KC Pet Search & Rescue Privacy Poliocy

KC Pet Search & Rescue Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 2026

KC Pet Search & Rescue LLC, doing business as KC Pet Search & Rescue (“KCPSR,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, disclose, and protect information when you visit our website, submit a form, contact us, book a service, purchase a service, communicate with our team, participate in a lost pet recovery case, or otherwise interact with KC Pet Search & Rescue.

By using this website, submitting information, purchasing a service, requesting assistance, or communicating with KC Pet Search & Rescue, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.


1. Information We Collect

We may collect information directly from you, automatically through our website, through payment and booking systems, through communications, and during the performance of our services.

Information You Provide Directly

When you contact us, submit a form, place an order, request a lost pet search, request trapping assistance, request drone or thermal services, or communicate with our team, we may collect:

  • Name
  • Phone number
  • Email address
  • Billing information
  • Service address or general search location
  • Last known pet location
  • Pet name, species, breed, color, size, temperament, behavior, medical concerns, and recovery history
  • Photos, videos, flyers, microchip information, collar/tag details, or identifying details related to the missing pet
  • Gate codes, access instructions, property details, contact preferences, and case notes you choose to provide
  • Messages, texts, emails, voicemails, social media messages, call notes, or other communications with our team

Information Collected During Service

During lost pet search, drone, thermal imaging, trapping, or recovery operations, we may create or collect:

  • Search notes and recovery strategy details
  • Maps, pins, coordinates, search areas, routes, sightings, and property access notes
  • Drone footage, thermal footage, photos, videos, screenshots, trail camera images, trap camera images, or field documentation
  • Date, time, and location of sightings or activity
  • Information from owners, neighbors, witnesses, volunteers, shelters, animal control, or other third parties involved in the case

Website, Device, and Usage Information

When you use our website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Pages viewed
  • Referring website or search engine
  • Approximate location based on device or IP address
  • Date and time of visits
  • Website interactions, clicks, form submissions, and checkout activity

2. How We Use Information

We use collected information for legitimate business, operational, safety, legal, customer service, and marketing purposes, including:

  • Responding to inquiries and service requests
  • Evaluating lost pet cases and determining appropriate recovery strategy
  • Scheduling services, deployments, trapping assistance, drone operations, or thermal scans
  • Processing payments, orders, deposits, refunds, invoices, and receipts
  • Communicating with clients before, during, and after service
  • Coordinating with team members, contractors, pilots, trappers, volunteers, or recovery partners
  • Documenting service activity, sightings, search areas, animal behavior, and recovery progress
  • Improving our website, services, search strategies, training, safety, and customer experience
  • Sending service updates, follow-up messages, reminders, educational content, or relevant business communications
  • Publishing general success stories, educational materials, photos, videos, or case summaries when appropriate
  • Preventing fraud, misuse, unauthorized access, chargebacks, abuse, or illegal activity
  • Complying with legal obligations, insurance requirements, tax records, business records, and law enforcement requests when applicable

3. Lost Pet Case Information

Lost pet recovery often requires the collection and use of sensitive practical information, including pet behavior, property access, exact or approximate search areas, sightings, owner contact information, and operational notes. We use this information only as reasonably necessary to provide services, coordinate recovery efforts, document the case, improve outcomes, and protect the safety of people, animals, and property.

Because lost pet cases may involve neighbors, witnesses, volunteers, shelters, animal control, law enforcement, private property owners, or partner organizations, limited case information may be shared when reasonably necessary to assist with locating, identifying, containing, or recovering the animal.

We will make reasonable efforts not to publicly disclose private addresses, sensitive owner information, gate codes, exact private property details, or unnecessary identifying information without permission.


4. Payments, Checkout, and Billing Information

When you purchase a service, pay a deposit, or complete checkout, payment-related information may be processed by third-party payment processors, e-commerce platforms, banks, card networks, or financial service providers. We may receive limited transaction details such as your name, contact information, billing details, order details, payment status, transaction ID, amount paid, refund status, and receipt information.

We do not intentionally store full credit card numbers on our website. Payment information is generally processed through secure third-party payment systems. Those providers have their own privacy and security practices.

We may retain payment, invoice, order, refund, dispute, and chargeback records for business, tax, accounting, fraud-prevention, and legal purposes.


5. Cookies, Tracking Technologies, and Analytics

Our website may use cookies, pixels, analytics tools, tags, scripts, and similar technologies to operate the website, understand visitor behavior, improve performance, measure advertising or search performance, prevent spam or fraud, and improve the user experience.

These tools may collect information such as IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, time on page, referral source, general location, and interactions with the website.

We may use services such as Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Business Profile tools, advertising pixels, website security tools, spam prevention tools, hosting analytics, or similar platforms. These third-party providers may collect and process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

You can usually adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Some website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.


6. Forms, Email, Text Messages, Calls, and Communications

When you submit a form, send an email, call, text, leave a voicemail, message us on social media, or otherwise communicate with us, we may collect and retain the contents of that communication and associated contact information.

By providing your phone number or email address, you authorize us to contact you regarding your inquiry, booking, active case, service updates, payment, follow-up, review request, safety issue, or related business purpose.

Message and data rates may apply depending on your carrier. You may request that we stop non-essential marketing communications at any time, but we may still contact you about active services, billing, safety, legal matters, or prior transactions.


7. Media, Photos, Videos, Drone Footage, and Case Documentation

As part of our services, we may capture or receive photos, videos, thermal footage, drone footage, trail camera images, trap camera images, maps, screenshots, pet photos, recovery photos, and other documentation.

