Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 4, 2026

LostPetsCIA.com (referred to as "we," "our," or "the Platform") is committed to maintaining the security, integrity, and privacy of the data provided by our users. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, process, utilize, and protect your information when you interact with our aggregated regional alert system.

1. Information We Collect

To provide automated, regional lost pet notifications, the Platform collects specific criteria directly from your inputs:

Voluntary User Telemetry: Your email address, which is required exclusively to route automated alert notifications to your inbox.
Geographic & Species Parameters: The specific State, Town, and Species parameters you select to define your custom monitoring zone.
Publicly Aggregated Data: Lost and found pet profiles systematically compiled from open, public regional databases, shelter feeds, and public notices.

2. Operational Data Utilization

Your data is used strictly to power the core functionality of the platform:

Automated Alert Routing: Your email and geographic criteria are mapped to process automated notification sweeps, dispatching matching public telemetry straight to your inbox.
System Optimization: Aggregated, non-identifiable search metrics (such as regional volume by town or species) may be analyzed to optimize database query distribution and scanning frequencies.
Zero Monetization: We do not sell, rent, lease, or trade user email addresses or search criteria to third-party marketing networks.

3. Data Retention and Security Protocols

Isolation Architecture: All user data is processed through secure database pipelines featuring strict field validation to prevent cross-contamination or unauthorized access.
Retention Boundaries: Email addresses and alert parameters are retained only for the duration of the active search loop. Users can terminate their monitoring sweep at any time, which purges their active alert routing entry from the notification loop.
External Safeguards: Our isolated ingestion workers process external public payloads within sandboxed environments to guarantee that corrupt or malicious third-party data cannot impact user-facing infrastructure.

5. Contact & Updates

We reserve the right to update this policy as the platform introduces direct user-input dashboards and dynamic geospatial display matrices. Continued use of the platform constitutes acceptance of the current data governance framework. For inquiries regarding data erasure or active alert termination, please contact the system administrator through the Platform portal.

This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for Lostpetscia.com. It applies solely to information collected by Lost Pets CIA – Lost Pets Central Information App, New Hampshire corporation (hereafter “Lost Pets CIA”). It will notify you of the following:

What personally identifiable information is collected, how and why it is used, and with whom it may be shared.
How you can control the personal information we collect, including the modification and deletion of that information.
The security procedures in place to protect your information.
How cookies and third-party technologies are used and for what purposes.

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page. If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email at Info@lostpetscia.com.

What Information We Collect

Lost Pets CIA collects the following personal information.

Information you provide

Email address
Pet information

Payment information for donations

Credit card number, expiration date, CVV, and name on card. Lost Pets CIA does not store credit card information; this information is encrypted and held by our third-party payment processor.

Communications data

Emails you send to Lost Pets CIA directly, or to another user via a Lost Pets CIA proxy email address

Automatically collected information

Location information

Depending on the Lost Pets CIA services that you use, and your app settings or device permissions, we may collect your precise or approximate location information as determined through data such as GPS, IP address and Wi-Fi.

Device information

Depending on the Lost Pets CIA services that you use, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique device ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, and the type of mobile internet browsers you use.

Usage information

We collect information about how you interact with our services. This includes information such as access dates and times, features used, and pages viewed. In some cases, we collect this information through cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies that create and maintain unique identifiers. This is explained further in the Cookies and Third-Party

Technologies section of our Privacy Policy.

Information from other sources

User comments

We collect comments (such as from Facebook) from users regarding lost or found pets posted to Lost Pets CIA.

Publicly available sources

In addition to maintaining a proprietary database of lost & found pets, Lost Pets CIA serves as an aggregator of pet information across the web. Information collected from these publicly available sources includes but is not limited to pet name, pet photo(s), location last seen/location found, date last seen/date found, species, sex, pet description, and contact information of the person who posted.

How We Use Your Information

Lost Pets CIA uses the information it collects for the following purposes:

Providing services and features

The core function of Lost Pets CIA is to help you search for a pet you have lost or found.

Support

We use your email address to contact you in order to assist you when you contact our support services.

Research and development

We may use the information we collect for testing, research, analysis, and product development. This allows us to improve our existing services and develop new features and products.

Communications from Lost Pets CIA

We may use the information we collect to communicate with you about products, services, promotions, news, and updates.

Legal proceedings and requirements

We may use the information we collect to investigate or address claims or disputes relating to your use of Lost Pets CIA’s services, or as otherwise allowed by applicable law, or as requested by regulators, government entities, and official inquiries.

With Whom We Share Your Information

Lost Pets CIA will not share your information with any other parties without your explicit consent.

How to Control Your Information

You have certain rights regarding your personal information (email address) collected by Lost Pets CIA. These rights and the processes by which you exercise them are explained below.

View information

You have the right to receive a copy of the information that Lost Pets CIA collects about you if collected on the basis of consent or because Lost Pets CIA requires the information to provide the services that you request. To receive a copy of your information, send your request to Info@lostpetscia.com.

Object or file complaints

You have the right to object to or file a complaint relating to Lost Pets CIA’s handling of your personal information (email address). If you have an objection or complaint, you should contact us at Info@lostpetscia.com.

Opt-out of Lost Pets CIA communications

Email communications

You can opt out of email communications from Lost Pets CIA at any time by clicking the Unsubscribe link in any email notifications from Lost Pets CIA or from the homepage. Unsubscribe requests may take up to five days to process.

How Your Information Is Stored and Protected

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees, volunteers, or partner organizations who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Cookies and Third-Party Technologies

We use cookies and other identification technologies on our website, apps, emails, and online ads. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or device by websites, apps, online media, and advertisements. Lost Pets CIA uses cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as:

Remembering user preferences and settings
Analyzing site traffic and trends, and generally understanding the online behaviors and interests of people who interact with our services.
Delivering and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns

You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. However, they are an important part of how our services work, so you should be aware that if you choose to refuse or remove cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of the services.

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. To do so, please follow the instructions provided by your browser, which are usually located within the “Help” or “Preferences” menu. Some third parties also provide the ability to refuse their cookies directly, such as from the Ad Preferences menu of your Facebook account.

The types and purposes of cookies used by Lost Pets CIA are explained below.

Local storage

We use cookies to remember user preferences, such as assisting with your account login.

Analytics, performance, and research

We use cookies to understand, improve, and research products and services, including when you access the Lost Pets CIA website and/or application from a computer or mobile device. We use cookies from the following third parties for these purposes:

Google Analytics

Advertising

We use cookies and pixels to deliver relevant ads, track email marketing or ad campaign performance. For example, we may use cookies, attribution service, or another similar technology to determine whether we have served an ad and how it performed or provide us with information about how you interact with them. We use cookies from the following third parties for these purposes:

If you have questions about this Policy, please contact us at Info@lostpetscia.com.