Privacy Policy
Last Updated: September 3, 2026
Absolute K9 Training (“Absolute K9,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit https://absolutek9.com, contact us, request a training evaluation, call us, or otherwise interact with our services.
By using our website or providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following categories of information:
Information You Provide
When you complete a form, call us, email us, or otherwise contact us, we may collect:
- Your first and last name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- City, ZIP code, or general location
- Information about your dog, including training needs, behavior concerns, age, breed, and training history
- Your preferred services, appointment requests, and communications with us
- Any other information you choose to provide
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through our website forms unless we specifically request it.
Information Collected Automatically
When you use our website, we and our service providers may automatically collect information such as:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Pages viewed and links clicked
- Date, time, and duration of visits
- Referring website or advertisement
- Approximate location derived from your IP address
- Cookie identifiers and similar online identifiers
- Information about how you interact with our website and advertisements
Information From Advertising and Other Sources
We may receive information from advertising, analytics, call-tracking, scheduling, customer relationship management, and other service providers. This may include information showing that you interacted with one of our advertisements, called a tracking number, submitted a lead form, or later became a customer.
2. How We Use Information
We may use the information we collect to:
- Respond to questions and requests
- Provide information about dog-training programs and services
- Schedule evaluations, consultations, appointments, and training services
- Communicate with you by telephone, email, or text message when you have requested or consented to such communication
- Manage customer relationships and maintain business records
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website and services
- Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and other malicious activity
- Measure website use and advertising performance
- Determine whether an advertising inquiry resulted in a qualified lead or customer
- Improve the relevance and effectiveness of our advertising
- Comply with legal obligations and protect our rights, customers, employees, animals, and property
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand website use, prevent fraud and spam, measure advertising results, and deliver or evaluate advertising.
You can control cookies through your browser settings and, where available, our cookie preference tools. Blocking certain cookies may affect how the website functions. Your browser or device may also offer settings that limit advertising identifiers or tracking.
4. Analytics, Advertising, and Enhanced Conversions
We may use services provided by Google and other companies, including Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, and related measurement and advertising tools. These services may collect information about your device, browser, website activity, and interactions with our advertisements.
If you submit a lead form, certain information you provide, such as your email address or telephone number, may be converted into a hashed format and transmitted to Google for enhanced conversion measurement. Hashing changes the information into a coded value before transmission.
Google may compare that value with information associated with signed-in Google users to help determine whether an advertisement led to an inquiry or customer relationship. We may also provide Google with information indicating whether a lead became qualified or resulted in a customer transaction.
We use this information to measure advertising performance, reduce inaccurate conversion reporting, and improve how our advertising campaigns are managed. Google’s use of information is governed by its own privacy terms and applicable agreements.
You can learn more about Google’s privacy practices at https://policies.google.com/privacy and advertising controls at https://myadcenter.google.com.
5. Spam Prevention and reCAPTCHA
We may use Google reCAPTCHA or similar security tools to protect our website and forms from spam, fraud, bots, and abuse.
These tools may analyze technical and behavioral information, including device and application data, IP address, browser information, and user interactions, to evaluate whether activity appears legitimate. Information collected through these tools may be processed by Google or another security provider on our behalf and in accordance with our agreements with that provider.
6. Call Tracking and Communications
We may use call-tracking numbers to understand which advertisements or website pages led to telephone inquiries. Call-tracking services may collect the caller’s telephone number, call date and time, call duration, routing information, and advertising source.
If a call is recorded, we will provide any notice or obtain any consent required by applicable law.
If you provide your telephone number and request contact, we may call or text you regarding your inquiry, evaluation, appointment, or services. Consent to receive marketing text messages is not a condition of purchasing services. Message and data rates may apply.
You may opt out of marketing texts by replying STOP or following the instructions in the message. You may opt out of marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link or contacting us.
7. How We Disclose Information
We may disclose personal information to:
- Website hosting, maintenance, security, and form-processing providers
- Analytics, advertising, and conversion-measurement providers
- Call-tracking, telephone, email, and text-message providers
- Scheduling, customer relationship management, and business software providers
- Professional advisers, insurers, auditors, and legal service providers
- Government authorities or other parties when required by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, animals, property, or the integrity of our services
- A successor or potential successor in connection with a merger, sale, financing, reorganization, or transfer of all or part of our business
We do not sell personal information for money. Some privacy laws may define certain advertising or analytics disclosures as “selling,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising even when no money is exchanged. Where applicable, you may have the right to opt out of those practices.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to inquiries, provide services, maintain customer and business records, measure advertising performance, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and comply with legal obligations.
Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and why it was collected.
9. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information.
However, no website, transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You provide information online at your own risk.
10. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live and subject to applicable exceptions, you may have the right to:
- Request information about the personal information we collect, use, or disclose
- Request access to or a copy of your personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information
- Request deletion of personal information
- Opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising
- Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, where applicable
- Withdraw consent for certain processing
- Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request, where applicable
- Exercise your rights without unlawful discrimination
To submit a privacy request, contact us using the methods listed in the “Contact Us” section below. We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
An authorized agent may submit a request where permitted by law, but we may require proof of authorization and identity verification.
If we use personal information for advertising activities that are legally considered a sale or sharing, you may also submit an opt-out request through any “Your Privacy Choices” or “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link made available on our website.
Where required, we will recognize valid browser-based opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control.
11. California Privacy Notice
California residents may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended, if that law applies to Absolute K9.
These rights may include the right to:
- Know what personal information is collected, used, or disclosed
- Access personal information
- Correct inaccurate personal information
- Request deletion of personal information
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information
- Limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information
- Receive equal service and treatment when exercising privacy rights
During the preceding 12 months, we may have collected the categories described in Section 1, including identifiers, customer-record information, internet or electronic activity, approximate geolocation, commercial or inquiry information, and inferences about service interests.
We collect this information from you, your device or browser, our service providers, and advertising or referral sources. We use and disclose it for the purposes and to the recipients described in this Privacy Policy.
We do not knowingly sell personal information for money. As noted above, some analytics and advertising activities may be considered “sharing” or a “sale” under California law.
We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
12. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are intended for adults seeking dog-training services. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.
13. Third-Party Websites and Embedded Services
Our website may contain links to or embedded content from third parties, such as maps, videos, social media platforms, financing providers, or scheduling services.
Those third parties may collect information when you interact with their content. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this Privacy Policy.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, services, or legal obligations.
We will post the revised policy on this page and update the “Last Updated” date. Material changes may be communicated through additional notice when required by law.
15. Contact Us
For questions about this Privacy Policy or to submit a privacy request, contact:
Absolute K9 Training
11339 Sorrento Valley Road
San Diego, CA 92121
Phone: 858-209-4000
Email: mike@snugpetresort.com
Website contact form: https://absolutek9.com/contact-us/