If you submit material it will be filed with the personal information you submitted. This means that your information may be seen by anyone working for The Laugh Disorder.

If your submission is published in any form, some combination of your first name, last name, and city will likely be used.

Your e-mail address and telephone will never be published or otherwise made public. We may use them to confirm your submission and, occasionally, to request additional details regarding your submission.

We will not use your telephone number or e-mail address to solicit you. They will never be shown to outside parties, sold, rented, or used to send you unwanted material. (Please note that if you would like to receive our newsletter, you must sign up using the Newsletter Sign-Up form. See below for privacy information for newsletter subscribers.)

We may subcontract the preparation of our website, books, or other materials to an outside agency or agencies. In the course of the project, these people may see the personal information, like your e-mail address, that you have included in contacts with us.

All our subcontractors are required to agree that your information will not be given to, or seen by, anyone not connected with the project. The subcontractor will not retain your information, except in the form of a backup copy of the material (book, web page, etc.) that is released to the public. Subcontractors must also agree not to use your personal information for their own purposes, release your information, or add you to any kind of marketing database (unless, of course, you have a separate business relationship with them and ask them to be added).

Please note that story submissions travel as simple e-mails, which means that they are not secure when in transit and can be intercepted by evil people who have nothing better to do than intercept e-mails. Never ever send anything in the story submision form that you would not want a third party to see.


Newsletter Subscribers

If you subscribe to our newsletter, then e-mails filled with jokes, stories, and special offers will appear in your inbox at excitingly random intervals.

If you subscribe, your contact information will be kept private, and used for the sole purpose of sending the newsletter. The information will never be shown to outside parties, sold, or rented.

To unsubscribe, just use the form at the top of any page on this site.

Please note that mailing list sign-up requests travel as simple e-mails, which means that they are not secure and can be intercepted in transit by evil people who have nothing better to do than intercept e-mails. If you do not accept this risk, please do not sign up.


Website Visitors

We're not tracking you. Honest. What would we do with the information, anyway? Tell your significant other that you've been looking at chicken jokes again?

Seriously, we make no attempt to collect specific information about who comes to our site or where they go. Our Internet Service Provider collects routine information about the number of hits to our site and which pages are accessed. We do use this information in a general way to try to make the site better, but we just don't pay any attention to which individuals are going where.

If you want to be on our newsletter mailing list, you can sign up. If not, we leave you in anonymous peace. Or is that peaceful anonymity? Whatever.


E-Mail

If you e-mail us for information, we'll keep a record of your e-mail and our answer, but unless you establish a customer relationship with us, that will be the end of it. We will not start bugging you with promotional material, nor will we add your e-mail address to any kind of marketing database. We'll answer your e-mail and that's it.


E-Commerce

Personal information is collected as needed for the purpose of processing e-commerce orders. This information is retained only as is consistent with good business practice. It will not be given or sold to third parties, or added to a marketing database.

You actually read all this? Sheez! You must have one boring life...

• you give up all rights to the material, with no expectation of payment. This means that we can use the material in any way we choose—on-line, or in printed materials or any other media—without consulting you or paying you
• we have the right to contact you regarding the submission at the e-mail address you provide
• we are not obligated to use the material
• we have the right to edit the material as we see fit
• we have the right to publish your name and city with your submission. So if Uncle Harold will read it and kill you, then change his name, already!
• all submissions become the property of Laugh Disorder and will not be returned. This includes videotapes, audiotapes, and photographs.