Privacy Policy🐾
Last updated: 19th December 2021
This privacy policy has been compiled to inform visitors about how their personal information is being used online which can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your personal information in accordance with our website.
Our Commitment To Privacy🐾
Heathside Miniature Pinschers is committed to conducting itself ethically and in accordance with all applicable data protection laws and regulations. You can be sure we take responsibility for maintaining and protecting the customer information that we hold. Our policy is reviewed on a regular basis to ensure that we are in compliance with applicable legislation and current best practices.
What Personal Information We Collect When You Visit Our Website🐾
Name And Email Address🐾
We collect this information only when you fill in our contact form, leave a comment on our blog pages and/or contacting us using our email address [email protected] and anything contained within the proceeding emails.
Usage Data🐾
Usage data is collected automatically when using the service. Usage data may include information such as your device’s internet protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When you access the service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device.
Tracking And Cookies Data🐾
A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device that allows us to recognise and remember you. It is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive, tablet or mobile devices. When you visit our site, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
We use cookies and process personal data to personalise content and to provide social media and to analyse our traffic. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they strictly necessary for the operation of the site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission. The site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that are placed on our pages.
If you leave a comment on blog pages you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
When you visit our website, 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.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies.
Embedded Content From Other Websites🐾
Articles or pages 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.
Links To Other Sites🐾
Our site contains links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site, who will have their own privacy policy. We recommend you read through any third party site’s privacy policy. We do not take responsibility for any third party site’s privacy policies or GDPR practices.
Why We Collect Your Personal Information🐾
We use, store, and process information, including personal information, about you to understand, improve and develop our website as well as create and maintain a trusted and safer environment to comply with our legal obligations. This includes:
- Allowing you to access and use the website
- To provide and maintain the site’s service
- Improve and optimise user experience
- To provide user care and support
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the service
- To monitor the usage of the service
- To detect, address and prevent technical issues
- If and when you provide us with your contact information e.g. email address, we will use this to communicate with you about breed-related (miniature pinscher) and dog husbandry
- To notify you about updates or changes to the site’s service
- Comply with our legal obligations
- Enforce our terms
Social Media🐾
We have a social media presence. For each social media platform, please note that their terms & conditions and privacy policies apply. In respect to Facebook, please note that the platform collects data regarding the interaction of visitors (users and non-users) with the fan page. Aggregated data, in a way it does not directly identify anyone, is provided as ‘insights’ to fan page’s administrators. Facebook collects and provides aggregated standard information about gender, age group, location and language, interaction with the page of followers. Please read Facebook’s data policy.
Google Analytics🐾
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics JavaScripts from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service here.
Privacy Of Children And Person’s Underage🐾
Our site is not for and does not address anyone under the age of 18 e.g. “person’s underage” or “children”. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or a guardian and you are aware that your child or person underage has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children or person underage without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Who We Share Your Data With🐾
We do not share, trade or sell your personal information. We may release your information when we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
How We Protect Visitor Information🐾
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.
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 We Send Your Data🐾
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Reviews And Changes To Our Privacy Policy🐾
Heathside Miniature Pinschers may modify this privacy policy from time to time to reflect our current privacy practices. You should check this page accordingly to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy was last updated 19th December 2021 as shown on the top of this page.
Your Concerns🐾
If you have any concerns about anything covered in this Privacy Policy that you’d like to address, please contact us.