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Privacy Policy For Fidosavvy.com

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

Fidosavvy.com stries 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 Fidosavvy.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to Fidosavvy.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.

Fidosavvy.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. Googles' privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Fidosavvy.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 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 date to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its' opt-out browser extension or add-on... https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Advertising Cookies

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on this website. These may include Google Adsense (view the Google Adsense list of Ad Technology Providers HERE), Mediavine and Media.net

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.

These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, 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. Googles' 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 date in its' ad products.

Affiliate Products and Services

We receiver an affiliate commission for some of the products/services sold on Fidosavvy.com

The affiliate platforms we use are Amazon, Share-a-Sale, 1-800-PetMeds, Commmision Junction, Just Answer, Linkshare/Rakuten Media, Etsy

By clicking on a product or service link you consent to that platforms' use of cookies, as outlined in the links below:

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or to 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 as to how to refuse all cookies or to be notified when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse Fidosavvy.coms' coolies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Indentifiable Information

Fidosavvy.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purproses:

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.

Fidosavvy.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 visitors' IP address, which helps us to combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Fidosavvy.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over the other website. Therefore we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

This site also uses Facebook commenting. Facebook stores all of your comments and may show them on your timeline, depending upon your Facebook settings. Facebook Privacy Policy

This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies of:

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enacted in 2018, creates new consumer rights relating to the access to, deletion of, and sharing of, personal information that is collected by businesses.

We have not sold any personal information in the previous 12 months.

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.

Childrens' 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 Fidosavvy.com, the information we have obtained from you through our voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as 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 hosts' servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1, Canada.

Some information is collected by third-party services. These include Statcounter, Feedburner, Feedly and Yahoo.

StatCounter is an online service which helps us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which pages they visit etc. This data allows us to offer a better online experience for our visitors.

StatCounter uses cookies and other technologies to collect this data on visitors and visitor activity.

A statcounter cookie is also used to determine whether you are a first-time visitor or a returning visitor to this website.

You can learn more about cookies from StatCounter and set your browser to refuse same by clicking on this link to the StatCounter Privacy Policy

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 download and review that information please click on this link.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.

Updates and Effective Date

Fidosavvy.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 Fidosavvy.coms' 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.

Last updated: May 12, 2022

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