Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 12, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how 4 Every Paw (“4 Every Paw,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information when you visit our website, purchase products, subscribe to our services, interact with our marketing, contact customer support, or otherwise use our services.
By using our website or services, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use our website or services.
1. Scope of This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information we collect through:
- Our website, including 4everypaw.com and any related pages or subdomains that link to this Privacy Policy;
- Purchases, subscriptions, checkout flows, and customer accounts;
- Email, SMS, and other marketing communications;
- Customer service communications;
- Promotions, surveys, reviews, referrals, giveaways, or user-generated content;
- Advertising, analytics, cookies, pixels, and similar technologies.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites, applications, services, or platforms operated by third parties, even if they link to or from our website. Their privacy practices are governed by their own privacy policies.
2. Personal Information We Collect
We may collect the following categories of personal information.
A. Information You Provide Directly
We collect personal information you choose to provide, including:
- Contact information: name, email address, phone number, shipping address, billing address, and other contact details.
- Order and purchase information: products ordered, order history, subscription status, shipping details, returns, refunds, discounts, promotions used, and customer service notes.
- Account information: login credentials, account preferences, saved addresses, order history, and profile information.
- Payment-related information: billing details, payment method type, transaction status, and limited payment details such as last four digits where available. Full payment card details are processed by our payment processor and are not stored by us.
- Subscription information: recurring order preferences, renewal dates, cancellation requests, and related account settings.
- Customer support information: emails, chat messages, support tickets, attachments, call notes, and other information you provide when contacting us.
- Marketing preferences: email and SMS opt-ins, opt-outs, communication preferences, and consent records.
- Reviews, testimonials, photos, and user-generated content: product reviews, pet names, pet photos, comments, survey responses, social media tags, or other content you submit.
- Pet or animal-related information: if you choose to provide it, we may collect information such as your pet’s name, species, size, preferences, photos, or other details.
- Promotion and referral information: entries, referral codes, coupon use, reward eligibility, and related communications.
B. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website or interact with our digital services, we may automatically collect:
- Device and browser information: IP address, browser type, operating system, device type, device identifiers, language settings, and referring URLs.
- Site usage information: pages viewed, products viewed, clicks, scrolls, search terms, cart activity, checkout activity, session duration, and navigation patterns.
- Approximate location information: general location inferred from IP address, such as city, state, region, or country.
- Advertising and analytics information: cookie IDs, pixel IDs, campaign IDs, UTM parameters, ad interactions, referral source, and conversion events.
- Fraud prevention and security information: logs, risk signals, device reputation, and other information used to protect our website, customers, and business.
C. Information From Third Parties
We may receive personal information from third parties, including:
- Payment processors;
- Ecommerce, checkout, and subscription providers;
- Fulfillment, shipping, logistics, and packaging partners;
- Email, SMS, and customer support platforms;
- Advertising networks and social media platforms;
- Analytics providers;
- Referral, affiliate, influencer, or marketing partners;
- Fraud prevention and security providers;
- Public sources, where permitted by law.
3. How We Use Personal Information
We use personal information for the following purposes:
A. To Provide Our Products and Services
- Process orders, payments, subscriptions, returns, refunds, exchanges, and cancellations;
- Ship products and provide order updates;
- Maintain customer accounts;
- Provide customer support;
- Manage product availability, inventory, and fulfillment;
- Send transactional messages, such as order confirmations, shipping updates, subscription notices, account notices, and customer service responses.
B. To Communicate With You
- Respond to questions, requests, and customer support inquiries;
- Send service-related notices;
- Send email, SMS, or other marketing communications where permitted;
- Manage your communication preferences and opt-out requests.
C. To Personalize and Improve the Customer Experience
- Remember your preferences;
- Improve website design, product selection, checkout flows, and customer experience;
- Understand which products, offers, pages, and campaigns are most useful;
- Test and improve promotions, bundles, subscriptions, upsells, and other features;
- Conduct surveys, research, and customer feedback analysis.
D. For Marketing and Advertising
- Send promotional emails, SMS messages, newsletters, and offers;
- Display advertising on third-party platforms;
- Measure ad performance and conversions;
- Create, measure, and improve audiences and campaigns;
- Retarget visitors who viewed products or abandoned carts;
- Understand the effectiveness of referrals, affiliates, influencers, and marketing partners.
