Effective Date: March 31, 2025
This Privacy Policy applies to all aspects of our Site as well as to information we may collect offline.
This Site may link to or incorporate websites or content hosted and served by others over which we have no control, such as third party websites, online properties, platforms, social media, or systems, which are each governed by the privacy policy and business practices of the third party.
You understand and agree that GiggleSnorts is not responsible for the security, privacy, or business practices of any third party.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on our Site and, in the case of any material change, update the “Last Updated” date at the top. The revised Privacy Policy will be effective upon the earlier of: (a) your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy (for example, by agreeing when you create an account or login to an existing account, or by using or continuing to use our Site after the revised Terms have been posted); or (b) the “Effective Date” listed at the top of the revised Privacy Policy. If the Effective Date differs from the Last Updated date, we will make a link available to the prior version of this Privacy Policy during the intervening period.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information from you when you use our platform to create personalized GiggleSnorts messages featuring animals from shelters. The types of information we may collect include:
Personal Information: Name, email address, payment information, and other details you provide when making a purchase or creating an account.
User Content: GiggleSnorts, messages, and other content you create or upload to the platform.
Automatically Collected Information: Information about your device, browsing actions, and usage patterns via cookies and similar technologies.
We collect information from you directly, automatically when you visit the Site, and sometimes from third parties. Some of this information may be considered "personal information" under various applicable laws. We consider information that identifies you as a specific, identifiedindividual to be personal information (such as your name, telephone number, and e-mail address), as well as additional information, including IP addresses and cookie identifiers, where required by applicable law. And, if we combine information that we consider to be non-personal with personal information, we will treat the combined information as personal information under this Privacy Policy. In the limited circumstances in which we may process sensitive personal information as defined by applicable law, we process such information as permitted by and in compliance with applicable law. Note that we may de-identify personal information so that it is non-personal, such as by aggregating it or transforming it into information that does not identify you. We will treat de-identified information as non-personal to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
A. Information You Provide
GiggleSnorts may collect personal information from you when you:
- Create an Account on, Login to, or Interact with the Site. GiggleSnorts may collect your name and email address and other information that you provide, such as a telephone number, when you register or login, update, or add information or content to your account. We may require you to create a username and password if you create an account, or we may enable other methods such as logging in through one of your existing social media accounts such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (collectively, "Social Media Platforms") or your Apple ID. GiggleSnorts also collects certain information relating to any Social Media Platform account or Apple ID that you use to login to or link to your GiggleSnorts account (such as your username, bio, and number of followers), although linking any such account to your GiggleSnorts account or logging into GiggleSnorts via such account is entirely up to you. We may store payment information (such as credit or debit card details) for future purchases on your account. If you create an account using a GiggleSnorts-provided referral link or code through one of our referral programs, or by clicking on an ad that takes you to our Site, we may also receive certain information about you based on your use of or interaction with the link, code, or ad.
- Participate in Sweepstakes, Contests, or Other Promotional Activities. GiggleSnorts collects the information that you provide when you enter a sweepstakes, contest, or promotional activities (each, a "Promotion") through our Site. Each Promotion has its own terms and conditions or official rules, which you should review as they may contain other requirements (such as, allowing use of your name or likeness in advertising unless prohibited by applicable law).
- Contact Us. GiggleSnorts collects the information that you provide in connection with you contacting us, for example when you email our customer service team or fill out a form for us to contact you.
- Provide Content to the Site. We collect information when you submit content to us, such as a GiggleSnorts, review, photo, email, text, social media post, or other communication (each, a "Submission") and, if you are a Video User, when you submit "Video Content". Each Submission, whether submitted to our Site directly or through a social media platform, and all Talent Content, is subject to the applicable Terms of Service. As a result, others may access it, use it, and share it in accordance with the Terms of Service.
- Sync Contacts or Connect with Friends. If you choose to upload, sync, or import the contact information of your contacts from your device (such as your address book), orvi. otherwise share such contact information with us, we will collect and store that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You represent that you have obtained the consent of your contacts to share this information with us. We may use this information to identify which of your contacts are users of the Site, to provide services to you, to help you find and connect with people you know, help others find and connect with you, and to customize the content we present to you and to other Site users.
- Use Social Media with the Site. We collect information when you interact with our Site through any social media platform. For example, we may enable you to use certain of your existing social media platform accounts to create an account on our Site or "like" or "share" content from our Site. Doing so may allow us to collect (or the third party to share) information about you. Some of your information, such as your username, may be publicly displayed. We may also receive information about you if other users of a social media platform give us access to their profiles and you are one of their connections or "friends". In addition, we and the social media platform may have access to information about you and your use of our Site and the social media platform. The information we collect is subject to this Privacy Policy. The information that any third party collects is subject to its privacy practices (including whether it shares information with us, the types of information shared, and your choices about what may be visible to others).
- Use the Site as a User. When you use our Site as a User, we collect, in addition to information provided when you create your account, your name, email address, telephone number, and the social media usernames you provide, GiggleSnorts and other offerings prepared by you, and other information relating to our relationship with you, such as payment or identity information. GiggleSnorts’s payments to you are made through the third party payment provider selected by GiggleSnorts. You should review the payment provider’s privacy policy before providing your personal information, as it is responsible for personal information in its own right, and its privacy practices may vary from ours.
- Become a GiggleSnorts Partner. When you become a "GiggleSnorts Partner" including through our Site, in addition to information you provide if you create an account on the Site, we collect your name, email address, telephone number, and other information relating to our relationship with you, including payment or identity information. GiggleSnorts’s payments to you are made through the third party payment provider selected by GiggleSnorts. You should review the payment provider’s privacy policy before providing your personal information, as it is responsible for personal information in its own right, and its privacy practices may vary from ours.
