Your privacy is very important to us. At PawPrints North East we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
PawPrints North East operates a single website; PawPrintsNorthEast.com. It is PawPrint North East’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, PawPrints North East collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. PawPrints North East’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how PawPrints North East’s visitors use its website. From time to time, PawPrints North East may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
PawPrints North East also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. PawPrints North East only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to PawPrints North East’s website choose to interact with PawPrints North East in ways that require PawPrints North East to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that PawPrints North East gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive PawPrints North East via email, we collect their emails. In each case, PawPrints North East collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with PawPrints North East. PawPrints North East does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
PawPrints North East may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, PawPrints North East may monitor the most popular pages on the pawprintsnortheast.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. PawPrints North East may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, PawPrints North East does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
PawPrints North East discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on PawPrints North East’s behalf or to provide services available at PawPrints North East’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using PawPrints North East’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. PawPrints North East will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, PawPrints North East discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when PawPrints North East believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of PawPrints North East, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the PawPrints North East website and have supplied your email address, PawPrints North East may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with PawPrints North East and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. PawPrints North East takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. PawPrints North East uses cookies to help PawPrints North East identify and track visitors, their usage of PawPrints North East website, and their website access preferences. PawPrints North East visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using PawPrints North East’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of PawPrints North East’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If PawPrints North East, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that PawPrints North East goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of PawPrints North East may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by PawPrints North East and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, PawPrints North East may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in PawPrints North East’s sole discretion. PawPrints North East encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Last Updated May 2023