Privacy Policy

Last updated: 9 October 2026

This policy explains what information may be processed when you visit PawViral or contact us.

Information you submit

If you use our contact form, we receive the information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, topic and message. We use it to respond to your enquiry, investigate corrections and maintain the website.

Hosting and technical data

PawViral is hosted using Netlify. Like most web hosts, the hosting service may process technical information needed to deliver and secure the site, such as IP address, browser or device information, requested URLs and timestamps. Netlify’s handling of this information is governed by its own privacy terms.

Analytics

PawViral may use privacy-compliant analytics to understand aggregated site usage, such as which pages receive visits and how visitors navigate the site. If a non-essential analytics service requiring consent is enabled, consent controls will be provided where required by law.

Advertising and Google services

If Google AdSense is enabled, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses or similar technologies to deliver, measure and protect advertising. Google explains how it uses information from sites and apps that use its services at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Where required, visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland will be shown an appropriate consent message before personalised advertising technologies are used.

Cookies

For more detail about cookies and similar technologies, see our Cookie Policy.

Data retention

Contact messages are kept only as long as reasonably necessary to handle the enquiry, maintain a record of important corrections, or meet legal and security obligations.

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, privacy law may give you rights over personal information, including access, correction or deletion. You can contact us through our contact form to make a privacy request.

Children

PawViral is a general-audience animal website and is not designed to collect personal information from children. We do not knowingly ask children to submit sensitive personal information.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when our services or legal obligations change. The date at the top of the page shows the latest revision.