Privacy Policy

This page was last updated on February 2, 2023. Please note that this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) may change from time to time. Such changes are effective upon posting and will be communicated on our website under this Privacy Policy section.

This website https://pvesc.com/ (the “Website”) is operated by Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care (the “Client”) located at 2255 Congress Street, Portland, ME. Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care is committed to respecting its clients and partners privacy and protecting your personal information (“Personal Information”) it collects or maintains. This Privacy Policy should be read carefully and together with our Cookies Policy and Data Request.

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care is certified with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Safe Harbor Program and adheres to U.S.-EU Safe Harbor framework principles for the protection of PII transferred from the EU to Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s data processing locations.

Scope

This privacy policy sets forth the principles that Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care adheres to with regard to the collection, protection and online and offline transfer of Personal Information processed by Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care.

Personal Information means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household, such as your name, address or email address. Personal Information does not include information that has been reported in the aggregate, or publicly available that has not been combined with non-public Personal Information.

Personal Information Collected

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care may collect Personal Information and demographic information from you directly, such as online through your use of our Website (please see the Cookies section below), that you chose to provide us via our Website. Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care also receives, stores and processes Personal Information provided by you both online and offline. Personal Information Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care collects may be: name, email address, phone number.

Use of Personal Information

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care may use Personal Information collected via the Website for the following purposes:

To ensure that the Website is presented to you in an effective manner;
To provide you with information that you have requested from Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care;
Where you have registered with Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care, to send you electronic and/or paper form marketing and other materials relating to Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s services, unless you would prefer Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care not to do so;
To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with the Website and to improve the Website and products and services Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care offer; and
To service your order, where appropriate for, which it was provided or as otherwise required to provide Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s services.

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care uses third party analytics services to help analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and provide statistical information about users of the Website.

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s Disclosure/Transfer of Personal Information with Third Parties

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care does not share, rent, sell or exchange Personal Information submitted via the Website with third parties, except in the following instances:

You have consented or directed Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care to share your Personal Information with third parties;
Sharing Personal Information is ordered by a court, required by law, or is otherwise permitted by applicable law;
Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care reasonably believes that your actions are inconsistent with Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s agreements or policies or that you have violated the law;
Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care has a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such Personal Information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care, its clients, partners, Website users or the public;
Sharing with Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s professional advisors is necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s business interests; and
Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care, or substantially all our Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s assets are merged into or acquired by a third party, in which case your personal information may be transferred as part of the merger or acquisition.

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care will only transfer Personal Information to a third party where the third party has provided assurance that it will provide at least the same level of security and protection as prescribed by this privacy policy. When legally required, Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care will provide both notice of Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s intent to process your Personal Information and your choice to opt-out of future processing of such information. Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care also processes Personal Information on behalf of and as instructed by you. Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care does not own, control or have the right to disclose or modify such information. Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care does not disclose Personal Information provided to Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care by you or other clients and partners, except at your or their direction.
Personal Information submitted to Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care is only available to Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care employees or agents Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care has determined reasonably needs access to such Personal Information in order to provide services to you or carry out the purpose(s) for which it was collected.

Cookies

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care may use cookies to track your web use and enable access to various features on the Website and Personal Information may be stored in these cookies. A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It helps the website to remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings, that can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you. Most computer users have the option of setting their computer preferences to not accept any cookies. Any Personal Information contained within a cookie will be treated with the same level of protection as other Personal Information collected and maintained by Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care.

How does Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care use cookies?

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s use of cookies is explained in detail in Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s (LINK TO CLIENT Cookie Policy). This Website may use the following types of cookies:

Essential Cookies – these cookies are necessary for the Website or a particular service or feature you request to function
Marketing Cookies — these cookies may be set on the Website by advertising partners to understand your interests and help show you relevant advertisements or other content
Performance Cookies — these cookies help Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care to understand how you interact with Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s site

Information Integrity and Security

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care has implemented physical, procedural, and technical safeguards to prevent unauthorized access to or disclosure of Personal Information, to protect data accuracy, and to ensure appropriate use of such information, whether in electronic or hard copy form.

Information Storage

By providing information via the Website or any Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care service, you consent to the storage and processing of your information, including, but not limited to, Personal Information.

California Privacy Notice Supplement

The CCPA (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.100 et seq.) affords consumers residing in California certain rights with respect to their Personal Information. This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s Privacy Notice and applies solely to individuals who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”).
Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care does not sell your personal information.

Personal information Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care collects

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care collects various types of personal information, as explained in the “Personal Information Collected” section above. In particular, during the last 12 months, Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care has collected the following categories of personal information from the website: identifiers (e.g., name and email), professional and employment-related information and education information (e.g., job title or curriculum vitae), commercial information (e.g., products purchased and billing and delivery information where we offer goods for sale), internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., IP address or browser properties), and inferences Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care derive from other information we collect. Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care collects this information for the business and commercial purposes described in the above section titled “Use of Personal Information.”

Personal information we share

In the preceding 12 months, Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care has disclosed the following categories of personal information for business purposes to the following categories of recipients:

Category of Personal Information	Categories of Recipients
Identifiers	Internet service providers, data analytics providers, and operating systems and platforms
Professional and employment-related information	Vendors or service providers we use to help us manage recruitment and employment
Commercial information	Vendors and service providers we use to help us bill, ship, and perform other commercial functions
Internet and other electronic network activity information	Internet service providers, data analytics providers, and operating systems and platforms

Your rights

Subject to certain limitations, you, or your appropriately-verified authorized agent, have the right to request the following information from us:

The categories of personal information we collect about you.
The categories of sources from which your personal information is collected.
The business purpose for collecting your personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share your personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

Additionally, subject to certain limitations, you have the right to request deletion of your personal information. Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care will not charge for this service.

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care will not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA.

If you wish to exercise your rights under the CCPA, you contact us via the information listed in the Contact Information section.

Contact Information

If you have any comments, questions, or concerns about our privacy practices or wish to exercise your rights under the CCPA please contact us at purposesales@purposewrecker.com. Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care may ask you a series of questions to help confirm your identity, such as information related to your recent interactions with Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care, before disclosing any specific information. To the extent that access rights pertain to data that Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care does not own or have the right to disclose or modify, Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care will make a reasonable effort to identify and notify the relevant data owner of your request. If Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care receives your request from an authorized agent, Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care will not disclose any information to such authorized agent until Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care has confirmed said agent’s authority with you. As such, Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care may ask for evidence that you have provided such agent with a power of attorney or that the agent otherwise has valid written authority to submit requests to exercise rights on your behalf. If you are an authorized agent seeking to make a request, please email Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care at purposesales@purposewrecker.com.

Children

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s Website is not intended for and should not be used by children under 13 years old. Please inform us if you are aware of any Personal Information associated with a child entered via Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s Website so we may delete it.

Links to Other Websites

Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care’s Website may present links for access to other websites. Please be aware Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those websites. Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care encourages you to carefully review the privacy policy of each website you visit.