Privacy & cookies

Encinitas Dog Walkers is a small local dog walking and pet sitting service based in Encinitas, California. If you have a question about this policy or want your information removed, call or text (442) 777-3268 or use the contact form.

When you send an inquiry, you give us your name, email address, phone number, town, the service you want, and details about your animals — their names, how many there are, walk length or dates needed, schedule, and any notes. We store those submissions in our own booking system and only we can read them. They are used to reply to you and arrange care. They are not sold, and they are never used to target advertising.

We use Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages and articles are useful: the pages viewed, the site or search that referred you, your approximate location (city level, derived from your IP address — Google Analytics does not store the IP address itself), your device and browser type, and interactions such as scrolling and outbound link clicks.

Our hosting platform also records ordinary server request logs for security and reliability.

• Analytics cookies (_ga, _ga_*) are set by Google Analytics and last around two years. They are only set if you choose “Accept all”.
• Your cookie choice is remembered in your browser’s local storage under edw_cookie_choice_v1. It is not a cookie, it is not sent to us, and it stays until you clear your browser data or change it again.
• Google Tag Manager loads our tags but does not set cookies on its own.
• Advertising cookies are not set today. See the advertising section below.

This site asks before it sets analytics or advertising cookies. Both choices are available every time you visit, and your answer is remembered in your browser. Before you answer, Google tags run with analytics, advertising storage, ad user data, and ad personalisation all denied, so no analytics or ad cookies are written and no ad data is collected.

You can change your mind at any time — use the “Cookie settings” link in the footer, or the button below. Declining or withdrawing consent stops the analytics tags.

We are preparing Google AdSense for the Tail Notes articles only. No ads are shown today, and they will not appear until Google approves the site and we switch them on. When they do go live:

• Ads will appear only inside Tail Notes articles. The home page, service pages, town pages, contact form, and booking pages will carry no ad units.
• Google and its partners may use cookies or device identifiers to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
• You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ad Center or at optout.aboutads.info. Declining our cookie banner also keeps ad storage and ad personalisation denied.
• We do not control the cookies Google or its partners set on their own domains.

Google (Analytics, and AdSense once ads are live), our hosting and database platform Base44, and our email provider process data on our behalf so the site and our replies work. We do not sell personal information, and we do not rent your inquiry details to anyone.

Inquiry details stay in our booking system so we can look after repeat visits and keep ordinary business records. Ask us and we will delete them sooner. Aggregated analytics is kept for the retention period set in our Google Analytics property (Google’s default is 14 months).

You can ask what personal information we hold about you, ask for a copy, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. California residents have these rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information; we do not sell personal information, and the only sharing that could qualify is Google Analytics or advertising cookies, which stay off unless you accept them.

We do not currently read Global Privacy Control browser signals automatically — the cookie banner and the contact details above are the way to exercise your choice.

This site is meant for adults arranging care for their animals. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.

If what we collect changes — for example when ads go live — this page is updated and the date at the top changes with it.