Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to DogSafe and the website at dogsafer.com, including the safety checker, articles, dog profiles, account features, and DogSafe Pro. In this policy, “DogSafe,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the operator of this website.

Depending on how you use DogSafe, we may process the following information:

• Information you provide: email address for passwordless sign-in; dog profile details you choose to save; searches, selections, and requests you submit; and messages you send to us.
• Subscription information: subscription status, plan, and a payment-provider customer reference. Stripe processes payment-card details; DogSafe does not store complete card numbers.
• Technical and usage information: IP address, browser and device information, requested pages, referring pages, approximate region, timestamps, and diagnostic or security logs.
• Cookies and similar technologies: essential cookies and local storage for security, sign-in, subscriptions, saved preferences, and dog profiles. With your permission, Google Analytics may use analytics cookies. Google AdSense may use cookies or identifiers subject to its consent and privacy controls.

• Provide, secure, troubleshoot, and improve DogSafe and its search experience.
• Save your account, subscription entitlement, dog profiles, and preferences.
• Process subscriptions, respond to requests, and send passwordless sign-in links.
• Measure site performance and understand which pages are useful when you allow analytics.
• Display, measure, and protect advertising and prevent fraud or abuse.
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our rights.

DogSafe uses Google AdSense to fund free content. Google and its partners may collect or receive information from this site and use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to serve, personalize, and measure ads, limit repeated ads, and detect fraud. In regions where advertising consent is required, DogSafe uses Google’s certified consent-management message.

Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services, review Google’s advertising technologies, or manage personalized advertising in My Ad Center.

We use service providers only for defined business purposes, including:

• Vercel for hosting, delivery, security, diagnostics, and privacy-focused web analytics.
• Google for AdSense advertising and, when you consent, Google Analytics 4.
• Stripe for subscription checkout, payment processing, and billing management.
• Auth.js, Upstash, and Resend for account sessions, stored account data, and sign-in email delivery.

These providers may process information in countries other than your own under their own contractual, security, and legal safeguards. We may also disclose information when legally required, to protect users or the service, or as part of a business transaction subject to appropriate protections.

Where applicable law requires a legal basis, we process information to perform a contract with you, for our legitimate interests in operating and securing DogSafe, to meet legal obligations, or with your consent. You may withdraw analytics consent at any time through Cookie settings. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before it.

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser, manage Google advertising choices through My Ad Center, and unsubscribe or cancel a paid plan through the account billing portal. Blocking essential storage may prevent account or dog-profile features from working.

We retain information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described here, including to provide an account or subscription, meet tax and legal obligations, resolve disputes, and maintain security records. Retention periods vary by data type and provider. We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or receive a copy of personal information, object to certain processing, withdraw consent, or appeal a decision. DogSafe does not sell personal information for money. Some laws may define personalized advertising as “sharing” or a “sale”; the advertising and cookie controls described above are available to limit that activity.

To make a privacy request, email privacy@dogsafer.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. You may also have the right to contact your local data-protection or consumer-privacy authority.

DogSafe is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.

We may update this policy when our services or legal obligations change. We will post the revised policy here and update the date above. Material changes may also be highlighted on the site when appropriate.

Questions or privacy requests may be sent to privacy@dogsafer.com. For more detail about browser storage, see our Cookie Policy.