Introduction & Scope
PETBIZS respects the privacy of its website visitors, directory users, business representatives, contributors, advertisers, and industry partners. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use it, how we share it, and the choices available to you.
This policy applies whenever you visit petbizs.com (the “Website”), create an account, submit a business listing, request a service, publish content, join our newsletter, attend or express interest in a PETBIZS event, contact our team, apply for a role with us, or interact with advertisements on our platform. It applies to visitors, registered users, business owners and representatives, contributors, interview subjects, advertisers, and industry partners alike.
The Website is owned and operated by PETBIZS LLC, a limited liability company headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA (the “Head Office”), together with its Pakistan based affiliate PETBIZS SMC (Private) Limited, which originally established the PETBIZS corporate structure and operates as its Regional Office (together, “PETBIZS,” “the Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). PETBIZS LLC is the contracting party under our Terms of Service and the entity responsible for this Privacy Policy; PETBIZS SMC (Private) Limited supports PETBIZS’s operations from Pakistan and may process information on the Company’s behalf.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into, and should be read together with, our Terms of Service. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to both documents. Terms not defined in this policy carry the meaning given to them in our Terms of Service.
Before you read this Privacy Policy, it is best to read these two components to understand our policy better.
The Public Nature of PETBIZS
Directory listings, founder interviews, business profiles, product introductions, event pages, and articles are published for public visibility, not private use. Information submitted for these purposes should be expected to appear on the Website, be indexed by search engines, and be viewed, shared, or republished by third parties outside our control.
Published content may continue to circulate after removal from the Website, through search engine caches, archived pages, or third party republication. We will take reasonable steps to update or remove published information on request, as described in Section 10, but cannot guarantee removal from sources outside our platform. Submitting User Content for a directory listing, interview, or similar public facing feature is treated as a request to publish it, separate from any consent required elsewhere in this policy, and is subject to the license you grant us under our Terms of Service.
The Structural Nature of PETBIZS
PETBIZS is an integrated pet industry platform, not a single service. It operates through several connected components: a business directory, editorial content such as founder interviews and business profiles, an Events and Expos section, Premium Profile and other promotional packages, advertising placements, and a newsletter with community features, as further described in our Terms of Service.
These components share a common infrastructure and are operated by the entities named in Section 1. Information collected through one component may support another, for example, a directory submission informing an editorial interview or a Premium Profile placement, consistent with the purposes in Section 6. This policy addresses any component with materially different handling separately.
3.1 Information You Provide Directly
We collect information you choose to give us, including:
3.2 Information from Third Party Login Services
PETBIZS may allow you to register or sign in using a Third Party Login Service such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, X, or LinkedIn. If you choose this option, we may receive information already associated with that account, such as your name, email address, and profile picture, in accordance with the permissions you grant during login. Any additional information you choose to share through a Third Party Login Service is used and stored consistent with this policy.
3.3 Information Collected Automatically
When you use the Website, certain information may be collected through your device and browser, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers, referring and exit pages, the pages you view, links you click, and the dates and times of your visits. We collect this information through cookies, pixel tags, and similar tracking technologies, as described in Section 9 below.
3.4 Information From Other Sources
We may receive information about you from third parties, including:
We use the collected data for various purposes to ensure the best experience for your pet business. This includes;
- Operating, maintaining, and improving PETBIZS and its directory, editorial, and advertising features.
- Creating and publishing business profiles, founder interviews, event listings, and related editorial content.
- Processing account registrations, business submissions, and service requests.
- Responding to inquiries and providing customer support.
- Sending newsletters, service updates, and marketing communications, where you have agreed to receive them or where applicable law allows it.
- Measuring engagement with our content and advertisements.
- Detecting, investigating, and preventing fraud, abuse, and security incidents.
- Complying with legal obligations and enforcing our Terms of Use.
- Any other purpose we disclose to you at the time of collection or with your consent.
We and our service providers, including third party advertising networks such as Google AdSense, use cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies to recognize your browser or device, remember your preferences, understand how visitors use the Website, and deliver relevant advertising. We use both cookies that expire when you close your browser and cookies that persist across visits, for the purposes below:
- Essential cookies: session based cookies that support core site functions such as account login, authentication, and fraud prevention. These cannot be switched off without affecting how the site works.
- Consent and preference cookies: persistent cookies that record whether you have acknowledged our cookie notice and remember choices such as your login state or language preference, so you do not have to re-enter them on each visit.
- Performance and analytics cookies: help us understand traffic patterns and improve the site, including through tools such as Google Analytics.
- Advertising cookies: allow us and our advertising partners to deliver and measure the performance of ads, including on other sites you visit.
Most browsers let you block or delete cookies through your settings. Doing so may limit certain features of the Website. Where required by applicable law, we will request your consent before placing non essential cookies and will provide a mechanism to withdraw that consent at any time.
Although, we do not sell or share your personal information. However, we may share it in the following circumstances:
- Service providers: with vendors who host our site, process payments, send communications, or provide analytics and security services on our behalf, under obligations to protect your information.
