Privacy Policy
Little Sweetie Industries, LLC ("Wet Nose Guide,"
"we," "us" or "our") respects the privacy of visitors to this website. The following privacy policy (the "Policy")
covers the website www.wetnoseguide.com ("Site")
only. The purpose of this Policy is to
inform our visitors ("you")
about the types of information we gather about you when you visit our Site, how
we may use that information, with whom it is shared, what choices you have
regarding our use of your information and how you may access some of the
information you provide to us. Wet Nose
Guide reserves the right to change this Policy at any time by posting a new
privacy policy at this location.
Therefore, we encourage you to refer to this
Policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our Policy and are aware of
any changes. Continued access will
constitute your acceptance of any such changes.
Please read this Policy carefully. You can access this Policy at any time at http://www.wetnoseguide.com/privacy-policy/
. BY
VISITING THE SITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN THIS
POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS POLICY, OR ANY POSTED GUIDELINES OR RULES, THEN
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS SITE. In addition to reviewing this Policy, please read our Terms of Use . Your use of the Site constitutes agreement to
its terms and conditions, as well.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE.
Personal Information
At various locations on our Site, such as when
you contact us, register or participate in promotions or Interactive Areas ("Interactive
Areas" include chat rooms, bulletin boards, message boards or auditoriums,
article or blog comment areas, SMS text messaging, mobile alerts, and mobile
e-mail updates), we may request that you supply us with personal information (e.g.,
name, e-mail address, postal addresses, home, work and/or mobile telephone
number, birth date and/or gender). We
may also survey visitors about various topics, including local dog parks, pet
stores, groomers and walkers and how we can improve our Site and services. Response to our surveys is entirely
voluntary. If you do not want your
personal information collected, please do not submit it to us. When you do provide us with personal
information, we may use that information to better understand your needs and
how we can improve our Site, service offerings, products, and your user
experience in order to provide you with news and information tailored to your
specific interests and preferences. We
may also use that information to contact you, for example, to answer a question
or respond to a comment you have submitted, request feedback, distribute our
newsletters, notify the winners of any promotions sponsored by us and allow
participation in Interactive Areas. In
addition, we may use your personal information to keep you up to date on
special events and for communicating other information we think you would like
to hear about.
Consistent with Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998, we do not knowingly request or accept personally
identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13) without
prior written verifiable consent. If we learn that personally identifiable
information of persons under thirteen (13) years of age has been collected on
the Site, Wet Nose Guide will take the appropriate steps to delete this
information.
Non-Personal Information
In some cases, when you visit our Site, we may
also collect information that is non-personal information or information that,
by itself, cannot be used to identify or contact you. Examples of this type of information include
the type of Internet browser or computer operating system you use, demographic
information (your age, gender, income, education, profession, zip code, etc.),
the date and time you visited our Site, the pages you accessed, the name of the
website from which you linked to our Site and other anonymous data involving
your use of our Site. We also may ask
for additional information (e.g., your favorite breeds and treats) which
you have the option not to provide. This
policy in no way restricts or limits our collection and use of aggregate
information, and we may use and share this information, which is not linked to
any personal information, to analyze trends, to gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use and for marketing and promotional purposes.
Cookies, Web Beacons & Similar Technologies
We may use "cookies" - small pieces of data or
text files that are stored on your computer tied to information about you - to
collect information. Among other things,
this information will help us enhance your experience on the Site. Cookies can
store non-personal identifiable information, such as what websites, pages, or
advertisements your browser has accessed and may be tied to the personal information
you knowingly choose to provide to us.
Cookies help establish a user session and allow our server to correctly
provide Site users with the appropriate information, advertisements and
services. Session cookies exist only for
as long as your browser remains open.
When the session ends, the browser is closed and the cookies go
away. Persistent cookies, in contrast,
last from visit to visit. Persistent
cookies are saved on a visitor's computer by the browser and do not go away
when you exit your browser. We may use
both types of cookies to enable us to collect aggregate information on the
usage patterns of our Site, such as what areas of the Site are most popular, so
we can tailor our Site to user preferences.
Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you
cookies as well. We do not have control
over cookies placed by advertisers. We
may also use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the
Site. These vendors may use cookies, Web
beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to
interests you have shown by browsing on this and other websites you have
visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before
and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect
non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages
visited, time of visits, content and/or ads viewed, and other clickstream
data. The use of cookies, Web beacons,
or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to
their own privacy policies, not ours, and Wet Nose Guide disclaims all
liability in connection therewith. If
you do not want the benefits of these advertising cookies, you may be able to
opt-out by visiting http://
www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
Most Internet browsers can be set to refuse to
accept cookies, although this may affect your Internet experience. You can also erase cookies that are already
on your computer, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is
stored. Please refer to your browser
instructions or "help" screen to learn more about these functions.
We may use "Web beacons" (also known as Internet
tags, pixel tags, single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs, 1-by-1 GIFs,
and Web bugs) - tiny graphic files placed on a Web page which send a signal
when a user has visited that page - allowing the Site to collect standard
access information, such as time and date of a page view, and a description of
the page on which the Web beacon resides.
We use Web beacons to help manage the effectiveness of our online
advertising and to gather access information, such as counting the users who
have visited those pages and compiling aggregated statistics about Site usage.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES.
