Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how AmiesAnimals.org collect, use and share personal information of consumer users of this website, http://amiesanimals.org (the “Site”). This Policy also applies to any of our other websites that post this Policy.

What We Collect

We get information about you in a range of ways.

  • Information You Give Us: We collect your‎ name, postal address, email address, phone number, and other information you directly give us on our Site.
  • Information We Get From Others: We may get information about you from other sources. We may add this to the information we get from this Site.
  • Information Automatically Collected: We automatically log information about you and your computer. For example, when visiting our Site, we log your computer operating system type, browser type, browser language, the website you visited before browsing our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times, and information about your use of and actions on our Site.

How We Use Personal Information

We use your personal information to:

  • respond to comments and questions and provide customer service
  • send information including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages
  • protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity

Sharing Personal Information

We do not share your personal information with third parties. We may share personal information as follows:

  • We may share personal information for legal, protection, and safety purposes.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us.

Cookies

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

 If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

 Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.