Our privacy policy

We are the UK’s leading dog welfare and rehoming charity. For over 50 years, we’ve promised never to put a healthy dog down. We keep our promises, and that includes treating your personal information with care.

This policy sets out how Dogs Trust uses your information to help further our work in protecting dog welfare. We want you to feel confident about your information and how we use it when you support our work and dogs in our care.

This policy covers all personal information collected by Dogs Trust. It applies to you if you interact with us, for example if:

  • You're a supporter of Dogs Trust (this includes donors, volunteers or if you rehome, foster or sponsor a dog)
  • You use any of our services
  • You visit any of our websites
  • You email, call or write to us.

Our privacy and cookie policy may change from time to time. To keep up to date, visit these pages occasionally.

If you have any questions relating to this policy or how we use your personal information, please contact the Data Protection Team:

Last updated 6th September 2023.

Who are ‘we’?

In this policy, whenever you see the words ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’ or ‘Dogs Trust’, it refers to Dogs Trust, (registered charity number 227523 in England and SC037843 in Scotland). Dogs Trust is the data controller responsi...

What data do we collect?

Depending on how you interact with Dogs Trust, we might collect your personal information to help us provide and improve our services as a charity and to keep a record of our communications with you. The information w...

Where we collect your data

Dogs Trust will process your personal information when you:

  • Rehome or foster a dog;
  • Take part in a Dog School training class;
  • Use one of our Pet Food Banks;
  • Sign up for publications ...

Our legal basis for collecting data

We always make sure that we have a valid ground for processing your personal information. Depending on the circumstances in which it has been collected and used, we rely on one of the following legal bases:

When we use legitimate interest

Legitimate interest is a legal ground for processing your data. It means that our use of your information must be fair and balanced to ensure we consider your privacy rights and interests as an individual.

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We are happy to have the support of children and young people who want to fundraise for us, or who engage with the work of our Education Team through

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