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As an integral part of the creation of our service, the AdDogs team has defined thousands of products (on-line, newspapers, magazines, trade journals) and tens of thousands of rates and ad placement specifications.

As good as our staff has been at representing publisher presence in our system, we realize that they could never do so as well as could the owners of the media themselves.

Our service is designed so that publishers can do just that.

Whether you’re simply interested in ensuring you put your best foot to all visitors who search AdDogs for advertising opportunities or if you’re a Self-Service Publisher Advertising client and want to take a more targeted approach in your custom portal, you can:

1. Enhance the description of your offerings (keywords, categories, etc.)
2. Replace the preview graphics for your publications
3. Update your geographic coverage or reader demographics
4. Ad rates and placements, either as specials or permanent rate card changes

If you’re a publisher interested in any of these options, please feel free to create a media provider account for yourself, and then contact us, and we can quickly transfer control of your own products to you.

Among the services we offer, AdDogs has a “software as a service” model for providing publishers with a comprehensive method to allow their advertisers to design and purchase ads, print or on-line, in any section of any of their publications.

Implementation is quick and simple – here’s how it works:

• In many cases, the publisher’s rate cards and media definitions are already in our system.
• Adding or changing rates is easy, and can be performed by publisher personnel in minutes.
• We provide access to a uniquely named site containing only the products belonging to that publisher.
• This customized site can be linked to from the publisher’s main website, in any fashion the publisher chooses.
• Advertisers following that link can then design and purchase ads in any sections of a publication for which the publisher has chosen to specify rates and specifications.
• Changes to your product description or rates are made available both to visitors at your Publisher Portal and to the general users of the main AdDogs site.

Our introductory terms for this new offering can be seen in the sample publisher agreement (PDF).

During ad creation, you’ll see a periodically updated picture of how your text and pictures are laid out.

In addition, when you “Continue to preview page” during ad creation, you can view a PDF that depicts your ad in the standard rendering of the template you’ve used to create it.

Remember, however, that one of the key capabilities of AdDogs is to render the same ad in multiple sizes and shapes, without further effort on your part. We can even do this simultaneously, using the same ad, for multiple placements in multiple publications with completely different specifications.

The ad that you see during preview or PDF format within the ad building process may not look precisely the same when rendered in a rectangular space as it does when rendered in a square space. It may also look different in as a “tall rectangle” than it would as a “wide rectangle”.

You can’t truly tell how the ad will look when it’s placed until you’ve chosen the media into which you’re going to place it. So don’t over-stress on perfection during the ad building process — you’ll have plenty of opportunity to view it in its ultimate form once you’ve chosen the outlet where you’ll be running it.

In fact, when you choose the space where you want to run it, one of the mandatory parts of the process is that you review it, in its actual “to-be-placed” size, and approve the presentation. If, at that point, you don’t like the look, you can easily go back and make adjustments.

In all likelihood, you’ve arrived at this page because you attempted to enter a contract price during media selection in the ad placement process.

There are a few details still being worked out in our contract price handling, and we hope the short delay won’t inconvenience you. But if it does, please contact us for assistance.

We expect to have full advertiser contract price maintenance in place by Tuesday, March 10, 2009.

Thank you for your patience.

Update: March 10, 2009: Contract pricing entry function has been reactivated.

At first, it can seem a bit confusing.

It needed to be said, and we’ve said it. There are several pieces to the puzzle that makes up the placement of an ad. Potentially more confusing, they don’t really have to be performed in the same order every time.

But let’s pretend, for an initial introduction, that you’re going to follow them from A to Z, your first time around.

The steps in placing an ad:

1. Log in to AdDogs
2. Build an ad, modify one of your prior ad designs, or upload a finished ad
3. Search our media database to find publications, placement types, and pricing
4. Choose one or more publications and placement types (add to your “media list” for later use)
5. Create an order, by matching up your ad with one or more of the publications in your media list
6. Add the order to your shopping cart, specifying publication dates and approving final ads
7. Check out, pay for the ad, and receive confirmation of your order

Read on, however – our aim is to make this potentially complicated process clear for you.

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Complex project? We can help.

