Privacy Policy
purpose of this policy
The Loving Hearts Animal Society is committed to your right to privacy and to keeping your personal information confidential. You can visit the Loving Hearts Animal Society website without telling us who you are or revealing any identifying information about yourself. However, because our website includes areas in which visitors can provide personal identifying information, we have developed this privacy policy to inform you of our policies and practices regarding information we collect about you. This privacy policy governs the URL loving-hearts.net and certain electronic communications sent out by the Loving Hearts Animal Society. This website is owned and operated by the Loving Hearts Animal Society for the benefit of its members and visitors interested in the protection and welfare of homeless companion animals.
how we collect & use information
Information Voluntarily Provided
The Loving Hearts Animal Society collects and maintains certain personal information about you when you send us an email or complete any of our online forms, such as when you request information from us, complete an application, make a donation, or subscribe to our online newsletter. Such information may include, but is not limited to, your name, address, telephone number, and email; it may also include credit card/payment details when required for the purpose of processing your donor contribution or personal history details necessary for the purpose of processing your application.
The Loving Hearts Animal Society may also use the information you voluntarily provided to contact you regarding animal-related issues we feel you may be interested in, and to keep you updated regarding special events and programs. When we do so, our sole intent is to enlarge our family of informed animal advocates and organizational supporters. Every recipient of our electronic communications can quickly and easily “opt out” of future such communications by following the instructions on any electronic communication we send or by contacting us to request to be removed from our mailing list.
System Administration Information
The Loving Hearts Animal Society also collects certain other information that cannot identify you personally when you visit our website. This information typically includes your IP address and domain name. The Loving Hearts Animal Society uses the aggregated information to monitor the use of our website by means of measuring the number of visits to our site, the average time spent on our site, the number of pages viewed and various other site statistics. This monitoring helps us to provide a more useful and engaging online experience to our visitors and helps us to improve the quality of our content.
Tracking Cookies
The Loving Hearts Animal Society utilizes cookies on our website for the purposes of keeping track of your donation history during an active session, which allows you to access your donation receipt without being logged in as a registered user.
when information is shared
The Loving Hearts Animal Society does not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer or disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties with the exception of any trusted third parties necessary in the operation of our website, so long as those parties adhere to strict privacy standards and protocols to keep such information confidential, or when release of your information is appropriate and required to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.
our site security
The Loving Hearts Animal Society uses generally accepted, industry-standard security systems, software and encryption technologies—Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)—for the secure transfer and storing of personal data on our website. All financial transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our server.
third-party links
The Loving Hearts Animal Society may occasionally include links to third-party resources on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of any third-party linked sites. However, in an effort to protect the integrity of our organization, we would welcome feedback reporting any inappropriate content or bad practices of any third-party resources linked on our site.
contact us
If you would like to correct any information we might have collected or if you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us.