Privacy Policy

Last Modified: May 31, 2023

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT AND NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES CAREFULLY. This Privacy Statement and Notice of Privacy Practices (“Privacy Policy”) sets forth the privacy practices of Gatekeeper K9 Rescue (“we” or “us” or “Gatekeeper”). This Privacy Policy is intended to be applicable to all data collection by Gatekeeper and shall apply to your use of this website, your downloading and use of our mobile applications, or to any pages, facilities, services, or capabilities accessible on or by any top-level Gatekeeper domain owned by us, including but not limited to the following gatekeeperk9rescue.org, gatekeeperk9rescue.com, gatekeepercaninerescue.org, gatekeepercaninerescue.com, gatekeeperrescue.org, gatekeeperrescue.com, any subsite, subdomain, subdirectory, virtual site, or virtual directory thereof that contains a link to this Policy (each, a “Site” and collectively the “Sites”).

Application of Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Gatekeeper treats information that Gatekeeper obtains, including but not limited to the collection, storage, transfer, sharing and handling of information about you based on your use of the Sites. As used in this Privacy Policy, “Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII” means any information that may be used, either alone or in combination with other information, to personally identify an individual, household or device as defined by applicable laws. “Non-Personally Identifiable Information” or “NPII” means any information that is not PII.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated as part of the Terms and Conditions that apply with respect to your use of the Sites and your submission of information to Gatekeeper. This Privacy Policy may not be the only policy or agreement applicable to you. Please visit our Terms page for additional terms and conditions applicable to Gatekeeper’s services.

By providing us your information, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and that you consent to Gatekeeper’s privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy. You affirm your consent when you click through and accept the terms of this document on your initial visit to a Site and by submitting content or materials to us through our Sites.

This Privacy Policy is not intended to, and does not, create any contractual or other legal right in or on behalf of any person.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Gatekeeper reserves the right to revise or update this Privacy Policy at any time, and you agree to be bound by those revisions or updates. Gatekeeper will notify you of any changes to the Privacy Policy by posting the revised or updated Privacy Policy and its “Last Modified” date on the Sites. You should check the Sites regularly for updates. Your continued use of the Sites constitutes your consent and acceptance of the new Privacy Policy and its revisions or updates once posted. 

Contact and Electronic Communications

By providing your information on our Sites and/or upon submission of solicitation of assistance to Gatekeeper, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding any legal, regulatory, technical, security, privacy, administrative or consumer notification obligation relating to your use of the Sites or regarding your membership. We may use your email address to confirm your request, to send you notices regarding lost animals, to send you information about changes to our Sites and services, and to send notices and other disclosures as described above or as required by law. Generally, users cannot opt-out of these communications, but they will be primarily informational in nature rather than promotional.

If you have any specific questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact:

Gatekeeper K9 Rescue

Attn: Secretary

PO Box 826

Baldwinsville, NY 13027

You also may contact us by phone at 315-303-2848, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Information We Collect About You

Below are explanations of the ways in which we may collect, store, transfer, share or otherwise use Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) that is made available to Gatekeeper.

Request Directory. We maintain PII on all individuals who have requested our assistance in finding a lost dog.

Contribution and Payment Information. We collect information on the amount of contributions you have made to Gatekeeper and your purchase history from the Sites.

Log Information. When you use our services or view content provided by Gatekeeper we automatically collect and store certain information in our server logs. This type of information includes details of how you used our service, IP address information described below, web pages that have been viewed by a visitor, domain type, device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware, settings, browser type or version, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.

Internet Protocol (IP) address. Your “IP address” is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data, such as the screens and pages of our services that you view. We use this information to deliver our screens and pages to you upon request, to tailor our services to the interests of you and our other visitors, and to measure traffic to and within our services.

Device Information. “Device Information” may include information we collect such as your hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers and mobile network information including phone number. We may associate your device identifiers or phone number with your account.

Location Information. When you use Gatekeeper services, we may collect and process information about your actual location. We use, or may in the future use, various technologies to determine location, including IP Address, Global Positioning Systems on mobile devices and other sensors that may provide Gatekeeper with information about nearby devices, Wi-Fi access points and cell towers.