AdDogs is staffed with advertising industry professionals who can provide you with a full range of custom services. Our expertise includes:

• Custom Advertisements and Advertising Campaigns
• Branding
• Brochure Design and Printing
• Custom Creative and Copywriting
• Direct Mail Design, Printing and Distribution
• Logo Design
• Media Planning, Buying and Contract Negotiation

If you are looking for a fast and easy way to get your projects under way please call or email us!

(832) 485-7134 -or- email Dana Kingshill

You can view short video tutorials on these topics:

• Registration as an advertiser
• Logging in and building an ad
• Selecting media for ad placement

Coming soon, additional videos, specific to the other key components of the system.

Until then, if you’ve arrived at this page and need assistance, please feel free to give us a call at:
(832) 485-7134 -or- email our support desk

AdDogs.com presently accepts payment via Amazon Payments or PayPal. Between these two options, you have the flexibility to pay via any major credit card or a direct debit from a bank account.

For those not familiar with these methods, they’re both highly reputable companies, each in its own way quite skilled in the process of handling electronic commerce. They’re not identical in form or function however.

If customers choose to use Amazon Payments, they must first have an account set up with Amazon. Many people have such accounts, as Amazon has distinguished itself over the past decade as the leading electronic merchant. They’re really quite good at handling payments, and they offer buyer protection programs which can be reviewed at their site.

PayPal is likewise a widely used service, but differs in that it’s a direct payment method: rather than charging a purchase to your PayPal account, as is the case with Amazon, you simply make a payment in which PayPal transfers money from either your PayPal account balance, your bank account, or the credit card of your choosing. All those choices are made available to you when you log in to your PayPal account. An additional and important difference is that you can make a PayPal payment without logging into your PayPal account, or without having a PayPal account at all.

Given the alternatives of Amazon and PayPal for payment processing, we at AdDogs have made the conscious decision to avoid ever being in possession of any customer’s credit card or bank account information. We don’t even want this information, let alone to store it in our system. Even though we employ standard data system protection and monitoring, we want to ensure that in the event of a breach, no sensitive information about any of our customers can be stolen from our site.

As of the data of this writing, Monster.com is in the recent news, the victim of their own massive data breach.

We don’t want to be in that position, and we don’t want to put our customers in that position.

And that’s why we choose to rely on well-known and respected companies like Amazon and PayPal to provide those services for our customers.

If you have any concerns about the payment process here at AdDogs.com, please feel free to contact us, and we’ll be happy to discuss them with you.

Scope

This Privacy Policy describes how we handle your personal information for our services on the AdDogs.com website.  It applies only to the AdDogs.com website. 

As we from time to time form subsidiaries, their privacy practices will be similar to those described in this Privacy Policy.  By accepting the User Agreement in registration, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.  This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new users and is otherwise effective on January 1, 2009.

Collection

You can browse our sites without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to provide us with personal or company information, you consent to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers located in the United States.

We may collect and store the following personal information:

• email address, physical contact information, and (depending on the service used) sometimes financial information, such as credit card or bank account numbers;
• transactional information based on your activities on the sites (such as advertisements you place, the publications or other vendors with which you place advertisements or seek or obtain advertising services and content you generate or that relates to your account);
• shipping, billing and other information you provide to purchase or ship an item;
• community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through our sites, and correspondence sent to us;
• other information from your interaction with our sites, services, content and advertising, including computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information;
• information from other companies, such as demographic and traffic data; and
• other supplemental information from third parties.

Marketing

We don’t sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may combine your information with information we collect from others and use it to improve and personalize our services, content and advertising. If you don’t wish to receive marketing communications from us or participate in programs we may offer from time to time, simply indicate your preference by following the directions provided in any email your receive containing such  material or from a link on the advertisement itself.

Use

Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. You agree that we may use your personal information to:

• provide the services and customer support you request;
• resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
• prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our User Agreement;
• answer questions from media companies (including publishers of newspapers, magazines, other periodicals, radio stations, TV stations, online media providers or any other person or entity engaged in the dissemination of information or other content to third parties);
• customize, measure and improve our services, content and advertising;
• tell you about targeted marketing, service updates, and promotional offers based on your preferences; and
• compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties.

Our Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone’s rights, property, or safety.

