Elitedawgs Privacy Policy
Privacy
Policy
Last
modified: 8/22/2018
Introduction
Elitedawgs respects your privacy and is
committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This
policy describes the types of information we may collect through the websites,
services and applications we make available to you, including elitedawgs.com
(the “Website”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining,
protecting and disclosing that information.
This
policy applies to information we collect:
•
on this Website;
• in e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and this Website;
or
• through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which
provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
It
does not apply to information collected by:
•
us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated
by the Company or any third party (including our affiliates); or
• any third party (including our affiliates), including through any application
or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the
Website.
For
purposes of this policy, “Personal Information” does not include persistent
identifiers that can be used to recognize users over time and across different
websites or online services.
Please
read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding
your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our
policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or
using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change
from time to time (see “Changes to our Privacy Policy” below). Your continued
use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those
changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children
Under the Age of 13
Our
Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13
may register at elitedawgs.com or provide any Personal Information to or on the
Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under
13. If you are under 13, do not register on the Website, make any purchases
through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of
this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your
name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name
you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information
from a child under 13 we will delete that information.
Information
We Collect About You and How We Collect It
Usage
Details, IP Addresses, Cookies and Other Technologies. We collect certain
limited information from and about users of our Website automatically as you
navigate through the site, when we send you emails, when you respond to
surveys, and when you use any referral service we may offer. Information
collected automatically may include certain information about your equipment,
browsing actions and patterns, including:
•
details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data and other communication
data and the resources that you access and use on the Website; and/or
• information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP
address, operating system and browser type.
The
information we collect automatically is statistical data. It helps us to
improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by
enabling us to:
•
estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
• store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our
Website according to your individual interests;
• speed up your searches; and
• recognize you when you return to our Website.
The
technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
•
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive
of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the
appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you
may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted
your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue
cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
•
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or
Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and
navigation to, from and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the
same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about
managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices about
How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.
•
Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails
may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as
clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for
example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and
for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of
certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We
do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this
information to Personal Information about you that we collect from other
sources or you provide to us.
Information
You Provide to Us. If you register with our Website as a subscriber, we collect
additional information from and about you, including information by which you
may be personally identified, such as name or e-mail address (“personal
information”) and information that is about you but individually does not
identify you, such as your gender. We collect this information directly from
you when you provide it to us.
The
information we collect on or through our Website may include:
•
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes
information provided at the time of subscribing to our service. We may also ask
you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if
you contact us.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the
fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial
information before placing an order through our Website.
• Your search queries on the Website.
You
also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter,
“posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the
Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions
are posted on the Website and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although
we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are
perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other
users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions.
Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not
be viewed by unauthorized persons.
We may provide a referral service to enable you to tell a friend about the
Services, in which case we will ask you for your friend’s name and email
address and then send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to try
the Services.
Third-party
Advertiser Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
Some
advertisements on the Website are served by third-party advertisers, ad
networks and ad servers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in
conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect
information about our users. This may include information about users’ behavior
on this and other websites to serve them interested-based (behavioral)
advertising. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or
how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement, you
should contact the responsible advertiser directly.
You
can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you
when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie
settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you
disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be
inaccessible or not function properly.
We
do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve
interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with
ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
How
We Use Your Information
We
use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including
any personal information:
•
to present our Website and its contents to you;
• to provide you with information, products or services that you request from
us;
• for any purpose that such information is provided for;
• to provide you with notices about your account and/or subscription, including
expiration and renewal notices and receipts for payments;
• to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any
contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
• to notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we
offer or provide though it;
• to allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website;
• in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and/or
• for any other purpose with your consent.
We
may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display
advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not
disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if
you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may
assume that you meet its target criteria.
Any
information you provide us for a referral service will be stored for the sole
purpose of sending a one-time email and tracking the success of the referral
service.
Disclosure
of Your Information
We
may disclose aggregated, non-identifying information (including personal
information that has been aggregated with other information so that it no
longer can personally identify the user) about our users without restriction.
We
may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described
in this privacy policy:
•
to our affiliates;
• to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support
our business;
• to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture,
restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or
all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of
bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information
held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred;
• to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
• for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information;
and/or with your consent.
We
may also disclose your personal information:
•
to comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to
any government or regulatory request;
• to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for
billing and collection purposes; and/or
• if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights,
property, or safety of the Company, our customers or others.
Accessing
and Correcting Your Information
You
can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and
visiting your account profile page.
You
may also send us an e-mail at admin@elitedawgs.com
to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have
provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also
deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change
information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement
or cause the information to be incorrect.
If
you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User
Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have
been copied or stored by other Website users. Information that you disclose in
any User Contributions is public information, with no expectation of privacy or
confidentiality. You should be aware that any personal information you submit
in the course of these public activities can be read, collected, or used by
other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited
messages. We are not and will not be responsible for the dissemination of any
personal information contained in any User Contributions. Proper access and use
of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is
governed by our terms of use.
Data
Security
We
have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from
accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind
firewalls. All transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The
safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have
given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of
our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask
you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately,
the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.
Although we exercise reasonable care to protect your personal information, we
cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our
Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are
not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures
contained on the Website.
Changes
to Our Privacy Policy
It
is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page.
If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we
will notify you by e-mail to the e-mail address specified in your account
and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy
was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for
ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable e-mail address for you,
and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for
any changes.
Contact
Information
To
ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact
us at admin@elitedawgs.com.