PuppyJar Privacy Policy

Updated on 27th December 2019

This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) that we gather when you are accessing or using our websites and service offered at puppyjar.com("Services"), but not to the practices of companies we don’t own or control, or people that we don’t manage.

For the purposes of EU data protection laws ("Data Protection Law"), PuppyJar is data controller (i.e., the company who is responsible for, and controls the processing of, your personal data).

What information do we collect and for what purpose?

We gather various types of Personal Information from our users and others, as explained in more detail below, and we use this Personal Information internally in connection with our Services, for example, to personalize, provide, and monitor and improve our Services, to allow you to set up a user account and profile, to contact you, allow others to contact you, and allow you to contact others through the Services, to respond to customer care and other inquiries, to process and fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to analyze how you use the Services. In certain cases, we may also share some Personal Information with third parties.

This Privacy Policy also covers our treatment of Personal Information about our customers’ users and other third parties that we receive from our customers and others. If you provide us with any Personal Information about another person, you represent and warrant that you have that person’s consent to do so and that such person has given explicit consent for us to collect, process, use and store their Personal Information for the purpose for which you have sent it to us and as set forth in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.

We’re constantly trying to improve our Services, so we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time as well. We post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. The date the Privacy Policy was last updated is identified at the bottom of this page. You are responsible for periodically visiting the PuppyJar website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used.

You may do the following at any time by contacting us at support@puppyjar.com: Opt out of any future contacts from us. See what information we have about you, if any. Change, correct, or have us delete any information we have about you. Express any concern you have about our use of your information.

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to ask us for a notice identifying the categories of Personal Information which we share with our affiliates and/or third parties for marketing purposes, and providing contact information for such affiliates and/or third parties. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a written request to: support@puppyjar.com.

Legal basis for processing in the EU

In the EU, the purposes for which we process your personal data are:

  1. where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you for the Service;
  2. Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests; and
  3. Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation in the EU.

Please contact us at support@puppyjar.comif you need details about the specific legal basis we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one legal basis has been set out.

How we use cookies and other tracking technology to collect information

Through cookies we place on your browser or device or through our browser extension, we may collect information about your online activity after you leave our Services. Just like any other usage information we collect, this information allows us to improve the Services and customize your online experience, and otherwise as described in this Privacy Policy. Your browser may offer you a “Do Not Track” option, which allows you to signal to operators of websites and web applications and services (including behavioral advertising services) that you do not wish such operators to track certain of your online activities over time and across different websites. Our Services do not support Do Not Track requests at this time, which means that we collect information about your online activity both while you are using the Services and after you leave our Services.

Whenever you interact with our Services, we automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser or device, which may include your IP address, device identification, “cookie” information, the type of browser and/or device you’re using to access our Services, and the page or feature you requested. “Cookies” are identifiers we transfer to your browser or device that allow us to recognize your browser or device and tell us how and when pages and features in our Services are visited and by how many people. You may be able to change the preferences on your browser or device to prevent or limit your device’s acceptance of cookies or you may uninstall our browser extension, but this may prevent you from taking advantage of some of our features.

Our advertising partners or customers may also transmit cookies to your browser or device, when you click on ads that appear on or through the Services. Also, if you click on a link to a third party website or service, a third party may also transmit cookies to you. Again, this Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies by any third parties, and we aren’t responsible for their privacy policies and practices. Please be aware that cookies placed by third parties may continue to track your activities online even after you have left our Services, and those third parties may not honor “Do Not Track” requests you have set using your browser or device.

We may use the data described above to customize content for you that we think you might like, based on your usage patterns. We may also use it to improve the Services – for example, this data can tell us how often users use a particular feature of the Services, and we can use that knowledge to make the Services interesting to as many users as possible.

We also automatically receive information about communications sent and received using our Services.

Our customers and other third parties may also provide us with Personal Information about our customers’ contacts and others. For example, we may receive Personal Information and other information from our customers, email senders, databases with information relevant to profile URLs and emails submitted to our Services, and other third parties. This information may include, without limitation, contact and other information.

We receive and store any information that you provide to us. For example, through the registration process and/or through your account settings, sending emails, uploading images, connecting with your Google account, requests for support through customer care, and otherwise using the Services, we may collect Personal Information such as your name, email address, location, shipping address, phone number, payment information, and third-party account credentials (for example, your log-in credentials for Google or other third party sites). Certain information may be required to register with us or to take advantage of some of our features.

In connection with your use of the Services, we may also collect information created or provided by you, or that we otherwise receive, in connection therewith.

We may communicate with you if you’ve provided us the means to do so. For example, if you’ve given us your email address, we may email you about your use of the Services.

We employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you; for example, data storage services, marketing services, and payment processing companies to receive and process your financial transactions for us. In addition, by submitting information on our Site or otherwise using our Services, Personal Information that we process and collect may be transferred between companies, business units and employees affiliated with us and you hereby explicitly consent to trans-border transmission of such information. Regardless of what country you reside or supply information from, you authorize us to use, process and store your information in the United States and any other country where we operate, which may have different rules, regulations and protections regarding privacy than those in your jurisdiction.

We may choose to buy or sell assets, and may share and/or transfer customer and other user information in connection with the evaluation of and entry into such transactions. Also, if we (or our assets) are acquired, merged, reorganized, or if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control or similar event, you acknowledge and explicitly consent that Personal Information could be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by a third party.

We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information that we believe is reasonably necessary to comply with law, legal obligations, regulations, law enforcement, governmental and other legal requests, or court order; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; address fraud, security or technical issues; or protect the rights, property, or safety of PuppyJar, our employees, our users, or others.

Keeping your information safe:

We care about the security of your information and uses commercially reasonable physical, administrative, and technological safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of all information collected through our Service. However, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems 100%. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and, where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.

For individuals based in the EU or Switzerland, we store personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collect the data (see above under "What information do we collect and for what purpose?"), except if required otherwise by law.

Your choices

  1. Customer Data

    Customer provides us with instructions on what to do with Customer Data. A Customer has many choices and control over Customer Data. Since these choices and instructions may result in the access, use, disclosure, modification or deletion of certain or all Customer Data, please review the Help Center pages for more information about these choices and instructions.

  2. Other information

    If you have any questions about your information, our use of this information, or your rights when it comes to any of the foregoing, contact us at support@puppyjar.com.

  3. Your rights in respect of your personal information if you are located in the EU or Switzerland

If you are located in the EU or Switzerland, you have the following rights in respect of your personal data that we hold:

  1. Right of access.

    The right to obtain access to your personal data.

  2. Right to rectification.

    The right to obtain rectification of your personal data without undue delay where that personal data is inaccurate or incomplete.

  3. Right to erasure.

    The right to obtain the erasure of your personal data without undue delay in certain circumstances, such as where the personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed.

  4. Right to restriction.

    The right to obtain the restriction of the processing undertaken by us on your personal data in certain circumstances, such as where the accuracy of the personal data is contested by you, for a period enabling us to verify the accuracy of that personal data.
  5. Right to portability.

    The right to portability allows you to move, copy or transfer personal data easily from one organization to another.
  6. Right to object.

    You have a right to object to processing based on legitimate interests and direct marketing.

If you wish to exercise one of these rights, please contact us using the contact details at the end of this Privacy Policy.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint to your local data protection authority. Further information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

Other Choices

In addition, the browser you use may provide you with the ability to control cookies or other types of local data storage. PuppyJar does not control these choices, or default settings, which are offered by makers of your browser.

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