Terms of use
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By using the www.thepetcommunity.com Website (the "Website") you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (this "Agreement"), whether or not you register as a member ("Member"). If you wish to become a Member and communicate with other Members and make use of the Website service (the "Service"), read these Terms of Use and indicate your acceptance of them by following the instructions in the Registration process.
This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms of your use of the Website and your membership in the Service and may be modified by ThePetCommunity from time to time, such modifications to be effective upon posting by ThePetCommunity on the Website.
Eligibility
By using the Website, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
Term and cancellation
This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use the Website and/or are a Member. You may terminate your membership at any time, for any reason by following the instructions on the edit profile page, or upon receipt by the Website of your written or email notice of termination. ThePetCommunity may terminate your membership for any reason. We reserve the right to modify or terminate the Service for any reason, and without notice, without liability to you, any other Member or any third party. We'll notify you before we make changes to these Terms and give you the opportunity to read the revised terms before continuing to use our Services. Your continued use of the Service, following notice of the changes to our terms, policies or guidelines, constitutes your acceptance of our amended terms, policies or guidelines.
Non Commercial Use by Members
The Website is for the personal use of individual Members only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors. Organizations, companies, and/or businesses may not become Members and should not use the Service or the Website for any purpose. Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Website, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email and unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website will be investigated, and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation, civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.
Privacy and Safety
We designed our Privacy Policy to make important disclosures about how you can use the Website to share with others and how we collect and can use your content and information. We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy, and to use it to help you make informed decisions.
We do our best to keep the Website secure and safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to keep the Website and your information secure:
- You will not post unauthorized commercial communications (such as spam) on the Website.
- You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access the Website, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our prior permission.
- You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme, on the Website.
- You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.
- You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.
- You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.
- You will not post content that: is hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.
- You will not use the Website to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.
- You will not do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working or appearance of the Website, such as a denial of service attack or interference with page rendering or other Website functionality.
- You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Terms of Use.
Registration and Account Security
The Website users provide real information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account:
- You will not provide any false personal information on the Website, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
- You will not create more than one personal account.
- If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.
- You will not use your personal profile primarily for your own commercial gain.
- You will not use the Website without parental supervision if you are under 18.
- You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
- You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
- If you select a username or similar identifier for your account, we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe it is appropriate (such as when a trademark owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user's actual name).
Basic account limitations:
Maximum number of pets per user: 2
Maximum number of galleries per pet: 2
Maximum number of photos per gallery: 60
Maximum number of videos per pet: 10
Premium account limitations:
Maximum number of pets per user: 8
Maximum number of galleries per pet: 10
Maximum number of photos per gallery: 120
Maximum number of videos per pet: 100
Proprietary Rights in Content on the Website
ThePetCommunity owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The Website contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of ThePetCommunity. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given written permission, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.
Content Posted on the Site
- You understand and agree that ThePetCommunity may review and delete any content, messages, videos, photos or profiles (collectively, "Content") that in the sole judgment of ThePetCommunity violate this Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of Members.
- You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service, or transmit to other Members.
- By posting Content to any public area of the Website, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to ThePetCommunity an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
- The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website. ThePetCommunity reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Service and terminating the membership of such violators. It includes Content that:
- solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
- harasses or advocates harassment of another person; provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
- involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
- promotes information that you know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
- promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
- contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
- is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- engages in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes;
- and provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses.
- You must use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
- You may not include in your Member profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, URLs or email addresses.
- You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other Members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. Although ThePetCommunity cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the Website, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, ThePetCommunity reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which ThePetCommunity deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
Copyright Policy
You may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide us with the following information:
- an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
- a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
- a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website;
- your address, telephone number, and email address;
- a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
- a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Photo contest Rules
The weekly photo contest starts every Sunday at 0:01 am. Each week we add a new topic in which registered users can enter photos of their pets. Participation in the competition is free, if there is a prize for the winner(s) we will announce it separately (this is always subject to current sponsorship opportunities, there is no prize by default). During the contest you will be notified of your score by email and the winner will be announced by email at the end of the contest. You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time or turn the notifications off under Settings.
The terms of participation:
- you can only enter with a photo of your own animal;
- always enter a photo that matches the topic of the contest;
- a user may only enter one animal;
- preferably enter an animal for which you have created a profile on the site;
- it is forbidden to use a photo that causes offence or fear in others;
- it is forbidden to use a video that may infringe the copyright, industrial property rights or trademark rights of others;
Photos that do not comply with the above may be disqualified from the contest without explanation. You can delete your own entry at any time, and you can re-enter in place of the deleted photo.
Video contest Rules
The monthly video contest starts the first day of every month at 0:01 am. Each month we add a new topic in which registered users can enter videos of their pets. Participation in the competition is free, if there is a prize for the winner(s) we will announce it separately (this is always subject to current sponsorship opportunities, there is no prize by default). During the contest you will be notified of your score by email and the winner will be announced by email at the end of the contest. You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time or turn the notifications off under Settings.
The terms of participation:
- you can only enter with a video of your own animal;
- always enter a video that matches the topic of the contest;
- maximum file size 1Gb, maximum duration 5 minutes;
- a user may only enter one animal;
- preferably enter an animal for which you have created a profile on the site;
- it is forbidden to use a video that causes offence or fear in others;
- it is forbidden to use a video that may infringe the copyright, industrial property rights or trademark rights of others;
Videos that do not comply with the above may be disqualified from the contest without explanation. You can delete your own entry at any time, and you can re-enter in place of the deleted video.
Moderation and Member Disputes
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Website Members. ThePetCommunity reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
As a user, you will have the ability to communicate with other users through instant messages and onsite comments. While we do not, as a rule, moderate or monitor members' private exchanges, we reserve the right to do so if we suspect using our service for the purpose of solicitation or any other violation of our terms of use or Privacy Statement. Member submissions that appear on the public area of the site are moderated and, if necessary, we reserve the right to edit, delete, remove or not use any communication on a public area of the site.
Disclaimers
ThePetCommunity is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the Website or in connection with the Service, whether caused by users of the Website, Members or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service. ThePetCommunity is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website or Member of the Service. ThePetCommunity assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, user or Member communications. ThePetCommunity is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of email or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Website or combination thereof, including injury or damage to users and/or Members or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in connection with the Web and/or in connection with the Service. Under no circumstances will The Pet Community be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from anyone's use of the Website or the Service, any Content posted on the Website or transmitted to Members, or any interactions between users of the Website, whether online or offline. The Website and the Service are provided "AS-IS" and ThePetCommunity expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. ThePetCommunity cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Website and/or the Service.
Limitation on Liability
Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no event will ThePetCommunity be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including also lost profits arising from your use of the Web site or the Service, even if ThePetCommunity has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold ThePetCommunity, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorney's fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above.
Other
This Agreement, accepted upon use of the Website and further affirmed by becoming a Member of the Service, contains the entire agreement between you and ThePetCommunity regarding the use of the Website and/or the Service. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.
International use
You agree and accept that that all personal data, information media is being monitored by the administrators in the EU and all data is stored in Germany.
Last edited on the 10th December 2021