Effective Date: 7 October 2026
Welcome to Calm Canine Companion. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, calmcaninecompanion.com, in full compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Irish Data Protection Act 2018.
1. Important Information and Who We Are
Data Controller
Calm Canine Companion is the data controller responsible for your personal data. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data protection practices, please contact us using the details below:
- Full Business Name: Calm Canine Companion
- Postal Address: Enterprise Youghal, St. Mary’s College, Emmet Place, Youghal, Co. Cork, P36 N796, Ireland.
- Contact Email: gerry@calmcaninecompanion.com
Third-Party Links
Our website contains links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications (such as Amazon and Butternut Box). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
2. The Data We Collect About You
We do not operate a membership club, paid courses, or direct e-commerce sales. Therefore, the personal data we collect is minimal and falls into the following categories:
- Identity and Contact Data: If you choose to contact us directly via email, we will collect your email address, name, and any information you provide within your message.
- Technical Data: Includes your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform used to access this website.
- Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, pages viewed, and the affiliate links you click.
3. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your data in the following circumstances:
- Legitimate Interest: To respond to reader inquiries or author communications sent directly to our contact email address.
- Website Optimization: To analyze anonymized traffic trends via cookies so we can improve our published content and user experience.
- Affiliate Tracking: To allow our affiliate partners (like Amazon and Butternut Box) to identify that a purchase came from a recommendation on our site, enabling us to earn a commission.
4. Affiliate Tracking and Cookies
This website uses tracking cookies to monitor the performance of our affiliate marketing relationships.
When you click an affiliate link on Calm Canine Companion, a small text file (a cookie) is temporarily placed on your browser by the retailer’s network (e.g., Amazon Associates or Butternut Box). This cookie assigns a unique tracking ID to ensure that if you make a qualifying purchase, the sale is correctly attributed to CCC. These cookies do not store personal information such as your name or banking details. You can manage or disable cookies at any time through your web browser settings.
5. Data Security & Retention
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed in an unauthorized way. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
6. Your Legal Rights
Under the GDPR, you have rights in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, erasure, or restriction of your data, as well as the right to data portability. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Data Protection Commission (DPC), the Irish supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.dataprotection.ie). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the DPC, so please contact us in the first instance.