Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2025

Your privacy is important to us here at The Grove City Growler (“Growler,” “we,” “our,” “us”).

We run a satire website dedicated to poking fun at Grove City, Ohio. As such, we’re not particularly interested in your personal data. We’re interested in making you laugh (or groan).

Here’s what you need to know:

What We Collect

  • Basic Website Logs: Like every web server ever, we may log your IP address and what pages you visit. This helps us keep the site running smoothly and diagnose issues.
  • Comments: If you ever leave comments (future feature!), we may store the name, email, and whatever you type in the comment box. It’s public. Behave accordingly.
  • Analytics: We may use basic analytics (like Google Analytics or Plausible) to understand how many people are reading the Growler and what articles are popular.
  • AI Content: Some posts and images on this site are AI-generated or AI-assisted. No personal data is knowingly fed into AI systems by us.

What We Don’t Do

  • We don’t sell your data.
  • We don’t share your data with advertisers.
  • We don’t track you across the web.
  • We don’t email you (unless you email us first).

Cookies

We may use cookies for basic site functionality (like remembering your theme preference or login status if commenting becomes available).

Third-Party Services

We may use:

  • Cloudflare for site protection and performance
  • Analytics providers to measure site usage
  • Font/CDN services for fonts and icons
  • Other coding libraries and tools for site functionality

These services may collect IP addresses and other technical info per their own privacy policies.

This site is satire and should be treated as such. Nothing here is presented as fact.

We will comply with lawful requests from government agencies if required — though we can’t imagine the Grove City Growler will be the target of national security interest (unless someone takes a joke way too seriously).

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. If we do, we’ll post it here with an updated date.

Contact Us

Have questions? Contact Info:

Grove City Growler
grovecitygrowler.com
[email protected]

Adapted from Automattic’s Privacy Policy, licensed under Creative Commons Sharealike 4.0. Thanks, Automattic!