Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome to Juniper Pets. We respect the privacy of our visitors and are committed to protecting your personal information. This policy describes what information we collect from you, how we use it, and your rights and options regarding this information.

Affiliate Links

Juniper Pets contains links to affiliate websites. When you click on and/or make a purchase through an affiliate link placed on our website, we may receive a small commission or other form of compensation at no additional cost to you. Please assume that any links contained on our website are affiliate links. Our use of affiliate links does not influence the products, services, and websites that we share with you. This disclaimer applies to all of the various means we use to communicate with you, including via this website, email, phone, social media, our products, or otherwise.

As an Amazon Associate Juniper Pets earn from qualifying purchases.

What Information Do We Collect?

Depending on your activities when visiting our blog, you may provide us with information such as your:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Location data

We also collect automatically logged information about your device and your activity on our blog.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Why Do We Collect This Information?

We use the information we collect from you for several purposes, including:

  • To provide, improve, and personalize our content
  • To communicate with you, respond to your comments or queries, and send you updates about our blog
  • To analyze our blog traffic and understand our audience

How Do We Collect Your Information?

We collect information directly from you when you provide it to us (e.g., when you subscribe to our newsletter or contact us) and automatically when you visit our blog (e.g., via cookies).

Our Use of Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. We use cookies for purposes including authentication, status determination, personalization, security, advertising, and analysis. We also use Google Analytics, which gathers information about website use by means of cookies.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. Please note that blocking cookies may affect the functionality of our site.

Do We Share Your Information?

We do not share your personal information with third parties unless we have your explicit consent, are required to by law, or for advertising purposes with affiliates.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

We are committed to protecting your personal information and implement appropriate security measures to protect it against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

Data Retention and Deletion

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless legally required to retain it for a longer period.

Email Addresses

We may collect your email address for communication purposes. We will not share your email address with any third parties.

Additional Rights of EEA (European Economic Area) Residents

If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights to access, correct, or delete your personal data, restrict further processing of your personal data, and lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event of data misuse.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The most recent version of the policy will always be posted on the site, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the policy. By using our site or services after the