Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting our website. Denise’s Dog Dish & Shasta’s Yorkie Yap found at https://denisegruzensky.com/ (“Website”). We are governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement applies solely to information collected by this Website. This Website may contain third-party links to other websites which are not governed by this policy.

Please read this privacy policy before using the site or submitting any personal information. By using the site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for denisegruzensky.com, denisesdogdish.com, and shastasyorkieyap.com.

What Information Do We Collect and How Is This Information Used?

The information you voluntarily submit to this Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name, email address, website URL and/or a physical address. We receive and store information that you voluntarily submit for the purpose of subscribing to the website to receive newsletters, leaving comments on blog posts, purchasing a product or administering sweepstakes, contests or promotions. This information is only captured when you voluntarily enter or opt-in and enter this information for collection.
Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other sources. You may link your Facebook account to leave comments. If you choose to use your Facebook comments, we will receive your name, email address and profile picture associated with that account. The Website utilizes the Facebook commenting system, so if you choose to comment on a Website post, your profile picture will appear.
Automatically Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the website. For example, when you use the website your computer’s IP address, operating system type, referring website, pages you viewed, dates and times when you accessed the website and browser information are automatically collected. The information we collect is used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor.
Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the website. Cookies store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics see #5. Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
Google Analytics: The website uses Google Analytics to track statistics regarding our audience and Website traffic. No personally identifiable information is transferred from this website to Google Analytics. For more information on Google’s Analytics privacy policies, please visit this site.
Influencer/Sponsored Campaigns: This Website engages in sponsored campaigns with various influencer networks, brands, and agencies. All sponsored content is duly disclosed in accordance with the FTC’s requirements. From time to time, these sponsored campaigns utilize tracking pixels (aka web beacons), which may contain cookies to collect data regarding usage and audience. This information is collected by the sponsoring company to track the results of the campaign. No personally identifiable information collected by the Website is used in conjunction with these tracking pixels.
Affiliate Programs Including Amazon: Denise’s Dog Dish & Shasta’s Yorkie Yap are participants in affiliate programs including the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. Affiliate advertising programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com and other sites. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the website will post customized links, provided by Amazon and other programs, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales. All affiliate links are duly disclosed in accordance with FTC’s requirements.

How Your Information May be Used

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain the Website;
To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account;
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To provide you with user support;
To track and measure advertising on the Website;
To protect, investigate, and deter against any unauthorized or illegal activity.

Third-Party Use of Personal Information

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Aweber-this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. You may opt out at any time and your name and email will be permanently removed from our system. Please refer to Aweber’s Privacy Policy for further information.
Google Analytics-this service tracks website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics (also see #5 above).
Shareaholic-this service is used to track social shares, content viewed and analytics. The information we collect is used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor. Please refer to Shareaholic’s Privacy Policy for further information.
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.

Will We Share the Personal Information Collected

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal users’ email addresses or other personal information without their consent. This does not include third-party partners, such as those listed above. We may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

Anonymous Data

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

Publically Visible Information

If you leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible. If you choose to leave a comment using the Facebook comments widget, your name and profile picture will be publicly visible with a clickable link to your Facebook profile. Your Facebook profile settings will determine if any data is visible to people who click on that link. To leave a comment using the WordPress comment system, you must enter your name and password and input your email address for profile confirmation. Your email address will never be available publicly. At your option, you may also add an avatar and a link to your website.

Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.

Modification or Deletion of Personal Information

You can decline to submit personal information at any time. If you decline, we may not be able to continue to provide service to you. You may request deletion of your personal information by sending an email to DenisesDogDish@gmail.com, but in some cases, we may be required to keep your information by law. In such a case, it would no longer be active and would be kept separately in an archive.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at DenisesDogDish@gmail.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to DenisesDogDish@gmail.com
Amend – You may contact us DenisesDogDish@gmail.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request DenisesDogDish@gmail.com

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Advertising

Display Ads-We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.
Retargeting Ads-From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Program Participation-The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link to an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions (also see #7 above).

Newsletters

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we’ll use this information to contact you.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to this website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Children’s Information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at DenisesDogDish@gmail.com we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Updates

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via e-mail at DenisesDogDish@gmail.com