Privacy Policy

This document describes how we handle data and information collected from you whilst visiting and making use of our website.

  1. Introduction

Paws Gone Wild, hereafter referred to as pawsgonewild.co.za, will take all reasonable measures to ensure that your personal information is processed and protected lawfully, in keeping data confidential and secure. This privacy policy, and the interpretation and enforcement thereof, will be governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa.

  1. Security of Your Information

When storing personally identifiable information and payment information in our database/s, we encrypt some sensitive data such as passwords. Such data is retained for as long as we are obligated to by law in providing the services requested.

Should any of our databases be compromised resulting in your personal information being unlawfully disclosed, we will advise you via e-mail and advise you on the steps required to protect your personal information.

We will not provide any personally identifiable information about you to any other person other than:

  • when required to do so by law
  • to a person or company who acquires our business
  • third parties who perform services on our behalf that you request (such as payment processing gateways), subject to the third party complying with POPI, GDPR or EU-US Privacy Shield
  1. Collected Information:

When you send personally identifying information to us via e-mail, this information is used to assist us in gathering the information you may request on our products. Information you submit may be viewed by various people within pawsgonewild.co.za to provide you with the information you have requested. Once received, the information in your email is protected in accordance with law.

  1. Clients Ordering Products

In registering for and making use of our website you will have to provide us with personally identifiable information to enable us to provide you with the requests products. The information you provide will be entered into our database.

Your Personal Data may Include:

  • name and surname
  • email address
  • telephone number
  • company name, company registration number and VAT number
  • postal or street address
  • username and password
  1. Information Collected and Stored Automatically:
  • When you visit our web site we automatically collect and store the following non-identifying information:
  • Internet protocol (IP) address from which you are accessing our web site
  • Type of web browser (FireFox, Chrome, Edge) utilised in the site visit and operating system (Windows, Linux, Android, MacOS, iOS) the browser is running on
  • Date, time and duration of visit/s to our site, for the purpose of traffic and statistical monitoring
  • Pages visited, this assists us improving our content and the relevance thereof


This information is used to improve our site and it’s content presented to visitors by learning the number of visitors, the number of pages served. We do not track or record information about identifiable individuals and their visits.

  1. Payment Gateways

pawsgonewild.co.za may present the option to clients for payment of products through payment gateways. Payment gateways do not require us to store your payment particulars in our database hence we will not ask you for you banking account details or card information. Payment particulars are entered and controlled by the payment gateway you have chosen to make use of.

  1. 3rd Party Links

pawsgonewild.co.za’s website may contain links to sites that belong to third parties and are therefore unrelated to us. pawsgonewild.co.za will not accept liability from one disclosing personal information on third party sites. pawsgonewild.co.za is unable to protect any information one may disclose on these sites and therefore we recommend that a review of privacy policy are carried out should the such sites be visited.

  1. Cookie Policy

pawsgonewild.co.za uses cookies to maintain session state and store small amounts of data on visitors’ computers or devices.

Cookies are small text files that most websites on the internet store on your device and use to improve your overall experience.

If you do not wish for cookie to be stored, one can reject cookies at browser level. The process is slightly different for each browser. Please do note that cookies may be necessary to provide you with certain features on our website, and thus if you disable the cookies on your web browser you may not be able to use those features, and your access to our website will therefore be limited.

  1. Google reCAPTCHA

pawsgonewild.co.za might make use of “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our website. This service is provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a contact, order, login form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor visits a page with a form. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, if any mouse movements have been made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google. reCAPTCHA analyses take place completely in the background. Website visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place. pawsgonewild.co.za has a legitimate interest in protecting its forms from abusive carried out by automated crawling and spam. For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/reCAPTCHA/about/.

  1. Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, pawsgonewild.co.za uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to in Google Web Fonts implementation. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer. Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

  1. Website Analytics

We may also partner with selected third-party vendors, such as Google Analytics and others, to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on the website through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of the website, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. By accessing https://pawsgonewild.co.za, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors. However, if you do not want any information to be collected and used by tracking technologies, you can visit the third-party vendor or the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.

  1. Children’s Privacy

Our services are not available to children under the age of 18, and we will therefore not intentionally maintain information about anyone under the age of 18.

  1. Limitation

We are not responsible for, give no warranties, nor make any representations in respect of the privacy policies or practices of linked or any third-party websites.

  1. Unauthorised Disclosure

We cannot accept any liability whatsoever for unauthorised or unlawful disclosure of your personal data by third parties who are not subject to our control.

  1. Amendment of Policy

pawsgonewild.co.za reserves the right to update and / or make changes to this Privacy Policy document. In the event of a substantial change, customers will be informed via email.

  1. Questions

Should you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us on info@pawsgonewild.co.za.

 

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