Welcome to DogSquare! Our commitment is to provide you with a seamless and secure online experience. This Cookies Policy explains how DogSquare ("we", "us", "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our app. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites or apps that you visit. They are widely used to make websites and apps work or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site or app.
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons:
Essential Cookies: These are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our app and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas for user authentication.
Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our app but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionalities may become unavailable. We use Google Analytics to understand how our services are being used, which helps us improve your user experience.
Essential Cookies: These are necessary for our app to function correctly. They enable you to navigate around our app and use its features.
Analytics Cookies: These cookies are set by Google Analytics and help us collect information about how you use our app.
Google Analytics helps us understand user behavior, such as how often users visit our app, what pages they visit when they do, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our app.
Information collected includes the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our app, rather than your name or other identifying information.
We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information.
Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our app, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google.
Due to the integral role of these cookies in the functionality of our app, they cannot be turned off. If you choose not to accept these cookies, you may not be able to use our app in its intended capacity.
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you can still use our app, though your access to some functionality and areas might be restricted.
We may update this Cookies Policy to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Therefore, please re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us.