Dog-Paw-Print.com Privacy Policy
Latest Revision: 4/1/2009
Dog-Paw-Print.com knows that your personal information is important, and we want to state here what our privacy policy is, what types of information are received and collected and how that information is safeguarded.
First of all, Dog-Paw-Print.com will never share or sell your personal information to third parties. We hate spam as much as you do and will not ever use your information that way.
If you sign up for our newsletter, purchase something from our site, contact the site through one of our forms or have written to our headquarter’s address, you can be 100% assured that we will only use the information you have provided us for the purpose intended. We will never send you any additional information or contact you unless you have opted in during the sign up process, and then you will only be sent what we have indicated. You can always unsubscribe later if you decide you no longer want to receive our newsletters or the types of contact that you had originally signed up for.
Log Files and Visitor Statistics:
As is common on most other websites, Dog-Paw-Print.com collects and uses the data contained in log files. The type of data contained in log files is the name of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) your IP address (Internet Protocol Address), and other data such as what pages you visited, how many pages you looked at, and what browser you were using. Please understand that IP addresses are not linked in any way to personally identifiable information, and the information collected is only for statistical purposes. This is normal practice for all websites.
Cookies, Web Beacons and Geotargeting:
Dog-Paw-Print.com uses advertisements from third parties to support the website, and our advertisers may use certain technologies to collect data.
Cookies are tiny bits of code that are placed by a website on your personal computer to collect non-identifying information.
Although we do not use cookies directly on our site, some of our business and advertising affiliates do use cookies.
Google Adsense for example, use cookies as follows:
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve relevant ads you, based on the content you are reading on our site.
- Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Reasons to use cookies range from the ability to personalize information, to help with on-line sales, or simply for the purposes of collecting demographic information that help track trends as a whole. Cookies help developers and programmers to keep site content fresh and relevant to the user's interests. Your decision regarding the use of cookies is totally within your control, and can be changed in your browser’s preference settings. We do not have direct access to this information and do not have control over the use of third party cookies.
Web Beacons are transparent image files used to monitor your journey around a single website or within a collection of sites. Although Dog-Paw-Print.com does not use web beacons directly on the site, we do use some other third party services to monitor traffic and navigation to improve the quality of the experience at Dog-Paw-Print.com. These may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of our web site.
Links:
We provide links to other websites as a means of making your experience more complete. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of any othese sites, however.
Kids and Parents:
Dog-Paw-Print.com does its utmost to make sure that our website is a family-friendly site. That being said, the site is not designed for the use of children unsupervised by their parents, especially children under the age of 13 years of age. Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to provide any personal information, and minors between the ages of 13 and 17 must have permission granted by either a parent or legal guardian before purchasing anything from our site, asking questions or sharing stories. We do not have a forum, chatroom or any way for your children to disclose personal information about themselves that can receive feedback, and you should always tell them to never provide personal information on the internet. If you have any concerns about your children’s privacy on the Dog-Paw-Print.com site, please use our Contact form and we will discuss your concerns or comments with you. We are always open to feedback and comments if you wish to offer your thoughts on this very important subject.
We hope we have made our privacy policies clear in the information provided here. Please be sure to contact us, if you have any further questions.
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