PRIVACY/COOKIE POLICY

Because I wanted to pass along my dog kidney disease success story, I have published this website by my own hand and expense should any part of it be deemed useful and of benefit to others.   I am personally selling nothing but use Google Analytics for site analysis and have allowed adverts to be placed on my site through Google Adsense and by browsing this site you acknowledge and agree with the use of their cookies.  Read below on how to opt out if you would like to do so.

In telling my dog kidney disease success story, this website does not directly collect and use ANY information.  However, please be advised:

• Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, www.google.com (“Google Analytics” or “Google”). Google Analytics employs cookies that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site. The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there.
• In using Google Analytics our website employs the extension “anonymizeIp”. In doing so, Google abbreviates and thereby anonymizes your IP address before transferring it from EU/EEA member states. Google uses this information to analyze your use of our site, to compile reports for us on internet activity and to provide other services relating to our website.
• Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google states that it will in never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly as noted elsewhere in this Privacy Policy. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.
• Google Analytics also offers a deactivation add-on for most current browsers that provides you with more control over what data Google can collect on websites you access. The add-on tells the JavaScript (ga.js) used by Google Analytics not to transmit any information about website visits to Google Analytics. However, the browser deactivation add-on offered by Google Analytics does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may engage.
• Google Analytics also uses electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our site is used.
• You can find additional information on how to install the browser add-on referenced above at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
• For the cases in which personal data is transferred to the US, Google has self-certified pursuant to the EU-US Privacy Shield (https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework).
• Users may opt out of Google Adsense personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info and/or you can opt-out of Google Analytics cookies altogether by clicking: Google Analytics Opt-Out Add-on
• For my users in the European Economic Area (EEA), the EU User Consent Policy activated May 2018 requires identification of each party that receives end users’ personal data as a consequence of using a Google product.   This policy reflects the requirements of the EU ePrivacy Directive and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and you can review Google’s uses of data by clicking HERE