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What You Need To Know
Meet & Greets are required before booking with Brooke at Manchester Bed & Biscuit for the first time.
Please make sure (if this is your first contact with us) you are requesting services with at least seven (7) days' notice before the stay would actually begin. A minimum of one weeks' notice allows us to check schedules to find a day & time for a Meet & Greet that works for us both and to change plans if necessary.
Meet & Greets are free of charge, and important for you as a responsible dog owner, and for Brooke as a responsible sitter. It is essential that we meet at Manchester Bed & Biscuit so your dog can explore the house and yard, and we can get to know each other and talk about your dog's usual routines. This gives us the opportunity to see how comfortable your dog is with us, and how comfortable we all are with each other. Scheduling a Meet & Greet does not guarantee the stay will be booked, but when owner and sitter mutually agree upon booking a stay, Meet & Greets do aid in a pleasant & relaxed drop-off on the first day of the booked stay.
Manchester Bed & Biscuit has no breed discrimination or preference, but needs to know the overall disposition of the dog before the stay. Is he/she a jumper? A barker/growler? Laid-back? And, most importantly, does he/she get along with children?
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~Please Note~ Stays are per 24 hours of care.
This is to simplify billing in order to avoid adding up cost based on actual hours of care.
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For example: You want to drop off at 9am on Friday and pick up on Sunday. That would be two full 24 hour periods of care, and you would be expected to pick up as close to 9am on Sunday as possible. If you drop off on Friday at 9am and won't be back in town until 7pm on Sunday night, that is 10 hours of care not accounted for in the cost of the stay. Please request & book an additional night's stay in order to drop off on Thursday evening at 7pm for pick up Sunday around the same time.
Three-Hour Grace Period:​
We do understand the unpredictable, especially traffic around larger cities and airports. As long as you pick up within 3 hours of original drop off time, there will be no additional day charges for the stay.
During the Stay
Where your dog will sleep at night depends on where your dog is used to sleeping in your home. Most times the dogs are welcomed into the master bedroom to sleep wherever they are comfortable -on the floor or on the bed. Some dogs prefer to sleep in a crate and Brooke happy to oblige. Worry not, your dog will be safe and well-cared for. We want them to be comfortable staying at Manchester Bed & Biscuit and have many areas for your dog to call a home away from home.
Brooke has a lot of time to spend with your dog since she homeschools her children. They all love playing with the dogs, and, during quiet times, have no problems sharing the couch and giving head scratches or belly rubs. Brooke and her family do not currently own a dog, and love having a variety of breeds visit them for stays. They treat each dog like their own, so be assured your dog will get a lot of personal attention and TLC at Manchester Bed & Biscuit! You can expect to receive daily updates about your dog's stay - with pictures and maybe even an occasional video.
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Backyard playtime is included with each booked stay at Manchester Bed & Biscuit. Dogs are given potty breaks every 1-2 hours, or less. The fully-fenced backyard allows for off-leash running and playing. Various items for 'fetching' are available and utilized - such as Frisbees and sports balls. Owners are encouraged to pack favorite toys for their dog's stay.
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WHAT TO BRING FOR THE STAY:
Food (Enough for every meal each day of stay)
Medication (with instructions about dosage, time to be given, etc.)
Collar with ID tags
OPTIONAL ITEMS:
Leash, Favorite Toys, Dog Bed/Bedding, Treats, Bowls, Crate, etc.
Safety & Protection policy
It is Manchester Bed & Biscuit's policy to crate every dog while no one is home; no matter the age, size, breed, temperament or how much the dog is trusted.
Crating is for your dog's safety and protection, as well as ours. We have a large and an XXL crate for your convenience, or you may bring your own. We do our best to have someone home at all times to allow your dog free roam of the house and backyard for as much of the day as possible, and to limit the need to crate. Crating times can range from 15 minutes to an hour.
The health and safety of your 4-legged family member(s) is a top priority for Manchester Bed & Biscuit, and booking a stay indicates your acceptance of this policy. We appreciate your understanding!
Privacy policy - Terms And Conditions
This information is intended to help you understand how Manchester Bed & Biscuit and www.manchesterbedandbiscuit.com collects, uses and safeguards the information you (the visitor) provide on our website. By using our website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. While we make considerable efforts to protect our information systems, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security. Please note that, where you use passwords, ID numbers, or other special access features, it is your responsibility to safeguard them. Manchester Bed & Biscuit assumes no liability for disclosure of any information obtained due to errors in transmission or the unauthorized acts of outside parties.
