Privacy Policy

It is Drawing dog’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to drawingdog.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, “our” or “drawingdog.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Who we are

Drawing dog is a drawing blog dedicated to posting tutorials on how to draw dogs in many ways . For those who are unaware, our website address is: https://drawingdog.com/

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Drawing dog collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.

Drawing dog’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use its website. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Drawing Dog also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments on our blog posts. We only disclose commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Drawing Dog’s website choose to interact with Drawing Dog in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Drawing Dog gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our newsletter to provide an email address and name.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Drawing Dog and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and the terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Drawing Dog discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that:

  • (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Drawing Dog’s behalf or to provide services available on our website, and
  • (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.

Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Drawing Dog’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

We will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above.

Drawing dog discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or another governmental request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Drawing dog, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://drawingdog.com/ and have supplied your email address, Drawing Dog may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Drawing Dog and our site.

We primarily use our site to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

Drawing Dog takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

Drawing Dog may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we will not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Drawing Dog uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.

We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of https://drawingdog.com/, and their website access preferences. Drawing Dog visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our websites, with the drawback that certain features of Drawing Dog’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

What rights you have over your data

You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you by emailing drawingdogofficial(at)gmail.com. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:

  • Drawing Dog needs to perform a contract with you
  • You have given Drawing Dog permission to do so
  • Processing your personal information is in Drawing Dog legitimate interests
  • We need to comply with the law

Drawing Dog will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
  • The right of rectification.
  • The right to object.
  • The right of restriction.
  • The right to data portability.
  • The right to withdraw consent.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Drawing Dog may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in our sole discretion. Drawing Dog encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or issues, please use our contact form or send us an email at: drawingdogofficial(at)gmail.com. We will aim to reply within 3 to 5 days of receiving your email.

Policy last updated: April 2020