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Privacy Policy

WHO WE ARE

The Green Pet Guide (“company”, “I”, “we” or “us”) is dedicated to respecting the privacy of your personal information, and this privacy policy describes what information is collected from you by TheGreenPetGuide.com (hereinafter the “website”) and how it is used. The term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits and/or views the website.

By visiting and using the website, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of the website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the website if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

NO WARRANTY

The Green Pet Guide does not make any warranties of any kind.

The Website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. The Green Pet Guide disclaims all warranties, express and implied, including but not limited to fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement, availability, or security.

We make a reasonable effort to provide accurate information, but cannot warrant that any information provided is accurate, complete, reliable, or current. We provide no warranty or assume liability for any information on the Website.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect information from you when you subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form, enter information on our site, or simply browsing the site.

We may collect personal information from you that you’ve voluntarily submitted to us, such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to this website when signing up for newsletters or by submitting an inquiry via our contact form.

We may also collect anonymous information such as your IP address. Anonymous information consists of non-personally-identifiable data. For example, when you use our website, we can log your IP address, the device you are using, operating system, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, time spent on our site, when you came to our site. We may also collect information on actions you take while visiting our website, such as what links or buttons you clicked on.

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To personalise your experience: your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
  • To improve our website: we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
  • To carry out a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
  • To send periodic emails.
  • The email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

COOKIES

Cookies are files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognise your browser and capture and remember certain information

We may use cookies for various reasons such as optimising and personalising your browsing experience, checking our website analytics, saving your preferences and settings for future use, serving ads based on your likes and interests, and affiliate marketing.

This information is only collected to better serve and understand your user experience on the website.  You have the option of turning off cookies on your computer should you wish to do so. If you choose to do that, you may not be able to view all features and content of this website.

You have the option of subscribing to our newsletter. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel embedded in emails allows an analysis of the success of our email marketing campaign. These tracking pixels allow us to see when you opened the email, if you opened the email, and what links you clicked in the email. This also allows the website to adapt future newsletter content to the interest of the user. This behaviour is strictly confidential and will not be passed onto third parties.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting is in use on this website. Collected aggregate data (such as age, gender and interests) is used to guide content in order to better serve visitors. It may also be cited in media kits and referenced in discussion with potential partnerships.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. 

USE OF WEB BEACONS AND PIXELS

In conjunction with the use of cookies, third parties may also use web beacons, which are also known as clear GIFs, web bugs or pixel tags to collect general information about your use of our website. They monitor user activity and are used to track customer behaviour. This information may be relevant to third parties such as the ad networks used on our website to tailor the advertising based on your behaviour and interests.

We may use social media pixels to track and collect general information about your use in compliance with different social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc) for the purpose of promoting products, tracking conversions, remarketing, running target advertisements and so forth.

Third parties like Twitter and other social media platforms may use their own cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect and receive information from our website for the purpose of providing target advertisements.

EMBEDDED CONTENT AND THIRD PARTY LINKS

We may include, offer or advertise third party links, products or services on the website. Once you click on a third party link and leave this website, you are no longer bound by our Privacy Policy.

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, advertisements, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We may use Google Adsense advertising along with any other third party advertising on the website. Google is a third party that also uses cookies to serve ads on the website for the purpose of providing a positive user experience. Third party vendors such as Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the website. You can opt out of Google by visiting their privacy policy and ad settings.

We have no control over these third parties and they have their own privacy policies. Neither are we responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties. You should contact them directly and read their privacy policies for any questions. You also agree that your use of these third party websites is solely at your risk.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We do not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent with the exception of the following circumstances:

  1. We may disclose your information to our trusted third parties that work with us such as our website hosting partners, email marketing service provider, other service providers that assist in the operation of the website, and any other affiliates and subsidiaries we rely upon to provide you products and services offered here.
  2. We may disclose your information in order to comply with state or federal regulations related to copyright infringement lawsuits or any other legal claims related to the website.
  3. We may disclose your information to our successor and/or acquiring party in the event of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, dissolution or partial sale in the future. However, your personal information will be transferred to the acquiring party in accordance with this privacy policy.

RIGHTS TO YOUR INFORMATION

When you send us an email, your email message along with email address and responses are saved for communication purposes with you. This information is kept confidential and we do not share, sell or trade your email information with third parties except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy.

You have the option of opting in to our email list. We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. By subscribing and opting in, you agree to receiving newsletters, updates, messages, promotional materials and any other content related to this website. We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us.

Your email address may also be shared with the technology provider we use in connection with the purposes for which you provided it. For example, we use Mailerlite to deliver our email newsletters. Information provided is transferred to Mailerlite for processing in accordance to their Privacy Policy and Terms.

Opt-out: you may opt-out of future email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of the email. You may also email us at [email protected] to be removed from our mailing list at any time.

GDPR

If you are a resident in the EU or UK, under GDPR you are entitled to certain rights as listed below:

  1. access your personal data
  2. ensure the accuracy of your personal data
  3. the right to have us delete your personal data
  4. the right to restrict further processing of your personal data, and
  5. the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused

If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by sending written notice to [email protected].

SOCIAL MEDIA 

Social media accounts and sharing options are available on this website. Social media sites (Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, and so forth) can track your personal information. Should you choose to interact with us on social media, please note that you will be voluntarily disclosing that personal information. This information is no longer private. It becomes public information and can be collected and used by others. We have no control over and take no responsibility for the use, storage or dissemination of such publicly disclosed personal information by you.

Any such interactions via social media with us do not subject us to any kind of liability related to misuse of your information by others.

SPONSORED CONTENT

We occasionally get opportunities to work with companies by reviewing a product or hosting a giveaway. A disclosure will always be included at the top of every sponsored post. Even when we are compensated, we will always be 100% honest in our opinions. We only share products that we believe in and feel are a good fit with The Green Pet Guide’s ethos and audience. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES 

This privacy policy is effective as of 10th March 2023 and will be updated and modified as needed. You are responsible for visiting this page periodically to check for future updates to this policy. Any modifications to this privacy policy will be effective upon our publishing of the new terms, and your continued use of our website after the posting of any updates constitutes your acceptance of our modified privacy policy.

CONTACT

For any questions or comments regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at [email protected]