Privacy policy
Last updated: September 7, 2026
Daughtry Enterprises LLC d/b/a The Dog Outdoors ("The Dog Outdoors," "we," "us," or "our") operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services (collectively, the "Services"). The Dog Outdoors is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide the Services to you.
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process your personal information when you visit, use, or make a purchase or other transaction using the Services or otherwise communicate with us.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have the right to opt out of certain sharing of your personal information for targeted advertising.
You can manage your privacy choices through our Your Privacy Choices page:
https://www.thedogoutdoors.com/pages/data-sharing-opt-out
Personal Information We Collect or Process
When we use the term "personal information," we are referring to information that identifies or can reasonably be linked to you or another person. Personal information does not include information that is collected anonymously or that has been de-identified so that it cannot identify or be reasonably linked to you.
We may collect or process the following categories of personal information, depending on how you interact with the Services, where you live, and as permitted or required by applicable law:
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Contact details, including your name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, and email address.
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Financial information, including payment card information, financial account information, transaction details, form of payment, payment confirmation, and other payment details.
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Account information, including your username, password, security questions, preferences, and settings, where applicable.
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Transaction information, including the items you view, put in your cart, add to a wishlist, or purchase, return, exchange, or cancel, and your past transactions.
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Communications with us, including information you provide when contacting us or submitting a customer support inquiry.
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Device information, including information about your device, browser, or network connection, your IP address, and other unique identifiers.
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Usage information, including information regarding your interaction with the Services, including how and when you interact with or navigate the Services.
Sources of Personal Information
We may collect personal information from the following sources:
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Directly from you, including when you create an account, use the Services, make a purchase, communicate with us, or otherwise provide your personal information.
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Automatically through the Services, including from your device when you use our website or Services and through cookies and similar technologies.
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From our service providers, including when we engage them to enable certain technology or services and when they collect or process personal information on our behalf.
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From our partners or other third parties.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, and similar technologies to operate and improve the Services, remember preferences, understand how visitors use the Services, support analytics, provide relevant advertising and marketing, and support other functions of the Services.
The technologies used may vary depending on the features and services available on our store.
You can manage certain cookie and similar technology preferences through the privacy controls provided on our website. Where applicable, you may also opt out of certain data sharing or targeted advertising through our Your Privacy Choices page:
https://www.thedogoutdoors.com/pages/data-sharing-opt-out
How We Use Your Personal Information
Depending on how you interact with us or which of the Services you use, we may use personal information for the following purposes:
Provide, Tailor, and Improve the Services
We use your personal information to provide you with the Services, including to process your payments, fulfill your orders, remember your preferences and items you are interested in, send notifications related to your account or orders, process purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, arrange for shipping, facilitate returns and exchanges, enable you to post reviews, and provide a customized shopping experience, such as recommending products related to your purchases.
Marketing and Advertising
We may use personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as sending marketing, advertising, and promotional communications by email, text message, or postal mail, and showing advertisements for products or services on our Services or other websites, including based on activity on our Services where permitted by applicable law.
Security and Fraud Prevention
We may use personal information to authenticate accounts, provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect, investigate, or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activity, protect public safety, and secure our Services.
Communicating with You
We may use personal information to provide customer support, respond to inquiries, provide effective services, and maintain our business relationship with you.
Legal Reasons
We may use personal information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including requests from law enforcement or government agencies, and to protect or enforce our legal rights, terms, and policies.
How We Disclose Personal Information
In certain circumstances, we may disclose personal information to third parties for legitimate business purposes, subject to this Privacy Policy and applicable law.
These disclosures may include:
Service Providers and Vendors
We may disclose personal information to Shopify, vendors, and other third parties that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment, shipping, information technology, and other business services.
Customer Reviews and Feedback
We may share certain information with service providers that assist us with customer reviews, ratings, and feedback, including information necessary to facilitate review requests and related services.
Business and Marketing Partners
We may disclose personal information to business and marketing partners to provide marketing services and advertise to you, including personalized advertising based on online activity where permitted by applicable law.
