Privacy Policy for Petfinder.PawsofJoy 🐾 Last Updated: 28th March 2025 .Introduction PawsofJoy 🐾 ("we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This document describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. By accessing or using our website, you agree to this privacy policy. Information Collection We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including: Personal identification information such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, payment information when you make purchases. Non-personal information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our website, and usage details including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data. Information about your interactions with our website including the pages you visit, time spent on pages, clickstream data. Technologies Used for Data Collection As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies including cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. The cookies we use include strictly necessary cookies which are essential for the website to function properly, performance cookies which help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously, functionality cookies which allow the website to remember choices you make, and targeting cookies which track visitors across websites to display relevant ads. Specifically we use Google cookies (_ga, _gid, _gat) to analyze website traffic and Facebook Pixel cookies (fr, tr) for advertising purposes. You can control cookies through your browser settings. Use of Information :The information we collect helps us to improve our website and deliver better service, including by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns, store information about your preferences, speed up your searches, recognize you when you return to our website, and provide targeted advertisements About .We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us including any personal information to present our website and its contents to you, provide you with information, products or services that you request from us, fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, notify you about changes to our website or any products or services we offer, and for any other purpose with your consent. Data Sharing and Disclosure We may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy to our subsidiaries and affiliates, to contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential, to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it, for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information, and with your consent. We may also disclose your personal information to comply with any court order, law or legal process including to respond to any government or regulatory request, to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, and if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our business, our customers or others. Data Security We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure including the use of SSL technology to encrypt data during transmission, secure servers protected by firewalls, and strict access controls limiting which employees can access user data. However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. Data Retention We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Transaction data including purchase records are retained for 7 years to comply with California tax laws. Inactive user accounts are deleted after 2 years of inactivity. User Rights Under California law (CCPA), California residents have the right to request accessto the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about them in the last 12 months, request deletion of their personal information, opt out of the sale of their personal information (though we do not sell personal data), and not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising these rights. All users regardless of location may contact us at [Your Email] to request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal data. We will respond to verifiable requests within 45 days. International Data Transfers Your information including personal data may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. By providing your information you consent to this transfer. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy including implementing appropriate cross-border transfer mechanisms as required by law. Children's Privacy Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [Your Email]. Policy Changes We may update our privacy policy from time to time. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our website and this privacy policy to check for any changes. Material changes will be notified by email to the primary address we have on file or through a prominent notice on our website. Contact Information To Review Testimonials about this Terms & Waiver  and reach us Contact