Privacy Policy

1. Overview

RankThisJoke.com (“we,” “us,” or “our") is a free entertainment website that lets visitors read jokes and submit anonymous ratings. We respect your privacy and are committed to being transparent about how we handle information.

2. Information We Collect

We do not collect personal information such as your name, email address, or phone number. The only data we gather is:

• Anonymous joke ratings — When you rate a joke, a numeric score (1–10) is stored in our database along with an internal joke identifier. No user ID, IP address, or browser fingerprint is attached.
• Usage analytics — We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors interact with the site (e.g., page views, time on page, device type). GA4 operates with cookies and may collect approximate location and device data. You can opt out via your browser’s Do Not Track setting or by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

3. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

We use first-party and third-party cookies for analytics and site functionality. Google Analytics 4 sets cookies to distinguish unique users and sessions. You can disable cookies in your browser settings, though this may affect certain features.

4. Amazon Affiliate Links

Some pages contain Amazon Associates affiliate links. Clicking these links may result in a tracking cookie being placed by Amazon to attribute any qualifying purchases to our site. Amazon’s privacy practices are governed by their own Privacy Notice. We do not receive personally identifiable information from Amazon about your purchases.

5. Third-Party Services

We rely on the following third-party services:

• Lovable Cloud / Supabase — hosts our anonymous rating database.
• Google Analytics 4 — provides aggregated traffic insights.
• Amazon Associates — powers affiliate product links.

Each of these services maintains its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review them if you have concerns.

6. No Email or Account Sign-Ups

At this time, RankThisJoke.com does not offer user accounts, newsletters, or email subscriptions. We do not collect email addresses or mailing lists.

7. Children’s Privacy (COPPA)

Our website is intended for general audiences and is not directed at children under 13. Because we do not knowingly collect personal information from children, we do not require parental consent under COPPA. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will promptly delete it.

8. California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Under the CCPA, California residents have the right to know, delete, and opt-out of the sale of their personal information. We do not sell personal information. Because our analytics data is aggregated and de-identified, we do not maintain individual consumer profiles subject to CCPA requests.

9. GDPR (European Visitors)

If you are in the European Economic Area, you have rights under GDPR including the right to access, rectify, erase, and restrict processing of your personal data. Since we collect only anonymous ratings with no identifiers, there is no personal data to access or delete. You may still control analytics cookies via your browser settings.

10. Data Security & Retention

Anonymous ratings are stored in a secure cloud database with industry-standard encryption in transit and at rest. We retain rating data indefinitely so that community averages remain accurate, but because the data contains no personal identifiers, it poses no privacy risk to individual users.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@rankthisjoke.com.