TailSwitch.com Mission Statement: Our mission is to keep animals from entering shelters. TailSwitch strives to give animals the life they deserve. We believe, if by keeping animals from entering shelters, there will be less of a chance of animal abandonment and euthanizations. By creating a nationwide and local person-to-person adoption system, animals will no longer need to live in shelters until euthanized or adopted months later. We support animal re-homing with small adoption fee.
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TailSwitch.com is not involved in any adoption, and does not handle payments, guarantee adoptions or adopters. TailSwitch does manually review Listings for appropriate content but cannot guarantee that information listed in the postings is 100% accurate, nor do we contact Listers to certify the information they post in their ads is accurate. Listings that appear fraudulent are deleted, but it is not possible to locate all false ads. TailSwitch.com was created with the goal of finding a home for every adoptable pet, no Listings encouraging or supporting the breeding of animals are permitted in our listings. Adoption fees should be set at a reasonable amount meant to discourage unethical people from collecting animals. Fees should not be based on an animal's registration status, breed, or local desirability. Listings that appear to be selling animals for profit or seem excessive will removed from the site.
Stay local and avoid inquiries that involve shipping. Whether you are adopting or it is your pet for adoption, use the TailSwitch location filter to find someone local. Speak by phone and arrange to meet in person to make sure it is the right match for the pet. If the person you're dealing with refuses to give a phone number or meet in person, it is likely a scam.
Do not wire funds, use cashier's checks or money orders or give out any banking or financial information. Anyone that asks you to send money using a wire service is most likely a scam. If your bank cashes a check or money order, you as the account holder will be held responsible for any funds dispensed as a result once the fake is discovered, sometimes weeks later.
Avoid playing into the cruelty of false lost pet responses. If you receive an email from someone who claims to have found your pet, but is no longer in the area/state/country and wants you to send them money in order to get your pet back, it is likely a scam, particularly if their emails escalate into threats of harm to you or your pet.
Anything that sounds too good to be true, probably is. Remember that there are millions of homeless pets across the country and it is unlikely that someone is legitimately offering you an outlandish amount of money for your pet.
Rules and Guidelines: TailSwitch.com is a free service where anyone around the nation, including local animal shelters and rescue groups, can list their pets available for adoption. It is free for anyone to use. We merely provide a way for you to see animals people around the nation are advertising for adoption. The adoption fees and adoption guidelines for each animal vary with the different people. shelters, and organizations that own the pet. We do not house, make any guarantees or have any contact with any of the pets listed on our website. Information regarding pets posted on TailSwitch.com is provided by the posting organization and is not checked for accuracy nor guaranteed to be accurate or complete. We are not therefore responsible for issues that may occur out of contact you have with any pets listed on our site. We are also not responsible for any issues that arise regarding any of the organizations or individuals that post pets on our site. We do our absolute best to make sure that users, animal shelters, and rescue groups keep their listings on our website up to date, and that these groups are reputable and responsive to the public, but we assume no responsibility for any actions any of these users or organizations may or may not take. By using the TailSwitch.com website, you releases TailSwitch.com and it's parent foundation as well as all sponsors from any and all liability occurring out of or in any way connected with the use of this website or the adoption of a pet listed on the this website. We support animal re-homing with small adoption fee. we do not support selling pet animal parts, blood, or fluids - including but not limited to stud/breeding service. Adoption fees should be set at a reasonable amount meant to discourage unethical people from collecting animals. Fees should not be based on an animal's registration status, breed, or local desirability. Listings that appear to be selling animals for profit or seem excessive will removed from the site. Because TailSwitch.com was created with the goal of finding a home for every adoptable pet, no Listings encouraging or supporting the breeding of animals are permitted in the classifieds.
Privacy: What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site.
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name or e-mail address. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
To personalize your experience
(your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
To improve our website
(we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
To improve customer service
(your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
Prohibited activity.
Because TailSwitch.com was created with the goal of finding a home for every adoptable pet, no Listings encouraging or supporting the breeding of animals are permitted in the classifieds.
Household pets of any kind including but not limited to dogs, cats, primates, cage birds, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, fish. Re-homing with small adoption fee OK
Pet animal parts, blood, or fluids - including but not limited to stud/breeding service
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How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you access your personal information.
Do we use cookies?
We do not use cookies. we use a more secure method called sessions.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third party links:
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance:
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance:
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
Online Privacy Policy Only:
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Your Consent:
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy:
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
This policy was last modified on August 1, 2009
Contacting Us:
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.
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IP Address: We collect an IP address from all visitors to our site. An IP address is an anonymous number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP addresses to diagnose problems with our system, administer our site, analyze trends, track users' movement, gather broad demographic information to improve the site, and deliver customized, personalized content.
Security: Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information. TailSwitch.com reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting.
Contacting us: If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or any aspect of our service, you can contact: support@tailswitch.com