Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 02 Jan 2025.

This Privacy Policy applies when you use our Service (described below). We offer our users choices about the data we collect, use and share as described in this Privacy Policy.

1. APPLICATION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

PawChamp (“we” and “us” in any declension) respects the privacy of its users and has developed this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its commitment to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy governs your use of the Website and the App of the PawChamp (“Services”) and describes the data we collect, how it is stored, how that data may be used, with whom it may be shared, and your choices about such uses and disclosures. Please be sure to carefully read the entirety of this Privacy Policy when using our Services. Check the PawChamp’s Terms of Use (“Terms”) for the meaning of defined words (those with capital letters) not explicitly defined in this Privacy Policy.

2. WHAT KINDS OF DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

We collect data you make available to us voluntarily on the Services in various situations (e.g., when you send us an email). We also collect data automatically during your use of the Services (e.g. your IP address).

2.1. DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We collect data through a variety of sources. One of our sources is cookies that record data about the use of our Services. With regard to your use of the Services we may automatically collect the following data:

NAVIGATION DATA

We collect data about how you navigate and use our Services, such as the types of content you view or engage with or the frequency and duration of your activities.

COOKIES AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

You can control cookies through your browser settings.

BROWSER AND DEVICE DATA

We collect data from or about the computers, phones, or other devices where you install or access our Services, depending on the permissions you’ve granted. In particular, we ask for access to your photos and the camera of your device when you want to upload or make any photos for your profile. We may associate the data we collect from your different devices, which helps us provide consistent services across your devices. Browser and Device data may include data about your Internet browser type, operating system, hardware version, type and model, geolocation, IP address, connection data such as ISP, language and time zone. We also receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to next.

ADVERTISING

We partner with a third-party ad network to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies to collect non-personal data about your activities on this and other websites to provide you with targeted advertising based on your interests.

2.2. DATA ABOUT CHILDREN

We do not knowingly collect any data about children, minors or anyone under the age of 16. Nor do we knowingly market to children, minors or anyone under the age of 16. If you are less than 16 years old, we request that you do not submit data to us.

3. HOW DO WE USE THE DATA WE COLLECT?

We and our service providers use personal data to: (i) provide the Services; (ii) detect and prevent fraud; (iii) promote, analyze and improve our Services. In particular, we use your personal data in order:

  • to improve our Services by using data about your usage and interaction with our Services. We conduct surveys and research, test features in development. We analyze the data we have to evaluate our Services, and conduct audits and troubleshooting activities to improve our Services’ content and layouts.
  • to personalize the Services for you, for instance, through the use of the identifiers to make personalized advertisements for you.
  • to prevent, detect, investigate, resolve disputes and/or remediate malicious activities, fraud, other cybercrimes, take legally required actions or make sure you are a real person and want to avoid fake accounts being created.
  • to contact you about our Services matters by email and other ways through our Services, including push notifications. We will send you messages about the availability of and updates regarding our Services, security, legal notices or other service-related information (Service messages). We may also send messages about your statistics, such as summary of your use of the Services (Statistic messages). You can unsubscribe from Statistic messages at any time. Please be aware that you cannot opt out of receiving Service messages from us.
  • to show you advertisements on our Services and/or send you commercial emails about our Services, features, offers, promotions, contests, and events or provide other news or information about third-party services that may be of interest to you. We offer you the choice to opt out of advertisements and/or commercial emails.
  • to provide you customer service and support.

We will also notify you if we want to use your personal data for a new or different purpose. We will use your personal data for such other purposes only if and to the extent necessary or permitted by applicable law or with your consent.

4. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING (EEA ONLY)

If you are an individual from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using personal data will depend on the personal data concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal data from you only where: (a) we have your consent to do so, (b) where we need your personal data to perform a contract with you (e.g., to deliver the Services you have requested), or (c) where the processing is in our or a third party’s legitimate interests (and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms); (d) to comply with legal obligations.

5. ADVERTISING

5.1. ADVERTISING OF OTHER SERVICES ON PAWCHAMP.

The Services’ primary activity is to display Third-Party Content (as defined in the Terms of Use). Such Third-Party Content is not owned or controlled by PawChamp. Our custom system enables us to learn about when and what ads you see, and what ads you click. This allows us to provide you with more useful and relevant ads. For example, if we know what ads you are shown we can be careful not to show you the same ones repeatedly.

