a link, this policy no longer applies and the privacy policy of the site you have moved to takes over. We have no control over how those sites handle your data.
10. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to obtain information about the personal data we hold about you (Art. 15), to have inaccurate data corrected (Art. 16), to have data erased (Art. 17), to have processing restricted (Art. 18), to data portability (Art. 20), and to object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests (Art. 21).
To exercise any of these rights, write to [email protected]. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your habitual residence or place of work.
11. Changes to this policy
We will amend this policy whenever the way this site works changes, for example when advertising is introduced. The date at the top of this page always shows the current version.