Depending on where you reside, you may have a right to direct us not to share information about you for certain targeted advertising purposes.
You can exercise applicable rights through our Your Privacy Choices page:
https://www.thedogoutdoors.com/pages/data-sharing-opt-out
At Your Direction or With Your Consent
We may disclose certain information when you direct, request, or otherwise authorize us to do so, such as when necessary to ship products or when you choose to use certain third-party features or services.
Affiliates or Corporate Transactions
We may disclose information with affiliates or in connection with a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, financing, or bankruptcy.
Legal and Protective Purposes
We may disclose information when required by applicable law or legal process, or when reasonably necessary to protect or defend our Services, rights, property, users, or others.
Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising
Depending on applicable law and how you interact with our Services, certain disclosures of personal information to third parties for targeted advertising may be considered a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information.
Where applicable, you may opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information or certain targeted advertising activities through our Your Privacy Choices page:
https://www.thedogoutdoors.com/pages/data-sharing-opt-out
If you visit our website with a Global Privacy Control (GPC) opt-out preference signal enabled, we will process that signal as a request to opt out of applicable sale or sharing activities for the device and browser you use, subject to applicable law and Shopify's privacy functionality.
Where permitted and supported, the opt-out may also be associated with your account.
We do not use or disclose personal information of individuals under 16 years of age for sale or sharing purposes when we have actual knowledge that the individual is under 16.
Relationship with Shopify
The Services are hosted by Shopify, which collects and processes personal information about your access to and use of the Services in order to provide and improve the Services.
Information you submit to the Services may be transmitted to and shared with Shopify and third parties that may be located in countries other than where you reside in order to provide and improve the Services.
We also use certain Shopify enhanced features that incorporate data and information obtained from interactions with our store, along with information from other merchants and Shopify.
To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may use personal information collected about your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify.
For these enhanced services, Shopify is responsible for certain processing of your personal information, including responding to certain requests concerning its processing.
To learn more about how Shopify uses personal information and about privacy rights relating to data processed by Shopify, please review the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy:
https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy/consumers
Depending on where you live, you may also exercise certain rights regarding information processed by Shopify through the Shopify Privacy Portal:
Third-Party Websites and Links
The Services may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties.
If you follow links to sites not affiliated with or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions.
We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of such sites.
Our inclusion of links to third-party websites does not, by itself, imply endorsement of those websites or their owners or operators.
Children's Data
The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of majority in your jurisdiction.
If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with personal information, you may contact us using the information below to request that the information be deleted.
We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.
Security and Retention of Your Information
We take reasonable measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to or through the Services.
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide our Services, maintain business and transaction records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements and policies, and protect our legal rights.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the circumstances in which it was collected.
Your Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights described below. These rights are subject to applicable law, exceptions, and limitations.
Right to Know / Access
You may have the right to request information about the personal information we collect, use, disclose, or otherwise process about you.
Right to Delete
You may have the right to request that we delete personal information we maintain about you, subject to applicable exceptions.
Right to Correct
You may have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
Right to Portability
You may have the right, in certain circumstances, to receive a copy of personal information we maintain about you and request that it be transferred to another entity.
Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing
Depending on where you reside, you may have the right to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information or the processing of your personal information for certain targeted advertising purposes.
You can exercise applicable rights through our Your Privacy Choices page:
https://www.thedogoutdoors.com/pages/data-sharing-opt-out
You may also use a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal where supported by applicable law.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information
Depending on where you reside and applicable law, you may have the right to limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information.
Right to Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights available to you under applicable law.
Managing Communication Preferences
You may opt out of promotional emails at any time by using the unsubscribe option provided in our emails.
If you opt out of promotional communications, we may continue to send non-promotional communications, such as communications concerning your orders, transactions, accounts, or other services you have requested.
Exercising Your Rights
You may exercise applicable privacy rights by contacting us using the information provided below or, where applicable, through the privacy controls and links provided on our website.
We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests, as permitted or required by applicable law.
Where permitted by applicable law, you may designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf.
