Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You. We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the TermsFeed Privacy Policy Generator.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
  • Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
  • Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
  • Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Dog Stories Blog.
  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
  • Country refers to: New York, United States
  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service refers to the Website.
  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Website refers to Dog Stories Blog, accessible from countrymusic.levie.com.vn
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. You can learn more about cookies on TermsFeed website article. We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
  • Necessary / Essential Cookies Type: Session Cookies Administered by: Us Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
  • Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by: Us Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
  • Functionality Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by: Us Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
  • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
  • To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
  • To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
  • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
  • For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
  • For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
  • For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
  • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
  • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You. Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service. You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us. Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers. If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming ef

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“SHE LOVED HIM BEFORE HE WAS ALAN JACKSON. AND SHE ALMOST LEFT WHEN HE BECAME HIM.” Newnan, Georgia. A small Dairy Queen on a quiet stretch of road. A shy 17-year-old girl named Denise was working the counter when a tall, blue-eyed boy walked in. He didn’t say much. He never did. But something in the way he looked at her… she’d remember it for the rest of her life. His name was Alan. He drove a beat-up car and dreamed of being a country singer. Everyone laughed at him. Everyone except her. She believed in him when nobody else did. They married in 1979. He had nothing. She had faith. And for years, she worked as a flight attendant to pay the bills while he chased a dream in Nashville that wouldn’t come. Then it did. And that’s when the trouble started. By the mid-1990s, Alan Jackson was the biggest name in country music. Stadiums. Awards. Magazine covers. And somewhere in all that noise… he started to disappear. Denise saw it before he did. The man she’d fallen in love with at the Dairy Queen was slipping away. The marriage almost ended. She packed a bag. She made the call. She was ready to leave. And then Alan did something nobody expected. He stopped. He came home. He sat down across from her and said the words that no song on any of his albums has ever captured. She wrote about that moment years later, in her book. She said it wasn’t loud. It wasn’t dramatic. It was just… honest. The kind of honest that takes a man 20 years to learn how to be. They’ve been married 47 years now. Three daughters. A lifetime of songs. And a love story that almost didn’t survive the very thing that made him famous. Most fans don’t know how close it came. But Denise knows. And every time Alan sings “Remember When” on stage… she’s the one he’s looking for in the crowd.

THE WORLD SAW A COUNTRY MUSIC GIANT WITH 25 #1 HITS. HIS WIFE SAW A MAN STILL FIGHTING THE BOY WHO WAS THROWN AWAY. He has three Grammy Awards. 25 number-one singles. 80 million records sold. Country Music Hall of Fame, Class of 2026. The world calls him Tim McGraw — country music royalty. But that wasn’t the name on his birth certificate. For the first 11 years of his life, he believed his name was Tim Smith. He grew up in Start, Louisiana — a tiny farming town. His mother was a teenage waitress. The man he called “Dad” was an alcoholic stepfather who, as Tim later admitted, was abusive toward his family. One day, searching for coins to buy candy, 11-year-old Tim found a hidden box in his mother’s closet. Inside was his birth certificate. The name “Smith” had been crossed out in pencil. Above it, written in his mother’s handwriting: McGraw. Father’s occupation: Professional baseball player. He confronted his mother. She told him the truth. His real father was MLB star Tug McGraw — pitcher for the Mets, World Series champion. What happened next would haunt him for years… Tug agreed to meet him once — and then denied being his father for the next 7 years. Tim sent letters. They went unanswered. Once, at 12 years old, Tim called out to him from the stands at a baseball game. Tug pretended he didn’t hear. “I got embarrassed,” Tim later said. “That I was sort of thrown away.” It took a lawsuit, child support demands, and a paternity test before Tug acknowledged him at 18. Tim spent decades chasing fame as if to prove he was worth keeping. But the fame couldn’t fill the hole — and after 2004, when Tug finally died of brain cancer, something inside Tim broke… He drank to dull it. He gained weight. He partied harder than ever. Until 2008, when Faith Hill — his wife of 12 years — looked at him and said: “You’re getting overboard. You need to make some decisions.” That was the moment. The little boy who was thrown away had become a man who almost threw himself away. But this time, someone refused to let him go. The world saw the man behind “Live Like You Were Dying” — a song he wrote in honor of the father who once denied him. Faith saw a husband finally learning he was worth keeping. His real legacy isn’t the 25 #1 hits. It’s that he turned a lifetime of being unwanted into songs that made millions of people feel seen.

THE WORLD SAW THE QUEEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC. HER DAUGHTER SAW A WOMAN WHO LIVED A LONELY LIFE. She was the Coal Miner’s Daughter. The first woman ever named CMA Entertainer of the Year. The voice behind “You Ain’t Woman Enough” and “Fist City.” Loretta Lynn wrote over 160 songs and became the most awarded woman in country music history. Millions saw her on stage — radiant, fierce, unstoppable. They never imagined what was waiting for her when she came home. She was married at 15. Her husband Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn was 21, an alcoholic, a moonshine runner, and a known womanizer. On their wedding night, he beat her for jokingly calling him a name. He cheated on her — even in their own home, while she was on the road. He hit her. She hit him back. Once, she knocked two of his teeth out with a single punch. But the story the world never fully heard was darker than any song she ever wrote… When she was pregnant with their first child, Doo abandoned her — and she survived eating dandelions and game she shot in her own backyard. There were nights, she later admitted, when she would have rather not come home. “If it hadn’t been for my babies, I wouldn’t have.” Yet she stayed for 48 years. Until diabetes amputated his legs. Until she sang her last song to him on his deathbed in 1996. Her own daughter Cissie said it plainly: “She lived a lonely life.” The world saw the Queen of Country. Her children saw a woman who turned every bruise, every betrayal, every lonely night into a song that millions of women would secretly cry to. Her real legacy isn’t the 16 No. 1 hits. It’s that she sang the truth women weren’t allowed to speak — even as she lived it herself.