Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2025/03/01
1) Ezoic Services
This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. ("Ezoic") to help manage ads, optimize speed, and occasionally detect if you blinked while reading a platypus fact. Ezoic may use various wizardry—like cookies, pixels, and beacons—to deliver content and personalized ads based on your digital behavior.
A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by a web server, usually not chocolate-flavored. First-party cookies come from us; third-party cookies come from... well, parties you didn’t invite. Ezoic and its partners may plant these cookies to monitor how often you reread the article about shrimp that punch with the force of a bullet. Disabling cookies might break a few things; declining them won’t remove ads, just makes them more generic (like socks as a birthday gift). Learn more about cookies here.
Information possibly stored in cookies for personalized ads may include:
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IP address
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Operating system type and version (so we know you’re still on Windows XP)
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Device type (phone, tablet, toaster?)
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Language preferences (English, Emoji, or Klingon)
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Browser type
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Email (hashed, encrypted, and definitely not handwritten)
Ezoic and friends may combine this with other data from your intergalactic browsing sessions to create “audience segments” (translation: people who like facts about goats and gravity). Learn more or manage preferences here.
You can read Ezoic’s privacy policy here, and see their full list of ad partners here.
2. Information We Collect
2.1. Personal Data:
If you contact us, subscribe to a newsletter, or email us your favorite bat fact, we may collect your name, email, and whatever odd detail you feel compelled to share (e.g. “I saw a raccoon whispering to a satellite dish”).
2.2. Log Data:
When you visit, we automatically log standard details: your IP address, browser type, referral source, time on site, and pages visited. This helps us see which facts blow minds and which ones cause rapid scrolling.
2.3. Cookies & Tracking:
We use cookies to keep things smooth, remember your preferences, and sometimes just because everyone else is doing it. You can manage these in your browser or via our totally polite consent tool.
2.4. Advertising Data:
Third-party ads (via Ezoic or Google AdSense) may show you stuff you didn’t know you wanted—based on what you’ve browsed, clicked, or vaguely thought about once in 2019.
3. How We Use Your Information
3.1. To provide delightfully strange facts about the world, science, history, and animals that defy logic or wear pants.
3.2. To improve the site’s performance, loading speed, and general weirdness quotient.
3.3. To deliver ads that might actually interest you (instead of ads about printer ink).
3.4. To send optional updates, bonus facts, or newsletter chaos—but only if you asked for it.
3.5. We never sell your data. Not to aliens, not to marketers. Unless your hamster starts a class action lawsuit—then we’ll reconsider.
4. Data Security
We use standard internet safeguards like encryption, firewalls, and shouting “NOT TODAY, HACKERS!” into the void. Still, no online system is invincible—so avoid sending us your social security number or your crush’s diary entries.
5. Third-Party Services & Ad Networks
5.1. We use tools like Ezoic and Google Analytics to understand what makes people stick around and what makes them run screaming (like the article about edible rocks).
5.2. Third-party services like AdSense may use cookies to serve ads based on your browser activity—like that time you searched “how to hypnotize a cat.”
5.3. You can manage ad preferences in your browser or via Google Ad Settings.
6. Your Rights
6.1. You have the right to access, edit, or delete your data under privacy laws like GDPR or CCPA (or by yelling “I demand privacy!” at your monitor, though that won’t do much).
6.2. You can unsubscribe from any email newsletter by clicking the link at the bottom or by sending us a strongly worded message in Morse code.
6.3. Cookie and ad preferences can be changed via browser settings or through our cookie manager, which doesn’t bite.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy when needed—especially if new tech, new laws, or new species of internet trolls emerge. When we do, the “Last updated” date at the top will change. Feel free to check back often if you're into that kind of thing.
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