It is Clothed Canines’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Clothed Canines 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. Clothed Canines’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Clothed Canines’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Clothed Canines may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.Clothed Canines also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Clothed Canines does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Clothed Canines’ websites choose to interact with Clothed Canines in ways that require Clothed Canines to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Clothed Canines gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up and post pictures to provide a username and email address. In each case, Clothed Canines collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Clothed Canines. Clothed Canines 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

Clothed Canines may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Clothed Canines may use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Clothed Canines may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Clothed Canines does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Clothed Canines 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 Clothed Canines’ behalf or to provide services available at Clothed Canines’ websites, 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 Clothed Canines’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Clothed Canines 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, Clothed Canines discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Clothed Canines believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Clothed Canines, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Clothed Canines website and have supplied your email address, Clothed Canines 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 Clothed Canines and our community. We primarily use our website 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. Clothed Canines 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. Clothed Canines uses cookies to help Clothed Canines identify and track visitors, their usage of Clothed Canines website, and their website access preferences. Clothed Canines visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Clothed Canines’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Clothed Canines’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

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 Clothed Canines and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Clothed Canines may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Clothed Canines’ sole discretion. Clothed Canines 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.