Privacy Policy | Dog Friendly North Wales

Last updated: 12.02.2024

We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing a safe online experience for all visitors to our website. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information. By using our website, you agree to the terms outlined in this policy.

1. Information We Collect:

a. Personal Information: We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, and location when you subscribe to our newsletter, submit inquiries, enter a competition or participate in surveys.

b. Non-Personal Information: We may collect non-personal information such as browser type, IP address, and device information to improve our website's performance and user experience.

2. How We Use Your Information:

a. Personalisation: We use your personal information to personalise your experience on our website, provide relevant content, and communicate with you about our services.

b. Communication: We may use your contact information to respond to inquiries, or if opted in to marketing, send newsletters, updates, or promotional materials. You can opt-out of any marketing communications at any time using the unsubscribe link in the footer of an email.

c. Advertising: using either your marketing consent or your acceptance of cookies, tracking pixels or similar tracking technology we may show you dog friendly north wales advertisements that might interest you whilst you browse online.

d. Analytics: Non-personal information may be used for statistical analysis, improving website functionality, and enhancing user experience.

3. Sharing Your Information:

a. Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers for purposes such as website hosting, analytics, communication services and marketing services. This includes Google, Facebook, Instagram, and similar platforms and partners for advertising purposes. These providers are obligated to protect your information and comply with applicable data protection laws.

b. Legal Compliance: We may disclose your information to comply with legal obligations, enforce our policies, or protect our rights and the rights of others.

4. Affiliate Marketing and Third-Party Advertisers

a. Affiliate Marketing: We may engage in affiliate marketing, which means we may earn a commission when you make a purchase through our affiliate links. These links are provided for your convenience and to support the maintenance of our website.

b.Third-Party Advertisers: Our website may display advertisements from third-party advertisers. These advertisers may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your activities on our site and other websites. We do not have control over the privacy practices of these advertisers.

5. Cookies and Tracking:

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to enhance your browsing experience, analyse usage patterns, and provide targeted marketing and advertising content. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.

By using DogFriendlyNorthWales.co.uk, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this notice. If you do not accept the use of cookies, please disable them in your browser settings or refrain from using our website.

Types of Cookies We Use:

Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features.
Performance Cookies: We use these cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. This helps us improve the performance and user experience.
Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow us to remember your preferences and provide enhanced features, such as language preferences or saved searches.
Advertising Cookies: We work with third-party advertising partners to display personalised ads based on your interests such as with/through Facebook, Instagram and google. These cookies track your browsing habits and enable us to show you relevant content that may be of interest to you.

Here is a list of the main third party cookies that we currently use.

Facebook connect - This allows the user to like and share on Facebook
Facebook social plugins - This allows the user to follow us on Facebook and Instagram and allows us to remarket to relevant users who have visited our website
Poptin - This allows us to show you pop up forms, inviting you to sign up to our newsletter, enter competitions or make you aware of marketing news when you visit our website
Google Analytics - This is a web behaviour tool used to collate onsite browsing and shopping habits that we then use to improve the overall website experience
Google Dynamic remarketing - This allows us to remarket to relevant users who have been on the website looking at specific pages
YouTube - This allows users to view videos embedded into our website from YouTube

Managing Cookies:

You can control and manage cookies in your browser settings. Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may impact your experience on our website.

6. Retention

As long as you keep engaging with us, we will retain your personal information under legitimate interest for as long as we consider there is value to you and to us of maintaining contact, unless you ask us to delete it sooner.

Marketing contacts are only kept in our marketing database if they are showing signs of engagement (i.e. our database and system records at least an email open). This means we will stop emailing you if we haven’t heard from you for 12 months, and from this point you will be considered an inactive or ‘non-marketing’ contact. If you re-engage with us (by submitting a form on the website for example and opting in), you will be re-added to our mailing list and will start to receive emails again.

Non-marketing contacts are retained for a further 12 months before being permanently deleted if no further engagement is received.

7. Security:

We employ security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

8. Changes to the Privacy Policy:

We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes will be effective upon posting the updated policy on our website.

9. Your Rights:

You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. To exercise these rights or inquire about your data, please contact us using the information provided below.

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

10. Contact Information:

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Dog Friendly North Wales

Hello@dogfriendlynorthwales.co.uk

By using DogFriendlyNorthWales.co.uk, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. Please review this policy regularly for any updates.

Thank you for trusting us with your information.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (ico.org.uk) or to any equivalent body in the relevant jurisdiction (collectively, the “ICO”). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.