Last Updated: 27 February 2024
This Privacy Statement explains how A Place for PETSITUK and its affiliates (“PETSIT, “we,” or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information to provide our services to you (“Services”). This Privacy Statement applies to personal information we collect when you use any Services, including but not limited to our website, software applications, and related services for pet owners and pet service providers (“Pet Service Providers”) to find each other and arrange for the provision of pet care services (the “PETSITUK SERVICE”), or when you otherwise interact with us.
Please note that certain of our affiliates may have separate privacy statements, including Storemapper (https://www.storemapper.com/privacy), which is owned and operated by SURESWIFT CAPITAL INC. Our corporate affiliates and any separate privacy statements are listed here. This Privacy Statement does not apply to websites, applications, or services that display or link to other privacy statements, unless expressly stated otherwise in those privacy statements.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
We may change this Privacy Statement from time to time when necessary to reflect changes in our Services, how we use personal information, or the applicable law. If we make changes, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of the statement. If we make material changes, we will provide you with notice or obtain consent regarding such changes as may be required by law. We encourage you to review the Privacy Statement whenever you access the Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our privacy practices and the ways in which you can exercise choice over these practices. The practices described in this Privacy Statement are subject to applicable laws in the locations in which we operate; this means that we only engage in the practices described below in a particular location if permitted under the laws of that location.
Table of Contents
How Do We Collect Your Information?
How Do We Use Your Information?
How Do We Disclose Your Information?
Information Security
Information Retention
Your Choices | Privacy Management Centre
UK and European Economic Area Data Protection Rights
Contact Us
How Do We Collect Your Information?
The information we collect varies based on how you interact with us, which Services you use, and the choices you make. We collect and process information about you with your consent and/or as necessary to provide the products and services you use, operate our business, meet our contractual and legal obligations, protect the security of our systems and our customers, or fulfill other legitimate interests.
We collect information about you in various ways when you use our Services, including information you provide directly, information collected automatically, information collected via third-party data sources, and data we infer or generate from other information. We may also share information with, and receive information from, our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement.
When you are asked to provide information, you may decline. You may also use web browser or operating system controls to prevent certain types of automatic data collection. But if you choose not to provide information that is necessary for certain products or features, those products or features may not be available or function correctly.
The table below sets forth how we may collect your personal information.
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Information You Provide to Us |
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Account Information includes personal information we collect when you create an account, create or edit your profile, or list your Pet Care Services through the PETSITUK Service. Account information includes your name, email address, postal address, phone number, date of birth, pet information, availability, and any other account-related information you choose to provide. |
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Content and Files
includes the profile photos, pet photos, stay photos, videos, documents, and other files you record or upload through the Services. This also includes the content of any reviews (including private reviews) or your communications to or from PETSITUK (including the content of any recorded calls). |
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Payment & Tax Information
includes payment information you provide to us, such as the amount and type of services purchased, the date and time of a transaction, and payment card information. (Payment card transactions are processed by our third-party payment processors.) If you are a Pet Service Provider, we and our third-party payment processors may also collect certain payment disbursement information to distribute your revenue from the Pet Care Services you provide via the Rover Service. If you are a Pet Service Provider, we may also collect your tax identification number. |
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Sensitive Personal Information
If you are a Pet Service Provider, we may collect certain sensitive personal information from you for purposes of verifying your identity or assisting with your creation of a Stripe payment account. In addition,
We also may collect the following about all users of our Services:
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Other Information
includes all other personal information you provide to us, such as when you submit a job application, participate in a promotion, complete a survey, communicate with us via third party social media sites, request customer support, provide us with contact information for a referral, or otherwise communicate with us. |
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Information Collected Automatically When You Use the Services |
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Identifiers and Device Information
We collect log information about your use of the Services, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address, device identifiers, device type, browser, and other software including type, version, language, settings, mobile network information, and configuration. As further described in our Cookie Policy, our websites and online services store and retrieve cookie identifiers, mobile IDs, and other data. |
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Usage Information
We automatically log your activity on our Services, including the URL of the website from which you came to our sites, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times, and other details about your use of and actions on our Services. |
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Location Information
Depending on your device and app settings, we may collect geolocation data when you use our Services. This information may include your precise geolocation data, meaning data derived from a device and that is used to locate you within a circle with a radius of 1,850 feet or less. For more details, please see Your Choices below. |
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Cookie Information
