Privacy Policy

My name is Soren Lauritzen and I'm the owner of this website Quotescoop.com (a.k.a. Inspirational-Quotes-Short-Funny-Stuff.com).

Privacy is important to me. It probably is to you, too. This privacy policy explains how this website deals with data and privacy.

This privacy policy outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use the website Quotescoop.com, as well as some of the steps taken to safeguard information. Hopefully this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with the website.

To comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) I have taken steps to ensure that any information you give me while being on my site is secure.

Quotescoop.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all its operations. Likewise, I am dedicated to protecting my customers' and online visitors' privacy on my website.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Quotescoop.com uses cookies to help you personalize your online experience, to help identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page.

For example, if you personalize the site's pages, or register with any of the site's services, a cookie enables Quotescoop.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site.

Advertising Cookies

Google Adsense

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. You can find a list of these companies here. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page.

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.

And here is Google's own privacy policy where they describe what they do to protect your information and give you control over it.

Affiliate Products and Services

We receive an affiliate commission for some of the products/services sold on Quotescoop.com.

The affiliate services platform we currently use is ShareASale.

By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the link below:

ShareASale privacy policy

Payment Processors

If you make a donation via this site, you will make the payment through Paypal.

You can review PayPal's privacy policy here:

PayPal privacy policy

The payment processing is not done on Quotescoop.com but by the payment processor. We do not have access to your payment details such as credit card number.

Social Media

On Quotescoop.com you will find links to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube and G+. Some of these links let let you share content with your friends and followers. When you click on these links, your browser connects directly with that site and sends information such as your IP address, the date and time of your visit and information about how you use the social site.

Should you wish to prevent those platforms from collecting data, please view their individual policies by using the following links:

RSS

Quotescoop.com offers RSS as a way for you to get notifications on content updates. We use Feedly and My Yahoo to let you subscribe to these updates via your email address. Below are links to the privacy policies of each platform.

Site Search

The site search box on this site is powered by Freefind. When you use this feature you will leave Quotescoop.com and be directed to FreeFind's servers, where their conditions and policies apply. According to Freefind.com no personally identifiable information is collected from users using the search box. FreeFind does, however, run Google ads, in which case Google's privacy policy will apply. You may review FreeFind's policy here:

FreeFind policy

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse Quotescoop.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Identifiable Information

Quotescoop.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

To run and operate our site.
To display content on the site correctly.
To improve customer service.
To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
To personalize your user experience.
To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
To improve our site.
To improve our products and services.
To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

Quotescoop.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Quotescoop.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell Quotescoop.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to review that information, click on this link.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.

Updates and Effective Date

Quotescoop.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to Quotescoop.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Should you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy, please go to my contact page.

Last updated: June 1, 2018.