Privacy Policy:

Your privacy and full confidence in Dogs & Co are of the utmost importance to us. We will never disclose any of your personal information to a third party – unless it is required to fulfil the order (name, address and products purchased etc). 

By using a third party to manage our payments system we never see any of your credit / debit card or online private details, whether you have a PayPal account or use the card option. We do not keep or retain any payment details. All information provided is covered by the data information act and GDPR iaw The European Union Directive

If you have any queries about our privacy policy, please contact us.

What is GDPR?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union. It addresses the export of personal data outside the EU.

Dogs & Co is fully GDPR compliant. No information provided by the customer is passed on to any third parties unless it directly involves the order and payment of goods. By choosing PayPal personal information including name, address, email and payment details are fully secure and covered by PayPal’s SSL Certificates. Any paperwork associated with a purchase or contact is stored securely or destroyed IAW (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679.

Our site is fully secure throughout –  look for “HTTPS”  in the address bar to confirm the security of our site. We do not collect any electronic information or analytic data from customers just viewing our website. Though third parties employed throughout the site and the visitors chosen browser may independently collect data. We do not receive or pass on any such data.

What are cookies?

Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. At Dogs & Co we use cookies to keep track of where you have visited on the website (analytics) and when you use any of the interactive objects such as ‘Add to Cart’, ‘Wishlist’ and when placing an order. Cookies help us to know where visitors landed and which pages are visited, to enable us to improve this website experience and track conversions. These cookies cannot identify you or release any private information.

Third parties on the website also use cookies as a necessity: PayPal or your credit / debit card provider to process your order. We also use the Woocommerce platform for transactions (but not payments). When you visit us you may notice some cookies that aren’t related to Dogs & Co directly. If you go on to a web page that contains embedded content, for example from YouTube, WordPress or Woocommerce, you may be sent cookies from these websites. We don’t control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them. If you click on any Facebook or Instagram links (the like or share button), your data may used by those sites. For further details go to your settings on your social media accounts.

To order products on the website or use the interactive objects you need to have cookies enabled (i.e ‘Agree’ to allow the ‘Necessary’) cookies – see the section on Managing cookies. If you don’t wish to enable cookies, you’ll still be able to browse the site and use it for research purposes. Most web browsers have cookies enabled, but see Managing cookies for help to turn them on should you need to.

Please note that cookies cannot harm your computer. We don’t store personally identifiable information such as credit card details in cookies we create. Only information gathered by third party analytics are used to improve your experience on the website.

Managing cookies:

If ‘Necessary’ cookies are not allowed to be enabled, it will mean that your shopping experience on our website will be limited to browsing and researching; you won’t be able to add products to your basket or buy them. Off site websites such as Facebook & Instagram use cookies to gather data from the user. They can only track your information about your visit  through clicking on a link to or from this site. This information may be passed on, from them, to other parties. We do not control, receive or pass on any of this information. For more information on controlling cookies, visit your help pages on your computer or visit aboutcookies.org or similar off site website.