Credit Card Information. Users may be prompted to enter their credit card information, including, for example, when making a donation online. Any credit card information you may provide on our website is collected through Donorbox and integrated with third-party payment processors such as Stripe and PayPal. For more information on Donorbox see their terms and privacy policy.

How We Use Information

Personally Identifiable Information. If you provide us with PII, we will only use it for the purposes described in this statement.

We use PII to provide you with services, for Site troubleshooting and maintenance, to communicate with you about your lost dog, opportunities and our services, or to conduct marketing and fundraising research. We also use PII in our services to:

  • help us create and publish content most relevant to you;

  • enable us to deliver our publications to you;

  • allow you access to certain areas of our Sites;

  • alert you to, updated information, and our other new services or those of other third-parties;

  • forward promotional materials and to fulfill the terms of such promotion;

  • complete a transaction or service requested by you;

  • target our services to your needs;

  • identify you as a poster or provider of content;

  • contact you in response to sign up forms such as “Contact Us” or “Help Request”; and to request additional information.

Any Credit Card Information that you choose to provide will be used only for donations which are accepted through third-party platforms. We do not share your credit card information with anyone except as may be necessary or expedient to process your transactions or comply with law.

Legal Disclosure. We may disclose information about you and your use of services if we believe that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to:

  • Comply with the law and/or legal process where a formal request has been made (e.g. request from an administrative oversight agency, civil suit, subpoena, court order or judicial or administrative proceeding);

  • Protect or defend our rights and/or property or the rights and property of others;

  • Enforce our Terms, this Privacy Policy, and/or other agreements or policies;

  • Respond to claims that the content(s) of a communication violates the rights of another.

  • Respond to urgent circumstances to protect your personal safety or the personal safety of others.

Also, circumstances may arise where, for business reasons, we may decide to reorganize, or divest all or part of our business through sale, assignment, merger or acquisition, or we may acquire a new business. In these circumstances, personal information may be shared with the actual or prospective purchasers or assignees or with the newly acquired business. In such an event, we shall provide notice of any material change to this Privacy Policy, or our services, in the manner described in the Changes to this Policy section of this Privacy Policy.

Sharing and Disclosure

Personally Identifiable Information. Primarily, we may share your PII or disclose it to third parties in the following instances:

  • To provide you with a product or service that you requested.

  • To unaffiliated third-party service providers (such as our website’s hosting platform Squarespace), agents, or independent contractors who help us maintain our services and with other administrative services (including, but not limited to, help request processing, providing customer service, maintaining and analyzing data, sending customer communications on our behalf, and entry collection). We seek to ensure that such unaffiliated third parties will not use your PII for any purpose other than that for which they are responsible. However, we cannot guarantee that they will not use it for any other purpose.

  • To complete your donation. If you choose to make a donation on or through our Sites, we may ask you for your credit card number, billing address, and other information in connection with completing such purchase, and we may use such information to fulfill your donation. We may also provide such information, or other PII provided by you, to unaffiliated third parties to complete your donation (for example, to process your credit card).

  • To third parties as part of a corporate reorganization process including, but not limited to, mergers, acquisitions, and sales of all or substantially all of our assets.

  • To protect against fraud and potential fraud. We may verify the information you provide using our services through third parties. In the course of such verification, we may receive additional PII about you from such services. In particular, if you use a credit card or debit card to purchase services with us, we may use card authorization and fraud screening services to verify that your card information and address match the information you supplied to us, and that the card has not been reported as lost or stolen.

Opt Out and Opt In

You may choose not to receive promotional email communications from us and can opt-out of receiving other types of communication from us such as emails, updates regarding new services and products offered on or through our services, and notices concerning new features available with our services or products.

You may exercise your opt-out rights by contacting us at 315-303-2848 or gatekeeperk9rescue@gmail.com.

