PRIVACY POLICY

First Dog Barking LLC (“First Dog Barking”) respects the private nature of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat the information we collect when you visit our website and/or register for our email publications and other FDB offers and perks. Please read this notice carefully.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

In order to receive email publications, sponsor promotions or other First Dog Barking offers, we need your e-mail address and name for registration. So that we may provide you with additional services, such as contest entry submission, we may request additional information, including your name, zip code and telephone number. First Dog Barking does not collect any other personal information that you do not expressly provide. FIRST DOG BARKING WILL NOT DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ANY THIRD PARTY WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, EXCEPT TO A THIRD PARTY AS REQUIRED TO HELP US DISTRIBUTE OUR EMAIL PUBLICATION. YOUR PHONE NUMBER WILL NEVER BE SHARED WITH A THIRD PARTY.

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

At times, we may also request non-personally identifiable information, for example, annual income, buying preferences, and age. This information, also known as demographic and profile data, is optional. We may use this data to improve our site and/or personalize your experience at our site, in order to bring you more targeted and relevant content and to display such content according to your preferences. We may share this information with others, such as advertisers interested in advertising on the First Dog Barking site, but never on an individual level. This information will not contain any personally identifiable information about you or any other person. However, we reserve the right to use aggregated, anonymous data about our users as a group for any business purpose, such as analyzing usage trends and seeking compatible advertisers and partners.

USAGE INFORMATION

In addition to collecting personal and non-personal information, First Dog Barking may also collect non-personal, aggregated information about subscribers’ use of our emails and our site. This information is not personally identifiable and will only be used to find out how subscribers use our service and site. For example, this information will tell us how much time users spend on our site, from which other sites subscribers came, and to what other sites subscribers go. The collection of this information allows us to, among other things, prepare for traffic load demands and to efficiently distribute our email publications.

OPT-IN/OPT-OUT

First Dog Barking does not buy, rent, or sell email addresses to third parties. When you register with First Dog Barking, you will receive a confirmation email to verify your registration. Every FDB email publication includes a link to unsubscribe, allowing you to automatically and immediately remove yourself from subscription lists.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

As part of the service, First Dog Barking may create links allowing you to access third party sites. First Dog Barking is not responsible for the content that appears on those sites and does not endorse these sites. Please consult those sites’ individual privacy policies in order to determine how they treat user information.

FORWARDED EMAILS

When readers use the “Share this article with a friend” or “Forward this article to a friend” functions, the recipients email addresses are not added to any subscription list.

MODIFICATION TO THIS POLICY

First Dog Barking reserves the right to change this policy from time to time. However, all changes will be posted to this Privacy Policy at the time such changes are made. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page so please check back. Please note that continued access of First Dog Barking will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Privacy Policy.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

First Dog Barking may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us, our partners, sponsors, investors, or affiliates; (b) protect and defend our rights or property or those of our users; and (c) act as immediately necessary in order to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Thank you for taking the time to review First Dog Barking’s Privacy Policy. If you have questions about any aspect of our Privacy Policy, please send emails to this address: info@firstdogbarking.com.
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