Privacy Policy & Terms

www.RippleSearch.com  - a Who Gives A Cup LLC website.
Created: 5/20/2022
Updated:7/26/2022
Note: All revenue after operation expenses go to funding humanitarian projects.

Click here to read the terms of service.

We Respect Your Privacy

Just as food and water sustainability is worth fighting, so is your privacy. We make sure to do both.

No Tracking Cookies for You or Us

Though we love oatmeal cookies from Gege, we do not use tracking cookies on our site. We only have a login cookie so that you do not have to relogin everytime you visit the site.

We Do Not Store Your Searches

We never create personal profiles based on your search history. In fact we have no clue what you even searched.  We only track how many searches were made as a whole on our platform and if they were monetizable or not.

We Do Not Sell Your Data to Anyone

Many web services collect data of their users to sell it without your permission.  We do not sell any user data.

We Do Not Use Analytic Tools

No Facebook Pixel or Google Analytics or other tools.  All searches go straight from our secure page to our search feed partner who screens out the bots and VPNs.

Why Yahoo?

Yahoo is an amazing search portal that puts their users first. We also believe they are the best option for protecting your privacy while still giving you the most relevant search results.

You Can Even Turn Off Tracking for Yahoo

Visit here and stroll to manage your tracking. Scroll to the bottom to turn off Search History. https://yahoo.mydashboard.oath.com/device

What about Lite or Dark Mode

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To remember if you have selected lite or dark mode, this is stored in your browser’s localStorage cache.  Feel free to clear your browser cache at any time to clear this from the browser extension.

So What Do We Collect?

In short, some information is collected in your local instance for security and customization purposes when a page first loads but this information is not stored past your visit nor outside the normal browser functionality.  This would include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser and device type so we know to format the page for mobile or desktop, or recommend the Chrome extension or Opera extension, and GEO location for weather updates. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our services and is not stored in our systems.

Speech to Text Data

All audio is transcribed using your browser's ADA tools called by the javascript client side webkit coding (ran on your computer) so your voice is not saved on anyone’s servers.  If this does not work, it is because your browser does not support the webkit, or is blocking microphone usage to the website.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collected on Ripplesearch.com. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website. 

Information we do collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly or sign up, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
Provide, operate, and maintain our website
Improve, personalize, and expand our website
Understand and analyze how you use our website
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
Send you emails
Find and prevent fraud

Log Files

Who Gives A Cup LLC follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Our Advertising Partners

Some of the advertisers on our site or that our site passes onto may use cookies and web beacons. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. 

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Who Gives A Cup LLC.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Who Gives A Cup LLC, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Who Gives A Cup LLC has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Who Gives A Cup LLC's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Who Gives A Cup LLC does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Contact Us

Who Gives A Cup LLC
Attn: Ripple Search
305 N. Hillcrest Ave
Ada, OK 74820

or contact us here

Terms of Service

These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Ripple Search a Who Gives A Cup LLC Website, located at www.RippleSearch.com.

By accessing this website we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use Ripple Search if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and all Agreements: "Client", "You" and "Your" refers to you, the person log on this website and compliant to the Company’s terms and conditions. "The Company", "Ourselves", "We", "Our" and "Us", refers to our Company. "Party", "Parties", or "Us", refers to both the Client and ourselves. All terms refer to the offer, acceptance and consideration of payment necessary to undertake the process of our assistance to the Client in the most appropriate manner for the express purpose of meeting the Client’s needs in respect of provision of the Company’s stated services, in accordance with and subject to, prevailing law of the state of Oklahoma in the United States of America. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalization and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to the same.

License:
Unless otherwise stated, Who Gives A Cup LLC and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on Ripple Search. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from Ripple Search for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

You must not:
Republish material from Ripple Search
Sell, rent or sub-license material from Ripple Search
Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from Ripple Search
Redistribute content from Ripple Search

Parts of this website offer an opportunity for users to post and exchange opinions and information in certain areas of the website. Who Gives A Cup LLC does not filter, edit, publish or review Comments prior to their presence on the website. Comments do not reflect the views and opinions of Who Gives A Cup LLC, its agents and/or affiliates. Comments reflect the views and opinions of the person who posts their views and opinions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, Who Gives A Cup LLC shall not be liable for the Comments or for any liability, damages or expenses caused and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the Comments on this website.

Who Gives A Cup LLC reserves the right to monitor all Comments and to remove any Comments which can be considered inappropriate, offensive or causes breach of these Terms and Conditions.

You warrant and represent that:
You are entitled to post the Comments on our website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;
The Comments do not invade any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark of any third party;
The Comments do not contain any defamatory, libelous, offensive, indecent or otherwise unlawful material which is an invasion of privacy
The Comments will not be used to solicit or promote business or custom or present commercial activities or unlawful activity.

You hereby grant Who Gives A Cup LLC a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats or media.

Hyperlinking to our Content
The following organizations may link to our Website without prior written approval:
Government agencies;
Search engines;
News organizations;
Online directory distributors may link to our Website in the same manner as they hyperlink to the Websites of other listed businesses;
and System wide Accredited Businesses except soliciting non-profit organizations, charity shopping malls, and charity fundraising groups which may not hyperlink to our Web site.
Individuals sharing our site in good faith on appropriate locations that is not spam.

These organizations may link to our home page, to publications or to other Website information so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products and/or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.

We may consider and approve other link requests from the following types of organizations:
commonly-known consumer and/or business information sources;
dot.com community sites;
associations or other groups representing charities;
online directory distributors;
internet portals;
accounting, law and consulting firms;
and educational institutions and trade associations.

We will approve link requests from these organizations if we decide that: (a) the link would not make us look unfavorably to ourselves or to our accredited businesses; (b) the organization does not have any negative records with us; (c) the benefit to us from the visibility of the hyperlink compensates the absence of Who Gives A Cup LLC; and (d) the link is in the context of general resource information.

These organizations may link to our home page so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.

If you are one of the organizations listed in paragraph 2 above and are interested in linking to our website, you must inform us by sending an e-mail to Who Gives A Cup LLC. Please include your name, your organization name, contact information as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our Website, and a list of the URLs on our site to which you would like to link. Wait 2-3 weeks for a response.

Approved organizations may hyperlink to our Website as follows:
By use of our corporate name; or
By use of the uniform resource locator being linked to; or
By use of any other description of our Website being linked to that makes sense within the context and format of content on the linking party’s site.

No use of Ripple Search or Who Gives A Cup LLC's logo or other artwork will be allowed for linking absent a trademark license agreement.

iFrames
Without prior approval and written permission, you may not create frames around our web pages that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of our Website.

Content Liability
We shall not be held responsible for any content that appears on third party search feeds or APIs such as the Autosuggestions.

No link(s) should appear on any Website that may be interpreted as libelous, obscene or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third party rights.

Reservation of Rights
We reserve the right to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our Website. You approve to immediately remove all links to our Website upon request. We also reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions and its linking policy at any time. By continuously linking to our Website, you agree to be bound to and follow these linking terms and conditions.

Removal of links from our website
If you find any link on our Website that is offensive for any reason, you are free to contact and inform us any moment. We will consider requests to remove links but we are not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly.

We do not ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we promise to ensure that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.

Any links found in our search results are there by our search feed partner and the removal will need to go through them.

Disclaimer
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website. Nothing in this disclaimer will:
limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury;
limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law;
or exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort and for breach of statutory duty.

As long as the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.