Terms of Use
January 4, 2009
This policy applies to all of the products, services, and websites offered by Doglirious LLC, its subsidiaries, and affiliated companies (collectively, Doglirious “services”).
Doglirious adheres to the Safe Harbor principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement, and is registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Safe Harbor Program.
If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at Privacy Matters, c/o Doglirious, 3525 Piedmont Road, 7 Piedmont Center, Suite 300, Atlanta, GA 30305 USA.
Topics
- Information We Collect and How We Use It
- Choices for Personal Information
- Privacy and Information Sharing
- Information Security
- Data Integrity
- Accessing and Updating Personal Information
- Enforcement
- Changes to This Policy
- Disclosure Statement
- Disclaimer
- Copyright Statement
Information We Collect and How We Use It
We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us, such as “Advice & Tips” and “Product Reviews”. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:
- Information you provide – When you sign up for Email Blog Delivery, Email Newsletter Delivery, or other Doglirious promotions that requires registration, we will ask for personal information (such as your name and email address). We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Doglirious services in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
- User communications – When you send email or other communication to Doglirious, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve our services.
- Links – Doglirious may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology and customized content.
- Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by Doglirious. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various services. Moreover, we do not exercise control over the various blogs, external sites, and websites referenced within our corporate website. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data, or solicit personal information from you. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of all third party websites.
Doglirious only processes personal information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
- Developing new services.
Doglirious processes personal information on web servers hosted by various third parties such as Media Temple, Google, GoDaddy, TheMessageCenter, and Yahoo Business Hosting.
Choices for Personal Information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case Doglirious may not be able to provide those services to you.
Privacy and Information Sharing
Doglirious recognizes the importance of privacy. As such, Doglirious only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Doglirious in the following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Doglirious, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If Doglirious becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular weblog article. Such information does not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the email address support at doglirious dot com with any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.
Information Security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where our company website and business data are stored.
We restrict access to personal information to Doglirious employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data Integrity
Doglirious processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our clients to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and Updating Personal Information
When you use Doglirious services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information. We also aim to allow you to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing within our backup systems), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users’ personal information.
Enforcement
Doglirious regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or Doglirious’s treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site or by writing to us at Privacy Matters, c/o Doglirious, 3525 Piedmont Road, 7 Piedmont Center, Suite 300, Atlanta, GA 30305 USA. When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is Doglirious’s policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Doglirious and an individual.
Changes to This Policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review, upon request.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or at Privacy Matters, c/o Doglirious, 3525 Piedmont Road, 7 Piedmont Center, Suite 300, Atlanta, GA 30305 USA.
Disclosure Statement
Doglirious is a Limited Liability Company registered in the state of Georgia.
Doglirious’s web site disseminates general information pertaining to pets, dogs, and the humans who love them. Accordingly, the information resulting from the use of tools or information on this Internet site should not be construed, in any manner whatsoever, as the receipt of, or a substitute for, professional individual advice.
For information pertaining to the registration status of Doglirious, please contact the Georgia state corporations division administrators. A copy of Doglirious’s current written disclosure statement discussing Doglirious’s business operations, services, and fees is available from Doglirious upon written request.
Disclaimer
Opinions expressed herein are solely those of Doglirious. Doglirious does not make any representations or warranties as to the accuracy, timeliness, suitability, completeness, or relevance of any information prepared by any unaffiliated third party, whether linked to/from Doglirious’s web site or incorporated herein, and takes no responsibility therefore. All such information is provided for convenience purposes only and all users thereof should be guided accordingly.
THE SERVICE AND THE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED BY Doglirious.com ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, AND Doglirious.com EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR ANY INFORMATION AND PRODUCTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL Doglrious.com BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE, THE INFORMATION AND THE PRODUCTS.
This web site is believed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regards to the subject matter covered. The accuracy of the information is not
guaranteed and is provided with the understanding that we are not rendering medical, psychological, legal, accounting, tax, or other professional services. If expert assistance is required, the services of a competent, licensed professional should be sought.
Copyright Statement
All rights reserved. All material contained herein is copyright protected and may not be reproduced in any manner without the express written permission of the copyright owner. Text, photos, articles and logos: Copyright © 2008-2009 Doglirious, LLC., Michelle Simmons and Justin S. Parr, Principals. “Crazy About Dogs”™ and “Doglirious”™ rights owned by Doglirious, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
