Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

Fly Your Tail respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal information when you visit www.flyyourtail.com, contact us, request a pet relocation assessment or quotation, use our services, upload documents, communicate with us through WhatsApp, email or other channels, or otherwise interact with Fly Your Tail.

It also explains your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and other applicable data-protection legislation.

1. Who We Are

Fly Your Tail provides international pet relocation, pet travel coordination, veterinary documentation support, travel-planning services and international veterinary sample logistics.

For the purposes of the GDPR, the data controller is:

FLY YOUR TAIL

Trading as: Fly your tail OÜ

Registered in: Estonia

Registration number: 16907535

Registered address: Harju maakond, Tallinn, Lasnamäe linnaosa, Lõõtsa tn 5, 11415

Website: www.flyyourtail.com

Email: julia@flyyourtail.com

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we use your personal information, you can contact us using the details above.

2. Personal Data We May Collect

The personal information we collect depends on how you interact with us and which services you request.

Contact information

We may collect:

  • Full name
  • Email address
  • Telephone or WhatsApp number
  • Country of residence
  • Preferred method of communication

Relocation and travel information

When you request a pet relocation assessment or quotation, we may collect information such as:

  • Origin and destination
  • Travel dates
  • Flight information
  • Residential or collection and delivery addresses
  • Travel plans
  • Immigration or residency information where relevant to the pet’s import requirements
  • Information about whether and when you will travel with your pet

Identification and official documents

Certain international pet relocations may require us to process copies or details from documents such as:

  • Passport
  • Visa or residence permit
  • Identification documents
  • Customs documents
  • Flight tickets
  • Import or export authorisations
  • Government forms
  • Proof of residence
  • Ownership documents

We only request these documents where they are relevant to the relocation, regulatory or customs process.

Information about your pet

We may collect:

  • Pet’s name
  • Species
  • Breed
  • Sex
  • Age or date of birth
  • Weight
  • Body measurements
  • Microchip number
  • Vaccination history
  • Veterinary records
  • Rabies antibody test results
  • Import or export documentation
  • Medication or veterinary information relevant to travel
  • Travel kennel information
  • Photographs of your pet or travel kennel

Information relating solely to an animal is not normally personal data under the GDPR. However, these records may contain information that identifies the pet’s owner, veterinarian or another individual and may therefore form part of personal data we process.

Veterinary sample logistics

If you use our veterinary sample logistics services, we may process information necessary to coordinate the shipment, including:

  • Client or pet-owner contact information
  • Veterinarian or clinic details
  • Laboratory information
  • Sample identifiers
  • Courier and customs documentation
  • Testing instructions
  • Relevant supporting veterinary documents

Communications

We may retain communications you send to us through:

  • Email
  • WhatsApp
  • Website forms
  • Telephone
  • Social media
  • Other messaging platforms

This may include information you voluntarily provide about your relocation or service request.

Website and technical information

When you use our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Pages visited
  • Approximate location derived from IP address
  • Referring website
  • Date and time of visits
  • Website interaction information
  • Cookie identifiers

The exact information collected depends on the cookies, analytics and website technologies enabled on our website.

3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We may collect personal data:

  • Directly from you
  • Through our website forms
  • When you request a quotation
  • Through email, WhatsApp or telephone communications
  • When you upload documents
  • Through veterinarians or veterinary clinics acting on your behalf
  • Through relocation partners, freight agents, airlines or destination agents involved in your case
  • Through government authorities where necessary for an import or export process
  • Through laboratories and courier providers
  • Automatically through our website and cookies, where applicable

Where personal information is received from a third party, we use it only where necessary for the relevant relocation, logistics, regulatory or business purpose.

4. Why We Use Your Personal Data

We only process personal data where we have a lawful basis to do so.

Depending on the circumstances, we may process your data for the following purposes.

To respond to enquiries and prepare quotations

We use information you provide to:

  • Assess your proposed pet relocation
  • Determine possible routes and travel methods
  • Identify documentation and veterinary requirements
  • Prepare quotations
  • Answer questions
  • Communicate recommendations and next steps

Legal basis: taking steps at your request before entering into a contract and, where applicable, our legitimate interest in responding to business enquiries.

To provide contracted services

When you engage Fly Your Tail, we process personal data to:

  • Organise and manage your pet’s relocation
  • Coordinate airlines and transport
  • Arrange veterinary documentation
  • Coordinate permits
  • Arrange customs and destination handling
  • Organise quarantine where applicable
  • Coordinate collection and delivery
  • Communicate with service providers involved in the journey
  • Provide travel-day support
  • Coordinate veterinary sample shipments

Legal basis: performance of a contract.

To comply with legal and regulatory requirements

We may process and disclose personal information where necessary to comply with:

  • Veterinary import or export rules
  • Customs requirements
  • Tax and accounting rules
  • Government requests
  • Animal-health regulations
  • Aviation requirements
  • Legal claims or obligations

Legal basis: compliance with a legal obligation.

To operate and protect our business

We may use information to:

  • Maintain business records
  • Prevent fraud
  • Protect our website and systems
  • Manage disputes
  • Establish, exercise or defend legal claims
  • Improve our procedures and customer service

Legal basis: our legitimate interests in operating and protecting our business, provided those interests do not override your rights and freedoms.

Marketing communications

We may send you marketing emails or similar communications where:

  • You have specifically consented to receiving them; or
  • Another lawful basis permits the communication under applicable law.

You can unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time.

We will not use a pet relocation quotation request as automatic consent to receive unrelated marketing communications.

Legal basis: consent, or another lawful basis where permitted by applicable law.

Website analytics and non-essential cookies

Where required by law, analytics, advertising or other non-essential cookies will only be activated after you have given consent through our cookie banner.

Legal basis: consent.

5. Information You Provide Through the Get a Quote Form

When you complete our Get a Quote or Pet Relocation Assessment form, we may request information about you, your pet and your planned journey.

We use this information to assess:

  • Whether the proposed relocation is viable
  • The applicable documentation requirements
  • Possible airlines and routes
  • Travel-method options
  • Travel kennel requirements
  • Import and export procedures
  • Quarantine requirements
  • Estimated service scope and cost

Submitting the form does not create a contract and does not guarantee airline space, government approval, quarantine availability or a final price.

Where documents are uploaded through the form, they are used only for assessing or managing the requested service and related regulatory or operational requirements.

6. Who We May Share Your Personal Data With

International pet relocation necessarily involves coordination with third parties.

Where required for your relocation or requested service, we may share relevant information with:

  • Airlines
  • Airline cargo departments
  • Freight forwarders
  • Pet relocation partners
  • Ground transport providers
  • Customs brokers
  • Destination handling agents
  • Veterinarians
  • Veterinary clinics
  • Government veterinary authorities
  • Customs authorities
  • Border-control agencies
  • Quarantine facilities
  • Diagnostic laboratories
  • Courier companies
  • Travel kennel suppliers
  • IT, website, cloud-storage and communications providers
  • Accountants, legal advisers or insurers
  • Payment service providers

We only provide information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.

Fly Your Tail does not sell your personal information to advertisers or data brokers.

7. International Transfers of Personal Data

Pet relocation is an international service.

This means that information may need to be transferred outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”), including to countries that do not provide the same level of data protection as the European Union.

For example, personal information may need to be sent to:

  • An airline outside the EEA
  • A destination pet relocation agent
  • A veterinarian
  • A customs broker
  • A government authority
  • A quarantine facility
  • A diagnostic laboratory
  • A courier company

Where GDPR requirements apply to an international transfer, we use an appropriate legal transfer mechanism where required, such as:

  • A European Commission adequacy decision
  • Standard Contractual Clauses
  • Another legally recognised safeguard
  • A GDPR exception applicable to the specific transfer where necessary

In many cases, international disclosure is necessary to perform the pet relocation service you have requested.

8. Service Providers and Data Processors

We may use third-party service providers to operate our website and business.

These may include providers of:

  • Website hosting
  • Cloud storage
  • Email
  • Customer communications
  • Website forms
  • Analytics
  • Accounting
  • Payment processing
  • Document storage
  • Cybersecurity
  • Customer relationship management

Our current website may use services including:

Squarespace Europe

Discovery SEO, India

Google Workspace

This section should be updated whenever material service providers change.

9. WhatsApp and Social Media

If you contact Fly Your Tail through WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn or another third-party platform, that platform also processes information according to its own privacy policy.

Fly Your Tail does not control how those platforms independently use your personal data.

We recommend reviewing the privacy settings and privacy policies of any third-party communication service you choose to use.

10. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function properly and may be used without consent where legally permitted.

They can include cookies required for:

  • Website security
  • Form functionality
  • Session management
  • Cookie-consent preferences

Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.

Where consent is legally required, analytics cookies will not be activated until you accept them.

Marketing or advertising cookies

If we use advertising, retargeting, social-media tracking or similar technologies, these cookies will only be activated after the appropriate consent has been obtained where required by law.

Managing cookies

When you first visit our website, you should be able to:

  • Accept non-essential cookies
  • Reject non-essential cookies
  • Manage your preferences

You can change your cookie preferences later through the website’s cookie settings.

More information should be available in our separate Cookie Policy.

11. How Long We Keep Personal Data

We do not keep personal information for longer than reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Retention periods depend on the type of information and the reason it is processed.

In general:

Quote requests that do not become customers

Information may be retained for up to 24 months after the last meaningful communication, unless there is a legitimate reason to retain it longer.

Customer and relocation records

Records relating to completed pet relocations may generally be retained for up to 10 years , particularly where documentation is connected to contracts, invoices, accounting or potential legal claims.

Accounting records

Invoices and accounting information will be retained for the period required by applicable Estonian and EU law.

Marketing information

Marketing information is retained until you withdraw your consent or object to receiving marketing communications, subject to retaining minimal suppression information where necessary to ensure we respect your request.

Cookies

Cookie retention periods depend on the individual cookie and are described in our Cookie Policy or cookie-preference tool.

When personal data is no longer required, we will delete, anonymise or securely dispose of it.

12. How We Protect Your Personal Data

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against:

  • Unauthorised access
  • Accidental loss
  • Misuse
  • Alteration
  • Disclosure
  • Destruction

Measures may include:

  • Access controls
  • Password protection
  • Secure cloud services
  • Device security
  • Limited access to customer documentation
  • Data minimisation
  • Appropriate contractual arrangements with service providers

No internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. However, we take reasonable measures appropriate to the nature of the information we process.

13. Your Rights Under the GDPR

Where the GDPR applies to you, you may have the following rights.

Right of access

You may request confirmation of whether we process your personal data and receive a copy of that information.

Right to rectification

You may ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information.

Right to erasure

In certain circumstances, you may ask us to delete your personal information.

This right is not absolute. We may need to retain information where required by law or where another lawful basis allows us to keep it.

Right to restriction of processing

In certain circumstances, you may ask us to limit how your information is processed.

Right to data portability

Where applicable, you may request personal information you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or request its transfer to another controller.

Right to object

Where we process information based on legitimate interests, you may object to that processing in certain circumstances.

You have the right to object at any time to processing of your personal data for direct marketing.

Right to withdraw consent

Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Rights relating to automated decision-making

You may have rights relating to decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

Fly Your Tail does not currently use solely automated decision-making to approve, reject or determine the conditions of a pet relocation.

14. How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of your data-protection rights, contact:

Email: julia@flyyourtail.com

Please state that your request relates to personal data or GDPR.

We may need to verify your identity before releasing, correcting or deleting personal information.

We will respond within the timeframe required by applicable data-protection law.

There is normally no fee for exercising GDPR rights, although a reasonable fee may be permitted where a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

15. Right to Make a Complaint

If you believe that Fly Your Tail has processed your personal data unlawfully, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data-protection supervisory authority.

As Fly Your Tail is established in Estonia, you may contact the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate:

Andmekaitse Inspektsioon (Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate)

You may also have the right to complain to the supervisory authority in the EU or EEA country where you live, work or where you believe an infringement occurred.

We would appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns directly first, but contacting us does not affect your right to complain to a supervisory authority.

16. Children

Fly Your Tail’s services are intended for adults who are legally able to arrange pet relocation or related services.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children for marketing purposes.

If information about a minor is necessary for immigration, ownership, travel or another legitimate aspect of a pet relocation, it will only be processed where relevant and lawful.

17. Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, including:

  • Airlines
  • Government authorities
  • Veterinary authorities
  • Laboratories
  • Social media platforms
  • Partner businesses

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites.

When you leave our website, we recommend reviewing the privacy notice of the website you visit.

18. Photographs, Testimonials and Relocation Stories

We may occasionally ask customers for permission to use:

  • Pet photographs
  • Relocation photographs
  • Testimonials
  • Reviews
  • Journey stories

We will not intentionally publish identifiable customer information, private messages or customer photographs for promotional purposes without an appropriate legal basis.

Where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw that consent for future use by contacting us.

Withdrawal will not affect publications or processing that were lawful before the withdrawal, although we will take reasonable steps regarding future use.

19. Direct Marketing

Where permitted, we may contact existing or prospective customers about Fly Your Tail services, information or updates.

You can opt out of direct marketing at any time by:

  • Clicking the unsubscribe link in an email
  • Contacting us directly
  • Asking us through WhatsApp or another communication channel

Opting out of marketing does not prevent us from contacting you about an active relocation, quotation, invoice, legal requirement or other service-related matter.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when:

  • Our services change
  • Our website changes
  • We introduce new service providers or technologies
  • Data-protection law changes
  • Our processing practices change

The current version will always be published on this page.

Where a change materially affects how we process your information, we may provide additional notice where appropriate.

21. Contact Us

For privacy questions, data requests or concerns about how your information is handled, contact:

Fly your tail OÜ (16907535)

Harju maakond, Tallinn, Lasnamäe linnaosa, Lõõtsa tn 5, 11415

Estonia

Email: julia@flyyourtail.com

Website: www.flyyourtail.com