5.2. ADVERTISING OF OUR SERVICES ON OTHER WEBSITES

We serve you tailored advertising based on data relating to your use of our Services, as well as data received from third parties. In order to understand and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, we may use cookies and other technologies to identify the fact that you have visited our Services or seen one of our advertisements on another website, and we may provide that data to one or more third-party advertising networks. We may choose to work with Google AdWords, DoubleClick, Google Analytics or other advertising networks. Each of these companies has its own privacy policy. The data we provide may include the time and date of your visit our Services, pages viewed, links clicked and other data that does not disclose your identity. We may target advertising to you through a variety of ad networks and exchanges, using data from advertising technologies on and off of our Services like, unique cookies, or similar tracking technology, pixel, device identifiers, geolocation, operation system information, email. The advertising you receive on other websites is customized based on predictions about your interests generated from your use of our Services, and visits to different websites. This type of advertising customization is called "online behavioral" or "interest-based" advertising. If you would like more information about this practice, and to learn how to opt out of online behavioral advertising by companies participating in industry self-regulation in desktop and mobile browsers on the particular device on which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance or Network Advertising Initiative . At present, there is no industry standard for recognizing Do Not Track browser signals, so we do not respond to them

6. ADVERTISING CHOICES
  • Advertising from third parties on PawChamp is tailored to you based on your previous use of the Services. You can choose not to receive advertising from third parties by contacting us.
  • You can also generally opt-out of receiving personalized ads from third-party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles for online behavioral advertising by visiting the opt-out pages on the NAI website and DAA website .

You have choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal data. We offer you choices about receiving advertising.

7. RETENTION PERIOD

We will retain personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Please note that we have a variety of obligations to retain the data that you provide to us, including to ensure that transactions can be appropriately processed, settled, refunded or charged back, to help identify fraud and to comply with anti-money laundering and other laws and rules that apply to us and to our financial service providers.

8. WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR DATA?

Protection of your personal data is important for us. Generally, your personal data will be shared with third parties only (i) if we have a legal obligation to do so (ii) if the data transfer is necessary for the performance of the contract with you, (iii) if you have consented to the transfer of your data.
Third-party service providers and partner companies will receive your data only if and to the extent necessary for performance of our contract with you or with your consent. In such cases, the extent to which data is shared will however be kept to the absolute minimum. To the extent that our service providers come into contact with your personal data, we will make sure that they too will comply with all applicable data protection laws. We do not share personal data with other companies, organizations and individuals unless one of the following circumstances applies:

WITH YOUR CONSENT

We will share personal data with other companies, organizations or individuals when we have your consent to do so.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may share your personal data with third parties that perform certain services on our behalf. We use these services to provide hosting for and maintenance of our website, applications development, backup, storage, marketing assistance, performing business and sales analysis, supporting our Services functionality, and supporting contests, sweepstakes, surveys and other features offered through our Services. Service providers process your personal data based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

OTHER SITUATIONS.

We also may disclose your data, including personal data:

  • In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us at our sole and exclusive discretion.
  • When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements or policies.
  • In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
9. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS.

PawChamp is a global business. We may transfer personal data to countries other than the one in which you live. This country may not have the same data protection law as the country in which you initially provided the data. We deploy safeguards if we transfer Personal Data originating from the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) to other countries not deemed adequate under applicable data protection law.

WE PROCESS DATA OUTSIDE OF THE EU AND EEA

We may transfer personal data to countries other than the country in which the data was originally collected in order to provide the Product set forth in the Terms and for purposes indicated in this Privacy Policy. If these countries do not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information, we deploy special safeguards.

In particular, if we transfer personal data originating from the EEA to countries with not adequate level of data protection, we use one of the following legal bases: (i) Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, or (ii) the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, or (iii) the European Commission adequacy decisions about certain countries.

10. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

There are a number of places on our Services where you may click on a link to access other websites that do not operate under this Privacy Policy. For example, if you click on an advertisement on our Services, you may be taken to a website that we do not control. These third-party websites may independently solicit and collect data, including personal data, from you and, in some instances, provide us with data about your activities on those websites. We recommend that you consult the privacy statements of all third-party websites you visit by clicking on the "privacy" link typically located at the bottom of the webpage you are visiting.

11. HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal data is collected through the Services and/or transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. However, data transfers are generally subject to security gaps, please make sure not to provide your login data to any third parties.

12. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you an opportunity to revise changes before they become effective. We will also make visible the last date of updates introduced to this Privacy Policy for your convenience. We recommend that you add PawChamp to your approved sender list, within your email reader. If you disagree with the changes to this Privacy Policy, you should close your Profile. Your continued use of our Services after we send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that you are consenting to the updated Privacy Policy.

13. PRIVACY RIGHTS

You may at any time and at no cost demand information about your personal data that are processed by us, correction of any errors in your personal data, termination of processing of your personal data, erasure of your personal data or portability of your personal data. To exercise these rights, simply contact us at any time by sending your email to [email protected] with “Privacy Rights” in the subject line and in the body of your message. If emailing us your request, please make clear in the email what personal data you would like to have changed. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

14. PERSONAL DATA CONTROLLER
Dogitality Corp., having business address at 3753 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 200, Las Vegas, NV 89169, USA will be the controller of your personal data.
15. CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our collection, use, or storage of your data, please do not hesitate to contact us by sending an email to: [email protected] .

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