ShihTzuPlanet Privacy Policy

Everyone at shihtzuplanet.com recognizes the importance of your personal data. If you share any of your personal information with us, you agree to the collection and use of data concerning this privacy policy.

On this page, you can get information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you visit shihtzuplanet.com, and how we safeguard this information you shared with us.

Here at ShihTzuPlanet. We commit to never selling your personal information to third parties.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Here at ShihTzuPlanet, we are the ones who collect and control your information.

ShihTzuPlanet’s legal bases for collecting and using your personal information depends on the Personal Information our company collects and the context in which we collect the information:

  • ShihTzuPlanet needs to perform a contract with you
  • You have given ShihTzuPlanet permission to do so
  • Processing your personal information is in ShihTzuPlanet legitimate interests
  • ShihTzuPlanet needs to comply with the law

We will retain your personal data only for as long as it’s necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain your personal information and use it to the extent that it’s necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our Privacy Policy.

If you’re a citizen of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have some data protection rights. If you wish to find out what personal data we hold about you and if you want us to delete it, please contact us as soon as possible.

In some specific circumstances, you have to follow data protection rights:

  • You have the right to access your data, to update it or to delete it
  • You have the right of rectification
  • You have the right to object
  • You have the right to restriction
  • You have the right to data portability
  • You have the right to withdraw your consent

What Data Do We Collect From You And How Do We Use It?

Comments

When leaving comments on ShihTzuPlanet.com, visitors also leave their IP address and browser user agent string. We collect this data to help improve spam detection, just like we collect the data shown in the comments form.

If you are using the Gravatar service, an anonymized string will be created from your email address. You can find the Gravatar service privacy policy HERE. After we’ve approved your comment, your profile picture will be visible to the general public in the context of your comment.

We do not collect user email addresses from the comments form for use in any email lists like newsletters and marketing contact lists.

ShihTzuPlanet.com will never sell user email addresses to third parties.

Log Data

Whenever someone visits our site, we collect and use information that the user’s browser sends to us. This data is called Log data and may include information such as IP address, ISP information, browser type, and version the user used to access our website. , as well as the time and date of the visit, and other statistics.

Contact Forms

When filling out a contact form on ShihTzuPlanet.com, the user will be prompted for his name, email address, or any other personal information. We collect the contact form data and only retain that information (including user email address) for as long as it’s necessary to address the contents of the message sent via the contact form.

ShihTzuPlanet.com never sells the information from the contact forms to any third party.

Cookies and Web Beacons?

In order to support ShihTzuPlanet.com, we use third-party advertisements. Some of these advertisements may use web cookies and web beacons. Web Cookies are files that contain very little data, usually just an anonymous unique identifier. These Web Cookies are sent to your browser from a website you visit and are stored locally on your device.

You have the option to accept or refuse the use of Web Cookies on our website. You shall also be notified every time a cookie is being sent to your device.

If you choose to refuse the use of Web Cookies on our website, you may affect the way you interact with ShihTzuPlanet.com as well as other websites. You may experience the inability to login to services such as personal accounts and forums.

If you leave a comment on ShihTzuPlanet.com, you will be prompted to opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in Web Cookies. This information is collected for your convenience since it allows you to fill in your details automatically. All Web Cookies sent from our website last for one year.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Blog posts and other pages on ShihTzuPlanet.com may include embedded content such as videos, images, articles, etc. This embedded content behaves the same way as if the user has visited the site whose content is embedded on ShihTzuPlanet.com.

These websites may collect data about you, use Web Cookies, and use third-party tracking. These websites may also monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracing your interaction with it if you have an account and are logged in to the website whose content is embedded on ShihTzuPlanet.com.

Analytics

ShihTzuPlanet.com uses automatic data collection services such as Google Analytics to collect particular information about your device, your interaction with our website, and your patterns. This data generally includes your location (if you have geolocation turned on), metrics (how you use our website), and any communication between your device and this website. Among other things, ShihTzuPlanet.com will collect data bout the type of device you use, your ISP information, your IP address, the type of operating system you use, and information about your browser.

We do not collect personal information. The data collected for analytics is strictly collected for statistical purposes. We later use this statistical data to improve our website and offerings.

Who We Share Your Data With

ShihTzuPlanet.com does not share or sell your personal data with anyone. However, we do use a third-party email provider to store user email addresses if they voluntarily opt-in to our email newsletter.

Security

Here at ShihTzuPlanet.com, we immensely value your trust in providing us your personal information, and we are striving to use any commercially available means of protecting it.

However, you must keep in mind that no method of internet communication or transmission of data is 100% secure. Thus we can’t guaranty your personal information’s absolute security.

How We Use Your Information

ShihTzuPlanet.com may use the information we collect from our users when they register, make a purchase, opt-in for our newsletter, respond to a survey, browse the website, or use other features and services in the following ways:

  1. To personalize your experience when visiting our website and allow us to deliver you the type of content and product offering you are most interested in.
  2. To generally improve ShihTzuPlanet.com to better serve our visitors
  3. To send periodic emails regarding user orders or to send information regarding other products and services

How Long We Retain User Data

Comments users leave on ShihTzuPlanet.com, and its metadata are retained indefinitely. We do this so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in the moderation queue.

Those users who register on ShihTzuPlanet.com also agree on allowing us to store their personal data they provide in their user profiles. All users on ShihTzuPlanet.com can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time. The only piece of information users can’t change their username. Website administrators can also see, edit, and delete information users provide on their profiles.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on ShihTzuPlanet.com, or if you’ve left comments, you can request to receive an exported file that contains all personal data we hold about you. You can also, at any time, request we permanently erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any information we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Advertising Partners

ShihTzuPlanet.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

Since we update our privacy policy periodically, we recommend you review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify all visitors of any changes to the privacy policy by posting a new privacy policy on this page. These changes go in effect immediately after they are published on this page.

ShihTzuPlanet Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding your personal data and how we use it, you can contact us by visiting our contact page.

You can also send us an email if you would like us to send you a file containing all the personal information we hold about you or to request that we permanently erase all of the personal data we hold about you.