Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 28 March 2025
Introduction
Welcome to Veggie Dogfood ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at veggiedogfood.com (the "Website").
Who We Are
Veggie Dogfood is a website that provides information, reviews, and recommendations about vegetarian dog food products.
For questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Email: contact@veggiedogfood.com
Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
- Personal Data: Name, email address, and other contact details you provide when subscribing to our newsletter, commenting on our blog, or contacting us.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our Website, including pages visited, time spent, and referring websites.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, device information, and cookies.
How We Collect Your Data
We collect data through:
- Direct interactions (when you subscribe, contact us, etc.)
- Automated technologies (cookies, server logs)
- Third parties (analytics providers, advertising networks)
Cookies
We use cookies to improve your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and personalize content. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, but this may limit your ability to use some features of our Website.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Essential cookies: Necessary for the Website to function properly.
- Analytical/performance cookies: Allow us to recognize and count visitors and see how they move around our Website.
- Functionality cookies: Enable us to personalize content for you.
- Targeting cookies: Record your visit to our Website, the pages you visit, and the links you follow to deliver relevant advertisements.
How We Use Your Data
We use your data to:
- Provide and improve our services
- Respond to your inquiries
- Send you our newsletter (if you've subscribed)
- Analyze how our Website is used
- Comply with legal obligations
- Detect and prevent fraud
Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data on the following legal bases:
- Consent: When you explicitly agree to us processing your data for a specific purpose.
- Contract: When processing is necessary to fulfill a contract with you.
- Legitimate Interests: When processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided those interests don't override your rights.
- Legal Obligation: When processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
Data Sharing
We may share your personal data with:
- Service providers who help us operate our Website
- Analytics and search engine providers
- Affiliate partners (only aggregated, anonymized data)
- Law enforcement or regulatory authorities when required by law
Data Security
We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Access your personal data
- Correct inaccurate personal data
- Request erasure of your personal data
- Object to processing of your personal data
- Request restriction of processing your personal data
- Request transfer of your personal data
- Withdraw consent where we rely on consent to process your personal data
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@veggiedogfood.com. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of your other rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.
Third-Party Links
Our Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
Children's Privacy
Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this 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.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Email: contact@veggiedogfood.com
Complaints
If you have concerns about our data practices, please contact us first so we can address your concerns.