We may also share your personal information with:

• Members of our corporate family to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and provide joint content and services (for example, registration, transactions and customer support). Our corporate affiliates may send marketing communications which you may opt out of receiving as outlined above.
• Service providers under contract who help with our business operations (such as fraud investigations, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs and co-branded credit cards).
• Media companies which you have placed or attempt to place advertisements or media service  providers who you engage, or contact about engaging, through our site.
• Other third parties to whom you explicitly ask us to send your information (or about whom you are otherwise explicitly notified and consent to when using a specific service).
• Law enforcement or other governmental officials, in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity. In such events, we will disclose information relevant to the investigation, such as name, city, state, zip code, telephone number, email address, User ID history, IP address, fraud complaints, and bidding and listing history.
• Others as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity. In such events, we will disclose name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email address and company name.
• Other business entities, should we plan to merge with or be acquired by that business entity. (Should such a combination occur, we will require that the new combined entity follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information. If your personal information will be used contrary to this policy, you will receive prior notice.)

Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community free from bad actors, we will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity.

Using Information from AdDogs

AdDogs enables you to share personal information to obtain information and complete transactions.  If you are a provider of media content we encourage you to disclose your privacy practices and respect the privacy of other users. We cannot guarantee the privacy or security of your information and therefore we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of all persons you provide information to before entering into a transaction or choosing to share your information. When users are involved in a transaction with media companies or other service providers, such other persons may have access to a user’s name, User ID, email address and other contact and shipping information.

You agree to use information about other users only for:

• AdDogs transaction-related purposes that are not unsolicited commercial messages; or
• using services offered through AdDogs.

Third Party Content and Links to Other Websites

Our site includes third-party advertising and links to other websites.  Except as noted above, we do not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these advertisers or third-party websites. These third-party websites and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or “serve”) the advertisements that appear on our website directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy.  Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices. In addition, the Network Advertising Initiative offers useful information about Internet advertising companies (also called “ad networks” or “network advertisers”), including information about how to opt-out of their information collection.

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to others, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them.  AdDogs does not control the privacy policies of third parties, including media companies and other service providers who you make link to or engage through our site, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

Cookies

We use “cookies” (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain of our pages to help analyze our web page flow; customize our services, content and advertising; measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety.

A few important things you should know about cookies are that:

• We offer certain features that are available only through the use of cookies.
• We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status.
• Most cookies are “session cookies,” meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session.
• You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of some of our sites or services.
• You may encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the sites that we do not control. (For example, if you view a web page created by another user, there may be a cookie placed by that web page.)

No Spam, Spyware or Spoofing

We do not tolerate spam. Make sure to set your AdDogs notification preferences so we communicate to you as you prefer. You are not licensed to add other AdDogs users or media companies or service providers, or any other person or entity about whom you obtained information from the AdDogs.com website, to your mailing list (email or physical mail) without their express consent.  To report AdDogs-related spam or spoof emails to AdDogs, please forward the email to support@addogs.com.  We may scan and filter messages to check for spam, viruses, phishing attacks and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited content, but we do not permanently store messages sent through these tools. If you send an email to an email address, we do not permanently store that email or use that email address for any marketing purpose. We do not rent or sell these email addresses.

Account Protection

Your password is the key to your account. Use unique numbers, letters and special characters, and do not disclose your AdDogs password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others, remember that you are responsible for all actions taken in the name of your account. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately notify AdDogs and change your password.

Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information

You can see, review and change most of your personal information by signing on to AdDogs. Generally, we will not manually modify your personal information because it is very difficult to verify your identity remotely. You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate. Once you order an advertisement be placed or engage us, a media company or other service provider to perform a service, you may not be able to cancel that placement or engagement. Upon your request, we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable law. We do retain personal information from closed accounts to comply with law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our AdDogs User Agreement, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.

Security

Your information is stored on our servers located in the United States. We treat data as an asset that must be protected and use lots of tools (encryption, passwords, physical security, etc.) to protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure. However, as you probably know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.

General

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on this site. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are initially posted on the Site. In addition, we will notify you by posting a note in the “News” section of our website. If your questions are not answered online, you may write to us at: AdDogs Inc. Attn: Privacy Practices, 1800 St. James Place, Suite 400, Houston, Texas, 77056, or using the Contact Us form.