Privacy Policy

Who we are

We are a collective of websites, managed by Dog Bed in Australia. This website is https://dog-bed.com.au.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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 anonymised 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

Our Contact form for this Website is found on https://dog-bed.com.au/dog-bed-australia/contact/

If you enter information collected in the Contact form and Send it will be sent to us as an email. We store your emails on servers associated with Dog Bed, and Pooch Care. The information may be used to assess data, send promotional material, and reply to you.

The Pooch Care privacy policy can be found here: https://pooch-care.com/privacy-policy/

Email contact

Our Contact email address for this Website can be found at https://dog-bed.com.au/dog-bed-australia/contact/

If you enter our email address in to your email client and Send it will be sent to us as an email. We store your emails on servers associated with Dog Bed at www.pooch-care.com. The information may be used to assess data, and reply to you.

The Pooch Care privacy policy can be found here: https://pooch-care.com/privacy-policy/

Registering an account

When you enter information collected in the Registration of an account we may store your name, phone number, credit card, physical, and billing address on the Dog Bed server. Also your email, name, country, state, and other information used to deliver high quality content to you may be stored at the Pooch Care server.

The Pooch Care privacy policy can be found here: https://pooch-care.com/privacy-policy/

Making a purchase

If you made a purchase on the Dog Bed Website you may be required to enter your payment details to be processed by a third party payment gateway. We use Stripe payment , After Pay and ZIP.co gateways.

Stripe payments allow you to use VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS as well as VISA and MASTERCARD debit cards. The payment gateway has thier own privacy policy and website terms of use.

After Pay and ZIP.co allow time scheduled payments.

Please familiraise yourself with the associated Payments Gateway privacy policy and terms. Please check their privacy policy regularly since it may have recently changed.

The Stripe privacy policy can be found here: https://stripe.com/au/privacy
The ZIP.co privacy policy can be found here: https://zip.co/page/privacy
The After Pay privacy policy can be found here: https://www.afterpay.com/privacy-policy

reCaptcha

To prevent spam bots accessing the Dog Beds Australia website we use reCAPTCHA.

The reCAPTCHA algorithm will check to see if there’s a Google cookie placed on the computer being used. And an additional reCAPTCHA-specific cookie will be added to the user’s browser, where a pixel by pixel snapshot of the user’s browser window at that moment in time will be caught.

Some of the browser and user information collected at this time includes all your cookies placed by Google over the last 6 months, how many mouse clicks you’ve made on that screen (or touches if on a touch device), date, the language your browser is set to, any plug-ins you have installed on the browser, and all Javascript objects.

The Google privacy policy can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy

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 visit our login page, 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.

The privacy policy must disclose to users that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browsers, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on your website.

Also, third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browsers, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on the Dog Bed website.

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

Analytics

We may use the information that we collect from you including but not limited to your IP address, Browser type, sent email, email addresses, geo location to compile statistical or analytical data to create graphs, statistics, tables, and other statistical output to better serve you and our clients.

Who we share your data with

We will not share your identifiable information with our associates, agents. We do share your information with with Dog Beds Australia Management and Staff. Where we are required by law to share your information with local or international authorities in relation to crime investigation we are obliged.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

We use our Dog Beds Australia and proprietry third party providers like Stripe payent gateway, After Pay, ZIP.com, and Pooch Care and web server technology to store your contact information. You should check the GrooveHQ, Mailchimp, and others Privacy Policy by following the links:
https://stripe.com/au/privacy
https://zip.co/page/privacy
https://www.afterpay.com/privacy-policy
https://pooch-care.com/privacy-policy/

Additional information

How we protect your data

Dog Bed and Pooch Care use 256Bit encryption and strong hash server technology.

What data breach procedures we have in place

We have strong password server technology in place to protect against data breach. Our internet team is working consistantly in the background with the best upkeep of security patch updates.

What third parties we receive data from

Management at Dog Beds Australia and Pooch Care evaluate visitor and email data for our website in the form of metrics such as statistical information. This data may be sent to us by third parties such as Google Analytics.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Dog Beds Australia Management, local SEO, and SEM companies and staff may assess the statistics we receive. Our decision making and profiling is general only and does not filter down to the individual level. Based on the information received we may assess a general outlook for a particular client group. This may include adding you to an internal email marketing chain or group.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

If your use of the Website is illegal in any way, we may be required by law to report you to the appropriate authorities.

From time to time, it may become necessary for us to provide information we hold on you to relevant authorities when they present us a necessary court document that directs us to release the data.

Dog Bed Australia Website Privacy Policy last updated 05 June 2021 0132 Hours Pacific Time.