Privacy Policy
Your online privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At BulldogsAndYou.com, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
The privacy statement below discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
Information BulldogsAndYou.com Gathers And Tracks
BulldogsAndYou.com gathers two types of information about users:
Optional user supplied information. These are voluntary submissions to receive email messages or newsletters, to participate in our blogs, make purchases, invite friends, or participate in polls and surveys. In general, any information you provide will only be used by BulldogsAndYou.com its agents and service providers. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law.
Aggregated tracking information of page views throughout our sites. Data recorded includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), pages visited, platform type, etc., to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. This information is never matched with personally identifiable information and is used solely to improve our service. Under no circumstances does BulldogsAndYou.com divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
Optional User Supplied Information
The following require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:
Electronic Newsletters And Email Lists
To utilize our email subscription services, users are required to provide their name and email address, and may volunteer additional information such as their physical address and / or telephone number. Users may remove themselves from any mailing list by following the unsubscribe link provided in every mailing. This information is kept confidential and provided to no one else unless obliged by law, except in the case of a user completing a form inviting friends to visit the site, where the user's email address will be forwarded to the friend(s) specified as proof of identity, or unless otherwise notified in advance.
Blogs
To become a member of any of the BulldogsAndYou.com blogs users must register, however registration is not required to view public pages. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address. To post a comment on a blog, users must supply a valid email address in order to limit anonymous spam. This information is kept confidential and provided to no one else except as obliged by law.
Polls
BulldogsAndYou.com may run interactive polls for users to share their opinions with others and see what people think about certain issues. Responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. BulldogsAndYou.com uses cookies to mark which users have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question, but collects no information about individual users.
Surveys
BulldogsAndYou.com may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We may sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never divulge information about specific individuals to any third party.
Purchases
When making a purchase, information such as PayPal account or credit card number, buyer name and contact information is collected. Credit card details are securely transmitted by the credit card processing company on its own secure server and are never revealed to BulldogsAndYou.com. The contact information you provide is used for billing and may also be used for marketing purposes which you can opt-out from at any time using the unsubscribe link provided in any and all mailings.
Aggregated tracking information
This information is automatically collected when visiting pages on BulldogsAndYou.com
Usage tracking
BulldogsAndYou.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with any data about individual users. We use this information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on visits to those areas. We do not track what pages individual users visit, simply which pages are most popular or effective overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
BulldogsAndYou.com records the search terms users enter in our Search function, to help our understanding of what interests users. This data is never associated with individuals.
BulldogsAndYou.com may create aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad.
BulldogsAndYou.com also has relationships with other companies that serve ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, these ad servers may deliver cookies and collect information such as your domain type, your IP address, ads viewed and ads clicked. No personally identifiable information is collected.
Cookies
In order to assist tracking and improve user experience, BulldogsAndYou.com uses cookies. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie cannot read data from your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. BulldogsAndYou.com uses cookies to record information about your preferences, tracking user traffic patterns and monitoring ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, many features will either not work at all, or not work properly without cookies enabled.
Links
The BulldogsAndYou.com website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), BulldogsAndYou.com will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent. Building on that, BulldogsAndYou.com will not knowingly ask for such information from anyone below 16 years of age without requesting parental consent.
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to BulldogsAndYou.com or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on BulldogsAndYou.com, we may use whatever information we have about you to stop such behaviour.
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use by BulldogsAndYou.com of information as described above. Any future modifications to our privacy policy will be posted here to ensure that you are always aware of what information is collected by BulldogsAndYou.com and how it is used.
