Privacy Policy for Family Pet Focus
Effective Date: March 7, 2024
Welcome to Family Pet Focus (https://familypetfocus.com), your dedicated source for pet adoption information, tips, and heartfelt stories about cats, dogs, and various animals that enrich our lives. This privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, protect, and handle your personal information on our website, in compliance with United States law.
Who We Are
Our website, Family Pet Focus, is a niche blog dedicated to pet adoption and the joy pets bring into our lives. Our website address is: https://familypetfocus.com. For any privacy-specific concerns, you can reach us at [email protected].
Comments
When you leave comments on Family Pet Focus, we collect the data displayed in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection. An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. Following the approval of your comment, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment. Gravatar’s privacy policy can be found at https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Media
If you upload images to our blog, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can download and extract location data from images on the site.
Cookies
Family Pet Focus uses cookies to improve your experience. If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies, which are for your convenience so you won’t have to fill in your details again. These cookies last for one year.
We also use cookies for those logging in to their account, with specific cookies for login information and screen display choices, lasting for two days to a year depending on the cookie.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Such content from other websites behaves as though the visitor has visited the other website directly. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.
Analytics
Family Pet Focus uses analytics tools to gather anonymous data to improve our site and provide content that is more relevant to you.
Who We Share Your Data With
We do not share your personal information with third parties except in cases where it is required for providing you with our services or when required by law.
How Long We Retain Your Data
Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically. For registered users, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (username cannot be changed).
Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on our 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, excluding 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.
Your Contact Information
For privacy-specific concerns, please contact us at [email protected].
Additional Information
How We Protect Your Data: We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.
Data Breach Procedures: In the event of a data breach, we will take all necessary steps to protect data, inform affected individuals, and comply with applicable laws.
What Third Parties We Receive Data From: We may receive data from third-party analytics providers but ensure that this data does not include personally identifiable information.
What Automated Decision-Making and/or Profiling We Do with User Data: We do not use automated decision-making or profiling with user data.
Industry Regulatory Disclosure Requirements: We comply with all applicable industry regulations concerning the privacy and security of user data.
For any further questions or concerns about our privacy practices, please don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected].