Privacy Policy
How Jennie's Positive Paws looks after your information
This page explains what information we collect, why we use it, who we may share it with, and the choices you have. It covers the website, the contact form, WhatsApp and Facebook messages, and enquiries about training, behaviour support, and walking services.
Last updated: 9 April 2026
1. Who we are
Jennie's Positive Paws is a dog training, behaviour, and walking business based in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex.
If you have any questions about this notice or your personal information, you can contact us using the details below:
2. The information we collect
- Your name, email address, phone number, and any address details you share for home visits.
- Information about your dog, such as age, breed, behaviour, history, routines, triggers, health details you choose to share, and training goals.
- Messages and notes sent through the contact form, WhatsApp, Facebook, phone, email, or follow-up support.
- Booking, invoice, and payment-related records.
- Website usage data, cookie preferences, and conversion data where you consent to optional cookies.
3. Where we get it from
- Directly from you when you fill in the form, send a message, call, or book a service.
- From your use of the website where cookies or analytics are accepted.
- From the platforms you choose to use, such as WhatsApp, Facebook, HubSpot forms, or Google.
If you do not provide the basic contact or dog information needed for an enquiry, we may not be able to reply properly or deliver the service safely.
4. How we use your information
- To reply to enquiries and recommend the right next step.
- To book and deliver consultations, training, assisted lead walks, and dog walking services.
- To tailor support to your dog's behaviour, welfare, and home life.
- To send service notes, follow-up guidance, invoices, and booking updates.
- To keep records for safeguarding, service quality, and business administration.
- To improve the website and understand whether the contact form and WhatsApp button are helping owners.
- To measure marketing and Google Ads performance where you have agreed to that category of cookies.
5. Our lawful bases
- Contract: when we need your information to respond to a booking request, arrange a service, or carry out a service you have asked for.
- Legitimate interests: for ordinary business administration, keeping service notes, improving the website, and protecting the business and clients.
- Consent: for optional website cookies and, where relevant, for certain marketing or measurement tools.
- Legal obligations: where we need to keep records for tax, accounting, or legal reasons.
We do not use your personal information for solely automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.
6. Who we share information with
We only share information where we need to, and only with trusted suppliers or where the law requires it.
- HubSpot for website forms and enquiry management.
- Google for analytics, tag management, and ad measurement where you consent.
- Vercel for website hosting and privacy-friendly web analytics where website-improvement tracking is allowed.
- Meta / WhatsApp if you contact us through WhatsApp or Facebook, or where those services process your interaction.
- Website hosting and technical providers who help us run the site securely.
- Payment, accounting, or legal providers where needed for normal business administration.
7. International transfers
Some of the suppliers we use may process information outside the UK. Where that happens, we expect them to use appropriate safeguards, such as recognised contractual protections or equivalent lawful transfer mechanisms.
If you contact us through third-party platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, or Google services, their own privacy terms will also apply to the information you share with them.
8. How long we keep information
- General enquiries that do not lead to a booking: usually up to 12 months.
- Client, booking, and service records: usually up to 6 years after the last service, where needed for legal, tax, or business record keeping.
- Cookie and analytics data: according to your consent choices and the settings of the providers involved.
- Messages on third-party platforms: in line with business need and the platform's own retention rules.
9. Cookies and tracking
We use essential cookies so the website and contact form work properly. We also offer optional categories that help us improve the website and measure ads.
- Essential: keeps the site working and remembers cookie choices.
- Website improvement: helps us understand page use, contact-form activity, and WhatsApp clicks using privacy-friendly first-party analytics and consent-based reporting tools.
- Ad measurement: helps us understand whether paid traffic, including Google Ads, is bringing the right visitors.
You can change these choices at any time using the Privacy & Cookies button on the site.
10. Your rights
Under UK data protection law, you may have the right to:
- ask for access to the personal information we hold about you;
- ask us to correct inaccurate information;
- ask us to delete information where we no longer need it;
- object to or restrict some uses of your information;
- withdraw consent where we rely on consent; and
- ask for a copy of certain information in a portable format.
To make a request, email info@jenniespositivepaws.com.
11. Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, please contact us first so we can try to put it right.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO):
Need to ask about your information?
If you would like to check, correct, or remove the information we hold, just get in touch and Jennie will point you in the right direction.