Some advertising activities may be considered “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale” of personal information under certain state privacy laws, even when we do not sell personal information for money.
E. For Animal-Welfare Impact and Mission Reporting
4 Every Paw’s mission is connected to helping animals in need. We may use order and purchase information to calculate, report, and communicate impact metrics, such as meals funded, shelters supported, rescue-related programs, or similar mission-related outcomes.
We may share aggregated or de-identified impact information with animal-welfare partners, marketing partners, or the public. We do not share your personal contact information with animal-welfare partners for their own marketing unless you direct us to do so or we have your permission.
F. For Security, Fraud Prevention, and Legal Compliance
- Detect, prevent, and investigate fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, chargebacks, or policy violations;
- Protect our customers, website, systems, and business;
- Enforce our Terms of Service and other policies;
- Comply with legal obligations, tax, accounting, and recordkeeping requirements;
- Respond to lawful requests, court orders, subpoenas, or government inquiries;
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
4. Cookies, Pixels, and Similar Technologies
We and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, SDKs, local storage, and similar technologies to operate our website and improve our services.
These technologies may be used for:
- Essential functions: checkout, cart, account login, fraud prevention, and site security.
- Analytics: understanding website traffic, performance, product interest, and customer behavior.
- Personalization: remembering preferences and improving your experience.
- Advertising: measuring ad performance, retargeting, creating audiences, and showing more relevant ads.
You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect website functionality, including cart, checkout, account, or personalization features.
Where required by law, we will provide tools to manage certain advertising and analytics cookies. We also honor legally required opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, where applicable and technically feasible.
5. How We Disclose Personal Information
We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients.
A. Service Providers and Vendors
We disclose personal information to companies that help us operate our business, including:
- Payment processors;
- Ecommerce, checkout, and subscription platforms;
- Fulfillment, packaging, warehouse, and shipping partners;
- Customer support providers;
- Email and SMS providers;
- Analytics providers;
- Advertising and measurement providers;
- Fraud prevention and security providers;
- Cloud hosting, database, and infrastructure providers;
- Professional advisors, such as lawyers, accountants, consultants, and auditors.
These providers are permitted to use personal information only as needed to provide services to us or as otherwise allowed by law.
B. Advertising and Analytics Partners
We may disclose online identifiers, device information, browsing activity, purchase events, hashed contact information, and similar information to advertising and analytics partners to measure campaigns, create audiences, retarget visitors, and improve marketing.
This disclosure may be considered “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale” under some privacy laws. You may have the right to opt out as described below.
C. Fulfillment and Shipping Partners
We disclose information such as your name, shipping address, phone number, email address, order details, and delivery instructions to fulfillment, packaging, logistics, and shipping partners so they can process, package, ship, and deliver your order.
Some fulfillment or shipping partners may process information outside your state, province, or country.
D. Business Transfers
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction, personal information may be disclosed, transferred, or evaluated as part of that transaction.
E. Legal, Safety, and Compliance Disclosures
We may disclose personal information if we believe it is necessary or appropriate to:
- Comply with law;
- Respond to legal process or government requests;
- Protect the rights, safety, and property of 4 Every Paw, our customers, or others;
- Detect or prevent fraud, security issues, or abuse;
- Enforce our agreements and policies.
F. With Your Direction or Consent
We may disclose personal information when you direct us to do so or give us permission.
6. Payment Processing
Payments are processed by third-party payment processors, such as Stripe or similar providers. When you submit payment information, that information is provided directly to the payment processor or handled through secure payment technology.
We do not store your full credit card number or full payment credentials. We may receive limited payment-related details, such as payment status, card brand, last four digits, billing address, transaction ID, fraud signals, and related information needed to process orders, subscriptions, refunds, disputes, and accounting records.
Payment processors handle your payment information according to their own privacy policies and security practices.
7. Email and SMS Marketing
If you sign up for email or SMS marketing, we may use your contact information to send promotional messages, offers, abandoned cart reminders, product updates, mission updates, and related communications.
You can opt out of marketing emails by clicking the unsubscribe link in an email. You can opt out of SMS messages by replying STOP or following the instructions in the message. Message and data rates may apply.
Even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send non-marketing messages, such as order confirmations, shipping updates, subscription notices, account notices, customer support responses, and legally required communications.
