Privacy and Safety Policy

Pet Model Brasil knows how important it is to you to know and be safe about the use of your personal data. That’s why we care to clarify and publish our usage policy of this information. This way, you will understand better which information we obtain and how we use it. Give some minutes of your time to read this policy and enjoy in a conscious and safe way all that Pet Model Brasil has to offer.  To make sure we have clear and precise rules, we can modify this policy from time to time, so we recommend you reading it periodically.

This policy will allow you to know:

Which information we obtain

We collect information in many different ways at different areas in the website.  Some personal information is obtained when you register. During the registration process, we ask for some plug-ins such as your name, e-mail address and other personal information. The more correct information you give, the best will be your experience at our website.

Although it is technically impossible for Pet Model Brasil users to choose for login registration words, expressions or graphic sets that have already been chosen by other users, as well as it is prohibited for these users to choose bad words, words of injury, words the same as brand names or third party services, social denominations, publishing expressions, names or nicknames of public figures, famous people or registered by others, or that don’t remind the identity of the person doing the registration, and in general, against the law, the order, or of immoral conduct.  Besides that, it’s forbidden the use of brand names, programs, products or services of properties or offered by Pet Model Brasil or any of its controlled partnerships, controlling partnerships or commonly controlled partnership.

The user who disobeys the established paragraph above may have his login canceled or blocked with no previous notice and according to Pet Model Brasil’s criteria only.

After registration, you will be able to use and enjoy the benefits of a registered user, including the participation on promotions, on-line events and raffles.

Pet Model Brasil has many partners and/ or sponsors that also create raffles and promotions, offering many products and services on websites that can be accessed through Pet Model  Brasil website.  The information you give when visiting these websites are obtained by these partners and/ or sponsors clearing Pet Model Brasil of any responsibilities by the use of this information.

To obtain information about privacy policies and rules from these partners and/ or sponsors we suggest you find the specific rules of relation in the website of the partner and/ or sponsor.

Sessions, no “cookies”

Pet Model Brasil does not use cookies – small text files sent to your computer.  For your safety our system is based in internal sessions at the server, avoiding the user’s data storing used to access the website.  This way you navigation is safer and your privacy is completely preserved.

The sessions serve to follow and store information in our data base that will make Pet Model Brasil able to offer you a personalized service, according to the characteristics and interests of its users, making it even possible the offer of contents and specific publishing for each individual, improving the user’s experience on the Internet.

The information collected in the sessions is usually used to:

The announcers, partners and/ or sponsors of Pet Model Brasil will be able to use their own cookies, which are not covered by this policy.  We suggest you to consult the privacy policies from these companies.

How this information will be used

The information collected by Pet Model Brasi will be used to personalize the content and/ or service available.  This includes personalization services, interactive communication and other types of services. Knowing more about you, Pet Model Brasil can offer more relevant content and services and make you have a better experience on-line.

The information can also be used to generate general statistic data with commercial and informative purposes. Geographic, demographic, psychographic, and Pet Model Brasil user’s profile information can be given to partners, sponsors, announcers or other external companies, without revealing names and other navigation data.

The information collected can also be used to direct publishing campaigns in a general way, as for instance in the case an announcer determines men with a certain age as a target of a campaign. In this case, we show the commercial to the users in that age group by showing banners and/ or promotional e-mails.  When registering on Pet Model Brasil, the users will have the option to receive or not receive offer and/ or publishing e-mails, although this option can be altered at any time by the user.

The individual personal information will not be negotiated or given to third parties under any circumstances, unless ordered by court order, or similar legal procedures.  All the information given to partners, sponsors, announcers and others will only be of users groups (market segments).

Who collects this information

When Pet Model Brasil asks you for personal information, this information will be sent only to the sites managed by Agência Pet Model Brasil Ltda unless it is indicated in a different way.  Some partners, sponsors, announcers and others that might be accessed through Pet Model Brasil, may ask you for financial and/ or personal information.  In a case like that, this information will not be sent to Pet Model Brasil, and so, the website will not have any responsibilities for the use of this information, and the present policy will not be applied.

Pet Model Brasil highlights could be links and/ or pages that make use of graphic publicity from other partners and/ or companies, as for example, Google Ads, which uses demographic information report from the publishing platform.  In case you are interested in disabling this graphic publicity, you should access the link (https://www.google.com/settings/ads) and personalize your experience.

The promotions made at Pet Model Brasil may be sponsored by other companies or according to a partnership between Pet Model Brasil and one of these companies.  Some or all of the data collected during the promotion may be shared with the partner and/ or sponsor.  If the data is shared, you will be notified before the collect or data transfer.  This way, you will be able to decide not to participate on the promotion in case you would prefer not to share you data.

