Privacy Policy Statement for Frugalicity.com

At Frugalicity.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Frugalicity.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

Frugalicity.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.


About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that Frugalicity.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to Frugalicity.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.


Google Analytics Cookies

Frugalicity.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Frugalicity.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on... https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/


Advertising Cookies and Web Beacons

Ads help us keep this site free and growing. When you use Frugalicity.com, selected companies may access and use information on your device for various purposes including to serve relevant ads or to personalize content.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. These companies (including Google Adsense, Media.net, and Chitika) use cookies and web beacons to personalize ads and to collect/measure data, such as to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

By consenting to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information, you consent to our use of personalized ad products on Frugalicity.com.

You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that: http://www.aboutads.info/choices

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to our website and/or other sites on the Internet.  You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google ad opt-out page.

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites


Search Box

The search box on this web site is powered by Google Inc. You acknowledge and agree that Google’s privacy policy applies to your use of the Google Search Box, and by using the Search Box you consent to Google using your personal data in accordance to its privacy policy.


Affiliate Products and Services

We receive an affiliate commission for some of the products and services sold or referred on Frugalicity.com.

The affiliate services platforms we use are:

  • Amazon Service LLC Associates Program (USA) - Frugalicity.com is a participant in the Amazon Service LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.  Amazon, the Amazon logo, Amazon Supply, and the Amazon Supply logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
  • ShareASale
  • CJ Affiliate by Conversant (formerly Commission Junction)
  • Savings.com
  • Rakuten Marketing (formerly LinkShare)


By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the link below.

Amazon Associates Privacy Policy

ShareASale Privacy Policy (pdf)

CJ Affiliate by Conversant (formerly Commission Junction) Privacy Policy

Savings.com Privacy Policy

Rakuten Marketing (formerly LinkShare) Privacy Policy


Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse Frugalicity.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.


Personally Identifiable Information

Frugalicity.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To run and operate our site.
  • To display content on the site correctly.
  • To improve customer service.
  • To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
  • To personalize your user experience.
  • To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
  • To improve our site.
  • To improve our products and services.
  • To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
  • To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
  • To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
  • To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.


Frugalicity.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter / email updates, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

You can unsubscribe from email updates by clicking the "unsubscribe" link located at the bottom of any email we send. Your subscription related personal information will also be deleted from the servers when you unsubscribe.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.

If you purchase a product or service from us, we will collect your name, email address, billing address and credit card number.

This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms or via a social sharing service. Below are links to these social media platform privacy policies:

ShareThis Inc. (social media sharing service): https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/

Reddit: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy

Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/privacy

Pinterest: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

Google Plus: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Twitter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation


Frugalicity.com also uses Facebook commenting. Facebook stores all of your comments and may show them on your timeline, depending on your Facebook settings.

Frugalicity.com offers RSS as a way to easily follow content updates. To make that easier for you, we also provide links for easy access to My Yahoo! and Feedly. Before you choose to use either as your RSS reader, review their privacy policy:

My Yahoo! (Oath) Privacy Policy: https://policies.oath.com/us/en/oath/privacy/index.html

Feedly: https://feedly.com/i/legal/privacy

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Frugalicity.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.


Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.


Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.


Release of Information

If we sell Frugalicity.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.


Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

SiteSell Inc.'s cookie placed on computers of those who visit Frugalicity.com do not track visitors' identities or personal information. They are only used to track first time visits, repeat visits, and to track click-in and click through data in order to provide helpful usage data for more efficient operation of this website.


How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, you can do so on our GDPR data review page.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by using our GDPR data REQUEST page.


Updates and Effective Date

Frugalicity.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.


Agreeing to Terms

By using this Site or any services offered by Frugalicity.com, you signify your acceptance of this privacy policy, as well as our terms of use.

If you do not agree to Frugalicity.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.


Last updated: January 22, 2024

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