We love riddles! We live and breathe riddles morning, noon and night. Riddles keep our minds sharp as tacks. That’s why we created this website – to share our passion for riddles with riddle lovers around the world.
When it comes to your privacy, we take it very seriously. We want you to feel completely comfortable sharing your love of riddles with us. That’s why we have created this comprehensive privacy policy to explain exactly how we collect, use, and protect your personal information.
So grab a cup of tea, get comfy in your favorite chair, and read through our privacy policy from start to finish. We promise there are no riddles here – just clear, straightforward information about how we respect your privacy.
Information We Collect
We collect information from you in two ways: directly from your input and automatically through website use.
Information You Provide Directly:
- Contact information (such as name, email address, mailing address, phone number) when you register for an account, contact us with questions, request information, sign up for our newsletter, submit a riddle, enter a contest, order products, etc.
- Public profile information (such as profile photo, birthdate, biography) if you choose to create a public profile on our website
- Payment information (such as credit/debit card number, billing address) when you make a purchase on our website
- Opinions, suggestions and other communications you send us, such as feedback on riddles, suggestions for new riddle topics, comments on blog posts, messages to our support team, etc.
Information We Collect Automatically:
- Log data: Information our servers automatically collect about your use of our website, such as your IP address, access times, browser type and language, referral URLs, pages viewed, links clicked, user interactions, etc.
- Cookies: We use cookies and other tracking technologies to track website usage, preferences and history. These also allow us to serve relevant ads to website visitors.
- Device data: Information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our website, such as device type, operating system, settings, unique device identifiers and crash data.
- Location data: With your consent, we may collect approximate location data from your device. This allows us to customize your experience based on your geographical area.
- Site activity data: We use web analytics tools such as Google Analytics to collect information about visitor traffic and behavior on our website. This includes pages visited, how long visitors spend on each page, browsing habits, click patterns and other actions visitors take on the site.
How We Use Your Information
We only use your personal information for the purposes disclosed at the time of collection, and other compatible purposes. Here are the main ways we use your personal information:
- To provide our riddle website’s services, content and functionality to you. This includes registering and managing your account, allowing you to submit riddles, providing riddle answers, facilitating purchases, providing customer service, etc.
- To send you important account-related information, such as messages about purchases you’ve made, password reset emails, changes to account terms or policies, etc.
- To send you marketing and promotional communications that we think may interest you, including our newsletter, special offers, contests, affiliate programs, etc. You can opt out of these any time.
- To customize your website experience by serving relevant ads, content and product recommendations tailored to your interests and geography.
- To better understand how visitors use our website and monitor site performance, so we can improve our website design and functionality.
- To conduct analytics and perform statistical research regarding how the website is used so we can improve our services.
- To detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse and security risks. This helps us monitor for and prevent any harmful activity on our website.
- To investigate disputes, troubleshoot issues, enforce our policies, and comply with legal requirements as required.
- For any other purpose disclosed to you at the time we collect your information.
Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal information to third parties. However, we may share your data with third parties in the following circumstances:
Service Providers – To assist us in providing our services, we share your data with third party companies we hire to perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, order fulfillment, email delivery, marketing, product development, website hosting, analytics and more. These companies are only provided the minimum amount of data needed to fulfill their specific services.
Business Transfers – If we are involved in a reorganization, merger, acquisition or sale of some or all of our assets, we may need to transfer your information to the acquiring organization so they can continue providing services to you. We will notify you of such a business transfer and ensure your data is handled in accordance with this policy.
Law Enforcement – We cooperate with government and law enforcement requests, as well as private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose your information where we reasonably believe it’s necessary to comply with a legal obligation, to protect our rights, property or safety, or that of the public or other users.
With Your Consent – In any other situation not covered by this policy, we will ask for your explicit consent before sharing your personal information.
Legal Basis for Processing Data
Depending on the purpose for processing your data, our legal basis for processing it may be any of the following:
- Your consent – You have given clear consent for us to process your data for a specific purpose. You can revoke your consent any time.
- Contract – Processing your data is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you as a user of our website.
- Legal Compliance – We may be required to process your data to comply with certain legal obligations.
