Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 31, 2026
Wholesome Paws (“we”, “us”, or “our”) operates the website wholesomepawsdaily.com (the “Site”). This page explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.
Who We Are
Wholesome Paws is an independent publication about dogs — care guides, behavior explainers, and stories for dog owners. Our website address is https://wholesomepawsdaily.com.
Information We Collect
Comments
When you leave a comment on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the Site, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on this Site may include embedded content (for example, videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
Advertising
This Site displays advertising in order to remain free for readers.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site and other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
- You may also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices or optout.networkadvertising.org.
Third-party ad networks may place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons to collect information, as a result of ad serving on this Site. We do not control these cookies and we do not have access to the information they collect.
Analytics
We use analytics services to understand how visitors use the Site — which pages are read, how long people stay, and which country traffic comes from. This data is aggregated and is not used to identify individual readers. Analytics providers may set their own cookies. You can prevent this by using your browser’s cookie settings or an opt-out browser add-on provided by the analytics vendor.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so that we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on the Site (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except they cannot change their username. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have left comments on this Site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you have rights under the GDPR including access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, and objection to processing. If you are a California resident, you have rights under the CCPA including the right to know what personal information is collected and the right to request deletion. To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details below.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Children’s Privacy
This Site is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date at the top.
Contact Us
Questions about this Privacy Policy? Reach us at hello@wholesomepawsdaily.com.