Privacy Policy

We at Homeward Pet Adoption Center (HPAC) want this website to be a safe place for users. HPAC will do its part by not requiring you to register or provide any information at all to use most of the basic features of this and our other websites. In turn, you can do your part by reading this policy, making your own informed decisions, and taking the precautions outlined below.

There are certain actions and areas of the site that will require you to provide personal information, such as:

• Registering for our e-newsletters or other e-mails. Applying for an internship or volunteer position.
• Making a donation.
• Registering for one of our annual fundraiser events.
• Making an appointment for a spay/neuter surgery.
• Submitting forms for a lost/found pet or to surrender your pet.

We will update this privacy policy as we deem necessary, so please be sure to reread it from time to time. By submitting your personal information to us, you agree that HPAC may use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Personal information you may choose to provide

In order to utilize certain features of our site or receive information from HPAC, you may choose to provide information. If you do submit information to us, we will use that information for the purposes for which it was submitted. We may also use your information in other ways, such as to contact you about other HPAC activities and/or fundraising campaigns or as otherwise disclosed to you at the point of collection. For example:

If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us by sending an e-mail to or by mail to PO Box 2293, Woodinville, WA 98072.

This privacy policy does not apply when you use this website as a portal to click through to other websites including certain shopping websites affiliated with HPAC. For example, HPAC merchandise is sold through an affiliated website with its own privacy policy. Additionally, this is not the privacy statement for any forums or social networking sites where HPAC may have presence that are hosted on websites other than the HPAC site. Please review the new site’s privacy policy to determine the treatment and collection of your information if you leave this site.

• If you join our main e-mail list by registering for Homeward Pet’s newsletters, we will have a record of your e-mail address and all other information you choose to provide. We will send you newsletters and also may contact you with action alerts to help animals, fundraising campaigns, and other HPAC activities.
• If you make an online donation to HPAC, your information will be added to our donor list and database, and you may be contacted about other HPAC activities, news, action alerts, and/or fundraising campaigns. HPAC does not sell, rent, exchange or otherwise disclose your information, including your name, address, e-mail address or any other personal information, with any group, private, public or non-profit.
• We will receive any other information you choose to provide. For example, we may manage blogs or allow you to post stories or photos from time to time. By submitting such information to us, you give us permission to post it in the designated area on our website, edit it, or remove it if we deem that the content is not appropriate, outdated, etc. To protect your privacy, please do not include any identifying information when submitting blog entries or stories.

The http://www.homewardpet.org site is owned and operated solely by HPAC.

You should be aware that we use third-party vendors to provide services on this site and in our offline business operations. The information that you submit on this site may be provided to those vendors on a confidential basis so that those vendors can provide services (such as maintaining our database, sending e-mail messages, facilitating our fundraising activities and campaigns, or processing credit card transactions) on our behalf.

Other than as described in this privacy policy, or as may be necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of our organization or others, or as may be necessary to comply with applicable law, HPAC will not give or sell the personal information you provide online.

Opt-out

If for any reason at any time you would like HPAC to remove your name and contact information from our database(s), please send an e-mail to or write to PO Box 2293, Woodinville, WA 98072.

Children

We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13.

Security

This website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. The security measures used on this site include, but are not limited to, industry-standard firewalls and internal policies to maintain the security of stored data. The Voluntarily Submitted Data we collect about you is stored on a secure, password protected server and only authorized personnel have access to your information.

While we follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100 percent secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.