This policy describes the information GroomerHires (groomerhires.com) gathers, how we use it and the choices open to you.
In brief: groomers, bathers and other pet care job seekers never need an account here, and anything they include in an application is sent to the employer, not to GroomerHires.
Apart from routine server logs, the only personal information we hold comes from grooming salons and other pet businesses that buy job ads.
Information we collect
- Employers buying a job ad: whatever is entered in the job form, meaning the salon, daycare, kennel or business name, a contact name and email, and the job information (title, description, location, pay and where to apply). The job information is published; the contact name and email stay private and never appear on the ad.
- Payments: Stripe runs our checkout. You enter your card number in a Stripe-hosted form, and it is never sent to GroomerHires; we receive only confirmation that payment went through, plus the receipt details. How Stripe treats that data is set out in Stripe's privacy policy.
- Job seekers: we gather nothing from groomers and other applicants except the routine server data described below. There are no applicant accounts or profiles on GroomerHires. The Apply button sends you to the employer's application page, so your resume, portfolio photos, references and answers go to that employer and never to us.
- Server data: as with almost any website, our host records basic details of each visit, such as IP address, browser and the page requested, to keep GroomerHires running and secure.
- Messages to support: we keep the emails you send us so we can answer them and look back at earlier exchanges.
What we do with employer and visitor information
- Publishing and keeping up the grooming and pet care job ads you bought.
- Writing to employers about their ads, for instance receipts, reminders that an ad will soon expire, confirmation that a change was made and answers to support questions.
- Running, securing and improving GroomerHires.
- Complying with the law, for example keeping tax records.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not hand it to other companies for their advertising.
Analytics and cookies
Our job pages carry no advertising trackers.
We may use privacy-friendly analytics to see overall patterns, like total page views and which sites send visitors our way. We look at those figures only in aggregate and never use them to build a profile of an individual.
The only cookies we set are the ones the site needs to work, such as those Stripe uses during checkout.
Outside services we rely on
GroomerHires depends on a small number of outside providers: Stripe processes payments, and others provide hosting and our database.
Those providers are allowed to use the data solely to provide their service to us.
Search engines such as Google Jobs may index live job ads, but they get only the public text of the ad and never the employer's private contact information.
How long job ad and payment records are kept
Job ad and payment records are kept for as long as we need them to operate the site and to satisfy legal and tax recordkeeping rules.
A record may remain in our database after its ad has expired and been removed from GroomerHires.
You can ask for your information to be deleted whenever you like, using the process described below.
Your privacy rights
Depending on your location, the California Consumer Privacy Act, the EU/UK GDPR or comparable laws may let you access, correct, delete or get a copy of your personal information, and object to or limit some kinds of processing.
To make a request under any of these laws, email [email protected] .
After we verify that the request comes from you, we reply within the deadline the relevant law sets.
Using these rights will not affect how we deal with you.
Children
GroomerHires is intended for grooming salons and other pet care employers, and for adults working in, or preparing to work in, grooming and pet care.
It is not aimed at anyone younger than 16, and we do not knowingly gather personal information from children under that age.
Policy updates and privacy questions for us
When this policy changes, we will update the “Last updated” date above and describe any significant change on this page.
For any privacy question about GroomerHires, write to [email protected] .
See also our Consumer Health Data Policy and Terms & Conditions , which cover the remaining ground.