MeowNames.com Privacy Policy
MeowNames.com operates the meownames.com website, which provides access to a database of cat names, including name meanings, origins, pronunciations and similar content around the topic of cat names.
This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service, the MeowNames.com website.
If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at meownames.com, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collection and Use
For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you. It will be made explicitly clear to you when you are required to provide personally identifiable information.
Log Data
We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
Use of Interaction Data
In order to do the best job possible of helping people to find cat names they love, we use data from user interactions with the content on MeowNames.com to recommend popular and relevant cat names to other users.
We store data from each of the following interactions:
- Cat name 'likes', which are triggered by clicking the heart symbol next to a name;
- Dog name searches;
- Views of cat name categories;
- Comments left on cat name pages or cat name categories.
To get an understanding of how cat name preferences vary by region, the state and country of each user is stored along with each of these interactions. We detect the state and country of each user by requesting their IP Address and sending it to the geolocation API ip-api.com, which responds with the state and country associated with that IP Address.
The user's IP Address is not stored in any MeowNames.com database. It is accessed momentarily by the web server, as part of an automatically executed function. And because this function is executed automatically in real time, your IP Address is never exposed to any individual associated with MeowNames.com or any other user of MeowNames.com.
In other words, although your interactions with MeowNames.com are stored in our database and shared with other users in our Recent Activity feed, you are not personally identifiable from the information that we collect or share. The only exception to this would be if you were to voluntarily share personally identifiable information within a comment you submitted to MeowNames.com.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Our website uses these "cookies" to collection information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service, including the ability to 'save' your favorite cat names to a list.
For more general information on cookies, please read What Are Cookies?
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
- To facilitate our Service;
- To provide the Service on our behalf;
- To perform Service-related services; or
- To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
Currently, the only third-party tool we use which collects data is Google Analytics. This tool collects information about your browser and geographical region, but it does not collect or provide to us any personally identifiable information about you or your location.
Security
When you trust us with your personal information, we strive to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children's Privacy
Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us. Please contact Colin Strachan using the Contact Form.