DogTime Privacy Policy
DogTime is committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information that you provide to us when using DogTime. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information received about you when you visit DogTime.
We may make content or services from other websites including our affiliated or co-branded Websites available to you from links located on DogTime. These other websites are not subject to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you review the privacy policy at each such website to determine how that site protects your privacy.
Information We Collect
General: When you register and at other times, we will collect personally identifiable information from you that may include your name, ZIP code and e-mail address. We do not, however, knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen. You may choose to use your real name or a screen name.
Profiles and postings: We offer features that allow you to share your opinions, information with our readers, including both text and other media such as photographs. We will not share this information with other organizations. However, it will be visible to all users of our site. We may reuse and modify this information in other places on this site and other sites we own.
Surveys: We may conduct occasional online surveys. For example, when you're within our website, you may see a pop-up window offering you the optional opportunity of participating in a survey. These surveys are entirely voluntary and you may easily decline to participate.
Website usage information: We automatically collect IP addresses and website usage information from you when you visit our website. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors and subscribers use and navigate our websites on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors and subscribers to each Web page, and the length of their visits.
How We Use Information Collected
We may use information in the following ways:
- For the purposes for which you specifically provided the information including, for example, to enable us to process, validate and verify subscriptions.
- To send you e-mail notifications about our new or existing products and services, special offers, or to otherwise contact you.
- To enhance existing features or develop new features, products and services.
- To provide advertisers and other third parties with aggregate information about our user base and usage patterns.
- To allow us to personalize the content and advertising that you and others see based on personal characteristics or preferences.
We may use third party network advertisers to deliver ads to you on our behalf. These network advertisers and service providers may be supplied with or have access to your personally identifiable information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf.
Except as specifically set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your personally identifiable information outside of DogTime unless you "opt in" to having your personally identifiable information shared with a company that is not affiliated with us.
Your Ability to Choose
When you subscribe to DogTime, you can let us know that you do not wish to receive information about new features and special offers by opting out at the time you give us your personally identifiable information.
When you visit our website, we may pass cookies to your computer. A cookie is a string of information that is sent by a website and stored on your hard drive or temporarily in your computer's memory, so that the site can deliver content appropriate for you. For example, when you choose a city to visit, you can then request the calendar of events. Our software determines which city's calendar to send by reading the cookie, which stores your city choice. When you return to the site at another time, the system can take you straight to that city's main page.
Certain features may not work if you've chosen to disable cookies in your Web browser. There is no way to use cookies to collect personal data from a personal computer. DogTime uses cookies only to streamline the viewing experience, distinguish paid members from other viewers, and collect aggregate information about user behavior such as average length of a site visit.
Security personal information, once collected, is never shown on the website. It may be emailed only to the address provided along with the information, but never to a different address, even one believed to be a new address for the same person.
Policy Modifications
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes here, so be sure to check back periodically.
Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, ZIP code, or email address) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here.
Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
Comments and Questions
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, you may contact us at http://dogtime.com/contact, or mail us at:
DogTime Media
27 Maiden Lane, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94108
Your California Privacy Rights Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at info@DogTime.com or write us at the above address.
