Grinning Dog Media (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates GrinningDogMedia.com (the “Site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site.
Your privacy is important to us. At Grinning Dog Media, we follow these fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Grinning Dog Media collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Grinning Dog Media’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use its website. From time to time, Grinning Dog Media may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Grinning Dog Media collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Grinning Dog Media only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Information Collection and Use
While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name (“Personal Information”).
Visitors to Grinning Dog Media may interact with Grinning Dog Media in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. For those who wish to receive updates or newsletters via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Grinning Dog Media collects such information only as is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Grinning Dog Media. Grinning Dog Media does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the understanding that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Log Data & Aggregated Statistics
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).
This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze such data about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, we may monitor the most popular pages on our website or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Grinning Dog Media may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, aggregate data does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Grinning Dog Media discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Grinning Dog Media’s behalf or to provide services available at Grinning Dog Media’s websites. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Grinning Dog Media’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Grinning Dog Media will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Grinning Dog Media discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Grinning Dog Media believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Grinning Dog Media, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of Grinning Dog Media’s website and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Grinning Dog Media and our products. We primarily use our website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Grinning Dog Media takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Grinning Dog Media uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of our website, and their website access preferences. Grinning Dog Media visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computer should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Grinning Dog Media’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Grinning Dog Media’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify customers by placing a notice on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at clint@grinningdogmedia.com.