- Legitimate Interest – Processing your data is in our legitimate interests and is not overridden by your rights. We rely on this basis only after carefully evaluating our interests to ensure they do not override your own interests and rights. Examples include processing for marketing, analytics, security and fraud prevention.
Retention of Your Information
We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. After this time, we will delete or anonymize your data in accordance with our data retention policies.
The retention period can vary significantly based on the type of data and purpose for collection. In some cases we anonymize data for statistical purposes, in which case we may use it indefinitely. We continuously evaluate our retention periods to ensure they comply with all laws, regulations and best practices.
Data Protection and Security
We take reasonable administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect your data from unauthorized access, disclosure and misuse. This includes measures such as:
- SSL encryption of data in transit
- Encryption of sensitive data at rest
- Limiting access to your personal data to authorized employees
- Maintaining physical, electronic and procedural safeguards
While we strive to always protect your personal information, no data storage system or transmission can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have any concerns about the security of your data, please contact us.
Your Privacy Choices and Rights
We want to empower you to make choices about your privacy. Here are options we provide:
- You can opt out of receiving non-essential communications such as marketing emails, newsletters, etc. You will still receive essential account-related communications.
- You can access, correct, update or delete your account information any time by logging into your account. If you wish to delete your account entirely, please contact us.
- You can modify cookie preferences through your browser settings or our Cookie Consent Tool. Blocking our cookies may affect your use of the website.
- You can modify your choices regarding our use of your data for analytics and personalization using our Preference Center.
Under the GDPR and other laws, you may have certain rights with regards to your personal data, such as:
- Right of access – You have the right to request a copy of your data that we hold about you.
- Right of rectification – You have the right to correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data about you that we hold.
- Right to erasure – Under certain conditions, you have the right to request that we delete your personal data.
- Right to restrict processing – Under certain conditions, you have the right to restrict our processing of your data.
- Right to object – You have the right to object to our processing of your data based on legitimate interests or direct marketing purposes.
- Right to data portability – You have the right to request we transfer your data to another organization if feasible.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us. We will respond to all requests in a timely manner, and no later than 30 days as required by law.
International Data Transfers
We are headquartered in the United States. When you use our website, your data may be processed and stored globally, including in countries that do not have equivalent privacy and data protection laws. Although legal requirements may differ from country to country, we require all our group companies and service providers to adhere to this policy.
We utilize standard contract clauses, corporate rules and other legal mechanisms to ensure adequate protection for international transfers of personal data collected in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland. Individuals located in the EEA or Switzerland also have the right to request details about these safeguards by contacting us.
Children’s Privacy
Our website is not directed to children under the age of 13. We will not intentionally collect or maintain data about anyone under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete it. If you believe we may have information about someone under 13, please contact us.
California Privacy Rights
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents have certain privacy rights with regards to their personal information, such as:
- Right to Know – Residents can request information about what personal data we collect, use, share or sell about them, including categories, purposes, origins and more.
- Right to Delete – Residents can request deletion of their personal data from our systems.
- Right to Opt-Out – Residents can opt out of sales of their personal data to third parties. We do not sell your data.
To make a request under the CCPA, California residents can contact us specifying “California Privacy Rights Request” in the first line of the description. We will confirm and respond to your request within 30 days.
Cookie Policy
We use cookies and similar technologies on our website for purposes such as analytics, ads personalization and tracking affiliate/referral activity. Our Cookie Policy provides detailed information about cookies and how you can manage your preferences.
Privacy Policy Changes
We reserve the right to modify this policy when necessary to reflect changes in our services, user needs and privacy laws. We will post the updated policy on this page and change the “Last Updated” date at the top. Any material changes will also be communicated through email or our website. We encourage you to check back regularly for updates.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your rights as a user, please email us at [email protected] or send a letter to:
So there you have it folks, our super serious privacy policy for riddle lovers.
Now that the boring legal stuff is out of the way, let’s get back to the fun – sharing and solving riddles!
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? A penny! Okay, we’ll stop with the riddles and let you enjoy our website. As always, thanks for being a part of the AhaRiddles family!