Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting our website called ThePetWorld.org or referred to as “provider,” “service,” “us,” “we,” or “the site.” Our goal is to 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. This notice is easy to find; we place it on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

We care about your privacy, and we are working hard to develop and follow practices that will protect you online.

Your billing and personal information are encrypted when transmitted or received online. This means that only staff, agents, or contractors of the Provider will be able to access it.

This statement applies to all websites and domains owned by Provider. This statement covers information that can identify you, like your name or contact information, as well as anonymous data collection and reporting.

Information We Collect

You're not required to provide information directly, but when you use certain site functions like registering for services or accessing content/features on our website - we may ask you to provide certain information. This includes:

  • Basic contact information like name and email address;
  • Username and password
  • Information shared in community discussions and other interactive online features
  • Search queries conducted on the Site
  • Correspondence sent to us

The Site automatically collects certain information when you visit and interact with it. This includes:

  • Your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address
  • Your browser type and operating system
  • The web pages you visited immediately before and after you came to the Site
  • Activities within community discussions
  • Web pages and advertisements you view
  • The links that you click on within the Site
  • Your bandwidth speed and information about the software programs that are installed on your computer
  • Aggregated data about email click-through rates and user video viewing
  • Standard server log information
  • Information collected through HTML cookies, Flash cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies. For more information, read our cookies policy.

We may access information about you from third-party sources, including:

  • Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting
  • Social networking sites
  • Databases
  • Online marketing firms
  • Ad targeting firms

This information is collected if you access third-party social networking services (such as Facebook Connect or Twitter) through the Site. The information collected includes your username and connection lists for those services. This information collected may include:

  • Demographic data, such as age range, gender, and interests;
  • Advertisement interaction and viewing data, such as ad click-through rates and information about how many times you viewed a particular ad
  • Unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers, can identify the physical location of such devices as per the applicable law.

Usage of the Information

We use the data that we collect for several legitimate purposes, which are detailed below.

Email Marketing & Communication: We may use the information we collect to contact you by email. This may include information about your account or changes to the Site, promotional messages about our products and services, and our email newsletters.

Advertising: To provide our readers with free access to our content, we show advertisements on the Site. Advertisers can target their ads based on information about you, like your interests or activities. You might see ads for products or services that you're interested in. For more information on how cookies and other technologies work, please see our Cookie Policy.

Some of the ads on our website are targeted using information from third-party advertisers or advertising platforms. This means that the companies who show you these ads may have collected information about you in a way that is different from how we collect and use information. If you want more information about this, please check out our section on third-party online advertising. However, please remember that the privacy policies of these companies do not apply to us, so make sure you read their policies carefully.

User Accounts: We track user involvement in our community discussions to provide you with an open forum. This includes deleting inappropriate comments from our forums. For more information on comment moderation, please see our community rules, forum rules, or comment policies.

Request Fulfilment: We use the information we collect to respond to your requests for products, services, and information. For example, we may use your contact information to send you surveys or to let you know about new features on our website.

Statistical Analysis: We use data we collect to learn how our Site is used. We look at what people do on the Site, like what they look at and how they interact with it. We use this information to make the Site better. For example, we might use it to figure out which parts of the Site people like best or to see if there are any problems with how the Site works.

Enforcement: We may use the information we collect to prevent illegal activities, enforce our rights and the rights of our users, and otherwise protect ourselves and our users.

The Site will collect and use the information you provide for the purposes identified above and any other purpose disclosed to you when we collect your information. We may also use the information we collect for any other purposes authorised by law.

Sharing of Information

We never share your personal information with anyone. However, we may be required by law or regulation to disclose your personal information. In such cases, we would do so in good faith to (a) follow the legal processes that have been served on the site; (b) ensure the protection of the Provider's rights and property; (c) where our records indicate that someone may have committed fraudulent activity or any other deceptive practices, we will report this to the appropriate government agency; or (d) where your communication could hurt other people.

If Provider is acquired or merged with another company, the Provider may transfer information about Users to the new company. The provider is not responsible for notifying the User of such changes.

The provider will not share your information with any third parties without your permission. The only exception is if Provider needs to share your information in order to provide you with the product or service you have requested. We may use your personal information to respond to inquiries, handle complaints, provide operational notices, keep records up to date, and send you periodic emails about technical service issues, specials, or other related product/service information. Your information may also be shared with agents or contractors of Provider in order to perform service for Provider.

E-Commerce Options

The provider wants to give you options about the privacy of your credit card information, name, address, email, and any other information you provide. The provider is committed to data security with respect to information collected on our site. We use industry-standard security measures that are available through your browser called SSL encryption.

Use of Cookies

Our websites are not set up to track, collect or distribute personal information. Our site may generate certain kinds of non-identifying site usage data, such as number of hits and visits to our sites. This information is used for internal purposes only. The statistics do not contain personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.

Some websites use a technology called "cookies" to help you personalise your experience. Cookies are small pieces of text that are placed on your computer's hard drive by the website server. They cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by the website server that issued the cookie to you.

