Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 1, 2026
Privacy Notice
At Furry Found, we respect your privacy and are committed to being transparent about how information may be collected and used when you visit our website.
Furry Found publishes pet news, rescue and adoption stories, and dog and cat care information. You can browse and read our articles without creating an account or providing personal information.
This Privacy Policy explains what information Furry Found may collect, how that information may be used, and the choices that may be available to you.
Our use of cookies and similar technologies is described in our separate Cookie Policy.
Information We Collect
Information You Voluntarily Provide
Depending on how you interact with Furry Found, you may voluntarily provide information such as:
- Your name
- Email address
- Contact information
- Information included in a message submitted through our contact form
- Information included in comments, feedback, correction requests, or news tips
You may provide this information when you:
- Contact us through our website
- Submit a comment on an article
- Send us a correction or feedback
- Send us a news tip or other message
Please do not send us sensitive personal information, such as financial account details, government identification numbers, or health records. We have no need to hold information of that kind.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit Furry Found, certain information may be collected automatically through analytics, advertising, security, hosting, and similar technologies.
Depending on the services and technologies in use, this information may include:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type and information
- Operating system
- Pages or articles visited
- Date and time of visits
- Referring website or URL
- Approximate geographic information, such as city, state, or region
- Information about how you interact with the website
This information may be used to understand how visitors use Furry Found, improve website performance and content, maintain security, measure advertising performance, and identify technical problems.
How We Use Information
Information collected through Furry Found may be used to:
- Provide, maintain, and improve the website
- Improve our articles, guides, and overall user experience
- Understand how readers use the website
- Analyze website traffic and performance
- Respond to questions, messages, correction requests, and news tips
- Publish and moderate comments, where comments are available
- Maintain website security and help prevent abuse, fraud, spam, or other misuse
- Display and measure advertising
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
- Protect our rights, website, users, and property
We may also use information for other purposes that are compatible with the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
We do not sell personal information for money.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Furry Found may use cookies, pixels, web beacons, local storage, and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used for purposes such as:
- Remembering certain website preferences
- Understanding website traffic and usage
- Measuring the performance of our content
- Supporting advertising
- Detecting and preventing fraud, spam, or abuse
- Improving website functionality
Some cookies may be placed by third-party service providers that provide analytics, advertising, security, or other services.
For more information about how cookies work and the choices available to you, please see our Cookie Policy.
Analytics
Furry Found may use one or more third-party analytics services, which may include Google Analytics, to understand how visitors use the website.
Analytics services may collect information such as device information, browser information, pages visited, approximate geographic information, and information about interactions with the website.
We may use analytics information to understand traffic patterns, improve content, identify technical issues, and improve the overall user experience.
Third-party analytics providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.
Advertising
Furry Found may display advertisements provided by third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense or other advertising services.
Advertising providers may use cookies, pixels, web beacons, or similar technologies to deliver, personalize, measure, and improve advertisements.
Depending on your location, applicable privacy laws, and the choices available to you, advertising providers may use information about your interactions with this website and other websites to provide personalized or interest-based advertising.
Google explains what information it collects from websites that use its services at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Furry Found does not currently serve personalized advertising. If personalized advertising is introduced in future, consent will be obtained and recorded through a Google-certified consent management platform before any personalized advertising is served to visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland.
Third-Party Services
Furry Found may use third-party services and tools to operate, analyze, secure, and monetize the website.
These services may include, depending on the features currently in use:
- Analytics providers
- Advertising providers
- Website hosting and infrastructure providers
- Security and spam-prevention services
- Comment-management services
- Website performance and technical tools
Third-party providers may collect or process information according to their own privacy policies.
Furry Found does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third parties when you interact with their services.
Comments
Where comments are enabled, information submitted through a comment may include your name, email address, IP address, and the content of your comment.
Your comment may be publicly visible on the website. Your email address is not intentionally displayed publicly as part of the comment.
Comments may be reviewed or processed by automated spam-detection or moderation services.
Because comments are public, please do not include private, sensitive, or personally identifying information that you do not want others to see.
News Tips, Corrections, and Feedback
If you voluntarily send Furry Found a news tip, correction, feedback, or other communication, we may use the information you provide to review, respond to, and manage that communication.
Information voluntarily provided to us may become part of our editorial or administrative records where relevant to our reporting, corrections, or other website operations.
We may retain communications for as long as reasonably necessary for editorial, administrative, legal, security, or recordkeeping purposes.
Links to External Websites
Furry Found articles contain links to external websites, including news organizations, animal shelters, rescue organizations, veterinary organizations, government agencies, social media platforms, and other sources. We include these links so that readers can verify the facts in our reporting.
These external websites are not operated or controlled by Furry Found.
If you follow a link to another website, that website’s privacy policy and terms apply to your activity there. Furry Found is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of external websites.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and whether applicable privacy laws apply to Furry Found or to our processing of your information, you may have certain privacy rights.
Depending on applicable law, these rights may include:
- The right to know or access certain personal information
- The right to request correction of inaccurate personal information
- The right to request deletion of personal information, subject to applicable exceptions
- The right to opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information
- The right to opt out of certain targeted or interest-based advertising
- Other rights provided by applicable privacy laws
The specific rights available to you depend on where you live, the law that applies, and whether the relevant legal requirements apply to Furry Found.
Furry Found does not discriminate against individuals for exercising privacy rights available to them under applicable law.
California residents. California privacy law may provide additional rights, including rights to know, access, correct, or delete certain personal information, as well as rights relating to the sale or sharing of personal information and certain forms of targeted advertising. California law may also provide protections against unlawful discrimination for exercising those rights. As stated above, Furry Found does not sell personal information for money. If our use of advertising or other technologies constitutes a form of sharing covered by applicable California law, California residents may have additional choices or opt-out rights.
European Economic Area and United Kingdom residents. You may have the right to request a copy of your personal information, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to how it is used, and to withdraw any consent you have given. You may also have the right to complain to your national data protection authority.
How to make a request. Please reach us through our Contact Us page. We may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity and to protect against fraudulent or unauthorized requests, and we will not ask for more information than is needed for that purpose.
Where required by applicable law, we will process and respond to qualifying privacy requests within the applicable time period.
Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing services, responding to communications, maintaining records, protecting our website, resolving disputes, complying with legal obligations, and enforcing our agreements.
The length of time information is retained may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
Some information may also be retained by third-party service providers according to their own retention policies.
Data Security
Furry Found uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to help protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
Our website uses HTTPS to help protect information transmitted between your browser and the website.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage system is completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security of information.
Children’s Privacy
Furry Found is intended for a general audience and is not directed toward children under 13.
We do not knowingly request or intentionally collect personal information from children under 13 through our website.
If you believe that a child under 13 has provided personal information to Furry Found, please contact us through our Contact Us page so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action where required.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, technology, legal requirements, or privacy practices.
When we make changes, we will update the Last Updated date at the top of this page.
We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how Furry Found handles information.
Questions About This Policy
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or your personal information, please reach us through our Contact Us page.
When contacting us about a privacy matter, please mention that your message concerns privacy so that it can be directed appropriately.
We will review and respond to privacy-related inquiries within a reasonable period and in accordance with applicable law.