Good Companion Dogs - Privacy Policy

Good Companion Dogs are committed to keeping your information secure and managing it in accordance with legal responsbilities under privacy and data protection laws.

Personal Data Held by Good Companion Dogs

We use one or more of the following items of personal data (which has been freely supplied to Good Companion Dogs) to facilitate the everyday operations:

  • Title
  • Initials/Forename
  • Address
  • Telephone Number(s)
  • Email Address

Data Protection

We comply with data protection law. This states that the personal information we hold about you must be:

  1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
  2. Collected only for the purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
  3. Relevant to the purpose we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
  4. Accurate and kept up to date.
  5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purpose we have told you about.
  6. Kept securely.

How we use Personal Information

Administering the everyday operation of Good Companion Dogs

Will Personal Data Be Shared

We will not share your personal information with or sell it to any 3rd party.

We use the following 3rd party service providers name below to help run our site

  • Google LLC, we use for Google Analytics service to anonymously measure the performance of this website

Personal Data will not be shared out with any other parties unless required to do so by Law.

Keeping Your Records

Good Companion Dogs keeps records for as long as required to operate in accordance with legal, tax and accounting requirements. When information is no longer required Good Companion Dogs will make sure any records are disposed of in a secure manner.

Visitor to Good Companion Dogs Website - Cookie Policy

We use cookies on the Good Companion Website:

  • External/3rd Party Cookies – The website uses Google Analytics to generally monitor how the website is used, this includes:
    • the type of device (e.g. Desktop, Notebook, Tablet, Smartphone etc.)
    • the Browser being used (e.g. IE, Chrome, Safari etc.)
    • the general geographical location of users.

It should be noted that this information captured by Google Analytics is anonymous and cannot be directly used to identify a user.

We collect these cookies under legitimate interests in order to provide you with our online services and to analyse visitor behaviour on our website.

Cookie information is held on your browser and you can amend your browser settings at any time. However, please be aware that blocking or deleting all cookies will affect the usability of our website.

Updating your Personal Data

Please notify Good Companion Dogs of any changes to your personal information which you have previously provided. You can do this by using the Contact Us form on the website

Access Rights

You have the right to request copies of certain personal information within Good Companion Dogs custody and control and details of how Good Companion Dogs uses the information. If you think any of the personal information Good Companion Dogs holds about you is incorrect you may request that it be corrected. You also have the right, in certain circumstances, to require us to stop processing your personal information.

Please note Good Companion Dogs, where permitted under applicable law, may charge a small administration fee and/or request proof of identity. Good Companion Dogs will respond to all requests within all applicable time frames.

Complaint Process

If you have a complaint about how Good Companion Dogs has handled your Personal Data please use the contact us form on the main website.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The contact details are https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/