Privacy Policy
1. Who we are
Dirty Giffy ("Dirty Giffy", "we", "us") operates the Dirty Giffy website, API, MCP server, embeds and feeds (the "Service"). This policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and sell personal information. The Service is only for adults 18 and over.
2. Information we collect
2.1 You give us (first-party data)
- Account details: email address, username, password (stored only as a one-way hash), age confirmation, consent choices.
- Uploads: the files you upload, titles, tags, mood and spice choices, source links, your rights confirmations and the date and time you agreed to the Upload Agreement.
- Communications: reports, copyright notices, privacy requests and anything else you send us.
2.2 Collected automatically (first-party data)
- Device and connection: IP address, approximate location derived from it, browser and device type, operating system, language, referring pages.
- Identifiers: cookies, local storage, session IDs, API key IDs and similar technologies.
- Activity: pages and GIFs you view, searches, copies, shares, downloads, favorites, embeds, API and MCP requests, and when and how often you do these things.
- Inferences: interests and preferences we derive from the above.
2.3 From third parties (third-party data)
- Advertising networks, marketing partners and data brokers, which may provide demographic, interest, device and contact information.
- Analytics providers, social networks and platforms you connect or share to, and partners who license data to us.
- Publicly available sources.
We may combine first-party and third-party data, and link data across devices and browsers.
3. How we use information
- Run, secure and improve the Service; create and manage accounts; process and moderate uploads.
- Safety and legal: prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our Terms, respond to legal requests, and report illegal content.
- Personalize search results, trending and recommendations.
- Analytics, research and product development, including developing and training machine-learning models.
- Marketing and advertising, including targeted advertising and measuring ads, on and off the Service.
- Build profiles and inferences, and sell, license and share data with third parties as described below.
- Any other purpose we describe when we collect the information, or with your consent.
4. Who we disclose and sell information to
- Service providers who host, store, secure and support the Service for us.
- Advertising, marketing and analytics partners, including for cross-context behavioral (targeted) advertising.
- Data brokers, data licensees and other buyers of data, for money or other value.
- Affiliates, and buyers or successors in a merger, acquisition, financing or sale of assets.
- Authorities and others when we believe the law requires it, or to protect rights, safety and property.
- The public: approved uploads and usernames are public.
Sale and sharing. In the past 12 months we may have sold or shared, as those terms are defined in U.S. state privacy laws, these categories: identifiers (such as cookie IDs, device IDs, IP address and hashed email), internet and other electronic network activity, approximate geolocation, and inferences. We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of anyone under 18.
5. Viewing history and Activity Sharing
Because Dirty Giffy is adult humor, information about the specific GIFs and clips you view, search for or save may be sensitive, and some laws give it special protection. We only sell or share your viewing, search and favorites history in a way that identifies you if you turn on Activity Sharing, which is off unless you choose it at sign-up or on Your Privacy Choices. You can turn it off at any time. We may still use this history internally, and sell or share it after it has been aggregated or de-identified so it does not identify you.
6. Your choices
- Opt out of sale and sharing: use Your Privacy Choices (Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information). We also treat a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal from your browser as an opt-out for that browser.
- Activity Sharing: turn it on or off at Your Privacy Choices.
- Cookies: you can block or delete cookies in your browser. Some features, such as logging in, need them.
- Marketing messages: use the unsubscribe link in any marketing email.
- Delete your account: submit a request. Deleting your account does not remove rights we hold in content you uploaded (see Terms Section 6).
7. Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live (for example California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana and other U.S. states, or the EU and UK), you may have the right to: know and access the personal information we hold about you; get a portable copy; correct it; delete it; opt out of its sale, sharing, targeted advertising and certain profiling; limit the use of sensitive personal information; and appeal our decision on a request. Submit a request through our request form. We will verify your identity by matching information you give us to our records, and may ask for more. You may use an authorized agent, who must show proof of authorization. We will not discriminate against you for using your rights. If we deny your request, you may appeal by replying to our decision; if your appeal is denied you may contact your state attorney general.
EU and UK users. We process personal information based on our contract with you, our legitimate interests (running, securing and improving the Service), legal obligations, and your consent (for selling or sharing data and for targeted advertising where consent is required). You may withdraw consent at any time and complain to your local data protection authority. Your information is processed in the United States.
8. Retention
We keep personal information for as long as we need it for the purposes above, including legal, safety and business purposes, then delete or de-identify it. Content you uploaded, and records of your agreement to the Upload Agreement, may be kept indefinitely.
9. Security
We use reasonable safeguards such as password hashing, encrypted connections and access controls. No system is perfectly secure.
10. Children
The Service is not for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from minors. If we learn we have, we delete it.
11. Changes and contact
We may update this policy by posting a new version with a new effective date. Contact us through our request form.