The Hotdog Blog! is committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information that you provide to us when using The Hotdog Blog! and its affiliated sites (hereafter referred to collectively as the "Services"). This Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information received about you when you visit or subscribe to the Services.

Our affiliated sites include: DoggyBloggy!, toddherrold.com, and freakspeak.org.

Information We Collect

General: When you register, and at other times, we will collect personally identifiable information from you that may include your name, age, address, e-mail address, etc. We do not, however, knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen.

Surveys: We may conduct occasional online surveys. For example, when you're within the Services, you may see a pop-up window offering you the optional opportunity of participating in a survey. These surveys are entirely voluntary and you may easily decline to participate.

Web Site Usage Information: We automatically collect IP addresses and Web site usage information from you when you visit the Services. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors and subscribers use and navigate our Web sites, including the number and frequency of visitors and subscribers to each Web page, and the length of their visits.

How We Use Information Collected

We may use information in the following ways:

• For the purposes for which you specifically provided the information including, for example, to enable us to process, validate and verify subscriptions.
• To send you e-mail notifications about our new or existing products and services, special offers, or to otherwise contact you.
• To enhance existing features or develop new features, products and services.
• To allow us to personalize the content and advertising that you and others see based on personal characteristics or preferences.

We may hire other companies to perform services on our behalf including, without limitation, facilitating some aspects of the Services, sending e-mail, and fulfilling purchase requests. These other companies may be supplied with or have access to your personally identifiable information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf.

We use third parties, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to deliver ads to you on our behalf. These third-party ad servers may be supplied with or have access to your personally identifiable information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf. They also may also collect and use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to the Services and other Web sites in order to present advertisements that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice or to opt out of having this information used by third-party ad servers to provide targeted ads, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.

Except as specifically set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your personally identifiable information outside of The Hotdog Blog! unless you "opt in" to having your personally identifiable information shared with a company that is not affiliated with us.

We may disclose and use personally identifiable information in special circumstances where it is necessary to enforce our Terms of Use. We may also disclose or use your personal information when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to do so.

Your Ability to Choose

We offer you the opportunity to choose whether to receive certain communications from us at the time you give us your personally identifiable information. If you subscribe to The Hotdog Blog!, you may also update your information preferences by editing your account preferences Edit Account.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We employ cookie technology.

Ads for the Services

When you view an ad for the Services on other sites, our third-party advertising company may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. The Services and our advertising company may also use Web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) to note which Services pages you visit after viewing our ads. The information that is collected through the use of these images is not personally identifiable and is used only to track response to our advertising efforts.

Security

The personally identifiable information we collect about you is stored in limited-access servers maintained by our web-host company. Within our ability, we will ensure that our webhost company maintains safeguards to protect the security of these servers and your personally identifiable information.

Comments and Questions

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, you may contact our Privacy Maven at cleo@hotdogblog.com.