Effective Date: December 11, 2025
At Pet Chommie (“we,” “us,” or “our”), we value your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when using https://pet.chommie.site or our services (the “Service”), including community, marketplace, directory, events, and news features. By using the Service, you consent to these practices.
1. Information We Collect
- Personal Information: Name, email, address, phone, payment details (for marketplace via WooCommerce), pet details (e.g., photos, breeds), and profile info (via BuddyBoss).
- Usage Data: IP address, browser, device, pages visited (e.g., event RSVPs), and interactions (e.g., messages, likes).
- UGC Data: Submissions like directory listings (Directorist), event details (The Events Calendar), marketplace posts, or adoption inquiries (PetPress).
- Cookies and Tracking: Via plugins like LiteSpeed Cache, All in One SEO, and analytics tools for site performance and ads.
- Payment Data: Handled by third-party processors (e.g., not stored by us).
- We do not collect sensitive data like health info unless voluntarily provided (e.g., pet medical history in posts).
2. How We Use Your Information
- To operate features: e.g., community profiles, marketplace transactions, directory searches, event management, news delivery.
- Communications: Newsletters, notifications (BuddyBoss), event reminders, or transaction confirmations.
- Improvements: Analytics on pet trends, site optimization (e.g., via Hostinger Tools).
- Marketing: Personalized pet recommendations or promotions (opt-out available).
- Legal: Compliance, fraud prevention, or dispute resolution.
3. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell data. We may share with:
- Service providers: e.g., email (WP Mail SMTP), forms (Fluent Forms/WPForms), hosting (Hostinger), payments.
- Partners: For integrations like PetFinder (PetPress) or vendors (WCFM).
- Legal entities: If required by law, subpoenas, or to protect rights.
- Business transfers: In mergers or sales.
4. Data Security
We use measures like encryption and access controls, but no system is fully secure. Report issues to hello@pet.chommie.site.
5. Data Retention
Retained as needed (e.g., active accounts indefinitely; transaction data for 7 years) or per legal requirements.
6. Your Rights
- Access, correct, delete data.
- Opt out of marketing or cookies.
- Withdraw consent (may limit Service access).
- For GDPR/CCPA: Additional rights like portability; contact us to exercise.
7. Children’s Privacy
Not for children under 13 (or 16 in some areas). We do not knowingly collect their data; parents contact us for removal.
8. International Transfers
Data may be transferred to [Your Country, e.g., US] with safeguards like standard contractual clauses.
9. Third-Party Practices
Plugins like EmbedPress or third-party links have their own policies; review them.
10. Changes to This Policy
Updates posted here; major changes notified via email.
11. Contact Us
For questions or rights requests, email hello@pet.chommie.site or use our contact form.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://pet.chommie.site.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
