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At Hearty K9s we want to build trusting relationships with you. One way we do this is to respect your personal identity and information by disclosing to you how we handle the information which you give us. On your part we ask that you respect our Terms of Use of the content and use of the heartyk9s.ca and heartyk9s.ca web sites (hereinafter referred to as heartyk9s) and agree to our Liability Limitations.

Our Privacy Pledge

At Hearty K9s we believe strongly in protecting your personal identity and information. We pledge not to release any information without your prior consent. Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required to do so by law.

Privacy Policy

Hearty K9s does not sell, or share with others, email addresses, street addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers, or buying practices. We make no effort to identify public users of our web site. Although our server logs retain data on all users, we use this data only to maintain the security and reliability of our web site. Your IP address is never linked to your personally identifiable information.

We may use cookies to provide useful features on our website for our customers. Cookies themselves do not personally identify users (although they do identify a user's computer). Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. To make use of our order or service forms you must have cookies enabled on your web browser.

Our web site contains links to other internet web sites. Please be aware that Hearty K9s is not responsible for the privacy practices of these web sites. When you leave our site by following a link we encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every web site you visit. Our Privacy Pledge and Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Hearty K9s on the heartyk9s web sites, or by email, phone, fax, or mail.

If we ever change any part of our privacy policy, we will post links to those changes on our Home page. We want you to be always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We may occasionally send additional administrative emails or informational newsletters to the email address provided by our customers. These additional emails and newsletters will never exceed more than one per month.

Terms of Use

Our Terms of Use are designed to protect the heartyk9s web sites from abuses. Most of our web site visitors will never do anything which would abuse our web site. This section is written for the few who will:

© 2004-2024 Dean's and Sonia's Hearty K9s, Dean and Sonia Nelson. The heartyk9s web sites are copyrighted in their entirety. All rights are reserved.
Hearty K9s(tm), hearty k9s(tm), heartyk9s.ca(tm) and heartyk9s.ca(tm) are trademarks of Dean's and Sonia's Hearty K9s, Dean and Sonia Nelson.
You may view, save and print the content of the heartyk9s web sites, and downloaded PDF files, for personal or business purposes.
You may not use the content of the heartyk9s web sites to create derivative or compiled works, except when the compiled works do not alter the content derived from the heartyk9s web sites and when they provide an Immediate Visible Link to the web site. We may rescind your right to publish or distribute the compiled work if we find that it leads to confusion regarding the original document's status or integrity.
Editorial reviews of this web site's contents must provide an Immediate Visible Link to this web site. You may not link to images on this web site unless you simultaneously display in a frameset the original page the image is on (as does Google), or provide an Immediate Visible Link to the original page the image is on. Any infringement of this license is an infringement of copyright and is enforced under Canadian and International law.
You may not attempt to bypass the security features of the web site server software, the mail server, the operating system software of the server, or any other services or processes associated with the delivery of the web site content. You may not attempt to access, delete or modify log files, customer information, html and php files, images or data of any kind. You may only access the files which are used in the normal activities and procedures of using the heartyk9s web sites, or through web spiders for the sole purpose of indexing information on the web site for retrieval by the general public (such as Google, Yahoo, etc.). If you break the terms of this section, you release Hearty K9s, Dean and Sonia Nelson, their employees, agents and contractors, the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), National Police Services (in Canada), Interpol (worldwide) and your own domestic police and law enforcement agencies, to conduct investigations into your illegal activities. We will act to protect the privacy and security of our web site users and clients to the full extent of the law.

Immediate Visible Link

You must provide either the same URL of the heartyk9s page in [alt] as in [href] for the IMG element, or a visible anchor element link with the URL of the page positioned immediately below the image.

Both [alt] and visible anchor link elements must also include this text:
© 2004-2024 heartyk9s.ca

Liability Limitations

In no event will Hearty K9s be liable to any part for any direct, indirect, special or consequential damages for any use of this site, or on any other hyperlinked web site, including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or other data on your information handling system, loss or disclosure of data from our web site server, or otherwise, even if Hearty K9s is expressly advised of the possibility of such damages.

Even though we take many security precautions in an effort to protect your personally identifiable information we cannot guarantee that your information won't be disclosed through the consequence of criminal activities.

Amazon Affiliation

Hearty K9s is part of Amazon's Amazon.ca Associates program. This means that if you click on one of our recommended books and purchase it through Amazon, we get a small revenue from the sale.