Privacy Policy

What we collect

• Account info: your email address and a securely hashed password.
• Address and ZIP: the street address and ZIP you enter to verify a dog, and your home ZIP.
• Dog info: names, breeds, and other details of dogs you verify or add.
• Photos and videos: dog profile photos and Nextminster Fun Show videos you upload.
• Votes and posts: your Nextminster votes and neighborhood posts.
• Pet-care preferences (optional): food type, car trips, flea/tick medication, grooming, and activity level for a dog you verify, if you choose to answer.
• Technical info: IP address, device and browser info, and basic usage events, used for security, rate limiting, and analytics.

How we use it

We use your information to run your account, verify dogs, show dogs on the map, run the Nextminster Fun Show and voting, send account emails (like password resets and email-change confirmations), personalize content and offers (including offers from partners), prevent abuse, and improve NextDog.

Optional pet-care preferences

After you verify a dog, you can choose to tell us about its care: food type, car trips, flea/tick medication, grooming, whether your dog has pet insurance, and activity level. Every answer is optional. We use these preferences to personalize content and offers on NextDog, including offers from partners. We don’t sell these individual answers, and we don’t share them with partners in a form that identifies you; partners see only aggregated, de-identified counts. These answers are never shown publicly. You can edit or delete them anytime from your account page, and they are deleted if you remove the dog’s verification or your account is deleted.

What’s public

Dogs on the map, including verified dogs and dogs drawn from publicly available information and user submissions, are shown only at the neighborhood level (city, ZIP or neighborhood) with dog details such as name, breed, sex, color and age, never with an owner’s name, street address or contact details. Show entries, their dog names, categories, towns, and thumbs-up and view counts are public. Dogtalk posts you write are public and show your home city, never your email or street address. Your email, the street address you enter, and your pet-care preferences stay private.

How we share it

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with service providers that help us run NextDog (such as hosting, storage, and email delivery), when required by law, to protect rights and safety, or as part of a merger or sale of the business. We don’t share it with third parties for their own advertising.

Cookies and sessions

We use a secure session cookie to keep you logged in and store a few preferences in your browser. To count each Nextminster video view once, we set a random device cookie for visitors who aren’t logged in and store only a one-way hash of it. We don’t use third-party advertising cookies.

Retention

We keep your information while your account is active and as needed to run NextDog, meet legal obligations, and resolve disputes and claims. Content you gave us rights to use under the Terms of Use may remain in use after your account ends. Password-reset and email-change links expire after 24 hours.

Deleting your information

To delete your account or specific content, email [email protected] from your account email.

Your California privacy rights (CCPA)

If you live in California, you have the right to:

• Know what personal information we collect, use, and disclose;
• Delete personal information we hold about you;
• Correct inaccurate personal information;
• Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information (we don’t sell or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising);
• Non-discrimination: we won’t treat you differently for using these rights.

To make a request, email [email protected]. We may need to confirm your identity first. You can use an authorized agent.

Adults only; children’s privacy

NextDog accounts are for adults 18 and older only, and new accounts must confirm they are 18 or older. MeetingTV Inc. does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). If we learn that an account belongs to a child under 13, or to anyone under 18, we will delete the account and its data. If you believe a child or anyone under 18 has an account or has given us personal information, email [email protected] and we’ll delete it. When you create an account we store that you confirmed you are 18 or older and when you did.

Changes

We may update this policy. We’ll update the effective date and give notice of material changes.

Contact

NextDog is a service of MeetingTV Inc. Privacy questions: [email protected].