PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: Friday, July 25, 2008
MyDogBreed.com strives to offer its
visitors the many advantages of Internet technology and to provide
an interactive and personalized experience. We may use Personally
Identifiable Information (your name, e-mail address, street address,
telephone number) subject to the terms of this privacy policy. We
will never sell, barter, or rent your email address to any
unauthorized third party. Period.
How we gather information from users
How we collect and store information depends
on the page you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to
participate and the services provided. For example, you may be asked
to provide information when you register for access to certain
portions of our site or request certain features, such as
newsletters or when you make a purchase. You may provide information
when you participate in sweepstakes and contests, message boards and
chat rooms, and other interactive areas of our site. Like most Web
sites, MyDogBreed.com also collects information automatically
and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to
our visitors. For example, we may log the name of your Internet
Service Provider or use cookie technology to recognize you and hold
information from your visit. Among other things, the cookie may
store your user name and password, sparing you from having to
re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control the
number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while
visiting our site. As we adopt additional technology, we may also
gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can
choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting
your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do you may be
unable to access certain portions of the site or may be asked to
re-enter your user name and password, and we may not be able to
customize the site’s features according to your preferences.
What we do with the information we collect
Like other Web publishers, we collect
information to enhance your visit and deliver more individualized
content and advertising. We respect your privacy and do not share
your information with anyone.
Aggregated Information (information that does
not personally identify you) may be used in many ways. For example,
we may combine information about your usage patterns with similar
information obtained from other users to help enhance our site and
services (e.g., to learn which pages are visited most or what
features are most attractive). Aggregated Information may
occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business partners.
Again, this information does not include any Personally Identifiable
Information about you or allow anyone to identify you individually.
We may use Personally Identifiable Information
collected on MyDogBreed.com to communicate with you about your
registration and customization preferences; our Terms of Service and
privacy policy; services and products offered by MyDogBreed.com
and other topics we think you might find of interest.
Personally Identifiable Information collected
by MyDogBreed.com may also be used for other purposes, including
but not limited to site administration, troubleshooting, processing
of e-commerce transactions, administration of sweepstakes and
contests, and other communications with you. Certain third parties
who provide technical support for the operation of our site (our Web
hosting service for example) may access such information. We will
use your information only as permitted by law. In addition, from
time to time as we continue to develop our business, we may sell,
buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such
transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets.
We may also disclose your information in response to a court order,
at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to do so
by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to
us, and/or to law enforcement authorities whenever we deem it
appropriate or necessary. Please note we may not provide you with
notice prior to disclosure in such cases.
Affiliated sites, linked sites and
advertisements
MyDogBreed.com expects its partners,
advertisers and affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. Be
aware, however, that third parties, including our partners,
advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible
through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection
policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our site
you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a MyDogBreed.com
page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third
party. Also, through MyDogBreed.com you may be introduced to, or
be able to access, information, Web sites, features, contests or
sweepstakes offered by other parties. MyDogBreed.com is not
responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You
should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties
when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third
party.
While on our site, our advertisers,
promotional partners or other third parties may use cookies or other
technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or
retrieve information about you. For example, some of our advertising
is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the
advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular
advertisement before. Other features available on our site may offer
services operated by third parties and may use cookies or other
technology to gather information. MyDogBreed.com does not
control the use of this technology by third parties or the resulting
information, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of
such third parties.
You should also be aware that if you
voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on message
boards or in chat areas, that information can be viewed publicly and
can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and
may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third
parties. Such activities are beyond the control of
MyDogBreed.com and this policy.
Children
MyDogBreed.com does not knowingly collect
or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about
children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have
received any information from a child under 13 in violation of this
policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe
MyDogBreed.com has any information from or about anyone under
13, please contact us at the address listed below.
Contacting Us.
We can be reached by contacting:
Changes to this Policy
MyDogBreed.com reserves the right to
change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically
for changes. Your continued use of our site following the posting of
changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be
used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the
information was collected.
Governing law
This policy and the use of this Site are
governed by North Carolina law. If a dispute arises under this
Policy we agree to first try to resolve it with the help of a
mutually agreed-upon mediator in the following location: Hoke
County, North Carolina. Any costs and fees other than attorney fees
associated with the mediation will be shared equally by each of us.
If it proves impossible to arrive at a
mutually satisfactory solution through mediation, we agree to submit
the dispute to binding arbitration at the following location: Hoke
County, North Carolina, under the rules of the American Arbitration
Association. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration may
be entered in any court with jurisdiction to do so.
MyDogBreed.com is controlled, operated and
administered entirely within North Carolina. This statement and the
policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any
contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.
