Privacy Policy

Welcome to DrollFeed.net Privacy Policy (henceforth, “this Policy”). We have compiled this Policy to help you better understand the nature of your relationship with us and enable you to make informed decisions about certain aspects of our relationship. Because of that, we encourage you to read this Policy carefully. You continued use of our website confirms your agreement with this Policy.

We understand and respect your concerns about the privacy of your personal information. Because of this and because trust is the primary building block of our business, we wish to explain some of the fundamental principles underpinning this Policy. This Policy is intended to attain the following objectives:

  • Ensure that you understand what kind of information about you we collect with your permission;
  • Explain what we do with such information; and
  • Hold us accountable for protecting your rights and your privacy under this Policy.

1. What personal information do we collect and why do we collect it?

As used in this Policy, “personal information” is understood as all data that relates to an identifiable human being whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be inferred, from the data.

Our website does not collect your personal information, with the exception of your IP address and specific data collected by Google Analytics, as will be explained below. In addition, our website may be detecting non-personally identifiable geo-location information to optimize our service; however, our website does not collect your precise geo-location or associate the detected geo-location data with a specific user. We do not sell your personal information to advertisers or other third parties. In certain instances, we may request your email address to communicate with you. If this happens, your email address will only be used to communicate with you and deleted upon your request.

1.1 Information that you provide to us

When you register for an account on our site, we ask for your email address so we can check whether you already have an account, if you don’t, we ask you to provide:

  • Email address, so we can let you know about your account status and activity on the page, you can change the Notification settings of your account while logged in,
  • Password – oh, don’t worry, we don’t see it, so feel free to use the name of your crush (as long as it’s at least 8 symbols and has a number in it:) ). You can always reset it too, in case it doesn’t work out.
  • Full name – you can lie here, nobody will know. We use this as your Pen name when you comment or post articles. Feel free to use a tool like this if you please. You can change it once the popularity becomes too heavy or any other time, we’re chill.

We will also ask you if you would like to receive our awesome newsletter, no pressure, and then we will send you an activation email – just to make sure you’re a real person or at least a very clever bot.
Ah, true, almost forgot, if you chose to use your Facebook login to create an account with us, you give Facebook permission to share with us the associated email and your profile name, good news though, that also means we don’t need to vet you for humanness, so no confirmation email – woohoo!

1.2. Information that we get from your device

In order to make sure that the site performs at its best – functions properly, is informative, up-to-date and tailored just for you – when you visit it, we collect information from your device. That may include:

  • Device info – we want to know if you should be seeing a desktop or mobile version of the site, which application store you might need and such.
  • Network data – such as IP, helps us diagnose problems with our servers, administer our sites and also helps us to make sure our comment section is hate free.
  • Cookies – the no calories kind. There is more detailed info about them below, but in short, they let us know how you use our site and optimize it for a better user experience.

1.3. Share functions

When you share our articles with friends, you do so using social widgets and according to those social networks policies.

2. How is the information used?

2.1. We are relying on several separate bases to process your information as required by law. In order to provide our service to you, we process some data with Legitimate Interest in mind

2.1.1. When the purpose is to deliver the service

  • Communicate with you over email according to your Notification preferences,
  • Contact you and maintain records in order to provide customer service and support,
  • Ensure there is no fraud with voting, polls and competitions we host,
  • When we use cookies to remember your preferences,
  • When we strive to detect and defend against fraudulent, abusive and unlawful activity on the site.

2.1.2. When the purpose is to measure and analyze traffic

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., to collect information about how users use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. You can read more about these cookies and how Google safeguard them here.

More details about use of Google Analytics:

We use a tool commonly known as “Google Analytics”, an industry standard analytics tool operated by Google, to collect information about the use of our website. We also rely on Google Analytics for purposes of display advertising and personalized advertising, as such terms will be explained below. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our website and what other sites they visited prior to reaching our website. We use the information we obtain from Google Analytics for the purposes of improving our website.

Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to your computer or other device and your browser settings on the date you visit our website, rather than your name or other identifying information. We never combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with any other kind of personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics will usually plant a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, such cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. The ability of Google to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our website is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. Please note that you can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to our website by disabling cookies on the browser of your computer or device.

2.2. Additionally, we ask your Consent to process the data we need

2.2.1. When the purpose is better advertising experience. We would like the ads on our sites to be relevant and tailored to your interests, nobody likes seeing those hair grow vitamin ads when you CLEARLY are not going bold (you’re not, don’t worry… I mean it). You will get more information regarding advertisements below on this page.

  • Cookies and similar technologies help us know what interests you might have,
  • Location services help to only show you relevant ads, matching your location or language,
  • Our partners may use the data they have about you, collected according to their own policies to show you what they believe would be relevant.

