Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Dog Supplement Report (“we,” “us,” “our”) collects, uses, and protects information in connection with dogsupplementreport.com. As an investigative publication, we take privacy seriously — for our readers, our sources, and our subjects. We collect minimally, we never sell personal information, and we describe our practices plainly.
Information We Collect
Information you provide. When you contact us — by email, contact form, or tips channel — we receive the information you choose to share, which may include your name, email address, and the content of your message or tip.
Information collected automatically. When you visit the site, standard technical information may be collected, including your IP address, browser type, device type, pages viewed, referring page, and visit timestamps. This data is used in aggregate to understand traffic and improve the site.
Source Confidentiality
Protecting confidential sources is a core journalistic obligation. Information provided by sources who have been granted confidentiality is held to the highest standard of protection, is shared only with editorial staff who need it, and is never sold or voluntarily disclosed. Where we are legally compelled to disclose information, we will assert all available legal protections, including shield-law privileges, before complying.
Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies to operate the site, remember preferences, measure readership through analytics, and support advertising and affiliate functions where applicable. You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Where required by law, we obtain consent before setting non-essential cookies.
Analytics
We use analytics tools to understand aggregate readership — which stories are read, how readers arrive, how the site performs. This data does not identify you personally, and we do not use it to build individual profiles of readers.
How We Use Information
- Operate, secure, and improve the site
- Respond to inquiries, tips, and correction requests
- Understand aggregate readership trends
- Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and security threats
- Comply with legal obligations
What We Do Not Do
We do not sell your personal information. We do not rent or trade contact information to marketers. We do not share reader information with the companies we cover. We do not knowingly collect more information than we need.
Sharing
We share information only with service providers who help operate the site (hosting, analytics, email), under agreements restricting their use of it, and when required by law or necessary to protect the site, its staff, its sources, or its users. We do not share personal information with advertisers in a personally identifiable form.
GDPR Rights
If you are in the European Economic Area, you have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data; to restrict or object to processing; to data portability; and to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. You may also complain to a supervisory authority. Note that where personal data is processed for journalistic purposes, certain rights may be subject to exemptions under applicable law. Requests: hello@dogsupplementreport.com.
CCPA Rights
California residents have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request its deletion, to opt out of any sale or sharing of personal information (we do not sell personal information), and to be free from discrimination for exercising these rights. Requests: hello@dogsupplementreport.com.
Children’s Privacy
This site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Data Retention and Security
We retain personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes described here, for journalistic record-keeping, or as required by law. We apply reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards — including access controls for sensitive editorial material — though no internet transmission can be guaranteed completely secure.
International Transfers
If you access the site from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your country.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The current version is posted here with a revised date, and material changes will be highlighted on the site.
Contact
Privacy questions and rights requests: hello@dogsupplementreport.com.