Privacy Policy
Last updated: January 3, 2025
Introduction
Welcome to WTFNewsroom' Privacy Policy – where we take your privacy seriously, even though we don't take ourselves too seriously.
Information We Collect
- Your sense of humor (we measure this in dad jokes per minute)
- Your email address (if you subscribe)
- Your reading preferences (we need to know if you're more of a "cats taking over government" or "AI learning dad jokes" kind of person)
How We Use Your Information
We use your information to:
- Deliver personalized satirical content
- Improve our joke algorithms
- Ensure our articles maintain the perfect balance of humor and absurdity
Advertising, Cookies, and Tracking Technologies
We want to keep WTFNewsroom's lights on (and our writers supplied with coffee), so we may display advertisements on our site. Some of these ads may be served by third-party vendors, including Google.
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to WTFNewsroom or other websites. Think of cookies as tiny digital helpers that remember where you've been online, but instead of leaving crumbs, they help show you ads that might actually interest you (or at least, ads for things you once searched for at 3 AM).
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. This is part of what makes the internet go 'round, and sometimes, makes you see ads for that one embarrassing thing you clicked on weeks ago.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
- Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices/ or www.youronlinechoices.eu/ (if you're in Europe). This is like telling the digital helpers, "Thanks, but no thanks, I'll find my own way to irrelevant ads."
If you have not opted out of third-party ad serving, the cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on this site. We will strive to list such vendors here if and when they are used. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.
Our site may also use other cookies for analytics (e.g., to count how many people found a particular joke hilarious vs. mildly amusing) and site functionality. You can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website, and some jokes might not land as well without the full digital experience (we're kidding... mostly).
Data Security
We protect your data with the same dedication that cats protect their cardboard boxes. All data is encrypted and stored securely.
Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Access your personal data
- Correct inaccurate data
- Request deletion of your data
- Object to our processing of your data
- Submit complaints about our dad jokes
Contact Us
For privacy-related questions or to exercise your rights, please contact us at: [email protected]
Legal Compliance
This privacy policy complies with applicable data protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and the International Satire Protection Act (okay, we made that last one up).