Cookie Policy

Welcome to Best Fresh Dog Plans. We are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about the technologies we use. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other tracking technologies may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit our website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand how cookies help us provide you with the most accurate, up-to-date, and helpful reviews for fresh dog food plans. By continuing to browse our site, you agree to our use of cookies as described in this policy.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies can perform various tasks, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. They can also help ensure that advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

There are two main types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary and expire automatically once you close your browser. Persistent cookies, on the other hand, remain on your device's hard drive until their expiration date or until you delete them manually.

2. Why We Use Cookies

At Best Fresh Dog Plans, we use first-party and third-party cookies to run our website and analyze our performance. First-party cookies are set directly by us, while third-party cookies are served by third-party vendors, advertisers, or analytics providers.

These cookies allow us to monitor site usage, understand search patterns, and continuously improve the layout and accessibility of our fresh dog food guides. More specifically, we use cookies for:

• Maintaining the stability, performance, and security of our web servers.
• Analyzing traffic flow and page popularity to write better articles on canine health and nutrition.
• Remembering your interactions, such as values typed into our calculator tools or contact forms.
• Tracking affiliate referrals, which enables us to receive commissions from select dog food providers when you click our links and purchase a plan. This affiliate model keeps our reviews free for everyone.

3. Classification of Cookies We Use

To help you manage your settings, we categorize the cookies used on our website based on their function and purpose. These categories help us distinguish between what is essential for the technical operation of the site and what is used to optimize performance or marketing.

While some cookies are deleted immediately after you leave the site, others remain to help recognize your device when you return. Understanding this classification allows you to make informed decisions about which cookie types you want to authorize or block.

In the sections below, we detail the specific purposes of each cookie type, including essential, analytical, functional, and targeting cookies. We encourage you to review these details to understand how your data is handled.

4. Essential and Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the core functions of our website. They enable you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas, navigating between pages, and filling out contact forms. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.

These cookies do not collect information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet. Because they are necessary for the basic operation of our services, you cannot opt out of them through our website's consent management tools.

Most strictly necessary cookies are session-based and are deleted as soon as you close your browser. However, a few persistent cookies may be used to store your cookie consent preferences, ensuring that we do not prompt you with the cookie banner on every single visit.

5. Performance and Analytical Cookies

Performance and analytical cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and if users receive error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor; all information is aggregated and, therefore, anonymous.

We use these cookies specifically to understand our audience size, study usage patterns, track search queries, and improve how our website works. For instance, knowing which dog food brand reviews attract the most readers helps us focus our writing efforts on what pet parents care about most.

By allowing performance cookies, you help us design a better experience. If you disable these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance or make data-driven improvements to our layouts.

6. Functionality and Preference Cookies

Functionality cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. For example, these cookies can be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.

They may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video, using a comparison table, or reading specific review summaries. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

While disabling functionality cookies is possible, it may result in some features of the website not working as intended. You might have to manually re-enter your settings, inputs, or preferences every time you return to the site.

7. Targeting, Marketing, and Social Media Cookies

As an independent review website, we participate in affiliate programs with various dog food brands (such as Ollie, The Farmer's Dog, and Spot & Tango). When you click on a referral link from our site, a tracking cookie is placed on your device to attribute the referral to us. This helps support our research and operations without adding any cost to your subscription.

Social media cookies are set by social media services that we have added to our site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. These cookies are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests, which may impact the content and messages you see on other websites.

8. How to Manage and Control Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by adjusting the settings in your web browser. Since the means by which you can refuse cookies vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

Please note that if you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some features and areas of the site may be restricted or degraded. Here is how you can manage cookies on popular browsers:

• Google Chrome: Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data to block or allow cookies.
• Mozilla Firefox: Navigate to Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data to configure your preferences.
• Apple Safari: Go to Preferences > Privacy and choose to block all cookies or manage local data.
• Microsoft Edge: Open Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Manage and delete cookies and site data to clear or restrict cookies.

9. Third-Party Cookie Disclosures

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the service, and so on. These third-party services operate under their own privacy and cookie policies, which we do not control.

For example, we use Google Analytics to monitor traffic and user behavior. Google may use the data collected to track and examine the use of this website, prepare reports on its activities, and share them with other Google services. Google may also use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

We also utilize affiliate networks and affiliate tracking cookies from the brands that set cookies to verify that a sale came from our referral. We recommend that you read the privacy policies of these third parties directly to understand their data collection practices and opt-out mechanisms.

10. Updates and Amendments to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated. Any changes will become effective immediately upon posting the revised policy on our website. Your continued use of the website following these changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.

If we make any material changes to how we handle cookies, we will post a prominent notice on our website or update the revision date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to remain aware of our cookie usage policies.

Need More Information?

If you have any questions or comments about our Cookie Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with our website, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are always happy to help you and your pup!

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