Updated 8/15/22
Thank you for using our website. We take your privacy seriously at The Balanced Dog. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect the information of all end users of our Website, what we do with the information we collect and the choices that visitors to this website have concerning the collection and use of information, as well as what happens with your information.
By using this website, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy, so take the time to review the terms so you can make an informed choice about whether you will continue to use this site.
This privacy policy was last changed on 8/15/22 (updated software and information protection).
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
We collect non-identifiable personal information using “cookies." A cookie is a small data file that a website can transfer to your hard drive through your browser. The cookie is then stored on your computer as an anonymous tag that identifies your computer, but not you. You can set your browser to notify you if cookies are received, or set up your browser to not accept cookies. If you set your browser to block cookies, it may interfere with your ability to use our website to schedule appointments.
Visit www.aboutcookies.org to learn about how to delete and control cookies using the mail browser types. Advertisers and partners may also use their own cookies. We do not control use of these cookies and expressly do not claim responsibility for information collected through them.
We may collect some other personally identifying information about your use of our website in a non-identifiable format and combine it with other non-identifiable information, to be analyzed only at an aggregate level for marketing purposes.
Our Company Partners and Sponsors:
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Some products and services may be offered to Visitors to this website in conjunction with an affiliate, independent contractor seller or non-affiliated partner. To provide Visitors to this website with some of these products and services, the partner may need to collect and maintain personal information.
How Do We Use Your Information?
We use first-party and third-party cookies to compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so we can optimize our website and create a better user experience for you. We may use cookies via Google Analytics Advertising Features, Pinterest Advertising, and Facebook Advertising for remarketing, impression reporting, and interest reporting. Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics cookies. If you want to block cookies completely, you can disable them in your browser: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer. As stated above, if you set your browser to block cookies, it may interfere with your ability to use this website.
We do not respond to DNT (“Do Not Track”) privacy settings in your website browser. We may use third-party tracking services to provide data to optimize the services available on this website.
Browser Level Information
The Balanced Dog company web servers may automatically collect information about a site user’s IP address, browser type and the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on the website or not) and which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on the website or not) by reading this information from the user’s browser (information provided by every user’s browser). This information is collected in a database and used – in an aggregated, anonymous manner – in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our website. This information is automatically logged by most websites around the world, and is commonly accepted practice. The Balanced Dog may also use a third party to collect information, including through the use of web beacons.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Circumstances may arise where we may decide to sell, buy, merge, or otherwise reorganize our business in the United States or elsewhere, or where we may decide to share, rent, buy, or sell business assets for reorganizing, developing, or expanding our business. It is our policy to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions. If the company assets or our entire company is acquired, then the lists of personally identifiable information and other contact information will likely be one of the assets acquired. Although we take any and all appropriate measures to protect against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Our company does not maintain a process for an individual consumer who uses or visits our commercial web site or online service to review and request changes to any of his or her personally identifiable information that is collected through our web site or online service.
Information Regarding Children
Protecting children’s privacy is very important to us. It is our policy to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Therefore we restrict access to our website to persons eighteen years or older.
YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY REASON. PLEASE LEAVE THIS WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THIS WEBSITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THIS WEBSITE FALLS WITHIN THE CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.
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California Residents Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, under “Shine the Light law” (Cal Civ Code Section 1798.83) you can request the disclosure of certain personal information that we have disclosed to third parties for marketing purposes in the last year. To make a request, contact us at contact at thebalanceddogca dot com (please correct the email address for your purposes, we write it that way to avoid the spambots).
European Union / Switzerland Residents Privacy Rights
The European Union enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which gives individuals in the EU/EEA and Switzerland the right to correct, update, review, or delete their personally identifiable data. If you would like to make such a request, please contact us at brian at thebalanceddog dot com (please correct the email address for your purposes). We are located in the United States and any data you submit will be transferred to the United States. If you are a European Union resident and you are dissatisfied with how we have managed a complaint, you are entitled to contact your local data protection authority.
Our data retention policy is that members of the EU have control over us deleting your data; in other words, we will keep your data until you tell us to delete it.
Questions Regarding This Policy
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, please direct them to:
Brian at thebalanceddog dot com (please type the email address correctly for your purposes).
Revisions to This Policy
Our company reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this privacy policy by updating this posting. Your use of this website after any changes are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of these changes. Please consult this privacy statement prior to every use for any changes. Last updated: August 15, 2022.