Children

The Sites and services are not intended for use by children. We do not intentionally gather Personally Identifiable Information about visitors who are under the age of 16. If a child has provided us with Personally Identifiable Information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us to have the information deleted from our records. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 16, please contact us at gatekeeperk9rescue@gmail.com. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected the personal information of a child under 16, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

Cookies and Tracking

In connection with the services, we or other parties may use cookies, web beacons, or other technologies that store or track information related to your use of the services.

For some of our Sites, we may post a Cookie Policy that is Site specific. We do this in order to best describe the use of cookies for Sites that are administered by our third-party vendors. By posting a separate and site-specific policy on these selected Sites, we are able to provide transparency to you and describe in detail where the use of cookies is configured in a way that is different than how Gatekeeper typically manages cookies on its Sites. The reason for this is that some of our third-party site administrators are in the process of developing and upgrading their compliance and technical use capabilities in the interest of providing maximum choice to visitors to the Sites. Examples of these Sites include gatekeeperk9rescue.org and the sites relating to the specific publications referenced there. For these Sites, we will continue to update you as the technical and compliance capabilities are enhanced and additional choices regarding the use of cookies becomes available to you.

We use software provided by Squarespace on our website to analyze website usage.  For more information about Squarespace’s privacy practices, please visit https://www.squarespace.com/cookie-policy.

Do Not Track

Your browser may offer you a “Do Not Track” option, which allows you to signal to operators of websites and web applications and services (including behavioral advertising services) that you do not wish such operators to track certain of your online activities over time and across different websites. Our Services do not support Do Not Track requests at this time, which means that we collect information about your online activity while you are using our Services. We do not collect online activity after you leave our Services.

Third-Party Links and Websites

Our Sites may contain links to third-party services. While we endeavor to work with third parties that share our respect for user privacy, we are not responsible for the websites or privacy practices of such third parties. In addition, this Privacy Policy is not intended to describe data handling procedures for information collected by other linked websites or third parties. You are responsible for knowing when you are leaving our Sites to visit a third-party website and for reading and understanding the terms of use and privacy policy statements for each such third party.

Social Media and Community Platforms

Any information, communications, or material of any type or nature that you submit to the Sites (including, but not limited to, any Gatekeeper Sites contained on a social media platform or website such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter) by email, posting, messaging, uploading, downloading, or otherwise (collectively, a Submission) is done at your own risk and without any expectation of privacy. Gatekeeper cannot control the actions of other users of any social media platform or website, and Gatekeeper therefore is not responsible for any content or Submissions contained on such sites and platforms. By visiting any Gatekeeper Site that is contained on a social media platform or website, you are representing and warranting to Gatekeeper that you have reviewed the applicable privacy policy and terms of use of such platform or website and that you will abide by all such provisions contained therein. We may provide public areas on our services, such as forums and chat rooms, where you can post information about yourself and others. Please exercise discretion and use caution with respect to your information, especially in such public areas. We do not control who reads postings on our services, or how they may use or disclose such information. If you choose to voluntarily disclose information on public portions of our services, that information may be subject to web searches and will be publicly available to be collected and used by others. For example, if you post your email address, you may receive unsolicited messages. PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN DISCLOSING ANY INFORMATION ABOUT YOURSELF OR OTHERS IN PUBLIC AREAS OF OUR SERVICES. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE OR DISCLOSURE OF SUCH INFORMATION.

How We Protect Your Information

Gatekeeper maintains reasonable and appropriate measures to protect your information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosures, alterations and destruction taking in to account the risk involved in the processing and the nature of PII. Unfortunately, no site, server or database is completely secure or “hacker proof.” We therefore cannot guarantee that information about you will not be disclosed, misused or lost by accident or by the unauthorized acts of others.

Retention of Personal Data and PII

Personal Data and PII obtained by Gatekeeper is adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. The Personal Data and PII is processed for purposes specified herein and will only be processed consist with these purposes described herein. Gatekeeper will request only the minimum amount of information required to perform the applicable services and will retain such information only for as long as necessary to provide the services or for compatible purposes, such as to provide additional services, to comply with legal requirements, or to preserve or defend Gatekeeper’s legal rights.