We will respond to privacy requests within the time periods required by applicable law.
Additional Rights for UK and European Economic Area Residents
If you reside in the United Kingdom or European Economic Area, and subject to applicable law and exceptions, you may have additional rights, including:
Objection to Processing and Restriction of Processing
You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict processing of personal information for certain purposes.
Withdrawal of Consent
Where we rely on consent to process personal information, you may have the right to withdraw that consent.
Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before withdrawal.
You may exercise these rights by contacting us using the information below.
Complaints
If you have concerns or complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the information below.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal a decision concerning your privacy request or lodge a complaint with a relevant data protection authority.
International Transfers
We may transfer, store, and process personal information outside the country in which you live.
If we transfer personal information out of the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms where required by applicable law, such as Standard Contractual Clauses or other recognized mechanisms.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices, Services, legal requirements, or other operational reasons.
When we update this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised version on this website and update the "Last updated" date.
We will provide additional notice where required by applicable law.
Additional Privacy Policy Information
If there is any conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy will control with respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal information.
By using or accessing our Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy and how we collect, use, and disclose your information as described here.
Additional Personal Information
Depending on how you interact with our Services and where you live, we may collect or process additional information that may be considered personal information under applicable law. This may include inferences drawn from the personal information we collect.
Financial information may include credit card numbers, debit card numbers, financial account numbers, payment card information, financial account information, transaction details, form of payment, payment confirmation, and other payment-related information.
Account Security
If you create an account with us, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure. We recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other account access information with anyone else.
Additional Legal Uses
We may use your personal information to comply with applicable laws and respond to valid legal requests from law enforcement, government agencies, courts, or other authorized parties. This may include matters involving civil discovery, potential or actual litigation, or other legal proceedings. We may also use personal information to investigate or enforce potential violations of our terms, policies, or other applicable agreements.
Additional Disclosures
We may disclose information when you direct us to do so, request that we do so, or otherwise consent to the disclosure. For example, this may occur when we provide information to a third party to ship products to you or when you use social media widgets, login integrations, or similar features.
We may also disclose information in connection with a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, financing, bankruptcy, or similar transaction. We may also disclose information when necessary to comply with legal obligations, including subpoenas, search warrants, and similar legal requests, enforce applicable terms or policies, or protect and defend our Services, our rights, our users, or others.
Third-Party Websites and Public Information
Our Services may contain links to third-party websites, services, or platforms. We do not control these third parties and are not responsible for their privacy or security practices, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.
Information that you choose to provide in public or semi-public areas, including on third-party social networking platforms, may be visible to other users of those services or platforms. Such information may be used by us or by third parties without limitation, subject to the applicable terms and privacy policies of those services.
Our inclusion of links to third-party websites or platforms does not, by itself, mean that we endorse their content, owners, or operators, except where we specifically state otherwise on our Services.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information, but no security measures are perfect or completely impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.
Information that you send to us may also not be secure while it is being transmitted. For this reason, we recommend that you do not use insecure channels to send sensitive or confidential information to us.
Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track
If we are able to associate a device sending a Global Privacy Control opt-out signal with a Shopify account, we will apply the opt-out request to that account as well.
Other than Global Privacy Control, we do not currently recognize or respond to other "Do Not Track" signals that may be sent by your web browser or device.
Authorized Agents
If you submit a privacy rights request through an authorized agent, we may require the agent to provide proof that you have authorized them to act on your behalf. We may also require you to verify your identity directly with us.
International Transfers
If we transfer your personal information outside of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we will use legally recognized safeguards for those transfers, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent contractual protections approved by the relevant competent authority in the United Kingdom, unless the destination country has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.
Contact
If you have questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any applicable privacy rights, please contact us:
Daughtry Enterprises LLC d/b/a The Dog Outdoors
11301 Bastogne Loop
Austin, TX 78739
United States
Email: support@thedogoutdoors.com
Phone: +1 512-553-1880
For purposes of applicable data protection laws, Daughtry Enterprises LLC is the data controller of your personal information where we determine the purposes and means of processing that information.