The Giant Napkin does not collect personal information without your knowledge. We do not sell, rent, or give your personal information to unrelated third parties without your prior permission. The following policy explains what information we collect about you and how we use that information.

E-mail

Any and all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of correspondence with the readers of The Giant Napkin will not be used or collected for the purposes of reselling to a third party and will not be added to a bulk e-mailing list.

The Giant Napkin provides users the opportunity to opt-in and opt-out of receiving e-mail communications from us. This is made available during sign-up for our e-mail list and in e-mail messages delivered from The Giant Napkin. For the list managed by The Giant Napkin, users may use the link in the footer of e-mail messages to unsubscribe.

Sharing of Information

The Giant Napkin  never shares, sells, or rents any personal information without your permission. Information submitted to us is only made available to The Giant Napkin staff for purposes of contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information.

Traffic Data

Visitors to this website who have javascript enabled are tracked using Google Analytics. Google Analytics collects the following types of information from users:

• Type of user agent (web browser) used, software manufacture and version number.

• Type of operating system

• Screen colors (color processing ability of the users screen)

• Javascript support

• Flash version

• Screen resolution

• Network location and IP address

  • Can include country, city, state, region, county, or any other geographic data.

  • Hostname

  • Bandwidth (internet connection speed)

• Time of visit

• Pages visited

• Time spent on each page of the website

• Referring site statistics

  • The website (URI) the user came through in order to arrive at this website (example: clicking on a hyperlink from Yahoo.com that took the user to this website)

  • Search engine query used (example: typing in a phrase into a search engine like Google, and clicking on a link from that search engine)

• This data is primarily used to optimize our website for our visitors, however we will use this data for marketing purposes. An example of how this data could be used for marketing purposes would be to tell potential advertisers how many visitors we get to the website, where our visitors come from, and how they arrive at our website.

• This data DOES NOT include any personalized identification information such as:

  • Names

  • Phone Numbers

  • Email Addresses

  • Mailing Addresses

  • Social Security Numbers

  • Bank Account Numbers

  • Credit Card Information

Copyright

The Giant Napkin is a satirical newspaper published by The Giant Napkin Co. The Giant Napkin uses made-up names in all of its written material, except in cases in which public figures are being satirized. Any other use of real names is coincidental and unintentional.

The content of this website is © Copyright 2008 by The Giant Napkin, and may not be reprinted or retransmitted in whole or in part without the expressed written consent of the publisher.