B. Information from Third Parties
We may also obtain information, such as contact details (for example, name and email address), country, IP address, purchase histories, marketing preferences, cookie information, hardware and software information and other technical information about you from third parties, such as other users of the Site who upload information or sync their contacts, analytics companies, social media platforms, and other third party business partners, such as a GiggleSnorts Partner. For example, if you discuss becoming a Partner Shelter through a GiggleSnorts, we may collect your name, email address, telephone number, and the social media usernames you provide relating to that relationship from the GiggleSnorts Partner.
We and our third party business partners may collect information about your visits to and activity on our Site and other websites and services. We may combine that information with other personal information we have collected from or about you. We may share certain of this information with third party business partners for similar purposes as described below.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
Providing, maintaining, and improving our platform.
A. Cookies and Tracking
When you visit our Site or otherwise interact with us or our content, we and third-party advertising and analytics companies and other third party business partners may use a variety of tracking and other technologies that automatically or passively collect certain information ("Usage Information").
We and third parties may use these technologies for a number of reasons, including to save your preferences for future visits, to our Site, keep you logged in between visits, to serve targeted advertising to you, and to provide you with improved services. If you sign up for our text messaging program, cookies may also be used to personalize your experience (e.g. send you personalized text messages such as shopping cart reminders). The information collected by us and the third parties we work with may include (but is not limited to):
- date and time of your visit to our Site;
- areas you visit within our Site;
- links that you click on within our Site, and content that you enter into fillable fields or forms on our Site (both while filling out the fields or forms and if/when you submit such information);
- websites or advertisements you visit, view, or click before or after visiting our Site;
- terms you entered into a search engine that lead you to our Site;
- IP address, mobile device identifier, or other unique identifier and usage information for the device used to access our Site;
- precise location data from your device, if you have opted-in to the collection of that information (you may be able to disable the collection of precise location data through the settings on the device used to access our Site, but your approximate location may remain available through its IP address or other information that we collect);
- device and connection information, such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; and
- whether an email message we sent was opened and whether a link in the email message was clicked.
B. Methods We Use to Collect
The methods that may be used to collect Usage Information include the following:
- Cookies and Local Storage. A cookie is a data file placed on a device when it is used to visit the Site or otherwise access our content. Certain web browsers and certain browser add-ons, such as Adobe Flash, may provide additional local data storage mechanisms that are used in a manner similar to cookies, and some of the content included on our Site may make use of this local storage. Cookies, Flash cookies, and other local storage devices may be used for a variety of purposes (for example, to identify your device when you revisit our Site, to recall your authentication information, to store information related to your navigation throughout our Site, or to enable certain features on our Site). Some cookies are essential to the functioning of the Site, and, without them, some features and services you have requested cannot be provided. If you disable cookies, adjust privacy settings on your device, restrict local storage, or otherwise limit these technologies, you may not be able to use some of our Site features.
- Web Beacons. Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as "pixels", "1x1 GIFs" or "clear GIFs") may be included in our web pages and email messages. Web beacons may not be visible to you. Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for a number of purposes, including to count visitors to the Site, to monitor how users navigate the Site, to count how many email messages we sent were opened, and to count whether a link in an email message we sent was clicked.
- Embedded Scripts. An embedded script is a programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Site, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your device from our server or a third-party service provider, is active only while you are connected to the Site, and is deactivated or deleted after you are no longer connected.
- Other Technologies. We may also use other technologies that collect similar information for security and fraud detection purposes.
3. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. However, we may share your information with:
Service Providers: Third-party vendors that help us operate our platform, such as payment processors and hosting services..
Animal Shelters: Limited information may be shared with the shelters featured in your GiggleSnorts to facilitate donations and transparency.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required by law or to protect the rights, property, or safety of GiggleSnorts or others.
We may combine information that we have received from you with information from other sources to operate, tailor content, personalize, adjust, and improve our Site. For example, we may use your information:
- To fulfill your request for a GiggleSnorts Video or other offering, accept your payment, ship and deliver your orders, deliver messages, and process information you provide through our Site;
- To maintain your account, to assist with payment transactions, to facilitate use of the Site, and to communicate with you about your account, our relationship with you, and your use of the Site, such as by verifying your information, requesting that you respond to a survey, or checking on the status of an order or request. We may send you text messages if you have provided us with your mobile telephone number for that purpose;
- To establish and manage a relationship with you as a User or a GiggleSnorts Partner;
- To send you marketing and transactional emails, text messages, and other communications where permitted by law (consent to receive automated marketing text messages is not a condition of any purchase);
- To conduct and administer a Promotion if you have chosen to participate. We will not share your information with a third party for the third party’s marketing or promotional purposes unless you agree when you choose to participate in the Promotion;
- To provide you and others with customer service, to assist in resolving issues, and to evaluate and improve our customer service and processes;
- To use any Submission or Talent Content as set forth in the applicable Terms of Service, which may include the public display of some information, such as your name, username, or where you reside;
- To contact you about administrative matters, such as the applicable Terms of Service, or other issues;
- To better understand your personal preferences and to enable us to provide you with improved and personalized communications and services;
- To compile aggregate data about Site traffic and interactions;
- To tailor the content and advertising we display to you or others, on our Site or elsewhere, and to analyze trends and statistics;
- To create advertising models through lookalike modelling or other research methodologies;
- For internal business purposes, such as improving our Site, products, and services and to comply with legal requirements and our business practices, such as our recordkeeping, backup, and document retention policies;
- For other reasons that (a) we disclose when asking you to provide your information, (b) with your consent, or (c) as described in this Privacy Policy.