The provider uses the following types of cookies for the reasons stated below.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We use cookies to collect information about traffic to our Services and how users use our Services. The information we collect does not identify you or any other individual visitor. The information is anonymous and includes the number of visitors to our Services, the websites that referred them to our Services, the pages they visited on our Services, what time of day they visited our Services, whether they have visited our services before, and other similar anonymous information. We use cookies to help us operate our Services more efficiently. We also use cookies to gather information about people's activities on our Services. We use Google Analytics for this purpose, which uses its own cookies.

Essential Cookies

Cookies are important for the functioning of our website. They help us to provide you with the services you have asked for and to make our websites work more quickly. We only use cookies for these reasons and do not collect any personal information through these cookies.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies help our Service to remember your choices. This includes things like remembering your language preferences, login details, and customized settings. The purpose of these cookies is to make your experience of using our Service more personal. This means you don't have to enter your preferences every time you visit, and you can have a more customized experience.

Social Media Cookies

If you share information on our Service using a social media sharing button, or if you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website, the social network will record that you have done this.

Targeted and Advertising Cookies

Targeted advertising cookies help us show you advertising that is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. This allows third-party advertisers to place cookies so they can show you advertisements that may be relevant to your interests while you are on third-party websites. These cookies store your location. They know where you are, including how far north or south you are and what region you're in. This helps us show you the information that is specific to your area and also helps our Service work better.

Flash

A Flash cookie is a data file that is placed on your device by the Adobe Flash plug-in. This plug-in is built into or downloaded onto your device. Flash cookies are used for different things, like remembering your preferences and enabling a Flash feature.

Pixel Tags

We also use small graphic files called pixel tags. Pixel tags allow us and third parties to monitor the use of the Site. They also collect information about how you use the Site. For example, pixel tags can tell us the IP address of the computer that downloaded a page on which a pixel tag appears. They can also tell us the URL of the page on which a pixel tag appears and how long it was viewed. Pixel tags can also tell us what type of browser retrieved a pixel tag and whether or not any cookies were placed on your computer by that server before.

We use pixel tags, which are small pieces of code, to collect information about your visit. Pixel tags help our third-party advertisers, and we, service providers, and ad networks understand what you do on our Site and how you interact with our content. This information is used to serve you targeted ads that we think will be of interest to you.

We also use other technologies to collect similar information for security and fraud detection purposes.

Security of Your Personal Information

We take great care to protect your personal information. This includes protecting your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

We will never share your personal information without your permission, except in the ways that are described in this document. Our company stores data on password-protected servers with limited access.

You are responsible for protecting your personal information. No one can see or edit your personal information without knowing your username and password, so do not share these with others.

We use SSL encryption when we collect or transfer sensitive information, like your credit card number. We only use this number to process payments, and it's important to us that your financial data is secure. Our efforts to prevent fraud help keep your data safe.

Your Choices

Account Deactivation

If you want to, you can deactivate your account on our website by going to the preferences page for your profile or deleting any content you provide. We may keep a copy of your account and content for compliance purposes, but when you deactivate your account, your user profile will be disabled. Your public comments will remain on the site. We are not responsible for taking down or editing any of your public activities or submissions resulting from your public activities.

Disable Cookies

If you want to, you can change the settings on your browser so that it does not accept cookies. However, if you do this, you will not be able to use all the features of our website. In addition, if you delete all the cookies on your browser at any point after setting your browser not to accept cookies or before accepting a cookie from us, you will have to set your browser not to accept cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent again.

Do Not Track

At this time, we do not take any specific actions in response to "Do Not Track" signals because there is no uniform technological standard yet in place. We will continue to review new technologies and may adopt a standard once one is created.

California Residents

If you are a California resident, you can ask us about our policies for sharing your personal information with certain other organizations and/or choose to opt out of our sharing your personal information with unaffiliated organizations for their marketing purposes.

Retaining, Altering, and Removing Your Personal Data

You can access, keep, change, or delete the information we have about you. If you want to do this, please contact us using the information below. If you want to update, correct, change, or delete any personal data you gave us before, go to your profile and do it there. But remember that if you delete some information, you might not be able to use some features of our Site in the future without giving us that information again. We will do what we can to comply with your request as soon as possible. Also, remember that we will keep personal data in our database whenever we have to by law.

We need to keep some of your information so that we can keep track of what you have done and also so that we can finish any transactions you started before asking us to delete or change the data. The time we will keep your personal data depends on what the purpose is. We will usually keep it for as long as we need it unless a longer time is required by law.

Children Under the Age of 13

It is especially important to protect the privacy of young children. The Site is designed for people who are 13 years old or older. If you are younger than 13, you need the permission of your parent or guardian to use this Site. You are not allowed to provide any personal information to us if you are younger than 13. Do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address.

The Company does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We have the right to change this policy at any time. You should check this page every now and then to see if there are any changes. If you keep using our website after changes are made, you will agree with the new policy. The information we collected before a change is posted will be used under the rules and laws applied at the time it was collected.

ThePetWorld.org  is dedicated to offering information and education about pets but does not offer veterinary advice. Our content should not be considered as an alternative to professional veterinary consultation.

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