Our website, https://brighterdaysrescue.com (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

To respect your privacy choices, we need to remember them. We store your cookie consent preference in two ways: a small cookie named "bd-cookie-consent", which records whether you accepted or rejected analytics and lasts for 1 year, and an entry in your browser’s local storage that also notes the date you made your choice. No personal data is stored — only your consent choice. These are strictly necessary so the site can honour your privacy decision, and may be placed without your consent.

With your explicit consent, we use Google Analytics 4 (GA4), loaded through Google Tag Manager, to understand how visitors use our website. Until you accept, analytics storage is switched off by default (using Google Consent Mode). Once you consent, Google Analytics places the following cookies:

1. _ga — Distinguishes unique visitors. Expires after 2 years.
2. _ga_* — Maintains session state. Expires after 1 year.

These cookies are only set after you choose "Accept analytics" in our cookie consent dialog. We have configured Google Analytics with IP anonymisation enabled and advertising features disabled. No data is shared with Google for advertising purposes.

We use Google reCAPTCHA v3 on our forms (adoption application, contact, relinquishment, and sponsorship forms) to protect against automated spam submissions. reCAPTCHA may set a cookie called _GRECAPTCHA and uses scripts to analyse your browsing behaviour in order to determine whether you are a human visitor. This is classified as a functional cookie and does not require your consent, as it is necessary for the secure operation of our forms.

To keep the website secure, stable and free of errors, we use Sentry, an error-monitoring service. Sentry runs on every page and may store a small amount of technical information in your browser to detect and diagnose problems. It does not track you for advertising, and we have configured it not to collect personal information such as the contents of forms you fill in. Because it is used for the security and reliability of the site, it runs without requiring your consent, on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping the site working safely. For more information, see Sentry’s privacy policy at https://sentry.io/privacy/.

For more information about Google's services, please refer to Google's Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

We do not use any marketing, advertising, or tracking cookies. We do not sell or share your data with third parties for advertising. The only third-party services that may set cookies or store information on our site are Google Analytics (with your consent), Google reCAPTCHA (for spam prevention), and Sentry (for error monitoring and security), as described above.

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a dialog asking about cookie preferences. You can either accept analytics cookies or reject all non-essential cookies. Your choice is stored in the "bd-cookie-consent" cookie and in your browser’s local storage, and remembered for future visits.

Rejecting non-essential cookies stops analytics from loading. Strictly necessary and security-related technologies — such as our spam prevention (reCAPTCHA) and error monitoring (Sentry) — will still run, as the site cannot operate safely without them.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time using the "Change cookie choices" link in the website footer.

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website will continue to work if all cookies are disabled, as we only use optional analytics cookies that require your consent. If you clear your browser storage, you will be asked about your cookie preferences again on your next visit.

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

1. You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
2. Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
3. Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
4. If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
5. Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
6. Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)).

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details: