Privacy Policy

Dark Flows Intelligence is a free weekly newsletter covering financial crime, AML technology, geopolitical risk, and regulatory developments. We operate at darkflowsintelligence.com.

For the purposes of UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, we are the data controller for the personal information you provide when subscribing to our newsletter.

If you have any questions about this policy or your data, contact us at: editor@darkflowsintelligence.com

When you subscribe to Dark Flows Intelligence, we collect the following information:

• Email address — required to send you the newsletter
• Job role — so we understand our readership and can tailor content appropriately
• Company or organisation name — same purpose as above

We do not collect payment information, government IDs, sensitive personal data, or any information beyond what you provide in the subscription form.

We may also collect basic technical data such as email open rates and click rates through our email sending platform. This is standard analytics data and does not personally identify you beyond your email address.

We collect your data on the legal basis of consent — by submitting the subscription form, you are explicitly agreeing to receive Dark Flows Intelligence by email.

We also have a legitimate interest in understanding the professional profile of our readership so we can produce relevant, useful content for the financial crime community.

We use your data exclusively for the following purposes:

• Sending you the Dark Flows Intelligence newsletter every Monday
• Sending occasional operational emails (e.g. changes to the newsletter, important updates)
• Analysing readership demographics in aggregate to improve our content

We will never use your data to send you third-party marketing, sell advertising targeted at you, or share your information with advertisers. Dark Flows Intelligence is and will remain an ad-free publication.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data. Ever.

We use the following third-party services to operate the newsletter, and your data may be processed by them as part of that service:

• Netlify — our website hosting provider, which receives subscription form submissions. Netlify Privacy Policy →
• Email sending platform — used to deliver the newsletter to your inbox. We will update this policy when our sending platform is confirmed.

All third-party providers we use are required to handle your data securely and in accordance with applicable data protection law.

We keep your personal data for as long as you remain a subscriber to Dark Flows Intelligence.

If you unsubscribe, we will remove your email address and associated data from our active mailing list within 30 days. Some residual data may be retained in backups for a further 90 days before being permanently deleted.

If you request deletion of your data directly, we will action this within 30 days of your request.

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to access — you can request a copy of the data we hold about you
• Right to rectification — you can ask us to correct inaccurate data
• Right to erasure — you can ask us to delete your data ("right to be forgotten")
• Right to restrict processing — you can ask us to limit how we use your data
• Right to data portability — you can request your data in a portable format
• Right to object — you can object to our processing of your data
• Right to withdraw consent — you can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any newsletter email

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at editor@darkflowsintelligence.com. We will respond within 30 days.

If you are unsatisfied with how we handle your data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

Our website uses minimal cookies. We do not use advertising cookies, tracking pixels, or third-party analytics that build profiles on individual users.

Our email platform may use a standard tracking pixel to measure open rates. This is a single pixel image embedded in the newsletter email that tells us when an email has been opened. You can disable this by turning off image loading in your email client.

We do not use Google Analytics or any other third-party web analytics service on this website.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise your rights, or just want to talk to a human about your data — reach out directly:

This policy was last updated in March 2026. We will notify subscribers of any material changes via email.