Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 6, 2026 · animalinyou.com
Animal In You ("we", "us", or "our") operates the website animalinyou.com. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your choices regarding that information. Reading this policy or continuing to browse is not a substitute for consent where consent is required.
1. Information We Collect
We collect the following categories of information:
- Quiz and feature inputs. We process your quiz selections and celebrity searches to provide results. Site statistics can include quiz starts, completions, result categories, layout variants, and celebrity searches.
- IP addresses and technical logs. Our server and feature logs may record IP addresses or derived IP hashes for security, abuse prevention, rate limits, and site measurement. Daily rate limits reset each day; that does not mean all underlying logs are deleted within 24 hours.
- Usage data. Google Analytics 4 and our site measurement tools collect information such as pages visited, interactions, time on site, referring pages and campaign information, browser and device details, and approximate location. Cookies and browser storage can contain pseudonymous visitor and session identifiers. Our reports are generally aggregated, but the underlying information is not necessarily anonymous.
- Demographics and interests. We have enabled Google signals and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. For eligible users signed in to Google who have enabled Ads Personalization, Google may associate information collected from visits to this site with information from their Google account to produce aggregated age-range, gender, and interest reports, subject to applicable consent choices. We do not receive your Google account identity or an individual visitor's age from those reports.
- Optional email requests. If you request an emailed personality card or contact us, we process the email address and information you provide to fulfill your request. Card requests may be recorded with the selected animal result.
- Cookies. See Section 4 below.
You do not need to create an account or provide an email address to take the quiz. We do not ask for your Google account credentials or payment details as part of the quiz.
2. How We Use Your Information
- To operate and improve the quiz and other site features.
- To enforce rate limits and prevent abuse of our AI features.
- To understand traffic patterns, audience demographics, feature use, and the results of layout and advertising tests.
- To serve and measure advertisements through Google AdSense, including personalized advertising where permitted by your choices and applicable requirements.
- To deliver a personality card or respond to a message you request.
We do not sell email-request records to advertisers. Advertising and analytics services may collect or receive information as described below. Some privacy laws define sharing for targeted advertising as a "sale" or "sharing" even without a monetary payment.
3. Third-Party Services
We use the following third-party services that may collect data independently under their own privacy policies:
- Google Analytics 4 and Google signals — traffic measurement, aggregated demographics and interests, and linked advertising-performance reporting. We and Google may use first-party Analytics cookies or identifiers together with Google advertising cookies or other third-party identifiers for these features, subject to applicable consent settings. Google signals can associate site visitation information with Google account information for eligible, consenting users. Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
- Google AdSense and advertising partners — ad delivery and measurement. Google and other advertising partners may use cookies and identifiers to serve ads based on visits to this and other websites. Where the European consent message applies, it lists the participating partners, their purposes, and privacy information. Google advertising information.
- Anthropic Claude API — we send celebrity names you search to the Claude API to generate personality results. No other personal data is sent. Anthropic Privacy Policy
- Pinterest API — we use the Pinterest API to publish content (animal personality cards) to our own Pinterest account. We do not collect, store, or process any data about Pinterest users. Our use of the Pinterest API complies with Pinterest's Privacy Policy and Developer Terms.
4. Cookies, Browser Storage, and Consent
Cookies and similar browser storage may be used for the following purposes:
- Site functionality — quiz state and preferences, and remembering a layout-test assignment.
- Measurement — Google Analytics cookies and site visitor/session identifiers used to understand visits, referral sources, interactions, and performance.
- Advertising — Google and advertising-partner cookies or identifiers used to deliver, personalize, and measure ads.
- Consent preferences — remembering the choices you make in the Google consent message.
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we use Google's consent management platform to present advertising and storage choices. Its consent-mode integration communicates choices for advertising storage, advertising user data, ad personalization, and Analytics storage to Google. The Analytics storage setting interprets the consent message's storage/access choice (TCF Purpose 1) for Google Analytics.
Google's advanced consent mode may send limited, cookieless measurement signals when Analytics storage is denied; denying storage does not necessarily stop every request to Google. Google uses these signals for measurement and modeling rather than reading or writing Analytics cookies.
Where the European consent message applies, use Privacy and cookie settings on this page or beside the site's Privacy Policy link to reopen the message and change or withdraw your choices. This control appears once Google's consent service is available. If a browser extension blocks it, contact us or use the Google opt-out options below.
You can also manage personalized Google ads through My Ad Center, manage Google signals activity through My Activity, and opt out of Google Analytics using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Your browser can block or clear cookies and local storage; doing so may reset saved quiz preferences and consent choices. Google's ad and Analytics opt-outs do not themselves delete records held by our site.
5. Data Retention
Celebrity personality results may be cached for up to five years to reduce repeat AI requests. Search/activity logs are separate from that cache and may include search terms and IP addresses. Site measurement and optional email-request records are maintained for operating the service, analyzing performance, handling requests, and security; they are not covered by a blanket 24-hour deletion rule.
Google Analytics event and user data are subject to the retention settings configured in our Analytics property. Google account and advertising data are also subject to Google's policies and your Google account controls. Browser-stored preferences and identifiers remain until they expire or are cleared. Contact us about deletion of records we hold.
6. Children's Privacy
Our site is intended for general audiences. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.
7. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, or a copy of personal information, object to or restrict processing, withdraw consent, or opt out of targeted advertising or certain sharing. Contact us at the address below to make a request. We may need information to verify and locate the relevant records. Clearing browser cookies does not delete server-side records or data already processed by Google. You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date reflects the most recent revision. Where a change requires fresh consent or additional notice, posting this policy does not replace that requirement.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, contact us at:
Animal In You
feinson@gmail.com
animalinyou.com