No one can guarantee perfect security or privacy, and we are no exception.  The best security is not to have anything a hacker might want.  That's why the only personal information we require is a contact phone number for the dog.

Here's why we think your privacy will be safe with us:

• We do not collect the dog owner's name — or even ask for it.
• We do not collect any mailing addresses.  We have an optional Google® JavaScript tool that will find the latitude and longitude (geo-coordinates) of a mailing address, but all we require and capture are the geo-coordinates — and you can even shift the coordinates slightly to further assure anonymity (my coordinates, for example, point to the wall between two near-by apartment buildings).  By the way, the reason we keep the geo-coordinates is to figure out which potential donor is physically closest to a veterinarian with an emergency.
• We use two levels of encryption for data stored on the server and one level of encryption (a bonded third party Secure Socket Layers certificate normally used for credit card data) when a browser communicates with our server.
• We do collect and store one or more phone numbers and your dog's name because there has to be a way for the veterinarian who needs whole blood to get in touch with a potential donor.

Veterinarians in your region must be registered and sign in to gain access to dog names and contact phone numbers.  The veterinarian does not have access to your geo-coordinates — only the distance you would have to travel to get the the veterinarian's office.

The site automatically keeps logs of anyone signing in as a veterinarian, dog owner or trusted volunteer.

A volunteer might call you once or twice a year for the sole purpose of confirming that your dog is still a potential donor.  Keeping the donor list current saves the veterinarian time in an emergency.

Any information we have is otherwise not distributed in any way.

 

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