Privacy Policy.
It is Houndologys’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect whilst operating our website. Houndology operates www.houndology.co.uk.
Website Visitors
www.houndology.co.uk may use Google Analytics to assist us with analysing how our visitors use our website. Google Analytics uses “Cookies” to collect information in an anonymous form. No personally identifiable information is collected about you unless you submit that information on our website. The anonymous information that is generated by Google Analytics about your use of the website is sent to Google, not us. The information is used to create statistical reports on activity on our website. We use this statistical information to evaluate visitor activity so that we can optimise our content on our website and enhance our marketing. This is very important to us so that we can operate this website as a free to use service.
Submitting Personal Information.
Any personally identifiable information you submit to Houndology will not be linked and any neither will any data gathered from you unless you explicitly submit that information to us. If you have registered with Houndology or requested to be notified of updates we request your name, email address and other non-specific demographic information. E.G gender, location and language preferences. We do this to ensure you are not a spammer or robot and to ensure we have information on actual people (not cookies), which means we can better understand the content that interests our visitors. If you would like to know what information we hold or that it is accurate, or if you would like to remove your personal information from the site please email us at hello@houndology.co.uk and we will do this as soon as possible.
Protection of Personally-Identifying Information.
Any data gathered from this site with personal identifiable information will not be linked to from any source unless you submit that information. We only disclose personally identifiable information to our employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that:
• Need to know the information so that they can process it on our behalf or provide services available on our website
• Have agreed not to disclose this information to others.
Some employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be outside of the EU; by using our website you are consenting to the transfer of information to them. We will not sell or rent any personally identifiable information to anyone except its employers, contractors and affiliated organisations. We only disclose personal identifiable information in response to a subpoena, court order or any other government request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosing this information is reasonably necessary to protect our rights, our property, the public or third parties. As a registered user of our website and having supplied your email address we may send you an email from time to time to tell you about new features, to keep you up to date with what is happening with Houndology or to solicit feedback. If you send us a request via email or any of our feedback mechanisms we reserve the right to publish this in order to help us clarify your request, or respond to it, this also helps us supports other users of our website. We take all measures necessary to protect against unauthorised access, alteration, destruction and use of personal identifiable information.
Third Party Tracking
We do not agree with third party tracking. However, content embedded in our site from other providers may track your use on our website. E.G Google will track your interaction if we embed a video from YouTube. Any social media “share” through Facebook, Twitter, TripAdvisor, Google, etc will result in a third party tracking that activity. If you wish to share content socially we have no way of preventing third party tracking, however our advice would be to set your browser to always block third party cookies. All content will still work and no visitor data will be sent to any third parties.
Privacy Policy Changes
From time to time we may change our privacy policy, although these changes are likely to be minor. Visitors to our website are advised to frequently check this page for any changes to our Privacy Policy. If you have previously registered with us you may also an alert informing you of these changes. If you choose to continue your use of this site after the changes this constitutes your acceptance of the changes.
Further Information
For further information on how Google Analytics uses cookies and IP address data please see www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html