Privacy Policy | Best Family Dog Breeds

This Privacy Policy explains how Best Family Dog Breeds (“we”, “us”, “the Site”) collects, uses, and shares information when you visit bestfamilydogbreeds.com. By using the Site, you agree to the practices described here.

Information we collect

Information you provide

Account information. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address, and profile photo to create and manage your account.
Content you submit. Votes, comments, and any text you post. Comments are public.
Feedback & messages. When you use our feedback widget, contact form, quick surveys, or live chat, we store what you send — including an optional email address you provide for a reply — so we can respond and improve the Site.
Photos you upload. Images you submit to our AI breed identifier or cartoonizer are processed to provide the result and may be stored so you can revisit them in your account.

Information collected automatically

Usage & device data. Pages visited, referring URLs, browser type, device, and approximate location derived from your IP address.
Cookies and similar technologies. Used to keep you signed in, remember preferences, measure traffic, and serve advertising (see below).

How we use information

To provide and operate the Site, including accounts, votes, comments, and AI tools.
To maintain security, prevent abuse, and debug problems.
To understand how the Site is used so we can improve our content and tools.
To display advertising that helps keep the Site free.

Cookies

We use strictly necessary cookies (for sign-in and security), analytics cookies (to measure traffic), and advertising cookies (described below). You can control cookies through your browser settings; disabling some cookies may affect how the Site works.

Advertising

We may display ads served by Google AdSense and other advertising partners. These third parties, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to the Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
You can opt out of third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info/choices.

Analytics

We may use Plausible Analytics to understand aggregate traffic, popular pages, referrers, devices, and general location patterns. This data is used in aggregate and is not used to identify you personally.

We may use a self-hosted OpenPanel instance for product analytics, including events, cohorts, retention, and logged-in versus anonymous usage patterns. When you sign in, we may associate activity with an internal account identifier so we can understand repeat usage and improve the Site; we do not need to send your password, payment details, API keys, or private account content to analytics tools.

We may also use Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors interact with public pages through heatmaps, scroll behavior, and session replays. We use this to spot broken layouts, confusing navigation, and pages where visitors get stuck. Sensitive form fields should be masked by default.

Third-party services we rely on

We share limited information with service providers that help us run the Site, including:

Google — sign-in (OAuth) and advertising.
Crisp — live chat support, if enabled (so we can answer questions in real time).
Plausible Analytics — aggregate website traffic analytics.
OpenPanel — self-hosted product analytics, events, cohorts, and retention.
Microsoft Clarity — public-page heatmaps and session replay diagnostics.
Supabase — database and authentication infrastructure.
Cloudflare — content delivery and image storage (R2).
AI processing providers — to power the breed identifier and cartoonizer when you use them.

These providers process data on our behalf under their own privacy and security terms.

Data retention

We keep account information for as long as your account is active. Content you post remains until you or we remove it. You can ask us to delete your account and associated data at any time.

Your rights & choices

Access, correct, or delete your account data by contacting us.
Manage advertising cookies via the opt-out links above.
Depending on your location (for example, the EEA/UK or California), you may have additional rights over your personal data.

Children’s privacy

The Site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us information, please contact us and we will remove it.

International visitors

We operate globally, and your information may be processed in countries other than your own. We take steps to protect it consistent with this policy.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We’ll revise the “Last updated” date above when we do, and significant changes will be reflected on this page.

Contact us

Questions about this policy? Email [email protected] or visit our contact page.