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Privacy Notice
*WE WILL NEVER SELL OR SHARE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WITH ANYONE.*
Effective date of this Notice: June 13, 2005 (updated April 8, 2009)
Privacy Notice Table of Contents:
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make a link available in the footer information that is provided on each page of our website.
The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the LostPetSOS website. On some pages you can make requests and register to post pet information. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
- First name only
- Email address [NEVER made public
- Phone number
- State where pet was lost or found
On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you wish to notify friends or acquaintances about the LostPetSOS.org pet locator service, and want to send those individuals information about LostPetSOS, you will need to submit some information about the recipients. In this case, the types of personal information collected are:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Recipient’s name
- Recipient’s email address
On some pages, you can register to advertise on LostPetSOS.org. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected are:
- Name
- Company name (if applicable)
- Address
- Phone Number
- Email address [NEVER made public
- Website address (URL)
On some pages, you can make a donation to LostPetSOS.org. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected are:
The Way We Use Information
We use the information you provide about yourself when posting a pet notice to complete that posting on the LostPetSOS.org website. We do not share this information with outside parties.
We use the information you provide about someone else when you wish to inform someone about the LostPetSOS.org pet locator service to notify that recipient. We do not share this information with outside parties.
We use the information you provide about yourself when registering to advertise on our website only to complete your advertiser’s registration. We do not share this information with outside parties, except to the extent necessary to setup and activate your advertiser account and banner ads.
We use the information you provide when making a donation to LostPetSOS.org only to keep track of you as one of our contributors and to send a “Thank you” message for your donations. We do not share this information with outside parties, except to the extent necessary to accept payment of your donation.
Presently, all payments and monetary donations made to LostPetSOS.org are made through PayPal’s secure payment gateway, and so your financial information is never collected by us. Only PayPal will have access to your financial information, and we are not responsible for the ways in which PayPal may use such information it has collected from you.
We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of advertisers have filled out our advertiser registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals/companies.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Our Commitment to Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13. If you become aware that a child under 13 has posted pet information on our website, please notify us and we will immediately remove the information, pending a complete investigation by our management team.
How to Access or Correct Your Information
You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by logging in to your user or advertiser account. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information. From your personal login area, you can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information.
To protect your privacy and security, we utilize login names and passwords to verify your identity before you can access or make corrections to your information.
How to Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please send us an email through our online contact form.
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