- Advertising and business partners: aggregated or device level data may be shared with advertising or business partners, including third party advertising networks such as Google AdSense, to deliver ads, measure their performance, or offer you related products and services. We do not share your account password or private contact details with advertisers without your consent.
- Affiliates: we may share information between PETBIZS LLC and PETBIZS SMC (Private) Limited, and with any other current or future PETBIZS affiliate, who will be required to handle it consistent with this policy.
- Public directory and editorial content: User Content you submit for publication is shared with the public, as described in Section 3.
- Prospect matching services: if you use a Premium Profile or similar package involving business Prospects, relevant contact and matching information is shared with you or the counterparty as necessary to provide that service, subject to the confidentiality terms in our Terms of Service.
- Other users: information you post in public areas of the Website, or share when interacting with other users, may be visible to those users and to the public.
- Business transfers: if PETBIZS is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to this policy or a comparable one.
- Legal and safety reasons: we may disclose information where required by law, to respond to legal process, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of PETBIZS, our users, or the public.
- With your consent: we may disclose information for any other purpose with your explicit consent.
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Using PETBIZS does not automatically mean you consent to every form of data processing described in this policy. Where applicable law requires it, including for certain cookies, advertising technologies, and direct marketing communications, we will request your consent separately and give you a clear way to decline or withdraw it.
You may:
- Unsubscribe from marketing emails using the link in any such email.
- Adjust your cookie preferences through our cookie banner or your browser settings.
- Opt out of interest-based advertising through industry tools such as the Network Advertising Initiative or Your Online Choices, where applicable.
- Contact us directly to ask about the personal information we hold about you.
Even after you opt out of marketing, we may still send transactional or service related messages, such as confirmations tied to your account or a submission you have made.
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:
- request confirmation of whether we process your personal information;
- access a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
- request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information;
- request deletion of your personal information, subject to legal exceptions;
- request that we restrict or object to certain processing; and
- request a portable copy of information you have provided to us.
If you are located in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or the European Economic Area, these rights may arise under the General Data Protection Regulation or UK GDPR. If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act. These rights apply in addition to, and do not replace, any right you may have under the mandatory law of your own country of residence.
Where the Website provides account settings, you may update, correct, or delete certain information directly by signing in to your Account. For anything you cannot manage yourself, or to exercise any of the rights above, contact us using the details in Section 15. However, we may need to verify your identity before acting on a request, and we will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law. We may retain certain information after a deletion request where we have a legal obligation or other lawful basis to do so.
We retain personal information for as long as needed to provide our services, maintain published directory and editorial content, meet legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except where retaining it strengthens security, improves the Service, or is required by law. When information is no longer needed for these purposes, we take reasonable steps to delete or de identify it.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we hold from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we become aware of a security incident affecting your personal information, we will notify you and any applicable authority as required by law.
PETBIZS serves an audience across multiple countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Brazil, India, Pakistan, and the Middle East, and operates through affiliated entities in the United States and Pakistan.
As a result, your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States, Pakistan, and other countries whose data protection laws may differ from those in your home jurisdiction.
By using the Website, you consent to this transfer, consistent with the international use terms in our Terms of Service. Where required, we take steps to ensure such transfers are conducted in accordance with applicable law, including appropriate safeguards where your data moves to a jurisdiction with a different standard of protection.
The Website may contain links to third party websites, including the sites of directory listed businesses, event organizers, and advertisers, that are not owned or controlled by PETBIZS. This policy does not cover the privacy practices of those third parties. Use of any third party site is at your own risk and subject to that third party’s own terms, and we encourage you to review the privacy policy of any site you visit through the Website.
The Website is intended for business use and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13, or the minimum age required by applicable local law. This applies regardless of the age threshold for creating an Account or making a purchase described in our Terms of Service. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child in violation of this policy, we will take steps to delete it promptly. Parents or guardians who believe their child has provided us with personal information may contact us using the details below. Where consent from a parent or guardian is required by applicable law before we may collect a child’s information, we will seek that consent before doing so.
PETBIZS operates a pet business directory intended to help users discover pet industry businesses. Listings are based on information provided directly by businesses or gathered from other sources, and while we take reasonable care to keep listings accurate, we do not independently verify every detail and encourage you to confirm information directly with the listed business. Inclusion in the directory is not an endorsement, and we do not guarantee the outcome, quality, licensing, or legitimacy of any listed business. We reserve the right to remove or decline listings that violate our Terms of Service. The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind, as further described in our Terms of Service, and PETBIZS assumes no liability for damages arising from reliance on directory content.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, or wish to exercise any of the rights described above, please get in touch with us at:
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. If we make material changes, we will post the updated policy on this page with a new effective date and, where appropriate, notify you by email or through a prominent notice on the Website before the change takes effect, consistent with how we notify you of changes to our Terms of Service. Continued use of the Website after an update takes effect means you accept the revised policy. We recommend reviewing this page periodically.
By continuing to use PETBIZS, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these terms.
