Privacy policy

This privacy policy applies to the website located at defuddle.com.

We care about the privacy of our users and have created this policy to explain how and why we collect and use information on Defuddle.

The information we collect

When you sign up for Defuddle we require a username, a password and an email address. These are required to effectively provide the service and to ensure that it is not abused. You may optionally choose to provide additional information after registration through your personal account page. This additional information may include your real name, your location and your year of birth. We use this information to improve the quality of the Defuddle service, and to allow the service to adapt to suit you. Some of this information may be displayed to other users of the site (in particular, your first and last name). If you do not want to share this information you may always choose to remove it. We will never redistribute your personal information in any other way, and will never sell it to a third party.

We also collect anonymous information about users of the site, including IP addresses, referral URLs and search terms. We use this information to improve the quality of the service and to prevent abuse where possible.

Defuddle is founded on the concept of expressing opinions. While we link the responses given to the questions posted on Defuddle to the users or IP addresses (in the case of anonymous responses), we do not use your responses to build personal profiles or to tailor advertising to particular users. Responses may be viewed publicly on the site, but to protect your privacy you have the option of preventing other people from seeing your responses through your personal account page. Apart from where it is publicly accessible through the Defuddle site, we do not make this information available to any third party.

Cookies

We use "cookies" to track user sessions. Cookies are small pieces of data stored with your web browser to allow websites to remember you when you return. We use a persistent cookie to remember you after you close your browser in order to sign you in automatically when you return and to remember which answers you selected (when you are signed in and when you are not). No personally identifying information is stored in a cookie. If you are concerned about tracking through cookies on this website or any other you may disable them through your web browser, but parts of Defuddle will not function as expected after doing so.

Email

We require an email address to be provided in order to register for Defuddle. To ensure that the service is not used as a means of abuse we require that all email addresses are validated once when registered. The full functionality of the site may not be available to a registered user until an email address is validated.

We do not like spam and will never send you email except where it is requested by you through the Defuddle website or where it is required to provide you with the Defuddle service. You may choose to de-register your email address with Defuddle by emailing us at contact@defuddle.com.

Abuse

We would like Defuddle to be accessible to users from a wide audience, and will not tolerate use that is abusive, insulting, racist, sexist or discriminatory in any other way. Similarly, we will not accept use that promotes violence, hatred, sexual vilification or that which is sexually explicit. Any such behaviour may make a user liable to being blocked temporarily or permanently, and legal action taken if required, at our sole discretion. We may also filter foul language as we see appropriate.

As much of the content posted to Defuddle is provided by users, we are unable to verify everything that appears. While we make all reasonable attempts to enforce this policy ourselves, we encourage and are responsive to user feedback and reports of abuse. If you believe that someone is using the Defuddle service in a way that is objectionable, please click the relevant 'report' link, or email us at abuse@defuddle.com. We will investigate all reports as quickly as we can.

Policy changes

We will inform of all changes to this privacy policy through the Defuddle blog located at blog.defuddle.com. If you have any concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us at contact@defuddle.com.