Privacy Policy And Disclaimer

Privacy Policy

At About-Cocker-Spaniels.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use About-Cocker-Spaniels.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

About-Cocker-Spaniels.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that About-Cocker-Spaniels.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to About-Cocker-Spaniels.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences. 

Google Analytics Cookies

About-Cocker-Spaniels.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy

About-Cocker-Spaniels.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. 

Statcounter Cookies

We also use Statcounter which is an online service to help us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which web pages they are most interested in etc. This data allows us to offer a better online experience to our visitors.

Statcounter uses cookies and other technologies to collect this data on visitors and visitor activity on our website. This data includes time and date of visit and/or whether the visitor is a returning visitor or a first-time visitor.

You can learn more about cookies from StatCounter and set your browser to refuse same by clicking here.

For further details, please see the Statcounter privacy policy.

Advertising Cookies

We use a third-party advertising company, Google Adsense, to serve ads on our website. You can view the Google Adsense list of Ad Technology Providers here.

This company uses cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with this company, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page. 

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.

Advertising and Mediavine

I am an official partner with Mediavine who provide the ads on this website.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

For information regarding data collection by Mediavine ad partners and how to opt out of data collection, please click here.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

Affiliate Products and Services

We receive an affiliate commission for some of the products/services sold on About-Cocker-Spaniels.com.

The affiliate services platforms we use is SBI (SiteSell).

By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to SBI's use of cookies, as outlined in the link below. SBI's Privacy Policy can be found here.

Personally Identifiable Information

About-Cocker-Spaniels.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To run and operate our site.

  • To display content on the site correctly.

  • To improve customer service.

  • To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.

  • To personalize your user experience.

  • To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.

  • To improve our site.

  • To improve our products and services.

  • To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.

  • To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.

  • To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.

  • To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

About-Cocker-Spaniels.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Social Media

This site also uses Facebook commenting. Facebook stores all of your comments and may show them on your timeline, depending on your Facebook settings. Here's a link to Facebook's privacy policy.

Other social media which this site may use and which may collect cookies include Google Plus, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumbler and YouTube.

Search Box

The search box on this web site ("Search Site") is powered by Google Inc. ("Google"). You acknowledge and agree that Google's privacy policy (located at https://www.google.com/privacy.html) shall apply to your use of the Search Box and by using the Search Box you consent to Google using your personal data in accordance with its privacy policy.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell About-Cocker-Spaniels.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

This website offers RSS as a way to easily follow content updates. We use Feedburner to let you subscribe to these updates via your email address. We also provide links for easy access to My Yahoo! and/or Feedly. Before you choose to use either as your RSS reader, review it's privacy policy via the links in this paragraph.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to update that information or have it deleted from our records, click on this link. 

Updates and Effective Date

About-Cocker-Spaniels.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to About-Cocker-Spaniels.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Disclaimer

About-Cocker-Spaniels.com is a website dedicated to provide a service to our visitors, however, we always recommend you take your pet to see his vet if you have a question or concern about your pet, or his health.

We make every effort to ensure the information we give is correct and appropriate and is periodically updated, however, no guarantee is given that the information provided in this website is correct, complete, and/or up-to-date.

The materials contained on this website are provided for general information purposes only and do not constitute legal or other professional advice on any subject matter.

The information in this Web site is not intended to diagnose any physical or mental condition, nor is it intended as a substitute for the advice and treatment of a licensed veterinary or other medical professional.

In the event that you use the information contained in this site for the health of your animals or for yourself, you are prescribing for your animals or yourself, which is your constitutional right and for which the author of this site assumes no responsibility.

The author of this Web site is neither a legal counselor nor a health practitioner, nor a veterinarian and makes no claims in this regard.

About-Cocker-Spaniels.com does not accept any responsibility for any loss which may arise from reliance on information contained on this site.

Some links within this website may lead to other websites, including those operated and maintained by third parties. About-Cocker-Spaniels.com includes these links solely as a convenience to you, and the presence of such a link does not imply a responsibility for the linked site or an endorsement of the linked site, its operator, or its contents.

This website and its contents are provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

Permission is given for the downloading and temporary storage of one or more of these pages for the purpose of viewing on a personal computer. The contents of this site are protected by copyright under international conventions and, apart from the permission stated, the reproduction, permanent storage, or retransmission of the contents of this site is prohibited without the prior written consent of About-Cocker-Spaniels.com.

Reproduction, distribution, republication, and/or retransmission of material contained within this website is prohibited unless the prior written permission of About-Cocker-Spaniels.com has been obtained.

By using this site, you signify your assent to this disclaimer. If you do not agree to this disclaimer, please do not use the site.

Updated: January 1,