This policy explains what information oregonmainecoon.com collects, why we collect it, and what we do with it. The website is operated by Patty and John Cruikshank, doing business as Nacoonzi Cattery, in Estacada, Oregon.

Who we are

Nacoonzi Cattery is a small, family run CFA registered Maine Coon cattery. This website is operated personally by Patty and John Cruikshank. The website itself is designed and maintained on our behalf by Kaelrune Media (kaelrunemedia.com), who keep it running and up to date. Decisions about your information remain ours.

If you want to reach us about anything in this policy, use the contact page or call (503) 789-8878.

What we collect when you apply

Our adoption application asks for a good deal of information, because placing a kitten well requires knowing something about the home it is going to. Depending on which questions you answer, that can include:

Your name, email address, phone number and postal address
Your contact preference and how soon you are hoping to adopt
Your occupation, and the name and occupation of a spouse or partner if you choose to give them
Whether you live in a house, condo or apartment, and whether a landlord or HOA permits cats
Whether children live in or visit the home
Details of other cats, dogs and animals you keep now or have kept before
Your daily and weekend routine, and your plans for the cat if you move or travel
The monthly budget you expect to spend on the cat
Veterinary references, including clinic name, address and phone numbers
How you heard about us

You choose what to submit. Only a small number of fields are required, and you are free to leave the rest blank, though a sparse application is harder for us to act on.

Why we collect it

We use this information for one purpose: to decide whether a particular kitten should go to a particular home, and to stay in touch with you about that placement. We read every application personally.

We do not sell your information. We do not rent it, trade it, or hand it to data brokers. We do not use it to build advertising audiences.

Information collected automatically

Like most websites, ours records basic technical information when you visit: your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you view and the site that referred you. This comes from our hosting, our security service and our analytics, and we use it to keep the site working and to understand which pages people find useful.

Cookies and analytics

We use cookies for essential site functions and for analytics. Google Analytics is active on this site and sets its own cookies to measure visits. Where a cookie consent banner is shown, your choice there governs non essential cookies.

Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies in their settings. The site will still work, though some conveniences may not.

Who else handles your information

We keep the list short and we do not add to it casually. At present:

Kaelrune Media designs and maintains this website, and in the course of that work has administrative access to the site and to the application entries stored in it
GoDaddy hosts the website and its database, which is where application entries are stored
Sucuri provides the firewall and content delivery network that traffic passes through
Google Analytics receives usage data as described above
Google Fonts serves the typefaces used on the site
Vimeo serves any embedded video
Our email provider delivers the notification when you submit an application

Each of these has its own privacy policy governing what it does with what it receives. We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or where it is necessary to protect someone from fraud or harm.

How long we keep it

We keep adoption applications indefinitely. Enquiries often resume years later, kittens are placed over long horizons, and we find it genuinely useful to have the history. If you would prefer your application to be deleted, ask us and we will remove it.

Your choices

You can ask us to show you what we hold about you, correct anything that is wrong, or delete it entirely. Write to us through the contact page and tell us what you would like done.

If you are a California resident, state law gives you rights over your personal information, including the right to know what is collected and to request deletion. We will not treat you differently for exercising them. If you are in the UK or the European Economic Area, comparable rights apply to you.

Children

This site is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has submitted information through our forms, contact us and we will delete it.

Security

The site runs over an encrypted connection and sits behind a firewall. Application entries are stored in the website database and are visible only to us. No system is perfectly secure, and we will not pretend otherwise, but we do not hold payment card details on this website and we keep the number of people with access to a minimum.

Links to other sites

We link to other businesses, including our recommended supplement supplier, an insurer, a local groomer and an artist whose work we feature. Those sites are not ours and this policy does not cover them.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle information we will update this page and change the date at the top. Substantial changes will be obvious rather than buried.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or requests about your own information, go to the contact page or by phone to (503) 789-8878.

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