Because of the 2004 California Online Privacy Protection Act, all commercial websites, including Gehrman Animal Hospital, which collect personal information from their websites some of which may be California residents, we are required by law to post our privacy policy.

Your privacy is important to Gehrman Animal Hospital. By using Gehrman Animal Hospital web site and/or your personal Pet Portal, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and Agreement.

Our postal address is
12800 Wayzata Blvd.
Minnetonka, MN 55305

We can be reached via e-mail via http://www.gehrman-animal.com/contact.html web page or you can reach us by telephone at 952-545-9161 or (763) 479-1550 (Maple Plain office).

Gehrman Animal Hospital and Cookies: The website of Gehrman Animal Hospital will send a cookie to visitors to our website. We use cookies to store visitors' preferences on their personal Pet Portal, record session information, customize web page content based on visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends via Pet Portal. Most browsers by default are set to accept cookies. Please refer to your browser's help section for more information on setting or refusing cookies.

Information Collected: We collect only the domain name, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations, name and address, telephone number. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise giveaway any email addresses.

The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web page, used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor, used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site. Information collected may include domain name, IP address, email address, computer type, browser, resolution, traffic sources, and other information offered by the user. Visitors registering for a Pet Portal will be asked for their full name, phone number, email address, and their pet's name. Gehrman Animal Hospital and our third party vendor for Pet Portal have the only access to this information. This information is held in the strictest confidence and only used for the maintenance and improvement of the content of the Pet Portal. From time to time, we may email clients with website-related issues regarding maintenance and changes in policy.

Gehrman Animal Hospital will not collect or post information from individuals under the age of 16 without their parent's or guardian's consent.

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or password) that we maintain about them, transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) and contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number).

Consumers can access this information by write to us at the above address, writing to us at the above address, via their personal Pet Portal or visiting us at http://www.gehrman-animal.com/contact.html

Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, unique identifiers, transaction information, and pet information.

With respect to Ad Servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

Links to Other Sites:  Please be aware that this privacy policy does not apply to forums visited on the Pet Portal site and any third party websites linked on our website. Gehrman Animal Hospital takes no responsibility for the privacy policies of any other websites. The visitor is encouraged to review the privacy policy of any web site visited from a link from this website.

Sharing of Information:  From time to time, we make aggregated information available to third parties. This information does not identify owners nor their pets. If you do not want us to share your information with other companies or organizations, please let us know by e-mailing us at the above address, writing to us at the above address, or visiting us at http://www.gehrman-animal.com/contact.html

With respect to security: When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as health information, we redirect visitors to a secure server via Pet Portal. We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

Gehrman Animal Hospital reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy. Changes will be posted on this page.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number.