Who we are
Our website address is: https://petsandtips.com. At Pets and Tips, we’re dedicated to providing you with the best advice, tips, and insights to keep your pets happy and healthy. Your privacy is important to us, and this policy outlines how we handle your information.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on Pets and Tips, we collect:
- The data shown in the comments form.
- Your IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection.
Additionally:
An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be shared with the Gravatar service to check if you use it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture (if any) is publicly visible with your comment.
Media
If you upload images to our site, please ensure they don’t include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to Pets and Tips can download and extract such data from images. To protect your privacy, remove this data before uploading.
Cookies
To enhance your experience, we use cookies. Here’s how:
- Post Edits: If you edit or publish an article, a cookie saves the post ID (expires in 1 day).
- Comments: If you leave a comment, you can opt to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
- Login: A temporary cookie checks if your browser accepts cookies when you visit the login page (discarded when you close the browser). Login cookies last for two days, while screen preferences cookies last for one year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps you logged in for two weeks.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on Pets and Tips may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, or articles). This embedded content behaves as if you’ve visited the source website. These external sites may:
Monitor your interaction with their content, especially if you’re logged into their site.
- Collect your data.
- Use cookies.
- Employ third-party tracking.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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 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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.