Clear the Shelters
Ready to meet your new best friend? We are waiving adoption fees for adult cats and dogs 1+ years of age and all small pets from August 25th through August 31, 2025! Share the care while we Clear the Shelters and donate today!
Ready to bring home a new friend? Here's what to expect when you adopt from Humane Colorado.
Resources to help you make an informed decision.
Dogs are complex animals that may display a variety of different behaviors in any given situation. Learn the sign of stress and safety tips for happy tails and plenty of play.
Animal Care is a critical, hands-on volunteer role that helps ensure each animal has a healthy, safe, and clean environment during their time in shelter.
Humane Colorado has created this Privacy Policy to explain why we collect particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy within our website.
In order to fully understand your rights, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy, as well as our Terms of Use. Humane Colorado reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting.
Because we want to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, this Privacy Policy notifies you of:
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to Humane Colorado by sending an email to info@humanecolorado.org. Please reference this Privacy Policy in your subject line.
Our registration forms require users to give us contact information that may include name, email address, format preference (HTML vs. text), address, interests and similar information. We do not request or store sensitive information from our visitors, such as credit card or social security numbers.
Donations & Payment Processing: All online donations are processed through a secure third-party vendor. Humane Colorado does not store or retain your credit card information after the transaction is completed.
We will not share your opt-in to an SMS campaign with any third party for purposes unrelated to providing you with the services of that campaign. We may share your Personal Data, including your SMS opt-in or consent status, with third parties that help us provide our messaging services, including but not limited to platform providers, phone companies, and any other vendors who assist us in the delivery of text messages.
We collect an IP address from all visitors to our site. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our site, analyze trends, track users’ movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the site and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Our site may use cookies to enhance your experience while using our site. Cookies are pieces of information that some websites transfer to the computer that is browsing that website and are used for recordkeeping purposes at many websites. Use of cookies makes browsing easier by performing certain functions, such as saving your passwords and your personal preferences regarding your use of the particular website, and making sure you don’t see the same ad repeatedly. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard.
Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our site will not function properly when you view them.
We may also use similar technologies, such as pixels or analytics tools, to understand how our site is used, improve functionality, and measure the effectiveness of our communications.
All information provided to Humane Colorado is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us. We also protect account information by placing it on a secure portion of our site that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of Humane Colorado. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. Humane Colorado will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Humane Colorado stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.
Our site contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which Humane Colorado has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites, as their policies may be different from ours.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site or your dealings with this site, you can contact us by email or write us at Humane Colorado, 2080 S. Quebec St., Denver, CO 80231.
