Privacy Policy

This statement describes the privacy practices hair of the dog apply for their member service. As part of that, it also expresses our approach to complying with the data protection laws which apply in the United Kingdom. If we change this Privacy Policy, we will notify you of the changed document in the same way as we notify changes to the hair of the dog Terms and Conditions.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact hair of the dog through our Contact Us page.

1. The information we gather and track.

Information gathered on registration. When you register for the hair of the dog service, you provide your name, gender, email address, and various other items of information about you ("Registration"). They are available to you, and capable of being changed, through your My Profile page.

Cookies. We use small files known as "cookies" to enhance users' experience of the hair of the dog service, by means of a temporary "session" cookie. Unless the Member requests we remember their details, these cookies disappear when the Member's browser session ends, or if the Member logs out.

2. Sharing and use of information

The over-riding principles we apply are these:

We will not supply your personal data to a third party for commercial exploitation, unless you agree to permit us to do so; and the only circumstances in which we will provide any of your personal data to a third party for non-commercial purposes are those contained in this Privacy Policy.

Registration Information. Some or all of the Registration Information posted by a Member will be made available to other Members in response to searches they make on the hair of the dog service. Your name and email address will not be made available in this way, but the name you elect to be known as on the site will. It is up to you how anonymous you wish this name to be.

Email addresses. We do not directly make your email address available to anyone on any screen of the hair of the dog service. The only legitimate way of making contact with another Member as a result of viewing a search result found on the hair of the dog service is for a Member to enter a message which we will send on the Member's behalf to the Member. All subsequent replies and messages will be sent from us on the Members' behalf. At no point do we disclose or encourage the disclosure of email addresses. Members may change their email address at any time through My Profile.

Advertising. The hair of the dog service may include interactive advertising for other businesses. We may use, and provide to third parties, anonymised demographic data provided by Members to target this advertising more appropriately.

Newsletters. We have regular and occasional emails, which Members can decide to take or not, according to their preferences.

Companies in the hair of the dog group. We may share data supplied by you (or collected about you) with our subsidiaries and other companies in our group, but only for the purposes described in this policy.

Changes in hair of the dog 's business. If all of the assets which we use to operate our business (or substantially all of them) are acquired by a third party, we may transfer personal data we then hold to that party.

Place of processing. The personal information held by us is held on and processed by computers situated in the United Kingdom.

3. Security

We have security measures in place to protect our customer database and access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each Member's responsibility:

- to protect against unauthorised access to Member Details;

- to ensure against use by anyone else of the hair of the dog service through the machine that Member uses while they are "logged on" to the hair of the dog service;

- to log off or exit from the hair of the dog service when not using it; and to keep his/her password secret.

4. Opt-out policy

You may have your registration details removed at any time. To remove yourself please go to My Profile and select the Unregister option under the Edit screen.

We provide Members with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving e-mailed Newsletters which they have previously opted to receive. This opt-out can be effected by making appropriate selections in your My Profile page.

5. Disclosure for legal reasons

We reserve the right to communicate such of a Member's personal information as we hold to third parties which seek the disclosure of it, and which make a legally-compliant request for its disclosure.

6. Contacting hair of the dog

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with hair of the dog , you can contact us on the relevant email address available on the Contact Us page. You can also use there addresses if you wish to request from hair of the dog a copy of the personal data we hold about you or a description of that data. Please note that by English law we are entitled to charge you a small sum for providing this information.

7. Links to third party sites

Our site contains links to other sites. hair of the dog is not responsible for the privacy practices, or the content, of those web sites.

8. Data Protection Information

You can obtain further information about data protection laws by visiting the Information Commissioner's website at www.dataprotection.gov.uk