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Personal Information
In order to better provide you with services offered on our Site, Manchester Bed & Biscuit may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
- First and Last Name, US postal address, email address, and telephone number.
- Information received from online applications, online forms and in other communications to us, whether in writing, in person, by telephone or by any other means.
- Information about your transactions with us or others.
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Information from your transactions with us.
All of your personal information is private and confidential. We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a contest sponsored by us; (c) sending us an email message; submitting credit card or other payment information when requesting and purchasing products and services on our Site. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future. We do not sell, lease or give out Manchester Bed & Biscuit or Website visitor personal information or client lists. Your personal information is used only in a manner to conduct business and communicate with you. If you agree with the opportunity to be contacted by Manchester Bed & Biscuit, by personal email, chat, telephone, US mail or email newsletter – you can revoke that acceptance at any time by contacting us as specified below. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Manchester Bed & Biscuit's public message boards or social media, this information may be collected and used by others.
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Visitor/Manchester Bed & Biscuit Profile
We may utilize a technology that collects cookies. A cookie is an element of data that the Website sends to your browser that is then stored on your system as part of our normal business procedure to track behavioral patterns of visitors/users to the Website. Consequently, collected information is tied to the visitors/users’ personally identifiable information to provide offers and improve the content of the site. This profile is used to tailor visitors/users – visits to our Website and to direct pertinent information to them. We do not share profile information to outside parties. You can set your browser preferences to block, allow or prompt for cookies.
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SHARING:
We DO NOT sell, lease or give away any aggregate non-personally identifiable data or personal information about our visitors/users with or to any outside parties, companies or individuals.
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Personal Data Disclosure
We may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or adhere with legal process served on Manchester Bed & Biscuit or the Website; (b) protect and defend the legal rights or property of Manchester Bed & Biscuit and/or (c) act in such a manner as to protect the personal safety of Manchester Bed & Biscuit and other visitors/users of the Website, or the public.
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CHILD SUPERVISION
Protecting the privacy of children is very important to us. Our Website is not designed to attract individuals under the age of 18. In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (16 CFR Part 312), we do not knowingly collect or store any personal information, even in aggregate, about children under the age of 13. Any information from a child under the age of 13 we discover having received in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe that Manchester Bed & Biscuit has any information from or about anyone under the age of 13, please contact us at contact information below.
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LINKS TO OUTSIDE SITES
Our Website may contain links to other Websites that are controlled and maintained by other entities. Manchester Bed & Biscuit assumes no responsibility for the content or practices of linked Websites. Linking does not suggest nor imply any affiliation or endorsement by Manchester Bed & Biscuit of the linked Website. We encourage our visitors/users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of every Website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Website.
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CHOICE/OPT-OUT
Manchester Bed & Biscuit visitors/users are given the opportunity to opt out of having their personal information used for marketing and information communications. Visitors/users can change or opt-out on how they are contacted at any time by making a request to the contact information point below.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
This Website and its content (including without limitation the Website design, text, graphics, photos, videos and all software and source codes connected with the Website and the Services) are protected by United States copyright, trademarks, patents and other intellectual property rights and laws. As a visitor/visitors/users of this Website you agree that you will access the contents solely for your personal, non-commercial use. None of the content may be downloaded, copied, reproduced, transmitted, stored, sold or distributed without the prior written consent of the copyright holder. This excludes the downloading, copying and/or printing of pages of the Website for personal, non-commercial home use only.
Manchester Bed & Biscuit does not claim ownership of any content or materials you post, upload or submit to any publicly accessible area of the Website. However, by doing so you are granting Manchester Bed & Biscuit a world-wide, royalty free, non-exclusive license to copy, distribute, transmit, reproduce, publicly display, edit, translate or publish such Content for as long as you elect to display such Content via the Website. The license shall be terminated when such Content is deleted from the Website.
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REVISIONS to THESE PRIVACY POLICIES – TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Manchester Bed & Biscuit reserves the right to periodically revise this policy from time to time. It is therefore your responsibility to check the Terms and Conditions regularly for any changes. The document revision date displayed below will indicate when this policy was last revised. Upon decision to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so our visitors/users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Questions about these Privacy Policies – Terms and Conditions should be directed to:
Manchester Bed & Biscuit
Manchester, PA 17345
Email: ManchesterBedAndBiscuit@gmail.com
Phone: 717-603-6452
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Effective As Of: January 1, 2020