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Pals to Paws Privacy Policy

At Pals to Paws, we value the generosity, collaboration, and partnership of our stakeholders. These relationships are established on a foundation of trust. To that end, please feel free to see our Privacy Policy below.

What type of information do we collect?

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; e-mail address; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, communications); payment details (including credit card information for transactions), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

How do we collect information?

When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

Why do we collect such personal information?

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

  1. To provide and operate the Services;

  2. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  3. To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

  4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

  5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

How do we store, use, share and disclose our site visitors' personal information?

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  

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All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

How do you communicate with our site visitors?

We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

How do we use cookies and other tracking tools?

In general, the cookies which are initially placed on our Wix website may be categorized as essential cookies. 

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Take a look at the table below to see which cookies are placed on Wix sites:

Cookie Name
Purpose
Duration
Cookie Type
XSRF-TOKEN
Cookie for fraud detection of calls
Session
Essential
hs
Security Cookie for Hive (legacy)
Session
Essential
svSession
Session cookie for identification
6 months
Essential
SSR-caching
Performance cookie for rendering
24 hours
Essential
TS*
Cookies for attack detection
Session
Essential
bSession
Used for system effectiveness measurement
24 hours
Essential
fedops.logger.sessionId
Tracking session errors and issues (resilience)
12 months
Essential
_wixAB3|*
Cookie for site experiments
6 months
Essential
server-session-bind
Cookie for API protection
Session
Essential
client-session-bind
Cookie for API protection
Session
Essential

*The above table may not encapsulate all cookies utilized by www.palstopaws.org.

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The following links explain how to access cookie settings in various browsers:


To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Have questions about our privacy policy?

Please feel free to email us at contact@palstopaws.org with any questions or concerns.

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