Every time you access announcers or other websites through links at Pet Model Brasil website, those will be able to collect information from you. May we remind you that the practices related to privacy of these partners and third parties are not covered by the present policy and may be very different from the privacy patterns at Pet Model Brasil.

Who your information can be shared with

Pet Model Brasil does not have as practice the publicizing of information that might identify you, unless when authorized by you or in circumstances pre-established in this policy. In some cases, this identification will be necessary, in case you buy a specific product or service or receive a prize, your personal information will be necessary for delivery.  The identification can also be asked for a specific commercial transaction to take effect. The revelation of your data may also happen due to legal demands.  We may reveal your personal information in some circumstances, listed on the cases below

Business partners and sponsors: Pet Model Brasil may open your personal information to some partners, sponsors, announcers and others. But, in these cases, you will be consulted before the collect or transfer of data takes effect.  The details of the shared use may be found in the contracts of specific use ad also in the rules of promotions.  Some or all of the collected data during a promotion of Pet Model Brasil may be shared with a sponsor.  If data shared might identify you, you will be informed before the collect or transfer of data.

Some promotions offer opportunities for the sponsors to ask for additional information. Asking for more information, you give Pet Model Brasil the permission to transfer you personal information to the sponsor, so it can answer your request.

Third party data and combination data: under confidentiality agreements and other contractual instruments, Pet Model Brasil may compare user information to third party data.  Besides that, Pet Model Brasil may publicize combined statistics to user groups (for example, 70% of our users are women) aiming to describe our services to probable partners, announcers, etc., as well as other legal goals.

Other: Pet Model Brasil may also publicize information about a user in special cases in which we have reason to believe that the publicizing of this information is necessary to identify, get in contact or act legally against someone who might be causing damage or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) in the rights or in the property of Pet Model Brasil and of other website users, or of anyone who might be harmed for such activities.  Pet Model Brasil may publicize information about the user when requested by law and with management goals, or other cases that we consider necessary to maintain and improve our products and services.

Which are your options about collecting, using and distributing your information

If, when registering, you indicate you are interested in receiving offers and information from Pet Model Brasil and our partners, we may occasionally send you messages, through e-mail, about products and services that might be of your interest.  Only Pet Model Brasil will send you these communications and only if you indicated yo have no objections against these offers. If you wish not to receive any more of these emails, you just have to say so when giving your personal information, or at any time, change your registering information, selecting the option of not receiving theses emails.  Your identification and password at registration at Pet Model Brasil will be necessary to access your registering information.

For some type of promotions, we will ask for your email address to update you about your points, your participations and status on the prizes.  When participating in these kinds of promotions, you will receive automatically messages related to the promotion, unless you choose the option without email offer by some of them.  Occasionally, these email messages related to the promotion might include directed ads. If a specific promotion does not offer an option of not receiving email, you will be able to choose not to receive emails, but you will no longer participate in the promotion.

You will also have options related to cookies. Modifying your navigation preferences, you have the option to accept all the cookies, to be notified when receiving a cookie or to reject all cookies.  If you choose to reject all cookies, you will not be able to use some of Pet Model Brasil services that require registering to participate.  You will also not be able to use all the benefits and facilities of a personalized Internet experience.  Pet Model Brasil does not trade user information with anyone.  In case of data transfer or collect, we will notify you, in case the information about you is shared with a third party.  Besides, you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer of this data. If you wish not to share it, you will be able to choose not to use a determined service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests.

How Pet Model Brasil treats your information related to personal finances and health

Pet Model Brasil will keep confidential your information related to finances and health and will never commercialize this information.

We know which of your use profile of services and resources will help us to offer a personalized content. But, as it happens with all the information that can identify you, we do not make this information available to others without your permission. Any statistic about users that we can offer to possible announcers or partners, relating to the use of product or financial services at Pet Model Brasil, are given only combined and do not include any information that might allow personal identification of any individual user.

No Internet transmission is 100% safe.  That way, even though Pet Model Brasil will always do whatever is possible to protect your personal information, it is not possible to guarantee the safety of all the information you might give us.  It is a personal decision the use of the service under these conditions.

 What else you need to know about your on-line privacy

Get informed: when accessing the Internet always look for the privacy policy/ declaration of the site you are accessing.

Personal ads in chat rooms, forums or ads are of public domain.  Any information you might make available in chat rooms, forums or personal ads will be available to anyone with access to these places.  We suggest you to avoid including information that might allow other people to find you, such as phone numbers and your mailing address.