Privacy Policy

A legal disclaimer

Effective Date: July 17, 2026
Last Updated: July 17, 2026

Black Magic Animal Rescue (“BMAR,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to handling your personal information responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect when you visit our website, submit a form, make a donation, book a service, apply to adopt or foster an animal, volunteer with us, or otherwise communicate with our organization.

By using our website or submitting information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We May Collect

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:

Your name, email address, telephone number, and mailing address.
Information submitted through adoption, foster, surrender, volunteer, TNR, trap rental, pet food assistance, consultation, booking, or contact forms.
Information about your household, pets, housing situation, veterinarian, references, or animal-care experience when relevant to a program or application.
Appointment dates, service requests, and communication preferences.
Donation information, such as your name, donation amount, billing details, and whether your donation is recurring.
Photographs, documents, veterinary records, or other files you choose to submit.
Messages, emails, form responses, and other communications you send to us.
Newsletter, event, fundraising, or program signup information.

Some information requested through an application may be necessary for animal placement, program eligibility, safety, recordkeeping, or legal compliance.

2. Payment Information

Donations, adoption fees, booking fees, merchandise purchases, and other payments may be processed through third-party payment providers.

Payment card information is processed according to the privacy and security practices of the applicable payment provider. Black Magic Animal Rescue generally does not store complete credit or debit card numbers on its own systems.

Third-party processors may provide us with limited transaction details, such as your name, contact information, payment amount, transaction date, and payment status.

3. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, server logs, or similar technologies. This may include:

Internet Protocol address.
Browser and device type.
General geographic region.
Pages visited and links selected.
Date and time of access.
Referring website or source.
Website performance and interaction information.

We may use this information to maintain the website, understand how visitors use it, improve accessibility and performance, measure outreach efforts, and help prevent fraud or misuse.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to remember preferences, support website functions, analyze traffic, process forms, and improve the visitor experience.

Your browser may allow you to block or delete cookies. Disabling cookies may affect the operation of certain website features, including forms, bookings, donations, or account-based services.

Third-party services embedded in our website may also use their own cookies or tracking technologies. Their practices are governed by their respective privacy policies.

5. How We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

Respond to questions, messages, and requests.
Review adoption, foster, volunteer, surrender, assistance, or program applications.
Match animals with appropriate adopters, fosters, working-cat placements, or other homes.
Provide TNR, trapping, consultation, appointment, community support, or trap-depot services.
Coordinate veterinary care, transportation, events, fostering, volunteering, and animal placement.
Process donations, payments, refunds, and transaction records.
Provide donation acknowledgments or tax-related receipts when applicable.
Send appointment confirmations, application updates, program information, newsletters, fundraising appeals, or event announcements.
Maintain organizational, animal, volunteer, donor, and financial records.
Improve our website, programs, services, outreach, and communications.
Protect animals, volunteers, staff members, community members, and the organization.
Prevent fraud, misuse, unauthorized access, or harmful activity.
Comply with legal, regulatory, insurance, grant, accounting, or reporting obligations.

6. How We Share Information

Black Magic Animal Rescue does not sell or rent personal information.

We may share limited information when reasonably necessary with:

Website hosting, form, booking, email, analytics, database, and technology providers.
Payment processors and fundraising platforms.
Veterinarians, veterinary clinics, shelters, rescue partners, transporters, fosters, volunteers, or animal-care providers involved in a case.
Background-check or reference services when disclosed and appropriate for a volunteer or organizational role.
Accountants, insurers, attorneys, grant administrators, or other professional advisers.
Government agencies, law enforcement, or regulatory authorities when required by law or reasonably necessary to protect people, animals, property, or the organization.
A successor organization in connection with a merger, reorganization, transfer, or closure of the rescue.

We ask service providers to use information only for the services they provide, but their own handling of information may also be governed by their privacy policies and agreements.

7. Adoption, Foster, Volunteer, and Program Applications

Information submitted through an application may be reviewed by authorized staff members, board members, volunteers, fosters, veterinary partners, references, or other individuals assisting with the relevant program.

Submitting an application does not guarantee approval, animal placement, financial assistance, veterinary assistance, trapping services, or participation in a program.

We may retain application information for administrative purposes, future placement considerations, safety, fraud prevention, or recordkeeping.

8. Email and Text Communications

When you provide your email address or telephone number, we may contact you regarding your application, booking, donation, volunteer work, animal case, program request, or other interaction with the rescue.

We may also send newsletters, fundraising messages, adoption announcements, event information, or organizational updates when you have signed up or when otherwise permitted.

You may unsubscribe from promotional email communications by using the unsubscribe option included in the message or by contacting us. Even after unsubscribing from promotional messages, you may still receive necessary transactional or service-related communications.

Message and data rates may apply to text messages. You may request that nonessential text communications stop at any time.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our general website is intended for adults and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 without the involvement or consent of a parent or legal guardian.

Programs involving children, including educational or reading activities, should be registered for or supervised by a parent, guardian, teacher, or other authorized adult.

Parents or legal guardians who believe a child has submitted personal information without appropriate permission should contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete the information.

10. Photographs, Stories, and Social Media

Black Magic Animal Rescue may share animal photographs, rescue stories, adoption updates, event photographs, volunteer activities, or community-program content on its website and social media pages.

We will make reasonable efforts to obtain permission before intentionally identifying a private individual in promotional content. Information posted publicly on social media or submitted with permission for publication may be visible, copied, or shared by others outside our control.

Our website may contain links to social media platforms or allow visitors to share content. Your interactions with those platforms are governed by their own privacy practices.

11. Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website may contain links to donation platforms, booking providers, payment services, social media pages, wish lists, crowdfunding pages, event sites, veterinary resources, or other third-party websites.

Black Magic Animal Rescue does not control the privacy, security, availability, or content practices of third-party services. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of those services before submitting personal or payment information.

12. Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary to:

Provide the requested service or program.
Maintain adoption, animal-care, volunteer, donor, transaction, or organizational records.
Meet tax, accounting, insurance, grant, legal, or reporting requirements.
Resolve disputes or respond to complaints.
Protect the organization, animals, volunteers, and members of the community.
Prevent fraud or repeated misuse of our services.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

13. Information Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, alteration, disclosure, or misuse.

No website, email account, payment system, database, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Visitors should avoid sending highly sensitive information through ordinary email or unsecured website fields unless specifically requested through an appropriate system.

14. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may request that we:

Confirm whether we maintain personal information about you.
Correct inaccurate contact or application information.
Delete certain personal information.
Stop sending promotional emails or text messages.
Explain how information was collected or used.

Some information may not be deleted when retention is required for legal, financial, animal welfare, safety, fraud-prevention, or recordkeeping purposes.

To submit a privacy request, contact us using the information provided below. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

15. Do Not Track and Browser Privacy Signals

Some internet browsers offer “Do Not Track” or similar privacy signals. Because there is not a single universally accepted method for responding to every signal, our website may not respond to all browser-based requests.

You may still manage cookies and tracking preferences through your browser, device, or any cookie controls made available on our website.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, programs, services, technology providers, or legal obligations change.

The revised policy will be posted on our website with an updated effective date. Continued use of the website after an update means that the revised policy will apply to information collected after the updated effective date.

17. Contact Us

Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy may be submitted to:

Black Magic Animal Rescue
Casa Grande, Arizona
Email: blackmagicanimalrescue@gmail.com
Please include “Privacy Request” in the subject line and provide enough information for us to understand and respond to your request.