We may use these materials for:

  • Case documentation
  • Search planning and recovery coordination
  • Training and quality control
  • Safety review
  • Client updates
  • Marketing, education, website content, social media, video content, or success stories, unless you request otherwise in writing

We will make reasonable efforts to avoid publicly sharing sensitive personal information, exact private addresses, gate codes, private property details, or unnecessary identifying information.


8. Information Sharing

We do not sell personal information in the ordinary sense of exchanging client information for money. We may share information only when reasonably necessary for business, service, safety, legal, or operational purposes.

We may share information with:

  • Employees, contractors, pilots, trappers, recovery specialists, or team members assisting with your case
  • Payment processors, banks, e-commerce platforms, accounting providers, website hosts, email providers, SMS providers, CRM tools, analytics providers, security providers, and other service vendors
  • Shelters, rescues, animal control, law enforcement, veterinarians, property owners, witnesses, or volunteers when reasonably necessary for a recovery effort or safety concern
  • Insurance providers, legal advisors, accountants, tax professionals, or business advisors
  • Government agencies, law enforcement, courts, or regulators when required or permitted by law
  • A successor business in connection with a merger, sale, transfer, restructuring, or business transition

We may also disclose information if we believe it is necessary to protect people, animals, property, our business, our legal rights, or the safety of the public.


9. Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website may link to third-party websites, platforms, maps, payment processors, social media pages, video platforms, review platforms, booking tools, analytics tools, or partner resources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites or services.

You should review the privacy policies of any third-party services you use or access.


10. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including service delivery, case documentation, client support, accounting, tax records, legal compliance, insurance purposes, dispute resolution, fraud prevention, training, business records, and operational improvement.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the nature of the service, legal requirements, active disputes, tax obligations, payment records, insurance needs, and business necessity.

We may delete, archive, anonymize, or securely dispose of information when it is no longer needed.


11. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These safeguards may include secure website hosting, restricted account access, password protection, vendor security tools, access controls, secure payment processors, and reasonable internal handling practices.

However, no website, payment system, email system, SMS system, cloud storage platform, wireless network, cellular camera, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by us or our service providers.

Client is responsible for using caution when sending sensitive information by email, text, social media, or other communication methods.


12. Data Breach Response

If we become aware of a security incident involving personal information, we will take reasonable steps to investigate, contain, and respond to the incident. When required by applicable law, we will provide notice to affected individuals or appropriate parties in accordance with legal requirements.


13. Children’s Privacy

Our services are intended for adults, pet owners, property owners, businesses, and responsible parties seeking animal recovery assistance. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental or guardian consent.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate consent, please contact us so we can review and delete the information if appropriate.


14. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or limitation of certain personal information we maintain about you.

You may contact us to:

  • Request a copy of certain information we maintain about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of certain information, subject to legal, business, tax, insurance, safety, and operational retention needs
  • Opt out of non-essential marketing communications
  • Request that certain photos, videos, or public-facing success story materials not be used for marketing

We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests. We may deny or limit requests when we are legally allowed or required to retain information, when deletion would interfere with active services, legal rights, tax records, accounting records, insurance records, dispute handling, fraud prevention, or safety obligations.


15. California and Other State Privacy Rights

Certain state privacy laws may provide additional rights to residents of those states. If those laws apply to KC Pet Search & Rescue LLC / KC Pet Search & Rescue, we will respond to qualifying privacy requests as required by applicable law.

KC Pet Search & Rescue LLC / KC Pet Search & Rescue does not knowingly sell personal information for money. Some analytics, advertising, or tracking technologies may be considered “sharing” or “targeted advertising” under certain state privacy laws. You may contact us if you have questions about our use of analytics, cookies, or advertising tools.


16. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to these signals, our website may not respond to all Do Not Track signals. You may use browser settings, cookie controls, privacy plugins, or device settings to limit certain tracking technologies.


17. Public Posts, Reviews, Social Media, and Community Sharing

If you post a review, comment, testimonial, photo, video, social media message, or public statement about KC Pet Search & Rescue, that information may be visible to others depending on the platform used.

We may share, quote, repost, or reference public reviews, testimonials, recovery stories, or social media content for business, educational, or marketing purposes unless you request otherwise in writing.

Do not post private addresses, gate codes, sensitive pet location details, or other information you do not want publicly visible.


18. Emergency, Safety, and Legal Disclosures

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to protect a person, animal, property, public safety, our business, our legal rights, or the rights of others.

This may include disclosures to law enforcement, animal control, emergency responders, property owners, shelters, veterinarians, insurance providers, legal advisors, or other appropriate parties.


19. Service Providers and Contractors

KC Pet Search & Rescue may use independent contractors, pilots, trappers, recovery specialists, administrative support, website vendors, payment processors, hosting providers, email providers, SMS providers, analytics providers, and other service providers to operate the business and provide services.

These parties may receive limited information necessary to perform their role. We expect service providers and contractors to handle information responsibly and use it only for authorized business or service purposes.


20. Business Transfers

If KC Pet Search & Rescue LLC / KC Pet Search & Rescue is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, restructuring, rebrand, transfer of assets, or other business transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to reasonable confidentiality and legal protections.


21. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our business, services, website, technology, legal obligations, or privacy practices. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

Your continued use of the website or services after an updated Privacy Policy is posted means you accept the updated policy.


22. Contact Information

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, your information, or your privacy choices, please contact us:

KC Pet Search & Rescue LLC / KC Pet Search & Rescue
Olathe, Kansas
Phone: 913-707-3156
Email: johnsoncountypetrescue@gmail.com
Website: https://kcpetsearchandrescue.com/


KC Pet Search & Rescue Directory

Use the links below to learn more about our lost pet recovery services, service areas, resources, and contact options.

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