Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how PupWiki ("we," "us," or "our"), operated at pupwiki.com, collects, uses, and shares information when you visit our website.

Information we collect

Automatically collected

When you visit pupwiki.com, our hosting provider (Cloudflare) may automatically collect standard log data including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages visited. This data is used for security and performance purposes and is governed by Cloudflare's privacy policy.

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use our site. This service collects anonymised usage data including pages viewed, session duration, and general geographic region. Google Analytics uses cookies. You can opt out via the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Information you provide

If you contact us via our contact form or by email, we collect the information you provide (name, email address, message). We use this only to respond to your enquiry and do not add you to marketing lists without your explicit consent.

If you subscribe to our email newsletter, we collect your email address. This is used to send you the content you subscribed to. We use EmailOctopus to manage our email list. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link in any email we send.

Cookies

We use the following types of cookies:

Affiliate third parties

When you click affiliate links on our site, you are directed to third-party websites (Amazon, Chewy, etc.). These sites have their own privacy policies which govern the data collected when you visit and make purchases. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the privacy practices of these third parties.

Amazon's privacy policy is available at amazon.com/privacy. Chewy's privacy policy is available at chewy.com/app/content/privacy.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect to:

• Operate and improve the website
• Understand which content is most useful to our readers
• Respond to enquiries submitted via our contact form
• Send newsletter emails to subscribers who have opted in
• Detect and prevent security issues

We do not sell your personal data. We do not share your personal data with third parties for their marketing purposes.

Your rights (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of access — you can request a copy of the data we hold about you
• Right to rectification — you can ask us to correct inaccurate data
• Right to erasure — you can ask us to delete your data
• Right to object — you can object to our processing of your data
• Right to portability — you can request your data in a portable format

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us via our contact page. We will respond within 30 days.

California residents (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request deletion of your personal information, and to opt out of the sale of personal information. We do not sell personal information. To exercise your rights, contact us via our contact page.

Data retention

Analytics data is retained for 26 months, after which it is automatically deleted by Google Analytics. Contact form submissions are retained for up to 12 months. Email subscriber data is retained until you unsubscribe.

Children's privacy

This website is not directed at children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date of the most recent update is shown at the top of this page. Material changes will be noted on this page.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us.

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