Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 2/12/2025

1. Introduction Grinzee.com (“Website”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information when you use our services.

2. Information We Collect We collect the following types of information:

• Account Information: When you sign up, we collect your email, username, and password.
• Business Listing Information: If you submit a business listing, we collect details such as name, address, email, phone number, dentist picture, business hours, and FAQs.
• User Interaction Data: We collect data from lead forms, appointment requests, and contact form submissions.
• Reviews and Ratings: Any reviews or ratings you submit are stored and displayed on the Website.
• Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
• Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
• Technical Data: We collect IP addresses, browser types, and cookies for analytical purposes.

3. How We Use Your Information We use the collected data for the following purposes:

• To create and manage user accounts.
• To display business listings and facilitate user-dentist interactions.
• To process appointment requests and lead form submissions.
• To publish and moderate reviews.
• To improve the Website’s functionality and security.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

• If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
• If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
• When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
• If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

5. Embedded Content from Other Websites Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

6. Who We Share Your Data With

• If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
• We do not sell or rent your personal data.
• Business listing data may be publicly displayed on the Website.
• We may share information with law enforcement or regulatory authorities if required by law.
• We may share anonymized data with analytics providers to improve our services.

7. How Long We Retain Your Data

• If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
• For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

8. Your Rights Over Your Data

• If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
• You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

9. Where Your Data Is Sent

• Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

10. Data Security We implement security measures to protect your personal data. However, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted online.

11. Changes to This Policy We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.

12. Contact Information For any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at contact@grinzee.com or visit our Contact Us page.