Our Site contains links to third party
websites. We are not responsible for the
privacy practices of those websites. We
encourage you to be aware when you leave our Site and to read the privacy
statements of every website that collects personally identifiable
information. This Policy applies solely
to information collected by our Site and does not cover information collected elsewhere.
SECURITY.
Our Site has security measures in place to
protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of information under our
control. Wet Nose Guide safeguards the
security of the data you send us with physical, electronic, and other
procedures. However, it is not possible
to guarantee the security or integrity of information disclosed online. As no data transmission over the Internet is
completely secure, we urge you to take every precaution to protect your
personal data when you are on the Internet.
All personal information you submit to us
through the Site is encrypted with secure server software (SSL) that encodes
the information before your Web browser software sends it to us. The SSL software decodes the data only after
it reaches our server, meaning that your data will be encrypted were hackers to
intercept it while in transit. Once the
data reaches our server, your private account and customer information is
located on a secure server behind a firewall.
It is not directly connected to the Internet. Because no physical or electronic security is
impenetrable, by using the Site, you agree to assume all risks in connection
with the information sent to us or collected by us when using the Site. The data is then stored and maintained in our
database and may be archived elsewhere.
Our records are stored indefinitely, as are our archival backup copies,
on systems that are only accessible by authorized employees of Wet Nose Guide
and our third-party vendors and partners.
Your account information and access
to our Service is accessible only through the use of an individual user name
and password. To protect the
confidentiality of personal information, you must keep your password
confidential and not disclose it to any other person. You are responsible for all uses of our Site
by any person using your account user name and password. Please advise us immediately at info@wetnoseguide.com if you believe your account user ID
and password have been misused.
ACCESS AND CONTROL OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.
If you are a registered user of our Site, you
may view, correct, and delete your personal information, or remove your profile
entirely from our database, simply by logging onto the Site and editing your
profile or by contacting our customer support at info@wetnoseguide.com.
E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS.
If
you send us an e-mail with questions or comments, we may use the personal
information you provide to respond to your questions or comments, and we may
save your questions or comments for future reference. There may be times when you will have the
opportunity to subscribe to an e-mail list or electronic newsletter that will
send information about our Site.
However, we will provide you with the option to change your preferences
and "opt-out" of receiving those communications.
You may request at any time that we not e-mail you in the future by
clicking the "unsubscribe" link which is included at the bottom of any e-mail communication
that you receive from us and hitting send, or by contracting us at info@wetnoseguide.com. When contacting us by e-mail, please insert "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject
line and the body of the message. If you
unsubscribe, you should assume that your request has been received and is being
processed. Please allow ten (10)
business days from when the request was received to complete the removal of
your e-mail address from our database as some of our promotions may have been
in process before submitting such request we will make reasonable efforts to
discontinue these e-mail communications as soon as practicable.
CERTAIN THIRD PARTY TRANSACTIONS.
Wet Nose Guide may disclose personal information
to our affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, contractors and permitted agents who
assist us in providing services in connection with this Site and our
business. In addition, we also allow
access to our database by third parties we engage to assist us in providing you
certain services. For example, we may
hire a company to help us with technical maintenance. We may also use a third party to facilitate
our online services, fulfill orders, process payments or conduct surveys on our
behalf. In these instances, we may need
to share your personal information. We
require these companies use your personal information only to provide that
particular product or service and do not authorize them to use your personal
information for any other reason. In
addition, if some or all of the assets of our business are sold to a third
party, such third party will be entitled to use the information disclosed by
users of our Site. Both the personal and
non-personal information that we or other third parties have collected may be
transferred as part of the transaction.
INFORMATION SHARING.
Though we make every effort to preserve user
privacy, we may need to disclose information as required by law, rule or
regulation or where we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary
to protect its rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order,
as requested by a governmental or law enforcement authority or other legal
process. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and
credit risk reduction. In addition, we
reserve the right to use or disclose non-personal information in any way we see
fit.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS.
Pursuant to
California Civil Code section 1798.83, a California resident who has provided
personal information to a business with whom he/she has established a business
relationship has the right to request from that business certain information
regarding whether the business has disclosed personal information to any third
parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. In general, if the business has made such a
disclosure of personal information, the business is required to provide a list
of all third parties to whom such personal information was disclosed in the
preceding calendar year, as well as a list of the categories of personal
information that were disclosed, upon receipt of a request by a California
resident. However, under the law, a
business is not required to provide the above-described lists if the business
adopts and discloses to the public (in its privacy policy) a policy of not
disclosing personal information to third parties for their direct marketing
purposes unless the customer first affirmatively agrees to the disclosure, as
long as the business maintains and discloses this policy. Rather, the business may comply with the law
by notifying the customer of his or her right to prevent disclosure of personal
information and providing a cost free means to exercise that right. As described in our Privacy Policy
, Wet Nose Guide does not disclose such personal information
to any third party for its direct marketing purposes without consent.
HOW TO CONTACT US.
If
you have any questions or suggestions regarding our Policy, or if you have
submitted personal information through the Site and would like access to such
information or to have that information corrected, please contact our
webmaster:
Postal address:
Little Sweetie Industries, LLC
7 E 8th St, Suite 289
New York, NY 10003
ATTN: Webmaster
E-Mail:
info@wetnoseguide.com
Last updated: July 2009
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