Last updated: July 21, 2026
Laser Therapy for Pets is operated by Dr. Candy Akers. I respect your privacy and want you to understand what information may be collected when you visit this website, how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.
Information You Choose to Provide
You may voluntarily provide personal information when you:
- Submit a contact form
- Send an email
- Ask a question
- Request information
- Communicate with me through the website
This information may include your name, email address, telephone number, message, and any information about your pet that you choose to provide.
Please do not submit payment-card information, account passwords, government identification numbers, or other unnecessary sensitive personal information through a website contact form.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit this website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by the website, hosting provider, security tools, or other service providers.
This information may include:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Referring website
- Pages viewed
- Date and time of access
- General geographic region
- Technical error and security information
This information is generally used to operate the website, maintain security, diagnose technical problems, understand website traffic, and improve the visitor experience.
How I Use Information
Information collected through this website may be used to:
- Respond to questions and messages
- Provide requested information
- Operate, maintain, and improve the website
- Protect the website against spam, fraud, abuse, or security threats
- Understand which pages and topics are most useful to visitors
- Meet legal, regulatory, accounting, or administrative obligations
- Enforce the website’s Terms of Use and other policies
I will not use information submitted through a general website inquiry to establish veterinary care or a veterinarian-client-patient relationship unless a separate professional relationship is expressly established through an appropriate consultation process.
Contact Forms and Email
When you send a message through a contact form, the information you enter may be transmitted by email and stored within the website, email system, hosting account, spam-filtering service, or form-management software.
I use this information to review and respond to your message. Contact-form submissions and related correspondence may be retained for administrative, customer-service, security, or recordkeeping purposes.
Email is not always a secure form of communication. Do not use the website or email to send urgent veterinary information or information you would not want transmitted electronically.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
This website may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Make the website function properly
- Remember visitor preferences
- Maintain website security
- Prevent spam and abuse
- Measure website traffic and performance
- Support embedded media or third-party services
Cookies are small data files stored on a visitor’s device. You can usually configure your browser to block, limit, or delete cookies. Blocking certain cookies may affect how parts of the website function.
Website Analytics
Use one of the following versions, depending on whether you install Google Analytics.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the website. Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, approximate geographic location, browser and device information, referring pages, website interactions, and the dates and times of visits.
Google Analytics uses technologies such as first-party cookies to distinguish visitors and sessions. Common Google Analytics cookies include _ga and _ga_<container-id>. The information collected helps me evaluate website performance, understand which content is useful to visitors, and improve the website.
Google processes Analytics data according to its own privacy practices. Visitors may limit analytics collection through browser settings, the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or any cookie-preference controls provided on this website.
Google requires websites using Google Analytics to disclose its use and explain that information is collected and processed through the service.
One important timing point: it is best for the published policy to describe tools that are actually installed. Since you know Google Analytics will be added soon, you can include this section now, but install Analytics and an appropriate cookie-consent setup before publicly launching the site. Google provides consent-management guidance for sites that need to collect and communicate visitor choices.
Embedded Content
Articles and pages may include embedded content such as videos, images, maps, social-media posts, or other material provided by third-party websites.
Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. Those providers may collect information, use cookies, track interactions, or associate your activity with an existing account you hold with them.
Their collection and use of information are governed by their own privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy.
Links to Other Websites
This website may contain links to manufacturers, retailers, research publications, professional organizations, social-media platforms, or other third-party websites.
I am not responsible for the privacy practices, security, accuracy, availability, or content of third-party websites. Review the privacy policy of any outside website before submitting personal information.
Product and Affiliate Links
Some pages may include links to products or services that I recommend. A third-party retailer or manufacturer may collect information when you follow a link, visit its website, or complete a purchase.
Laser Therapy for Pets does not receive your complete payment-card information when a purchase is completed entirely through an independent third-party website. That company’s privacy policy and terms govern its collection and processing of your information.
Any financial, affiliate, referral, or commercial relationship connected with a recommendation will be disclosed where appropriate.
How Information May Be Shared
I do not sell personal information collected through this website.
Information may be shared with service providers when reasonably necessary to operate the website or respond to a request. These providers may include:
- Website hosting companies
- Email providers
- Contact-form services
- Spam and security services
- Website analytics providers
- Technical-support providers
- Professional advisers
Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with the law, respond to legal process, protect rights or safety, investigate misuse, or defend against legal claims.
Data Retention
I retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including communication, security, administrative, recordkeeping, and legal purposes.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and how it was received. Information that is no longer reasonably needed may be deleted, anonymized, or securely archived.
Protecting Information
I use reasonable administrative and technical precautions intended to protect information handled through this website.
However, no website, email system, hosting service, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You provide information electronically at your own risk.
Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live and the applicable law, you may have the right to request:
- Access to personal information held about you
- Correction of inaccurate information
- Deletion of certain information
- Information about how personal information is used or shared
- Withdrawal of consent when processing is based on consent
To make a privacy request, use the Contact page. I may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
You may also control cookies through your browser or any cookie-preference tool provided on the website.
Children’s Privacy
Laser Therapy for Pets is intended for a general adult audience and is not directed to children under 13.
I do not knowingly request or collect personal information online directly from children under 13. If I learn that such information has been submitted without appropriate authorization, I will take reasonable steps to delete it. Federal children’s-privacy requirements apply to covered websites that collect personal information from children under 13.
Visitors Outside the United States
This website is operated from the United States. If you access it from another country, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States or other locations where service providers operate.
Privacy protections and data-processing rules may differ from those in your country.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
I may update this Privacy Policy when the website, services, plugins, technology, or legal obligations change.
The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Continued use of the website after an update indicates acceptance of the revised policy.
Contact
Questions or requests concerning this Privacy Policy may be submitted through the Contact page on Laser Therapy for Pets.