We do not sell or share SMS opt-in data or SMS consent records with third parties for their own independent marketing purposes. We may share SMS-related information with service providers who help us deliver, manage, and measure SMS communications.
8. Reviews, Testimonials, Social Media, and User Content
If you submit a review, testimonial, photo, video, comment, social media tag, or other user-generated content, we may use, display, reproduce, publish, and share that content in connection with our website, products, advertising, social media, email, and other marketing, subject to applicable law and any terms presented at the time of submission.
Please do not submit content you do not want made public. If your content includes another person, you are responsible for obtaining any permissions required before submitting it.
9. Financial Incentives, Discounts, and Promotions
We may offer discounts, free products, promotions, loyalty benefits, referral rewards, giveaways, or similar incentives. These offers may require you to provide personal information, such as your name, email address, phone number, shipping address, or purchase information.
The value of these incentives is reasonably related to the value we receive from the personal information, including the value of building customer relationships, providing offers, measuring marketing performance, and improving our products and services.
You may withdraw from marketing-related incentives by unsubscribing from email, replying STOP to SMS, or contacting us at support@4everypaw.com. Withdrawal may affect your ability to receive certain offers, rewards, or promotional benefits.
10. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Retention periods may depend on:
- Whether you have an active account or subscription;
- Whether we need the information to provide products or services;
- Legal, tax, accounting, and audit requirements;
- Fraud prevention and security needs;
- Dispute resolution, chargebacks, and legal claims;
- Customer support history;
- Marketing preferences and opt-out records.
For example, we may retain order and transaction records for tax, accounting, and legal purposes; retain support records to resolve customer issues; and retain opt-out records to honor your communication preferences.
11. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for notifying us if you believe your account or information has been compromised.
12. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are intended for adults and are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us at support@4everypaw.com, and we will take appropriate steps to delete the information.
13. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights:
- Access: request that we disclose the personal information we maintain about you.
- Correction: request that we correct inaccurate personal information.
- Deletion: request that we delete personal information, subject to legal exceptions.
- Portability: request a copy of certain personal information in a portable format.
- Opt out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising: request that we stop using or disclosing personal information for certain advertising purposes.
- Limit use of sensitive personal information: request limits on certain uses of sensitive personal information, where applicable.
- Withdraw consent: withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Object or restrict processing: request that we stop or restrict certain processing, where applicable.
- Appeal: appeal a decision we make regarding a privacy request, where applicable.
To submit a privacy request, contact us at:
Please include “Privacy Request” in the subject line and provide enough information for us to verify and process your request, such as your name, email address, state or country of residence, and the nature of your request.
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. We may ask for additional information to match your request to our records. We will not use verification information for unrelated purposes.
If we deny your request in whole or in part, you may appeal by replying to our decision email with “Privacy Appeal” in the subject line.
14. Opting Out of Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising
We do not sell personal information for money.
However, some of our advertising and analytics activities may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” under certain state privacy laws. This may include disclosing online identifiers, device information, browsing activity, purchase events, hashed contact information, or similar information to advertising partners.
You may opt out by:
- Using our Privacy Choices link, where available;
- Enabling a legally recognized browser-based opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control, where applicable;
- Contacting us at support@4everypaw.com with “Privacy Opt-Out” in the subject line.
Opt-out choices may be browser-specific or device-specific. If you use a different browser, device, or clear your cookies, you may need to renew your preferences.
We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of individuals under 16.
15. California Privacy Notice
This section applies to California residents and supplements the rest of this Privacy Policy.
A. Categories of Personal Information We Collect
In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:
Categories of Personal Information We Collect
In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:
Identifiers
Examples: Name, email address, phone number, shipping address, billing address, IP address, device identifiers.
Collected: Yes
Disclosed for business purposes: Yes
Sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising: Yes, for certain online identifiers or hashed contact information used for advertising.
Customer Records
Examples: Contact details, billing details, account information.
Collected: Yes
Disclosed for business purposes: Yes
Sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising: No, except as connected to advertising identifiers where applicable.
Commercial Information
Examples: Products viewed or purchased, order history, subscription status, cart activity.
Collected: Yes
Disclosed for business purposes: Yes
Sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising: Yes, for certain advertising and measurement activities.
Internet or Network Activity
Examples: Browsing activity, pages viewed, clicks, referral source, ad interactions.
Collected: Yes
Disclosed for business purposes: Yes
Sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising: Yes.
Geolocation Data
Examples: Approximate location inferred from IP address.
Collected: Yes
Disclosed for business purposes: Yes
Sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising: Yes, for certain advertising and analytics activities.
Audio, Electronic, or Similar Information
Examples: Customer support communications, if applicable.
Collected: Yes
Disclosed for business purposes: Yes
Sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising: No.
Inferences
Examples: Product preferences, customer segments, marketing interests.
Collected: Yes
Disclosed for business purposes: Yes
Sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising: Yes, for certain advertising and personalization activities.
Sensitive Personal Information
Examples: Account login credentials, payment-related information handled by payment processors, and other information only where necessary.
Collected: Limited
Disclosed for business purposes: Yes
Sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising: No.
B. Sources of Personal Information
We collect personal information from:
- You;
- Your device and browser;
- Payment processors;
- Ecommerce, subscription, and checkout providers;
- Fulfillment and shipping partners;
- Marketing, advertising, and analytics partners;
- Customer support providers;
- Referral, affiliate, and promotional partners;
- Fraud prevention and security providers.
C. Purposes for Collection, Use, and Disclosure
We collect, use, and disclose personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing products and services, processing orders and subscriptions, customer support, marketing, advertising, analytics, security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, and business operations.
D. Sensitive Personal Information
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that require a right to limit under California law, unless we provide you with the required notice and choice.
E. California Rights
California residents may have the right to:
- Know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell, or share;
- Access personal information;
- Request deletion;
- Request correction;
- Opt out of sale or sharing;
- Limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information, where applicable;
- Not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.
To exercise these rights, contact us at support@4everypaw.com.
F. Authorized Agents
You may designate an authorized agent to submit a privacy request on your behalf. We may require proof that you authorized the agent and may also require you to verify your identity directly with us.
G. Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights. We will not deny goods or services, charge a different price, or provide a different level of quality because you exercised your rights, except where permitted by law, such as when a difference is reasonably related to the value of your information in connection with a lawful financial incentive.
H. Shine the Light
California residents may request information about certain disclosures of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To submit such a request, contact us at support@4everypaw.com.
16. Other U.S. State Privacy Rights
Residents of certain U.S. states may have privacy rights under applicable state privacy laws. These may include rights to access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of personal information, opt out of targeted advertising, opt out of sale, opt out of certain profiling, and appeal a denied request.
To exercise these rights, contact us at support@4everypaw.com.
17. Nevada Privacy Rights
Nevada residents may have the right to opt out of certain sales of covered information. We do not currently sell covered information as defined by Nevada law. If you are a Nevada resident and wish to submit an opt-out request, contact us at support@4everypaw.com.
18. International Users
Our website and services are operated from the United States. If you access our website or services from outside the United States, your personal information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other countries where we or our service providers operate.
Privacy laws in these countries may differ from those in your location. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards or legal bases for international transfers.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction with similar privacy laws, you may have additional rights, including rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to processing, data portability, withdraw consent, and lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
To exercise these rights, contact us at support@4everypaw.com.
19. Legal Bases for Processing for EEA/UK Users
If applicable, we process personal information under the following legal bases:
- Contract: to process orders, subscriptions, accounts, payments, shipping, returns, and customer support.
- Consent: for certain marketing communications, cookies, or other activities where consent is required.
- Legitimate interests: to improve our website, market our products, prevent fraud, secure our services, understand customer behavior, and operate our business.
- Legal obligations: to comply with tax, accounting, consumer protection, privacy, and other legal requirements.
- Legal claims: to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
20. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling
We may use automated tools to support fraud prevention, advertising, analytics, personalization, customer segmentation, and ecommerce operations. We do not use automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects without appropriate human involvement, unless permitted by law.
21. De-Identified and Aggregated Information
We may use and disclose aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify you. For example, we may publish or share aggregate impact metrics, campaign performance, product trends, or website analytics.
We will not attempt to re-identify de-identified information except as permitted by law.
22. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on our website with a new “Last Updated” date.
If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice, such as by email, website notice, or other appropriate means.
23. Contact Us
For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact us at:
4 Every Paw
Email: support@4everypaw.com