Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy below outlines how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from IDontGiveACrap.com (the “Site”).  

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT:

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

- “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information”. When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).

Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

- Communicate with you;

- Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and

- When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services. We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, a search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING:

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

- Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

- Bing: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK:

Please note that we do not alter our website’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS:

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information is corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below. Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example, if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

DATA RETENTION:

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your order information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

CHANGES:

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT US:

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail or by using the Contact Us link on the top of this page.

idontgiveacrap: office politics

I'm good at not giving a crap but somehow office politics still keeps finding me.

This has been sitting with me for a while and i finally need to vent.

I'm not the person who spends half the day wandering around with a coffee pretending to "build relationships." I'm not the one laughing at every joke the boss tells like it's a Netflix special. And i'm definitely not the person scheduling meetings that could have been an email just so people remember i exist.

I just show up, do my work, solve my problems, and then quietly disappear back into the cave i crawled out of.

Apparently that's not how promotions work.

The guy who got promoted last quarter somehow manages to accomplish three hours of actual work during an eight-hour day, yet everyone knows his name. He's in every meeting, every conversation, every birthday lunch, and somehow always standing next to leadership whenever a camera comes out. Honestly, i don't even dislike the guy. He's decent. I just finally realized i've been playing checkers while everyone else has been playing "Who Can Compliment the Vice President's Golf Swing."

My manager tells me i'm one of the most reliable people on the team. I've never missed a deadline. Clients are happy. Coworkers ask me for help. Yet every time an opportunity comes up, it somehow floats right past my desk and lands in the lap of someone whose greatest professional skill is remembering everyone's dog's name.

The worst part is i don't even know how to fix it.

Do i suddenly start hanging around the break room discussing fantasy football with people i've never spoken to? Do i begin every sentence with "Just circling back..."? Am i supposed to schedule fifteen-minute "touch base" meetings to discuss things we already solved yesterday?

It feels like the secret to getting ahead isn't doing great work. It's convincing everyone you're doing great work while strategically existing within a fifty-foot radius of the people making decisions.

And maybe that's just how the game works.

I don't give a crap about playing politics.

I just wish politics would stop giving a crap about playing me.

Dear Office Survivor,

First off, congratulations.

Not on the promotion. Obviously.

Congratulations on discovering that the corporate world is basically high school with better coffee and mandatory cybersecurity training.

Here's the thing. You have made the classic mistake of believing your job description. Companies tell you they'll reward hard work. What they mean is they'll reward hard work...that someone important actually notices.

It's dumb.

We didn't invent the rules. We'd actually like to fight the rules behind a Waffle House at 2 a.m., but that's a different conversation.

Now, don't confuse visibility with becoming a professional brown-noser. Those are two very different sports.

You don't need to laugh at jokes that aren't funny.
You don't need to memorize your VP's children's birthdays.
You definitely don't need to start saying things like, "Let's circle back and leverage our synergies."

That's how your soul files for unemployment.

Instead, make it easy for people to know what you've accomplished. Speak up during meetings once or twice. Send short updates when you finish something important. Volunteer for the occasional project that gets your face in front of leadership. That's not office politics—that's turning the lights on so people can actually see you.

Think of it this way...

If a bear builds the world's greatest spreadsheet in the woods and nobody important is copied on the email...

...did the spreadsheet even happen?

Probably not.

One more thing.

Don't become someone you hate just to earn a slightly nicer cubicle. Promotions are great, but being able to sleep at night without wondering why you suddenly own three different "Team Player" polo shirts is pretty valuable too.

Play enough of the game to keep your career moving.

Don't let the game convince you to become one of its NPCs.

And if all else fails, remember our unofficial corporate motto:

"If they overlook you long enough, eventually they'll have to explain why nothing works after you leave."

Now go make your work visible.

Just don't start using the phrase "per my last email."

Some lines should never be crossed.

—The Highly Questionable Career Counseling Department
idontgiveacrap.com

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