Privacy Policy

This outlines the policies and practices of Grislybuzz.com or/and GRISLYBUZZ in relation to the handling of personal data.

Statement of Notice


We respect your privacy and so should you. GRISLYBUZZ is committed to complying with all applicable personal data privacy laws and regulations.

When we collect and process personal data, we will ensure that there is legal basis for us to do so – including but not limited to issuing a Privacy Notice and/or fulfilling any other requirements as provided under all applicable laws.

The kinds of Personal information we collect


In order to provide our services, we collect information from our users in broad categories on our website.

We occasionally collect personal data, such as your email address, name, address or telephone number. We also at times collect anonymous demographic information such as your age, gender, location, browsing behavior, interests and favorites.

We collect personal data in five broad categories below:

Subscription Records which include records containing the personal information of the subscribers of our publications, job alert services and any other subscription based products or services.

Personnel Records which include job applicants and our employees’ personal information.

Other Operational Records which include the personal data of such data subjects involved in news gathering, security checks, maintenance services, consultancy, technology, auditing, supplier, service provider, licensor, and other data subjects providing services in relation to all aspects of our operations.

Records collected on/from Web Servers which include but not limited to the email addresses, location data and other online identifiers such as IP addresses of such data subjects who visit our websites and platforms.

Below are the reasons we collect your personal information:


  • We use your information to help us to monitor and improve the services we offer.
  • For statistical purposes to track how many individual unique users we have and how often they visit our websites.
  • We use it for business purposes like:
    • To sell advertising space on the site which helps us to keep the site free of charge.

How and when we collect your Information


We do not monitor individual traffic patterns on our site. We only collect aggregate reader information.

We do collect information on our users through registration for the newsletter, through Google Analytics, and when you enter sales promotions and competitions.

We will respect your privacy. If you have signed up for our newsletter, or given us your email address in connection with a survey or promotion, we will not sell or pass on your details to any other company. We may very occasionally send marketing emails to you on behalf of trusted partners.

Please note that we reserve the right to access and disclose personal data to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate our systems properly and to protect both ourselves and our users.

Grislybuzz.com implements standard security procedures and practices in an effort to protect both personal and non-personal information. However, no online data transmission can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

Cookies and third parties


A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket.

Third party advertisers such as Google Adsense and DoubleClick will generate statistical cookies to track advertising impressions and conversions. This helps us attract advertisers and keep the website free of charge.

The use of cookies by third parties is subject to those companies’ own privacy and cookie policies. For more on Google’s privacy policy: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

By using the GrislyBuzz.com site you are agreeing to the use of cookies as described.

Some advertisers may tailor advertising to specific groups of advertisers using cookies. Readers can opt out from online behavioral advertising using the following methods:

  • Use the Online Choices opt-out tool provided at www.youronlinechoices.com/opt-out.
  • Change your computer’s browser settings to block delete and/or control the use of all third party cookies. Refer to your computer’s web browser’s Help documentation for more information.

Some Grislybuzz.com web pages use plug ins from third party platforms (such as the ‘Facebook Recommend’ function). Information about your visit to Grislybuzz.com may be collected by these third party providers on these pages. For more information on how these third parties use information, please read their privacy policies.