Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 7, 2025

Welcome to https://www.doggyhealthclub.com (the “Website”), a blog dedicated to helping you care for your beloved pets. Your privacy is critically important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines 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.

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://www.doggyhealthclub.com. We are an online blog that provides information and resources for pet health and wellness.

2. Data We Collect and How We Use It

We believe in data minimization, which means we only collect the information necessary to provide you with a great experience on our site and to operate our blog.

Information You Provide to Us:

  • Comments: When you leave a comment on our articles, we collect the data shown in the comments form, including your name and email address. We also collect your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (a “hash”). After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public next to your comment.
  • Contact Forms: If you contact us through a contact form, we will collect your name, email address, and any other information you provide in your message so that we can respond to your inquiry.

Information We Collect Automatically:

  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: Like most websites, we use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience.
    • Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.
    • Performance and Analytics Cookies: We use these cookies to understand how our visitors interact with our website, such as which articles are most popular. This helps us improve our content. We use services like Google Analytics for this purpose. All data is aggregated and anonymized.
  • Embedded Content from Other Websites: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube, images, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you have 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 tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

3. How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically.

For users who register on our website (if applicable), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

4. Your Rights Over Your Data

We respect your rights to your data. Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:

  • The right to access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • The right to rectification: You can request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to erasure (“The Right to be Forgotten”): You can request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing: You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability: You can request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [Insert Your Email Address Here].

5. Data Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. We have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

6. Children’s Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will take steps to delete that information.

7. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

8. How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us via our Contact Us Page.