Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 16, 2025

The Sport Dog Society of Austin, LLC ("Company", "we", "our", or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you when providing services to you, both through our website www.thesportdogsociety.com, social media accounts, and offline (our "Services"), and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

Through our website www.thesportdogsociety.com.

In Service-related communications, including email, text, chat, and other electronic messages.

Through our social media accounts.

From offline activities and communications.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Services or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. 

Children's and Minors' Data

Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. 

The Personal Data That We Collect or Process

"Personal data" is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, home address, or payment information (for example, account information such as name, postal address, and email address).

The types and categories of personal data we collect or process include:

Account and contact information, including name, address, email address, phone number, and other contact information you provide us.

Payment information, including credit card or debit card information and information about the payment methods and services (such as PayPal or Venmo) you use in connection with the Services.

Account history, including information about your account, transactions, purchases, order history, or discounts.

Content and information you elect to provide as part of your profile or in any reviews you make through the Services or emails, chats, or other communications sent to us.

How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data

You Provide Information to Us

We collect information about you when you interact with our Services.

Automatically Through Our Services

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies.

Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Services. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Services. 

Web Beacons. Some parts of the Services and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those parts or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity). 

When you interact with the Services, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about your or your device. These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services. 

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

From Business Partners and Service Providers

We may receive personal data about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect directly from you. For example, we may obtain information about you from service providers that we engage to perform services on our behalf, such as email platform providers, content delivery services, and payment processors. We also may receive personal data from business partners that we engage to share consumer information with us, including your personal preferences and demographic information such as age, gender, and income level so that we can better provide you with a personalized experience, including personalized offers.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data, to:

Provide you with the Services and any contents, features, information, products, or services that we make available through the Services.

Fulfill and manage purchases and payments.

Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

Improve our Services, including by analyzing your information and creating aggregated data derived from your information, to develop, maintain, analyze, improve, optimize, measure, and report on our Services and their features and how users interact with them.

Contact you about our own and/or third-party goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

Notify you when Services updates are available and about changes to any products or services we offer or provide though them.

In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

For any other purpose with your consent.

Who We Disclose Your Information To

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. 

We may also disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization.

To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company’s assets.

To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. 

For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal data:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization, our customers, or others. 

Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your personal data and access a copy of the personal data we process. To the extent feasible, data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information and it will be included in the response to your access request.

Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data that we maintain, taking into account the information's nature and processing purpose.

Deletion. You may request that we delete personal data about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.  

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. 

Promotions by the Company. If you do not wish us to use your information to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt out at any time by emailing hello@thesportdogsociety.com 

To exercise any of these rights, please email hello@thesportdogsociety.com. 

How We Protect Your Personal Data

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. 

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access. 

How We Retain Your Personal Data

We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the "last updated" date and posting the updated policy on the Services. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our Services periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.

Contact Information

To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at: 

hello@thesportdogsociety.com