We use various technologies to operate our Services and collect information, including cookies and web beacons (collectively, “Cookies”). Most browsers are set to accept cookies. To learn more about how we use Cookies and how to manage your preferences, please read our Cookie Policy or see Your Choices below. |
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Inferences
We infer new information from other information we collect, including using automated means to generate information about your likely preferences or other characteristics. For example, we infer your city, state, and country location based on your IP address. |
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Information We Collect from Third Parties |
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Social Media and Integrated Services Information
If you create or log into your account through a third-party site or affiliate site, we will have access to certain information from that site. For example, if you access our Service through a social media site, we will have access to information such as your name, account information and friends lists, in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by such site. |
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Service Provider Information
includes information from third parties that collect or provide data in connection with work they do on our behalf, for example companies that determine your device’s location based on its IP address. |
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Other Third-Party Information
includes information we receive (sometimes for a fee) from other sources, including affiliates, data brokers, partners with whom we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities, agencies that conduct background check or identity verification services, and publicly available sources. |
How Do We Use Your Information?
| How we Use Your Information | |
| Purposes of Use | Categories of Personal Data |
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Providing, maintaining and improving our Services.
This includes:
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All information set forth above.
Sensitive Personal Information: social security or social insurance number, tax identification number, photo and image of your passport, government identity card, driver’s license, account access information, contents of communications, precise geolocation data, and health data that you provide to us to provide customer service or process claims. |
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Communicating with you. This includes:
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Account Information, Content and Files, Usage Information, Identifiers and Device Information, Location Information, Cookie Information, and Inferences. |
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Facilitating and processing transactions. This includes:
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Payment & Tax Information and Other Information
Sensitive Personal Information: social security or social insurance number, tax identification number, account access information. |
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For marketing and advertising. This includes:
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Account Information, Other Information, Usage Information, Identifiers and Device Information, Location Information, Cookie Information, and Inferences |
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To personalize your experience. This includes:
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Usage Information, Identifiers and Device Information, Location Information, Cookie Information, and Inferences.
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Providing integrated services. This includes:
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Social Media and Integrated Services Information, and Service Provider Information.
Sensitive Personal Information: account access information |
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For other uses. This includes:
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All information set forth above |
We may also use Other Third-Party Information, on its own or augmented by information you provide to us, directly to contact you, send you promotional materials, personalize our Service, prepopulate online forms, and better understand the demographics of our users.
How Do We Disclose Your Information?
We may disclose the personal information we collect with third parties with your consent or as we determine necessary to complete your transactions or provide Services you have requested or authorized. In addition, we disclose each of the categories of personal information described above, to the types of third parties described below for the following business purposes:
- Pet Service Providers. We share information about your booking with the applicable Pet Service Provider when you make or accept a booking.
- Public information. You may select options available through our Services to publicly display and disclose certain information when you sign up for and participate in the interactive areas of our Services, such as creating a user profile or writing a review (note that if you are a Pet Service Provider, your profile is discoverable to anyone who searches the Site or enters your unique profile URL into their browser).
- Service Providers. We share information with vendors, consultants, business partners, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf. For example, companies we’ve hired to provide customer service support or assist in protecting and securing our systems and services may need access to personal information to provide those functions.
- Legal and law enforcement. We may disclose information in response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, applicable law, regulation or legal process.
- Security, safety, and protecting rights. We may share your information if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, to operate and maintain the security of our services, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks or to protect the rights, property or safety of PETSITUK, its employees, its users (including their pets), or the public.
- Corporate transactions. We may disclose information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, acquisition, divestiture, bankruptcy, dissolution, or other transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer or divestiture of all or a portion of our business or assets to another company, to the extent permitted under applicable law.
- Affiliates. We may share information between and among PETSITUK and our current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and other companies under common control and ownership, for example, where we share common data systems or where access helps us to provide our services and operate our business. Our corporate affiliates may also use and disclose this information in accordance with their own privacy statements. Our corporate affiliates are listed here.
