How World News One handles site data.
This policy explains what information may be collected when someone uses World News One, how that information is used, and how third-party platform services affect the site’s data flow.
World News One is a WordPress.com-hosted publication with an audience desk, RSS feed, machine-readable article records, and optional third-party distribution workflows. Because the site relies on hosting and analytics services provided by WordPress.com and may link to outside platforms, some data handling is shared with those providers.
World News One is hosted on WordPress.com, so core site delivery, cookies, and some traffic records are handled by Automattic and related infrastructure providers.
The site publishes aggregate audience information such as views, visitors, referrers, countries, and top entry pages through the public audience desk.
Traffic information is used to understand readership patterns, improve packaging, and maintain the site’s public audience desk and machine-data exports.
- Standard web request data such as IP address, browser or device details, referrer information, and timestamps collected through the hosting platform.
- Aggregate site metrics such as page views, visitors, top posts, top countries, and referrers used in the audience desk.
- Subscription or follow data handled by WordPress.com if a visitor uses WordPress follow or subscription features available on the host.
- Information a user voluntarily provides to a third-party platform after leaving the site, such as RSS readers, social networks, or creator tools.
- To operate, secure, and improve the site and its publishing workflow.
- To understand audience behavior at an aggregate level and keep the public audience desk current.
- To maintain feeds, APIs, machine-readable layers, and distribution tooling that depend on site analytics or publication metadata.
- To diagnose technical issues, abuse, spam, or reliability problems on the site or connected workflows.
World News One publishes a public audience desk at /audience/. That page presents traffic patterns in aggregate form without exposing raw dashboard screenshots or private tokens on the public site.
The audience desk may include current-day totals, rolling historical summaries, top countries, referrers, and top entry pages. These records are also written to local machine-data exports that support the publication workflow.
World News One aims to expose aggregate trends, not personally identifying reader profiles. The site does not intentionally publish private WordPress access tokens, private analytics dashboards, or user account credentials.
Because the site runs on WordPress.com, visitors may also be subject to WordPress.com or Automattic data practices for hosting, cookies, analytics, subscriptions, and embedded platform features. Review the applicable WordPress.com and Automattic policies for more detail.
World News One may also use or point to third-party distribution tools such as RSS readers, social platforms, and creator services. If a reader or creator chooses to interact with those services, the third party’s own privacy policy controls that interaction.
For example, if World News One uses TikTok developer tools for creator-reviewed uploads or authentication, TikTok may process authorization and publishing information under TikTok’s own platform policies.
World News One does not intentionally sell reader personal information. Aggregate audience information may be published publicly on the audience desk as part of the publication’s transparency model.
Any sharing of site data with hosting, analytics, syndication, or developer-platform providers is limited to what is reasonably necessary to operate the site and its connected workflows.
This privacy policy may be updated as the site, host, analytics surfaces, or third-party integrations change. The latest version published on this page controls.
For the publication’s editorial rules and reuse expectations, see the About, Methodology, and Data and reuse pages.