Privacy
The Driving Fly is operated by Mark Unthank. We use information you provide to deliver your advertising placement and manage the live auction.
This browser stores private checkout references so you can return after payment to finish your brand details and artwork. Keep completion links private: they provide access to that purchase’s unpublished details form.
What becomes public
Your submitted brand name, message, website, artwork, winning bid, and publication time are public when your placement goes live. These details may remain in recent supporter history after you are outbid. Do not upload private information as artwork.
Payments
Stripe collects and processes your payment and billing details through its hosted checkout. This website does not receive or store your full card number. We retain checkout and payment identifiers, bid amounts, artwork references, and payment status to verify purchases, prevent duplicates, and handle refunds.
Outbid notifications
We use the email address from your confirmed Stripe checkout to tell you when another paid bid replaces your placement. We store it privately with your purchase and send these transactional updates through Cloudflare Email Service. Your address is never included in public auction data or shared with other bidders. This does not subscribe you to marketing emails.
Custom wrap purchases
For a custom wrap, we privately retain the brand name and email address from Stripe Checkout, the purchase amount and order number, and payment and notification status. After payment is confirmed, we use Cloudflare Email Service to email you a meeting link and design files, and to notify the project operator of your purchase. These are transactional emails and do not subscribe you to marketing. Buyer contact details and payment identifiers are never included in the public offer or auction data. The wrap price, purchase count, and total funding are public.
Hosting and connection data
Cloudflare hosts the site, artwork, and auction state. Short-lived IP-based request counters help prevent abuse; the application expires them after two minutes. Hosting providers may retain operational logs under their own policies. The online counter counts active browser connections, not identifiable people. Cloudflare Web Analytics measures page views without analytics cookies. We retain daily aggregate view counts to display the historic total, excluding known bots. We do not add advertising trackers or analytics cookies.
Retention and requests
Unused uploads are removed after 24 hours. Paid placement and transaction records are retained to maintain the auction and meet accounting obligations. To ask about access, correction, or deletion, use the merchant contact details on your payment receipt. Public information and records needed for accounting, fraud prevention, or a legal obligation may need to be retained.
See Stripe’s privacy policy and Cloudflare’s privacy policy.