Date: 1/01/2005
favoritefriendspets.com ("Favorite Friends Pet Sitters") is committed to respecting the privacy rights of all visitors to our Web site. The following policy describes how Favorite Friends Pet Sitters seeks to assure its visitors how it protects information it receives from visitors to the Web site:
What information does Favorite Friends Pet Sitters collect and how does Favorite Friends Pet Sitters use it?
When requesting service on the site, we need you to provide your name, e-mail address, mailing address, and other personal information for your reservation or inquiry. This allows us to have all information necessary to care for your pet(s).
How does Favorite Friends Pet Sitters protect visitor information?
Favorite Friends Pet Sitters implements a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. User personal information is only accessible by a limited number of employees who have special access rights to such information. All sensitive/personal information supplied by users is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to be only accessed as stated above. All sensitive/personal information is transmitted through our ISP (Internet Service Provider), Homestead.com. Homestead provides this secured server for all customers to our website. For more information regarding Homestead’s security, please visit their Privacy Policy at homestead.com and select the “Privacy Statement” link at the bottom of their home page.
Does Favorite Friends Pet Sitters use "cookies"?
Cookies are bits of electronic information that a Web site can transfer to a visitor's hard drive to help tailor and keep records of his or her visit to the site. Cookies allow Web site operators to better customize visits to the site to the visitor's individual preferences. The use of cookies is standard on the Internet and many major Web sites use them. Although most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, you can usually change your browser to prevent or notify you whenever you are sent a cookie. This gives you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. Even without accepting a cookie, you can still access most of the features on the site. Favorite Friends Pet Sitters advises you to review the Privacy Statement of Homestead.com and refer to section Number 8 regarding cookies and how Homestead.com uses cookies.
Does Favorite Friends Pet Sitters disclose the information it collects from its visitors to outside parties?
Favorite Friends Pet Sitters does not currently sell, trade, or otherwise transfer outside the company personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily provide in any reservation or e-mail submission. This information is used to for reservations made on the site, and to better know our visitors and possibly tailor any specific features, promotions, or other notifications to them.
Favorite Friends Pet Sitter’s special note to parents
Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we do not collect any information from individuals under eighteen years of age or accept reservations from children. All information is verified. We will notify the parent(s) or legal guardian(s) if any submission by a child less than eighteen years of age is received. All information will then be destroyed.
How does a visitor opt-out, remove, or modify information they have provided to Favorite Friends Pet Sitters?
After gathering any user information, Favorite Friends Pet Sitters offers users the opportunity to remove their information from our database so as not to receive future communications or to no longer interact with the Web site until they later chose to. Simply return to the e-mail list sign-up page and unsubscribe your e-mail address.
Third party links
In an attempt to inform our visitors, Favorite Friends Pet Sitters has chosen third party Web sites to link to from its own site. However, even if the third party is affiliated with Favorite Friends Pet Sitters, Favorite Friends Pet Sitters has no control over these linked sites who each have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent Favorite Friends Pet Sitters. Favorite Friends Pet Sitters has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. These linked sites are only for your convenience and you therefore access them at your own risk. Nonetheless, Favorite Friends Pet Sitters seeks to protect the integrity of its Web site and the links placed upon it and therefore requests any feedback on not only its own site, but for sites it links to as well (including if a specific link does not work). At this time Favorite Friends Pet Sitters has 2 third party Web links to Petsitters.com and Pet Sitters International in which Favorite Friends Pet Sitters is a member.
Your consent
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Favorite Friends Pet Sitters as set forth in this privacy statement. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Contact Us
Favorite Friends Pet Sitters welcomes your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please send us any and all feedback pertaining to this, or any other issue, at
Or by telephone:
949-388-3952
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