Privacy Policy (WooFresh.com)

Last Updated: February 22, 2020

Welcome to Woofresh.com!

The “Website” means Woofresh.com websites (including without limitation https://woofresh.com/ and any successor URLS, mobile or localized versions and related domains and subdomains and the “Service” means Woofresh.com's provision of access to a rich collection of articles, reviews and comparisons of various software products, in each case in whatever format they may be offered now or in the future. The Website and Service are collectively referred to herein as the “Services.”

If you are a visitor to the Website or a customer of the Services, except as expressly set forth below, this Privacy Policy applies to your use of the Website and the Services.

At Woofresh.com, we respect the privacy rights of our users and recognize the importance of protecting the personal information we collect about you. Our Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand what information we collect and how we use and share that information.

Information We Gather

Registration and Contact Information:

We collect information about you when you:

(a) register to use the Services and;
(b) provide contact information to us via email, mail, content or through our Services.

This information you provide may include your username, first name, last name, email address, mailing address or phone number.

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.

Contact forms

When you contact us using the Advertise with Us form on the Website (the Form), by filling in the contact form with your Data, the Users authorizes Woofresh.com to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form's header. Personal Data collected: Email and First Name.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of the Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Personal Data collected: Cookie and Usage Data.

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 the Website (if any), we also store the personal information you provide in your 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.

How we protect your data

We care about the integrity and security of your Personal Information and implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard your Personal Information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or guarantee that your information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. Your privacy settings may also be affected by changes to the functionality of our distributors, such as social networks. We are not responsible for the functionality or security measures of any third party.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to your email communications from us, at all times.

Additional Information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information in this privacy policy, the Website may provide the User with contextual information concerning particular services or the collection and processing of Personal Data. System Logs and Maintenance For operation and maintenance purposes, the Website and any third party services may collect files that record interaction with the Website (System Logs) or use for this purpose other Personal Data (such as IP Address). Information not contained in this policy and more details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Data Controller at any time as per the contact details given below.

The Rights of Users

All Users

Decline to Submit Information – You may, of course, decline to submit Personal Information through the Services, in which case we may not be able to provide certain services to you.

Update Account Information – You may update or correct your account information and email preferences at any time by logging in to your account settings page. You can also exercise any of your rights by contacting us directly.

Unsubscribe from emails – To unsubscribe from a particular newsletter, click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of that email newsletter. When we send newsletters to subscribers we may allow advertisers or partners to include messages in those newsletters, or we may send dedicated newsletters and marketing messages on behalf of those advertisers or partners. We may disclose your opt-out choices to third parties so that they can honor your preferences in accordance with applicable laws.

Blocking cookies – Certain browsers may be configured to notify you when you receive cookies or allow you to restrict or disable certain cookies. If you choose to disable cookies, however, that could affect certain features of the Service that use cookies to enhance their functionality.

Disabling local shared objects (e.g., Flash cookies) – We may use other kinds of local storage that function similarly but are stored in different parts of your computer from ordinary browser cookies, including Flash cookies placed on your device or web browser via the Adobe flash plug-in. Your browser may allow you to disable its HTML5 local storage or delete information contained in its HTML5 local storage.

GDPR Rights and Disclosures

If you're a visitor or a customer from the European Economic Area, then for the purposes of applicable EU data protection law (including the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), we are a data controller of your personal data. You have the following rights in relation to your information:

Inspection and access: you can request from us a summary and a copy of any Personal Information we hold about you;

Correction/addition/removal: where you believe your information is inaccurate or incomplete, you are entitled to request us to correct, amend or delete it;

Portability: you may request that we send you any Personal Information that you have provided to us or ask that we send this information to a third party;

Objection: you may object to us using your Personal Information where we use it based on our legitimate interests to do so;

Restriction: you may request that we restrict the processing of your information where you believe it is inaccurate, our processing is unlawful, you believe we no longer need the information or if you have objected to our use of it; and

Automated Decision Making: where we undertake automated decision making (including profiling), which significantly affects you, you are entitled to object to such decision-making.
You always have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority for data protection in your jurisdiction.

Data Protection Officer

Woofresh.com has appointed a data protection Office. The appointed data protection officer may be reached at [email protected]

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the event that Personal Information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will promptly notify those persons whose Personal Information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.

Notification Procedures

It is our policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to you via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on the Service, as determined by us in our sole discretion. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to you, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this Policy periodically. When we change the policy in a material way, we will update the ‘last modified' date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.