Last updated: July 6, 2026
Who we are
Our website address is: https://vetexplains.com.
Vet Explains provides educational pet health information for pet owners. The information on this website is for general educational purposes only and is not a substitute for diagnosis, treatment, or advice from your veterinarian.
Information we collect
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you leave a comment, submit a contact form, subscribe to updates, or interact with the website. This may include your name, email address, website URL, message content, and any other information you choose to provide.
We may also automatically collect certain technical information, such as your IP address, browser type, device information, referring pages, pages visited, and general usage data. This information helps us operate the website, protect it from spam or abuse, understand how visitors use the site, and improve our content.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address, also called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible to the public alongside your comment.
Comments may be reviewed before they appear publicly. We reserve the right to remove comments that are spam, abusive, misleading, promotional, medically unsafe, or otherwise inappropriate.
Contact forms
If you contact us through a form on this website, we may collect your name, email address, subject, message, IP address, and other technical information needed to process and protect the form submission.
Information submitted through a contact form is used to respond to your message, manage website-related inquiries, prevent spam, and maintain website security. Please do not submit sensitive personal information or urgent medical information through a contact form. If your pet is sick, painful, injured, or experiencing an emergency, contact your veterinarian or an emergency veterinary hospital directly.
Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data, such as EXIF GPS. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location data from images on the site.
Cookies
This website may use cookies and similar technologies to improve functionality, remember preferences, analyze website traffic, prevent spam, protect the site, and support advertising.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not have to enter your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will remain active for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply identifies the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.
Advertising and Google AdSense
Vet Explains may display advertisements through Google AdSense or other third-party advertising partners.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to Vet Explains and/or other websites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Users may also learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use Google services by visiting Google’s privacy and advertising resources.
Third-party advertising partners may place or read cookies on your browser, use web beacons, use device identifiers, or collect information such as your IP address as part of ad serving, ad measurement, personalization, fraud prevention, and reporting.
Some ads may be personalized based on your browsing activity, depending on your location, your consent choices, and applicable privacy laws. Where required by law, we will ask for consent before using cookies or personal data for personalized advertising.
Consent for visitors in the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, this website may show a consent message before certain advertising or analytics cookies are used. Where required, we will request your consent for the use of cookies or similar technologies and for the collection, sharing, and use of personal data for personalized advertising.
You may be able to accept, reject, or manage your consent choices through the cookie or privacy message shown on the website. You may also be able to update your browser settings to block or delete cookies.
Analytics and website measurement
We may use analytics tools, such as Google Analytics or similar services, to understand how visitors use this website. These tools may collect information such as pages visited, time on site, device type, browser type, approximate location, referring pages, and interactions with website content.
This information helps us improve our articles, website layout, user experience, and overall content strategy. Analytics data is generally used in an aggregated or pseudonymous form and is not used by Vet Explains to personally identify individual visitors.
Affiliate links
Some articles on Vet Explains may include affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
Affiliate partners may use cookies or similar technologies to track referrals, attribute purchases, prevent fraud, and manage affiliate commissions. These third-party services have their own privacy policies and data practices.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, social media posts, maps, or articles. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you had visited the other website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, include additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell personal information directly in exchange for money. However, some privacy laws may consider certain advertising, analytics, or cookie-based activities to be a form of sharing for targeted advertising or cross-context behavioral advertising.
We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate the website, detect spam, process contact forms, provide analytics, serve ads, manage affiliate links, improve security, and maintain website performance.
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website, if any, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for their username. Website administrators can also view and edit that information.
Contact form submissions may be retained as long as reasonably necessary to respond to inquiries, manage website operations, protect the site, and maintain business records.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, have left comments, or have submitted information through a form, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You may also request that we erase personal data we hold about you.
This does not include data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, security, fraud prevention, or website maintenance purposes.
Depending on your location, you may have additional privacy rights, such as the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to certain processing of your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
Children’s privacy
Vet Explains is intended for a general audience and is not directed toward children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information through this website, please contact us so we can review and remove the information if appropriate.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Information collected through this website may be processed by third-party service providers, advertising partners, analytics providers, spam protection tools, hosting providers, and security services. These providers may process data in the United States or other countries where they operate.
External links
This website may link to external websites, products, services, veterinary resources, affiliate partners, or third-party content. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, policies, or content of external websites. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of any external websites they visit.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, advertising partners, analytics tools, legal requirements, or business practices. Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.
Contact us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact us through the Contact Us page on Vet Explains.