Privacy Policy

Type of Information Collected from Users
This site receives, collects, and stores any information you enter on our website or provide in any other way. In addition, the site collects the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information. http://pausesanctuary.com, as managed by Squarespace, may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page, as well as personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile information.

How is the Information Collected?
When you subscribe to any mailing list on this website, submit a form, schedule an appointment, purchase a product, or use the Forum/Member Community, Pause Animal Wellness Sanctuary (PAWS; http://pausesanctuary.com), collects the personal information you provide, such as your name, address, and email address. Your personal information is collected for the specific reasons stated below.

Why is Such Personal Information Collected?
PAWS collects both Non-Personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • To provide and operate services, mailing lists, and blogs;

  • To provide users, volunteers, donors, and community members with updates;

  • To provide users of the PAWS website with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  • To contact site visitors and users with general or personalized service-related notices, blog subscriptions, promotional messages, and forum involvement;

  • To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

How is This Information Stored, Used, Shared, and Disclosed?
http://pausesanctuary.com is hosted on the Squarespace platform. Squarespace provides an online platform that allows us to share our mission, services, and updates with you. Your data may be stored through Squarespace’s data storage, databases, and general Squarespace applications. Squarespace stores your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

When subscribing to any mailing list on the PAWS website, your email, name, and any other information shared is also stored on Mailchimp.com. Mailchimp.com is used to send emails and correspondence to all individuals who subscribe to mailing lists on this site. Mailchimp uses secure data storage methods to protect your information.

Website Analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

  • Clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies and Other Tracking Tools
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described above, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Visitor Data & Online Purchases
When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

    We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider so that they can provide website services to us.

Our payment processor(s) [Stripe or PayPal] will also collect payment information from you. You can read their privacy policies at Stripe or PayPal.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

Form Submissions
When you submit information to this website via web form, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Blog Comments and Social Sharing
This website includes commenting functionality on some pages, enabling you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

  • Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

  • Your email address (optional, to notify you of replies to your comment)

  • Your website URL (optional)

This website also includes share buttons that enable you to share pages or other content from this site to third-party services like Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data.

Emails & Notifications

  • We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email.

  • We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

  • We may email you with messages about your order or account activity, such as account creation, password resets, purchase confirmations, and shipping notifications. These transactional emails cannot be unsubscribed from.

Withdraw Consent
If at any time you do not want Pause Animal Wellness Sanctuary (PAWS; http://pausesanctuary.com) to process your data anymore, please contact us at khadijihmitchell@gmail.com.

Modification of Privacy Policy
Pause Animal Wellness Sanctuary (PAWS; http://pausesanctuary.com) reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon posting on the website. If PAWS makes material changes to this policy, a notification will be posted here so you are aware of what information is collected, how it is used, and under what circumstances, if any, it is disclosed.

Questions About Your Contact Information
If you have any questions about this policy or if you would like to access, correct, amend, or delete any personal information PAWS may have about you, please contact khadijihmitchell@gmail.com.

Last Updated: March 2025