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Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://petbusinessesforsale.com.

Prohibited Uses

This Site is not intended for use by persons located within the European Economic Area (EEA). We do not request or accept personal information concerning or supplied by persons who are located within the EEA at the time they access this Site. If you have accessed this Site from within the EEA, you should immediately discontinue your use. If you have supplied personal information to us in violation of this provision, whether through the registration of new user accounts or otherwise, please contact us immediately.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

Contact forms

All Users

If you send an email directly to us, that information will be only used internally, however, if you contact an advertiser of  a business available for sale via the contact form located on the advertiser’s listing, we won’t be able to have control of the usage of your infomation.

Listing advertisers

Regarding information submitted via the “List your business for sale” form: Pet Businesses for Sale does not want to receive confidential, proprietary or trade secret information through this Web site (excluding information related to any pet business for sale listing you submit). Please note that any information related to your business as well as images sent to Pet Businesses for Sale will be deemed non-confidential. And, by submitting any such information, you are granting Pet Businesses for Sale an irrevocable and unrestricted license to use, modify, reproduce, transmit, display and distribute such materials and information for the purpose of advertsing a sale.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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 a for sale listing, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the listing you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Third Party Vendors

Third party vendors, including Google, Amazon and Paypal, might use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. How Google uses data when you use our website.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Alternatively, you opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

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.

Analytics

Our website does not use third party analytics software.

Who we share your data with

Please refer to the Third Party Vendors section.

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 we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Advertisers’ Payments

We used Paypal as our payment gateway. Paypal does not share with us your credit card information. Please refer to the Paypal Privacy Policy page for more information.