Gripes And Giggles Privacy Policy

This site is owned and operated by Beverly Figueroa. Your privacy on the internet is of the utmost importance to us. At gripesandgiggles.com, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.

Because we may collect and track certain types of information on some of our pages, we feel you should fully understand our policy and how we capture and use such information. This privacy statement discloses what kind of information we collect and how we use it.

Disclaimer: gripesandgiggles.com is chiefly an advertising site and as such, we provide links to third party sites. These sites are governed by their own policies and guidelines, of which gripesandgiggles.com has no affiliation. Additionally, gripesandgiggles.com does not control, condone or endorse any of the material appearing on these sites. It is the visitors' sole responsibility to comply with the policies of these sites.

gripesandgiggles.com may collect the following types of information on some of its pages:

Personal Information
For membership subscribers, gripesandgiggles.com will collect some basic information, such as name and email address. We may also ask for optional voluntary information submissions to receive electronic emails, newsletters, message boards or forums, and from participation in surveys. This information is used to help gear our site to your interests. gripesandgiggles.com will not share any personal information with third parties without your express written consent or upon your request.

Website Usage and Tracking Information
gripesandgiggles.com may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer, as a means of tracking website usage, ad impressions and click rates, so that we may evaluate and improve upon our services. The cookie itself does not contain personal information, although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you provide yourself.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to actively participate in message boards, forums, polls and surveys, services of which we provide on some of our pages.

gripesandgiggles.com collects visitor information in the following processes:

1. We offer membership services, which require personal information by users, such as name and email address.

2. We ask users for their suggestions/comments to be filled out on an optional/voluntary survey form.

3. We may occasionally conduct surveys to better target our content to our audience. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.

Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without parental consent.

Use of Information
gripesandgiggles.com uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience on our site, by preparing future content based on the interests of our users.

We use information that users voluntarily provide in order to enable users to participate in surveys, message boards and forums. We will send out newsletters to subscribers occasionally when we think that subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. gripesandgiggles.com never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers or sponsors.

We use tracking information to determine which areas of our site users like or dislike based on traffic to these areas. We only track how well each page performs, not what individual users read.

Sharing Of Information
We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Security
gripesandgiggles.com stores all personal information securely, under restricted access configurations.

OPT-OUT policy
We will give users the options wherever necessary and practical:
-not to register to receive and participate in our surveys.
-not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users.

Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by gripesandgiggles.com. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it, if any.