We may disclose de-identified information in accordance with applicable law.
Social Sharing Features
The Services may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button), which let you share actions you take on our Services with other media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of information collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.
Advertising and Analytics Services Provided by Third Parties
To the extent permitted by law, we may allow third party analytics and advertising companies to provide analytics services and/or serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. These entities may use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons or other similar technologies to collect information about your use of our websites and third-party websites, including identifiers and device information (such as cookie IDs, device IDs, and IP address), geolocation data, usage data, and inferences based on and associated with that data. To learn more about how these third parties use these technologies and how to manage your preferences, please read our Cookie Policy or see the Your Choices section below. Note that if you opt-out of third-party advertising cookies, you will still see online ads, but they will not be personalized.
Please note that some of our services also include integrations, references, or links to services provided by third parties whose privacy practices differ from ours. If you provide personal data to any of those third parties, or allow us to share personal data with them, that data is governed by their privacy statements.
Information Security
PETSITUK takes reasonable and appropriate measures designed to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or through mobile applications is 100% safe. Therefore, although we use commercially reasonable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
To help us protect personal information, we request that you use a strong password and never share your password with anyone or use the same password with other sites or accounts.
Transfer and Location of Information
We transfer information from the UK, European Economic Area and Switzerland to the United States and other countries that have not been determined by the European Commission to have an adequate level of data protection. When we do so, we use a variety of legal mechanisms, including executing the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, to help ensure your rights and protections. To learn more about the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, please click here.
Information Retention
We retain information for as long as necessary to provide the products and fulfill the transactions you have requested, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and other legitimate and lawful purposes. Because these needs can vary for different information types in the context of different products, actual retention periods can vary based on criteria such as user expectations or consent, the sensitivity of the information, the availability of automated controls that enable users to delete information, and our legal or contractual obligations.
Your Choices
We provide a variety of ways for you to control the personal information we hold about you, including choices about how we use that information. You can opt in or out of certain uses of your personal information, through our Privacy Management Centre:
In some jurisdictions, these controls and choices may be enforceable as rights under applicable law. For more information about your specific rights as a resident of California, the UK or the European Union, see UK and European Economic Area Data Protection Rights.
Please note that this section applies to the PETSITUK Service, and our affiliates may have different procedures for managing your privacy choices. You should refer to their privacy statements for more information.
Access, portability, correction, and deletion
You may access, update, correct or delete certain information about you at any time by logging into your account through our website or our mobile application and navigating to the “Profile” or “Account Settings” link. If you need assistance, you can contact us at contact@petsituk.co.uk.
If you wish to request deactivation or the permanent deletion of your account, or cannot access certain information we have using the above methods, please contact us using the information in the Contact Us section below. We may decline requests that are prohibited by law, could adversely affect the privacy or other rights of another person, are not required to be honored by applicable law, or where we are unable to authenticate you as the person to whom the information relates.
Location Information
When you first install or launch any of our mobile applications that collect location information, you will be asked to consent to the application’s collection of this information. We require location information, including your precise geolocation, to use certain features of our Services, so if you do not consent to this collection, you cannot use those features. If you initially consent to our collection of location information, you can subsequently stop the collection of this information at any time by changing the preferences on your mobile device. If you do so, certain features of our mobile applications will no longer function. You may also stop our collection of location information by following the standard uninstall process to remove our mobile application from your device.
Emails
You may choose whether you wish to receive marketing emails from PETSITUK by updating your “Notifications” preferences under “Account Settings” in your online Rover profile or through our mobile application. If you receive marketing emails and you wish to opt-out, you may also do so by clicking “Unsubscribe” in those emails. If you opt out of receiving marketing emails, we may still send you Service-related emails, such as those about your account or your ongoing business relationship with us.
Mobile Push Notifications/Alerts
We may send push notifications or alerts to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.
