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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to Sterling K-9 Retreat Dog Daycare and Dog Boarding in Westerville Ohio.

We know why you’re here – you want to know how we use your information!

But who want’s to read all the legalese? Here's the short version:

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  • Any personal financial information is encrypted and stored on a separate, private server.
     

  • Sterling K-9 Retreat will never sell your personal information.
     

  • Sterling K-9 Retreat will never share or trade your personal information for profit, except for:
     

    • Sterling K-9 Retreat may share your personal information with Gingr, a 3rd party service that provides booking and payment software, for the sole purpose of providing services to our customers.
       

    • Sterling K-9 Retreat may share your personal information with other 3rd parties for internal business use only (such as with Salesforce or QuickBooks) and for internal only advertising purposes. (For example, we may use a customer email for marketing.)
       

    • Sterling K-9 uses Cookies and Google Analytics to track website data. This data includes non-personally identifiable data used for remarketing. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics, you can do so by using the official Google Analytics Blocking Extension. 
       

    • If your data is used for our personal advertising, we promise to exercise the best critical judgement possible, and only work with advertisers who will not further share the information we use for said advertising. Basically, we promise not to use any sketchy services.

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Furthermore, you may or may not know that Californians have special data privacy rights under the CCPA, detailed below.

 

We formally extend those CCPA rights to all of our customers.

 

If you would like us to delete your data, or disclose what data of yours we have, please call us so we can ensure prompt service: (614) 423-7032.


If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at info@sterlingk9retreat.com, or at (614) 423-7032.

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This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Sterling K-9 Retreat. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

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Okay, now for the legalese!

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Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to our Terms and Conditions.

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Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

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If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

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When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

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How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

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  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website

  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website

  • Understand and analyze how you use our website

  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality

  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes

  • Send you emails

  • Find and prevent fraud

 

Log Files

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Sterling K-9 Retreat follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

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Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Sterling K-9 Retreat uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

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Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Sterling K-9 Retreat.

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Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Sterling K-9 Retreat, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

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Note that Sterling K-9 Retreat has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

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Third Party Privacy Policies

Sterling K-9 Retreat's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

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You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

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CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

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Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

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If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us via phone so we can ensure the quickest action possible: (614) 423-7032

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GDPR Data Protection Rights

Although we come close, we do not comply with the GDPR. (It’s just too much time and effort.) If you are a European living in Europe, please do not use our services.

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Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. Sterling K-9 Retreat is not a service or website intended of child use - and it also does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records. You can reach us at info@sterling.com or (614) 423-7032.

 

Updated July 2022 by Sterling K-9 Retreat, a dog daycare and dog boarding services located at 2535 W Schrock Rd, Westerville Ohio, 43081.

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