Privacy Policy of laughingsquid.com

This Website collects some Personal Data from its Users.

Personal Data processed for the following purposes and using the following services:

    • Advertising

      • Raptive

      • Comscore

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

      • Prebid, Google Ad Manager and Amazon Advertising

        Personal Data: Tracker; Usage Data

      • 33Across, GumGum, Index Exchange, PubMatic, Rubicon Project, Teads, TripleLift, Raptive and JW Player

        Personal Data: Trackers; Usage Data

    • Analytics

      • Wordpress Stats

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

      • Google Analytics Advertising Reporting Features

        Personal Data: Tracker; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example); various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

      • Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports

        Personal Data: Tracker; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example)

      • Google Analytics 4

        Personal Data: Usage Data

      • ComScore Analytics

        Personal Data: Trackers; Usage Data

    • Building and running this Website

      • WordPress (self-hosted)

        Personal Data: Data communicated while using the service

    • Commercial affiliation

      • Amazon Affiliation

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

      • Skimlinks

        Personal Data: Trackers; Usage Data

    • Contacting the User

      • Mailing list or newsletter and Contact form

        Personal Data: email address

    • Content performance and features testing (A/B testing)

      • Google Optimize 360 and Google Optimize

        Personal Data: Tracker; Usage Data

    • Displaying content from external platforms

      • YouTube video widget, Video Vimeo, Instagram widget and Getty Images widget

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

      • SoundCloud widget

        Personal Data: Usage Data

    • Infrastructure monitoring

      • New Relic

        Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

    • Interaction with external social networks and platforms

      • Facebook Like button and social widgets

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

    • Managing contacts and sending messages

      • Beehiiv

        Personal Data: email address

    • Platform services and hosting

      • WordPress.com

        Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

    • Registration and authentication provided directly by this Website

      • Direct registration

        Personal Data: email address

    • RSS feed management

      • Feedburner

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

    • Tag Management

      • Google Tag Manager

        Personal Data: Usage Data

      • Google Publisher Tag

        Personal Data: Trackers

    • Traffic optimization and distribution

      • Cloudflare

        Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

Information on opting out of interest-based advertising

In addition to any opt-out feature provided by any of the services listed in this document, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section of the Cookie Policy.

Further information about the processing of Personal Data

    • MailerLite Email List

      We use MailerLite to manage our email marketing subscriber list and to send emails to our subscribers. MailerLite is a third-party provider, which may process your data using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter.

      MailerLite’s privacy policy is available at https://www.mailerlite.com/privacy-policy.

      You can unsubscribe from our newsletter by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the end of each newsletter.

    • Jetpack

      Likes
      This feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.

      Data Used: In order to process a post like action, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID (on which the post was liked), post ID (of the post that was liked), user agent, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.

      Activity Tracked: Post likes.

      Notifications
      This feature is only accessible to registered users of the site who are logged in to WordPress.com.

      Data Used: 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. Some visitor-related information or activity may be sent to the site owner via this feature. This may include: email address, WordPress.com username, site URL, email address, comment content, follow actions, etc.

      Activity Tracked: Sending notifications (i.e. when we send a notification to a particular user), opening notifications (i.e. when a user opens a notification that they receive), performing an action from within the notification panel (e.g. liking a comment or marking a comment as spam), and clicking on any link from within the notification panel/interface.

      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.

      Search
      This feature is only available to sites on the Professional plan.

      Data Used: Any of the visitor-chosen search filters and query data in order to process a search request on the WordPress.com servers.

      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.

      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.

      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.

    • Affiliate Marketing Programs

      Laughing Squid participates in affiliate marketing programs. This means we may post customized links, provided by retailers, to track referrals to their websites, and we may earn an advertising fee from any purchases made through these links. This program uses cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commissions on these sales.

Contact information

    • Owner and Data Controller

      Laughing Squid LLC

      Owner contact email: admin@laughingsquid.com