Text Messages
With your consent as required by applicable law, we may send communications containing service information (including technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages), sales, marketing, or advertising messages, by autodialed, prerecorded, or artificial voice calls or SMS, text messages, email, over-the-top messaging platforms (such as WhatsApp), and other electronic means, at any phone number or email address you provide in connection with your account, even if your phone number is on the national or any state’s do-not-call registry. You may opt out of receiving these messages by following the prompt in an individual message or updating your “Notifications” preferences under “Account Settings” in your online PETSITUK profile or through our mobile application (though you may continue to receive messages while we process your request). However, if you are a Service Provider, certain Pet Care Services that you provide (as detailed in the PETSITUK Service) may require you to receive service-related messages. If you do not want to receive these service-related text messages, then in addition to adjusting your Notifications preferences, you must withdraw from providing such Pet Care Services.
Data Sales
Some privacy laws define “sale” broadly to include some of the disclosures described in the “How Do We Disclose Your Information” section above. To opt-out from such data “sales” update your preferences at any time by visiting our Privacy Management Centre or enabling the Global Privacy Control settings in a web browser or browser extension as described below.
Targeted Advertising
You have several options to opt-out from or otherwise control targeted advertising. First, you can use the controls available through our Privacy Management Centre to decline advertising-related cookies. Second, you can use the Global Privacy Control setting in a web browser or browser extension as described below. Third, you can use the opt-out controls offered by the organizations our advertising partners may participate in, which you can access at:
- Europe: European Digital Advertising Alliance (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/)
Fourth, you can use the other cookie or mobile ID controls described below.
These choices are specific to the device or browser you are using. If you access our services from other devices or browsers, take these actions from those systems to ensure your choices apply to the data collected when you use those systems.
Browser or Platform Controls
- Cookie controls. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can go to your browser settings to learn how to delete or reject cookies. If you choose to delete or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our website. If you choose to delete cookies, settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, may be deleted and may need to be recreated. Visit our Privacy Management Centre or refer to our Cookie Policy for information on how to manage your choices with cookies used on our website.
- Global Privacy Control. Some browsers and browser extensions support the “Global Privacy Control” (GPC) or similar controls that can send a signal to the websites you visit indicating your choice to opt-out from certain types of data processing, including data sales and/or targeted advertising, as specified by applicable law. When we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting or similar control that is recognized by regulation or otherwise widely acknowledged as a valid opt-out preference signal.
- Do Not Track. Some browsers include a “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the websites you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Unlike the GPC described above, there is not a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal; therefore, our websites do not respond to browser DNT signals. Instead, you can use the range of other tools to control data collection and use, including the GPC, cookie controls, and advertising controls described above.
- Mobile advertising ID controls. iOS and Android operating systems provide options to limit tracking and/or reset the advertising IDs.
Email Web Beacons
Most email clients have settings that allow you to prevent the automatic downloading of images, including web beacons, which prevents the automatic connection to the web servers that host those images.
UK and European Economic Area Data Protection Rights
If the processing of your personal data is subject to UK or EEA data protection law, then in addition to the controls listed above, you have certain rights with respect to that information:
- Access and Rectification. You can request access to or rectification of your personal data.
- Erasure. You can request deletion of your personal data. Please note, however, that a request to delete your personal data may be restricted if there is a valid legal reason to retain it and may continue to be retained by third parties with whom you communicated through the PETSITUK Service. We may also retain cached or archived copies of information about your account for up to a year.
- Consent. If the processing of personal data is based on your consent, you can withdraw consent at any time for future processing.
- Data Portability. You may have the right to request your personal data in a format in which it can be transferred to another provider.
- You can object to our processing of your personal data if that processing is based on the fulfillment of our legitimate interests.
To make such requests or contact our Data Protection Officer, please use the contact information in the Contact Us section below. When we are processing data on behalf of another party that is the “data controller,” you should direct your request to that party. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, but we encourage you to first contact us with any questions or concerns.
We rely on different lawful bases for collecting and processing personal data about you, for example, with your consent and/or as necessary to provide the services you use, operate our business, meet our contractual and legal obligations, protect the security of our systems and our customers, or fulfill other legitimate interests.
Please note that the above applies to the PETSITUK Service, and our affiliates may have different procedures for exercising your data subject rights. You should refer to their privacy statements for more information.