Privacy Policy

1. Introduction & Scope

This Privacy Policy explains how FunnyOrbit ("FunnyOrbit", "we", "us", or "our"), operating the digital publication accessible at FunnyOrbit.fun, collects, processes, protects, and discloses information when you visit or interact with our website.

We are committed to transparency in our data practices. We encourage you to read this policy carefully to understand how your information is handled and what choices you have regarding your privacy.

2. Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with FunnyOrbit, we may collect and process the following categories of information:

A. Information Voluntarily Provided by You

• Contact Inquiries: When you send a message through our Contact Form, we collect your email address, inquiry subject, message content, and your name if provided.
• Reader Comments: When you submit a comment on an article, we collect the author name you specify (or default to "Guest") and the text of your comment.
• Article Reports: When you flag a story for editorial review, we collect the selected reason and any descriptive notes you provide.

B. Automatically Collected Technical & Log Data

When you browse FunnyOrbit, our infrastructure and edge delivery network (Cloudflare) automatically process standard server log entries necessary to deliver web pages securely, including:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address;
• Browser type, version, and operating system;
• Referring URL and requested page paths;
• Date and time of requests;
• HTTP response status and volume of data transferred.

3. How We Use Your Information

We process collected information strictly for legitimate operational purposes:

• Communications: To respond directly to your questions, feedback, copyright notifications, or correction requests.
• Publishing Reader Feedback: To display approved reader discussion comments on applicable articles.
• Security & Maintenance: To detect, investigate, and prevent malicious attacks, spam submissions, or abusive traffic patterns.
• Performance Optimization: To monitor server response times, diagnose technical bugs, and ensure seamless delivery across desktop and mobile devices.
• Advertising Delivery: To deliver, manage, and measure non-intrusive display advertisements when advertising modules are enabled.

4. Cookies & Local Storage Technologies

A cookie is a small data file stored on your device by your browser. We and our third-party service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and browser local storage for specific functional and measurement purposes:

• Essential / Functional Storage: We use local storage tokens (such as funblog_cookie_consent) to record whether you have accepted or declined non-essential cookies via our consent banner, ensuring you are not repeatedly prompted.
• Session Cookies: Temporary cookies utilized solely to authenticate authenticated administrative staff accessing the backend editorial CMS.
• Third-Party Advertising Cookies: Third-party advertising partners, notably Google, may use cookies or similar tracking identifiers to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other sites across the internet.

You can configure your browser settings to reject all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. Note that disabling essential cookies may impact certain website features.

5. Google Advertising Technologies & Third-Party Vendors

FunnyOrbit utilizes Google advertising services (such as Google AdSense) to display advertisements. We want you to be fully informed about how Google uses data:

• Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on FunnyOrbit.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ad Settings.
• Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance WebChoices or the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out.

For comprehensive details on how Google handles information from sites utilizing its partner services, please review official Google documentation:
• Google Advertising Technologies
• Google Privacy Policy
• Google AdSense Program Policies

6. Analytics Technologies

Our codebase includes integration capability for Google Analytics 4 (GA4). When GA4 is enabled via site configuration, it collects aggregated, pseudonymous measurement metrics regarding pages visited, session duration, and general geographic region. We do not transmit personally identifiable information (such as your real name or email) to analytics services.

7. Data Retention

We retain information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy:

• Contact Messages: Retained for as long as required to resolve your inquiry and maintain an audit trail of editorial communications.
• Reader Comments: Displayed on articles until the article is archived or the comment is removed upon moderation review.
• Server Logs: Managed in accordance with Cloudflare standard edge logging retention periods for security threat mitigation.

8. Data Security Measures

We employ commercially reasonable administrative and technical safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure. All web traffic to FunnyOrbit is encrypted in transit using standard Transport Layer Security (TLS / HTTPS). However, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.

9. Links to Third-Party Websites

Our articles frequently contain hyperlinks to external websites, including news organizations, official YouTube channels, sports leagues, and music distributors. FunnyOrbit has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites.

10. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

FunnyOrbit is an entertainment blog directed to general audiences aged 13 and older. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal data to us, please contact us immediately via our Contact Page and we will promptly delete the data from our records.

11. Your Privacy Rights (US Residents)

Depending on your state of residence (including California under the CCPA/CPRA, Virginia under the VCDPA, and Colorado under the CPA), you may hold statutory rights regarding your personal information, including:

• The right to know what personal information we collect and process;
• The right to request deletion of personal information we maintain about you;
• The right to correct inaccurate personal data;
• The right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data (note: FunnyOrbit does not sell your personal information for monetary value).

To exercise any applicable statutory privacy rights, please submit a verifiable request via our Contact Page specifying "Privacy Rights Request" in the subject line.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect operational, legal, or regulatory changes. Any revisions will be published directly on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date at the top of the policy. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

13. Privacy Inquiries & Contact

If you have questions or concerns regarding our privacy practices or wish to submit a data request, please reach out via our contact intake: