This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how your information is collected and used when you visit ThePetPicks.com (the “Website”) operated by Precise Synergy Ltd. (“we”, “us”, “our”). The Website provides reviews, comparisons, and rankings of various pet-product brands, as well as links to the brands' online ordering sites.
PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED
We process information you provide us when you submit an inquiry on our Website.
When you visit our Website, you can submit a “contact us” inquiry, or email to us at privacy@precisesynergy.com. When you contact us, you will be asked to provide information such as your name, email address, and the subject of your inquiry. We refer to all such data as “Inquiry Information”.
You do not have a legal obligation to provide us with your Inquiry Information. However, if you choose not to share this information with us, we may not be able to respond to your inquiry.
We also collect analytics information about your use of the Website.
When you visit the Website, we record and collect certain information about your interaction with the Website, including the IP address from which you access the Website, time and date of access, type of browser used, language used, links clicked, and actions taken while using the Website (“Analytics Information“).
HOW WE PROCESS PERSONAL DATA
To respond to and handle your inquiry.
We process your “Inquiry Information” to contact you about your inquiry and handle your inquiry.
We receive information from the brand on whose website link you clicked.
When you interact with a brand's online ordering site, we receive from that brand information about the interaction (for example a purchase, or registration). We refer to this as “Brand Interaction Information”. We use this information to charge the brand our commission for referring you to that brand's ordering site.
We use Analytics Information to improve and enhance the Website and our services. We also use it for business administration purposes and online advertising.
We use Analytics Information to develop and enhance the Website, and to improve the products and services we offer. We also use the Analytics Information to adapt the Website, its content, and services and our communications, to users' preferences. Finally, we use the Analytics Information to understand the market in which we operate and for managerial reporting and business planning.
We use Google Analytics to collect Analytics Information. If you are signed-in to your Google account while accessing our Website, and have turned on Ad Personalization, the Analytics Information will also be associated with Google's information from your Google account. We will use this association of data to enable cross-device remarketing to you, support enhance ad personalization on Google Ads, provide us with improved Analytics Information.
We use cookies that help us to serve online ads when you visit other website and online platforms. Please read our Cookie section below.
WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH
We will not share your information with third parties, except to the extent provided below or if you have provided us with your explicit and informed consent.
We process information with our service providers helping us to operate our business.
We may process personal information with the assistance of service providers who assist us with the internal operations of the Website and/or our business. These service providers will be authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us and not for their own promotional purposes.
We share information with the brand on whose website link you clicked.
If you click on one the website's links to the brands' online ordering sites, we will share Analytics Information about you with the brand on whose website link you clicked, so that they know you were referred to their online ordering sites from our Website.
We may share information with competent authorities, if you abuse your right to use the Website, or violate any applicable law.
If you abuse your rights with respect to your use of the Website, or if you breach any applicable law, we may share your personal information with competent authorities and with third parties (such as legal and other advisors), for the purpose of handling such abuse or breach.
We will share your information if we are legally required to do so.
We will share information if we are required to do so by a judicial, governmental, or regulatory authority.
We may share your information with third-parties in any event of change in our structure.
If the operation of our Website or our business is reorganized (including where that operation occurs through a different entity due to merger, acquisition or the like), we may share information as necessary to support such reorganization.
COOKIES
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files, comprised of small amounts of data, that are saved on your computer or other device (e.g. smartphone, tablet, etc.) when you use the internet and visit various websites.
Certain information that the cookies access and hold is read by the website you visit only during the session of your visit to the website (these are called ‘session’ cookies), and other information maintained by the cookies is accessed when you return to visit the website again (these are called ‘persistent’ cookies).
We use cookies necessary to operate the Website, for website statistics and marketing purposes.
We use cookies for a number of purposes, as briefly explained below:
Necessary. Cookies that are strictly necessary for the functioning of the Website. The Website cannot operate properly without these cookies. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the Website may not function properly.
Statistics. Analyticscookies that help us understand how you and other users interact with our Website by collecting data that does not directly identify you. Among others, we and our third party vendor, Google, use Google Analytics cookies.
Marketing. Cookies that track your use of the Website and allow online advertisers, including us, to tailor ads that they believe are more relevant to you, when you visit other websites. Among others, we and our third-party vendor, Google, use Google advertising cookies. We also use advertising cookies to advertise through Taboola, Outbrain, Yahoo!, Facebook, and TikTok.
By visiting our Website, you acknowledge and consent to the use of cookies on your device.
You can always delete or disable cookies, and you can opt out of analytics and marketing cookies.
You can always delete the cookies saved on your device through the settings of your computer browser or device. You can also disable cookies for future use through the settings of your computer browser or device.
To opt out of Google Analytics, please visit Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Download Page.
To opt out of Taboola's personalized content recommendations based on your Internet use history advertising, please visit https://www.taboola.com/policies/privacy-policy#user-choices-and-opting-out.
To opt out of Outbrain's personalized content recommendations based on your Internet use history advertising, please visit https://my.outbrain.com/optout/.
To opt out of Yahoo!'s personalized content recommendations based on your Internet use history advertising, please visit https://yahoo.mydashboard.oath.com/device/.
To learn about how to out of Facebook's personalized content recommendations based on your Internet use history advertising, please visit https://www.facebook.com/help/247395082112892.
SECURITY AND DATA RETENTION
We will retain your Information for as long as we need it for business purposes, and thereafter as needed for record-keeping matters.
We will retain your Information for the duration needed to support our ordinary business activities operating the Website. Thereafter, we will still retain it as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, establish and defend legal claims and enforce our agreements.
We implement measures to secure your Information.
We implement measures to reduce the risks of damage, loss of information and unauthorized access or use of information. However, these measures do not provide absolute information security. Therefore, although efforts are made to secure personal information, it is not guaranteed, and you cannot expect that the Website will be immune from information security risks.
CONTACTING US
You may contact us by email at: privacy@precisesynergy.com .
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
If we change this Privacy Policy, we will make efforts to proactively notify you of such changes.
From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy. If we do so, we will make efforts to proactively notify you of such changes. In any event, the latest version of the Privacy Policy will always be accessible at: https://www.thepetpicks.com/privacy/.
Last Update: May 2024