3. Use of IP Addresses and Browser Settings

When you visit our website, we register the IP address and browser settings of your computer or other devices. The IP address is the numerical address of your computer or other device used to visit our website. Browser settings can include the type of browser you use, browser language and time zone. We collect this information so that we can trace the computer or device used in cases of misuse or unlawful actions in connection with visits to or use of our website. Moreover, we may collect this information for various internal business purposes, such as:

  • generating statistics;
  • measuring traffic and popularity of content areas;
  • gathering broad demographic data for prospective advertisers;
  • identifying usage trends and expanding our business activities;
  • general data analysis and administering our site and affiliated sites;
  • improving or modifying our website, developing new services and functionality; and
  • complying with applicable legal requirements and legal process, requests from governmental authorities, relevant industry standards and our internal policies.

We may also use your IP address and browser settings in other manners and for other purposes for which we will provide specific notice on this website at the time of collection. We may use or disclose your IP address and browser settings for any legitimate purpose to the extent permitted by applicable law.

4. How may the information be shared?

We strive to ensure, using technological and contractual mechanisms, that your data is protected and only used according to this policy. We need to share certain data with our trusted partners:

  • When we manage newsletters, we use mailing services (such as Google Feedburner, MailChimp, etc.) to help us do it. You can always unsubscribe via unsubscribe function in the newsletter,
  • When we optimise our site and innovate we may use partners who provide services and functionalities we need, such as Google and others,
  • When we deliver ads via vendors and third-party vendors. This helps you get better ads.
  • As part of the sale of one of our websites to another company.
  • To protect and defend the rights and property of DrollFeed.net (including with respect to enforcing our Terms and Conditions)
  • When we would need for Legal purposes and according to the law, governmental authority or by a court order.

5. How might the data be transferred?

The data we process about individuals in the EU/EEA may be transferred from the EU/EEA through various compliance mechanisms, including data processing agreements we have with our partners. By using our services you consent to us transferring your information to our partners outside of EU/EEA. Any organisation who has access to your information in the course of providing services on our behalf will be governed by contractual restrictions to make sure they protect your information and comply with applicable data protection legislation.

6. Cookies

6.1. We may use cookies to customize our website for return visitors. When you use our websites and apps we may collect information using cookies or similar technologies. These cookies are not required for website functionality. Also, third-party ad networks and our business partners, such as Google, Facebook or YouTube, etc. may install cookies depending on their configuration. You are not required to accept cookies in order to be able to use our website. Please note, further, that many web browsers contain a feature allowing you to manage your preferences with respect to cookies. More specifically, you can set your browser to refuse certain cookies or delete them entirely. You may be able to manage other technologies in the same way that you manage cookies using your browser’s preferences. On the other hand, please be mindful that if you choose to block cookies, doing so may prevent certain features on our website from functioning.

A cookie is a small file placed on your computer or other devices when you visit a website that can be understood by the website that issued the cookie. We and Our Partners (as such term is explained in the next section) use the information collected by cookies to remember who you are to log you in and your preferences, to serve content tailored to your needs or interests and to assess how our website is used. You can accept or decline cookies through your browser settings. To learn more, please look at the cookie settings available in your specific web browser(s).

We use cookies as they are a very important part of the internet, they help sites to work smoother, just like what a cup of morning coffee does to you. The cookies we use are for:

  • Services – to make sure the site functions as expected, they are essential to you being able to enjoy the experience,
  • Analytics – those are also super important, they allow us to understand how all users combined use our site, make business decisions based on it and do what we need to do on our side to make the site viable,
  • Preferences – yeah, this is to remember your consent status, so we don’t bug you with a pop-up on each visit,
  • Advertising – you might not think that, but this part is very important too, cookies help us provide you the best possible experience with ads, without them, there would be a wild wild west of terrible banners everywhere. Also, they help us pay our bills and provide you with great content, just keep that in mind. We use a Google tool called Google Double Click to make this all happen.

6.2. If you use an Ad-blocker on our site, we cannot fully execute our services and therefore ensure your rights under this policy.

6.3. You can manage your cookie settings by:

  • changing your Privacy Settings,
  • changing settings on your mobile device,
  • changing your browser settings,
  • opting out here.

Please contact us if you need assistance with anything. We want you to be aware that by changing certain preferences you might cause the page to not work correctly, or at all, and that would be very sad, wouldn’t it? Changing the settings, also, would not remove advertising from the site, but would instead make it less relevant and even more annoying.

7. Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

7.1. Jetpack Comments

  • Data Used: Commenter’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided via the comment form), timestamp, and IP address. Additionally, a jetpack.wordpress.com IFrame receives the following data: WordPress.com blog ID attached to the site, ID of the post on which the comment is being submitted, commenter’s local user ID (if available), commenter’s local username (if available), commenter’s site URL (if available), MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address (if available), and the comment content. If Akismet (also owned by Automattic) is enabled on the site, the following information is sent to the service for the sole purpose of spam checking: commenter’s name, email address, site URL, IP address, and user agent.
  • Activity Tracked: The comment author’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided during the comment submission) are stored in cookies. Learn more about these cookies.
  • Data Synced (?): All data and metadata (see above) associated with comments. This includes the status of the comment and, if Akismet is enabled on the site, whether or not it was classified as spam by Akismet.

8. Content and Metadata

The Websites are intended to share text, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, audiovisual combinations, and other materials (collectively “Content”) you may view on, access through, or contribute to the Websites. If you do not want us to store metadata or embedded location data (EXIF GPS) associated with the Content you share on the Websites, please remove the metadata before uploading the Content. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

9. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites (Such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) 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.

10. Display Advertising (Also Known as Third-Party Advertising) on Our Website

We may allow third parties, including carefully selected ad networks and business partners of DrollFeed.net (henceforth, “Our Partners”), to display advertising on our website. Because of that, our website may display advertisements from Our Partners that link to websites of Our Partners. We cannot control or be held responsible for privacy practices and content of Our Partners. We encourage you to read their privacy policies to find out how they collect and process your personal information.

In addition, some of Our Partners may recognize your computer or device through cookies or other technologies each time they send you an online ad. This enables them to understand where you, or others who are using your computer or other devices, saw their advertisement and to deliver ads that they believe may be of interest to you.

11. Personalized Advertising (Formerly Known as Interest-Based Advertising)

Our website permits Our Partners to collect certain information about you to provide personalized advertising to you. Our Partners are leading digital performance-based advertising groups which put great effort into making sure that your personal information is safe and used properly. They may be collecting from your computer or device certain information, such as:

  • your gender;
  • your age;
  • your location; and
  • areas of your interests.

In addition, they may be collecting certain information related to your PC, laptop, mobile phone or other device attributes and traffic/session information, such as:

  • the model of your computer or device;
  • the make of your computer or device;
  • your computer or device agent details;
  • the ID of your computer or device;
  • session duration; and
  • activity information.

11. Use of Information Toward Personal Advertising

The information collected by Our Partners is used to analyze trends, understand user activities and gather demographic information to enable, manage and develop their personalized ads and related services. Our Partners may share such information with their affiliates. To do this, Our Partners use technologies such as cookies and web beacons to collect information about your interaction with our website and third-party websites. This type of information does not identify you personally and, typically, is aggregated with other data to create segments – groups of users and general interest categories that are inferred based on a range of factors (for example, “sports fan”). Our Partners use this information to form a more accurate picture of the interests of the audiences with which they interact – including you – so that their ads are more relevant to those interests.

In addition, Our Partners may use the information collected from these types of cookie or similar technologies for a variety of other purposes, including:

  • in conjunction with advertising that appears on other third-party websites;
  • to measure the effectiveness of web-based and email advertisements; and
  • for reporting website traffic, statistics, advertisement data and other interaction with ads and the websites on which they are served.

Our Partners retain your information in accordance with their legitimate business purposes for processing. Thereafter, the information is removed, archived for restricted legitimate interests, or anonymized. Non-identifying information may be kept without the time and use limitations.

We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that Our Partners may use, and the information practices of Our Partners and third-party websites are not covered by this Policy. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.

11.1. Why Would You Want to Receive Personalized Ads?

Consumers like to receive personalized ads for many different reasons. Personalized ads are helpful because they are more tailored to your particular interests. Personalized ads are more likely to help you discover new products and services that are actually relevant to you and your interests. In short, receiving personalized ads can help improve your access to new products, services and features that are most relevant to you. Moreover, you will not see the same ads over and over, because the number of times you see a particular personalized ad is limited. By opting-out of personalized ads, you lose all of these benefits.

11.2. Opting-Out of Receiving Personalized Ads

If you do not want our website to show you personalized ads please be advised to do any of the following:

Please note that if you choose to opt-out, your opt-out will be managed through the use of cookies. If you delete these cookies or use a different browser or computer, you will have to make this same selection again.

12. Plugins

Our website may have “plugins” (such as the Facebook “Like” button, Google+ Follow, Twitter Follow, Pinterest Follow, etc.) to third party sites or offer login (such as login with Facebook) through a third-party account. Third-party plugins and login features, including their loading, operation and use, are governed by the privacy policy and terms of use of the third party providing them.

