Kennel.com
Privacy Policy
For Website Users and Clients
OVERVIEW
Kennel.com, Inc. is committed to respecting
your privacy and the privacy of the information
in your account. That is why we have established
this privacy policy. Our intention is to
treat your information with utmost care
and consideration. If you have questions
or concerns regarding this statement, you
should contact Kennel.com as outlined below.
We want you to know that we are not in the
business of selling or renting individuals'
personal data to other companies for any
purpose.
This Privacy Policy contains Kennel.com's
handling of personally identifiable information
that is gathered when you are on Kennel.com's
site, and when you use Kennel.com's services.
This policy does not cover or apply to the
practices of organizations that use our
services on their websites, that Kennel.com
does not own or control, or to non-Kennel.com
employees.
COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Kennel.com collects personally identifiable
information when you register for a Kennel.com
service account, when you sign up to become
a Kennel.com affiliate, when you sign up
to become a Kennel.com reseller, when you
fill out any form requesting information,
support, or product and service information,
and when you subscribe to our newsletter.
Kennel.com may also receive personally identifiable
information from its business partners.
Kennel.com collects the following personally
identifiable information: your name, title,
phone number, email address, mailing address,
website URL, employer or company. You also
have the option of supplying us with your
occupation, and type of business or industry.
Additionally, when you sign up for a Kennel.com
paid service, we collect your billing information,
including your credit card number, expiration
date, and billing address.
Kennel.com also asks its affiliates and
resellers to provide either their Tax ID
or Social Security Number so we can comply
with IRS regulations in regards to commissions
and payments.
Kennel.com also automatically receives and
records information on our server logs from
your browser including your IP address,
browser type, referrer page, domain name,
access time, entry page, exit page, operating
system type, and search engine keywords
used.
We mainly use the information we collect
to measure our business success, to identify
the most effective ways to reach you, the
customer, to more effectively meet your
needs and requests for certain new product
features and services, and to contact you
about product upgrades. Additionally, if
you have chosen to receive email communications,
you will receive our infrequent newsletter
and announcements.
DATA HOSTED BY KENNEL.COM
Kennel.com hosts the data stored in your
Kennel.com account. That data is strictly
your property and is governed by the Terms
of Service agreement of the service you
have subscribed to. The data in your account
is not accessible to anyone, unless you
make it accessible.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
Certain Kennel.com employees have various
access levels to Kennel.com systems, including
databases, for the purposes of support,
backups, maintenance, debugging, and other
administrative and programming activities.
However, Kennel.com will not monitor, edit,
disclose, sell, or rent neither the data
stored in your Kennel.com account, nor your
personally identifiable information to anyone
other than what is disclosed below. It is
only under the following circumstances that
we may send your information to other companies
or people:
1. When we have your consent to share the
information.
2. Disrupt the performance of Kennel.com
servers or cause server-wide outages.
3. When we need to share your information
to provide you with a service or product
you are requesting. For example: if you
sign up for Kennel.com service through one
of our authorized resellers.
4. When we need to send the information
to companies that work on our behalf to
process an order you have made, or so they
can provide a product or service to you.
Note that these companies are not allowed
to use your information for any reason other
than to support us in assisting you.
5. When we conform to edicts of the law,
to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or
legal processes.
6. When you have violated our Terms of Service
Agreement for the service you are using
or have used.
7. When we act under exigent circumstances
to protect the personal safety of our customers
or the public.
8. When we need to protect and defend the
rights or property of Kennel.com.
9. From time to time we may share aggregate
data about our customers with other companies.
In such cases no personally identifiable
data will be made available to third parties.
10. By using our website and our services
and providing us with your personal data,
you consent to this transfer of your personal
data.
CHILDREN AND PRIVACY
Our website does not offer information intended
to attract children. We do not knowingly
solicit personal information from children
under the age of 13.
COOKIES
Cookies are identifiers usually sent through
your browser to reside temporarily or permanently
on your computer. The Kennel.com Website
and Kennel.com services use cookies tied
to personally identifiable information for
their operation. Certain services and functionalities
will not work if you disable cookie functions
on your browser.
"EMAIL-THIS-PAGE"
We may encourage our customers and website
visitors to email pages of our website to
themselves or to their friends, or tell
a friend about Kennel.com products, services
or events. If a customer or visitor chooses
to email a page or refer a friend to us,
we will use that information only for the
purposes of sending Kennel.com-related information
once, or as many times as you request. The
email address will be stored in a database
but we make no further contact and will
only use it in aggregate format and for
reporting purposes.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website contains links to information
on other websites. We do not have any control
over these other websites, and therefore
we cannot be responsible for the protection
and privacy of any information that you
provide while visiting those sites. Those
sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy,
and if you have questions about how a site
uses your information, consult that site's
privacy statement.
CHANGING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Kennel.com allows you to change, at any
time, your personally identifiable information
you provided when signing up for Kennel.com
service. In order to change your information,
log into your account and select the Account
Information option. If the options provided
do not fully meet your needs, contact us
with your request using the method below.
SECURITY
For both security and privacy purposes,
your Kennel.com account is password-protected.
Kennel.com employs rigid security measure,
including restricting physical access to
Kennel.com servers, to ensure the protection
of your data and applications.
All communications between your account
and Kennel.com servers are encrypted with
an industry-standard Secure Socket Layers
protocol, and your own applications and
DataPages can be deployed securely using
SSL at no extra charge.
Additionally, all systems are backed up
on a daily basis.
YOUR CONSENT
By using our website and services, you consent
to the collection and use of the information
you provide to us as outlined in this Privacy
Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy
from time to time and without notice. If
we change our Privacy Policy, we will publish
those changes on this page.
OPTING-OUT
At any time you can unsubscribe from our
newsletter and announcement list by accessing
our http://www.Kennel.com. If you have a
Kennel.com account, you will continue to
receive administrative type emails from
us in regards to your account when necessary.
SURVEYS
From time to time Kennel.com may invite
you to participate in online surveys that
Kennel.com or a third party may administer.
These surveys are optional. These surveys
include personal information. They include
questions about your experience with Kennel.com
services and their specific features. They
are meant to help us better understand the
needs and requirements of our customers
so we can continue improving our products
and services. The results of these surveys
may be shared in aggregate format with third
parties.
DEACTIVATING YOUR ACCOUNT
To deactivate your account, contact Kennel.com
Support
PRIVACY POLICY FOR USERS OF WEBSITES OPERATED
BY KENNEL.COM CLIENTS
OUR PRIVACY PRINCIPLES
Because your trust and confidence is important
to us, Kennel.com conducts its Kennel.com
services under the following privacy principles:
KENNEL.COM ACTS AS AN AGENT FOR OUR CUSTOMERS
Kennel.com acts as an Agent for each of
our Customers, in that we provide our services
solely for the benefit of the customer.
Each of our customers uses Kennel.com services
to collect data, or to provide information
to their websites visitors; they use our
services to create and operate database-powered
web forms and applications. Each customer
instructs us as to what types of data it
would like us to collect on its behalf.
This data may include the information you
explicitly enter in web forms including
personally identifiable information, or
data implicitly collected through visiting
a webpage or logging in to a password-protected
area. We also collect certain technical
information, such as the browser version
and operating system. In each customer agreement,
we promise that we will not make use of
any data that we collect on the customer's
behalf except as necessary to provide our
services to that customer. We do not aggregate,
sell, transfer, or otherwise disclose it
to anyone but the customer, or pursuant
to the customer's instructions. We do, however,
reserve a limited right to disclose any
data we collect if required by law or valid
order of a court or other governmental authority.
OUR CUSTOMERS' USE OF KENNEL.COM SERVICES
We ask each of our customers to abide by
all applicable laws, rules and regulations,
as we promise our clients that we will do
ourselves. We also recommend that each customer
obtain all necessary consents from visitors
to its website(s), post an online privacy
policy that provides each visitor with notice
of its data collection and use practices
(including the customer's use of Kennel.com's
services), and provide a link to the Kennel.com's
privacy policy.
USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER DATA COLLECTION
METHODS
In providing services to our customers,
it is Kennel.com's policy to use cookies
only when necessary to maintain the identity
of the user in a given session. The cookie
information does not include personal data
such as name, age, phone number, e-mail
address or mailing address. Most browsers
are initially set up to accept cookies.
If you would prefer, you can set your browser
to reject cookies, however this may interfere
with your usage of some of the services
offered by Kennel.com's customers. Kennel.com's
customers use customized JavaScript code
provided by Kennel.com to contact Kennel.com's
servers, to receive a form or application,
to load an image or content, or to submit
and update information.
COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS
To contact us regarding this Acceptable
Use Policy, contact us on the Kennel.com
website or write to Kennel.com at:
Address:
Kennel.com
Privacy
PO BOX 5537,
Playa del Rey, 90296 CA, USA
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