Privacy Policy

This Privacy Notice for American Black & Tan Coonhound Rescue (“we,” “us,” or “our”) describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your personal information when you use our services (“Services”), including when you:

• Visit our website at https://www.coonhoundrescue.com/ or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice
• Use American Black & Tan Coonhound Rescue. American Black & Tan Coonhound Rescue (ABTCR) is a nonprofit dog rescue organization. Our website allows visitors to browse adoptable and foster dogs, submit adoption and foster applications, contact the rescue, and purchase merchandise from our online store. Donations are accepted via PayPal.
• Engage with us in other related ways, including any marketing or events

Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at abtcrescue@gmail.com.

Summary of Key Points

Table of Contents

1. What Information Do We Collect?
2. How Do We Process Your Information?
3. When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?
4. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
5. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?
6. Do We Collect Information from Minors?
7. What Are Your Privacy Rights?
8. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features
9. Do United States Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?
10. Do We Make Updates to This Notice?
11. How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?
12. How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect from You?

1. What Information Do We Collect?

Personal information you disclose to us

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.

Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information we collect may include the following:

• Names
• Phone numbers
• Email addresses
• Mailing addresses
• Billing addresses
• Employer name
• Employer phone number
• Landlord name
• Landlord phone number
• Veterinarian phone number
• Veterinarian name
• Reference names
• Reference emails
• Reference phone numbers
• Spouse name
• Spouse phone number

Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive information.

Payment Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you choose to make purchases, such as your payment instrument number and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is handled and stored by Stripe and PayPal. You may find their privacy notice link(s) here: stripe.com/privacy and paypal.com/privacy.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

2. How Do We Process Your Information?

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

• To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service.
• To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
• To send administrative information to you. We may process your information to send you details about our products and services, changes to our terms and policies, and other similar information.
• To fulfill and manage your orders. We may process your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Services.
• To protect our Services. We may process your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure, including fraud monitoring and prevention.
• To comply with our legal obligations. We may process your information to comply with our legal obligations, respond to legal requests, and exercise, establish, or defend our legal rights.
• To review and process adoption and foster applications submitted by prospective adopters and foster caregivers.

3. When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?

We may share your data with service providers, contractors, or agents (“third parties”) who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work.

The third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:

• Invoice and Billing: Stripe and PayPal
• Database: Supabase
• Email sending: Resend
• Transport Companies

4. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).

We retain personal information submitted through adoption applications, foster applications, contact forms, and store orders indefinitely. Adoption and foster records are maintained as permanent records necessary for the ongoing management of the rescue organization.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

5. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

6. Do We Collect Information from Minors?

We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 18 years of age, nor do we knowingly sell such personal information. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services.

If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at abtcrescue@gmail.com.

7. What Are Your Privacy Rights?

Withdrawing your consent:If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided in the section “How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?” below. However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal.

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at abtcrescue@gmail.com.

8. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Notice.

California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.

9. Do United States Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you and how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

The table below shows the categories of personal information we have collected in the past twelve (12) months.

We will use and retain the collected personal information as needed to provide the Services or for:

• Category B — We retain personal information submitted through adoption applications, foster applications, contact forms, and store orders indefinitely. Adoption and foster records are maintained as permanent records necessary for the ongoing management of the rescue organization.

Your Rights

You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. These rights include:

• Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data
• Right to access your personal data
• Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
• Right to request the deletion of your personal data
• Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
• Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
• Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise these rights, you can contact us by submitting a data subject access request, by visiting coonhoundrescue.com/faq#contact, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document.

Request Verification

Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request.

Appeals

Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing us at abtcrescue@gmail.com. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.

California “Shine The Light” Law

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us by using the contact details provided in the section “How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?”

10. Do We Make Updates to This Notice?

Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws. We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

11. How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at abtcrescue@gmail.com or contact us by post at:

12. How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect from You?

Based on the applicable laws of your country or state of residence in the US, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please contact us.