13. Activity Log

This feature only records activities of a site’s registered users, and the retention duration of activity data will depend on the site’s plan and activity type.

Data Used: To deliver this functionality and record activities around site management, the following information is captured: user email address, user role, user login, user display name, WordPress.com and local user IDs, the activity to be recorded, the WordPress.com-connected site ID of the site on which the activity takes place, the site’s Jetpack version, and the timestamp of the activity. Some activities may also include the actor’s IP address (login attempts, for example) and user agent.

Activity Tracked: Login attempts/actions, post and page update and publish actions, comment/pingback submission and management actions, plugin and theme management actions, widget updates, user management actions, and the modification of other various site settings and options. Retention duration of activity data depends on the site’s plan and activity type. See the complete list of currently-recorded activities (along with retention information).

Data Synced (?): Successful and failed login attempts, which will include the actor’s IP address and user agent.

14. Contact Form

Data Used: If Akismet is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.

Data Synced (?): Post and post meta data associated with a user’s contact form submission. If Akismet is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are synced, as well, as they are stored in post meta.

15. Gravatar Hovercards

Data Used: This feature will send a hash of the user’s email address (if logged in to the site or WordPress.com — or if they submitted a comment on the site using their email address that is attached to an active Gravatar profile) to the Gravatar service (also owned by Automattic) in order to retrieve their profile image.

16. Protect

Data Used: In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s email address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.

Activity Tracked: Failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent). We also set a cookie (jpp_math_pass) for 1 day to remember if/when a user has successfully completed a math captcha to prove that they’re a real human. Learn more about this cookie.

Data Synced (?): Failed login attempts, which contain the user’s IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information.

17. Sharing

Data Used: When sharing content via email (this option is only available if Akismet is active on the site), the following information is used: sharing party’s name and email address (if the user is logged in, this information will be pulled directly from their account), IP address (for spam checking), user agent (for spam checking), and email body/content. This content will be sent to Akismet (also owned by Automattic) so that a spam check can be performed. Additionally, if reCAPTCHA (by Google) is enabled by the site owner, the sharing party’s IP address will be shared with that service. You can find Google’s privacy policy here.

18. Subscriptions

Data Used: To initiate and process subscriptions, the following information is used: subscriber’s email address and the ID of the post or comment (depending on the specific subscription being processed). In the event of a new subscription being initiated, we also collect some basic server data, including all of the subscribing user’s HTTP request headers, the IP address from which the subscribing user is viewing the page, and the URI which was given in order to access the page (REQUEST_URI and DOCUMENT_URI). This server data used for the exclusive purpose of monitoring and preventing abuse and spam.

Activity Tracked: Functionality cookies are set for a duration of 347 days to remember a visitor’s blog and post subscription choices if, in fact, they have an active subscription.

19. WordPress.com Secure Sign On

This feature is only accessible to registered users of the site with WordPress.com accounts.

Data Used: User ID (local site and WordPress.com), role (e.g. administrator), email address, username and display name. Additionally, for activity tracking (see below): IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.

Activity Tracked: The following usage events are recorded: starting the login process, completing the login process, failing the login process, successfully being redirected after login, and failing to be redirected after login. Several functionality cookies are also set, and these are detailed explicitly in our Cookie documentation.

Data Synced (?): The user ID and role of any user who successfully signed in via this feature.

20. WordPress.com Stats

Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.

Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. When this module is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.

21. How we protect the privacy of children?

Our services are aimed at a general audience. We do not knowingly target, collect, use or share information that could reasonably be used to identify children under the age of 16 without prior parental consent or consistent with applicable law. By using our service you confirm that you either are of legal age or have an applicable consent.

We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.

22. Security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect your IP address and other personal information within our organization and we regularly monitor our system for vulnerabilities. However, since the Internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of information about you. Please note that electronic communication, particularly email, is not necessarily secure against interception. For these reasons, we request that you refrain from sending to us any personal data about you or any other individuals through world wide web, unless strictly necessary.

23. How long do we keep the data?

We store your data for no longer than necessary in relation to the purpose under which such data was collected. This is determined on a case by case basis and depends on things such as the nature of the data provided, why it was collected, the legal basis we rely upon to process the data, and our relevant legal or operation retention requirements. For example, if you request to delete your account we still have to retain some data for fraud prevention purposes and financial auditing.

24. Changes to this Policy

If we decide to amend this Policy, we will post the amendments on this website prior to such amendments becoming effective. In addition, we will indicate the effective date when this Policy will be amended. You will then have an opportunity to decide whether you wish to continue using our website under the amended Privacy Policy.

25. Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns regarding the privacy of your personal information or this Policy, please contact us directly at drollfeeds@gmail.com and be sure to include Privacy Policy in the subject line.