Terms and Privacy

Terms of Use

By accessing, browsing or using www.petstarter.com ("Website"), or any page thereof, through direct or indirect means, or alternative methods (including telephone or email) in any manner, you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (“Agreement”).

PetStarter ("Owner") reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify or change these Terms of Use at any time without prior notice to you. Your continued use of this Website following the posting of any changes to the Terms of Use constitutes acceptance of those changes.

If at any time you choose not to accept these Terms of Use, do not use this Website.

Links to Other Sites

This Website may contain links to other sites. If so, and if you choose to use the services provided by those third-party websites, you may be asked by those sites to provide certain personally identifiable information. Owner is not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. Please be aware when you leave our site, and read the privacy policies of each and every website that you visit. This Agreement applies solely to this Website. Owner is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site.

Intellectual Property

All material available on this Website is the property of Owner and is protected by international copyright and trademark laws. All rights are reserved to Owner. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, transmit, broadcast, sell or distribute in any way any material from this site without express written permission from Owner. You are permitted to use material from this Website for your own personal, private, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.

PetStarter is a trademark of Owner. Other featured words or symbols, used to identify the source of goods and services, may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), notifications of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to the service provider’s designated agent. Written notification must be submitted to the following designated agent:

copyright@petstarter.com

Restrictions on Use

You agree that you will not, and will not assist or enable others to use the Website:
  1. to threaten, stalk, defraud, incite, harass, or advocate the harassment of another person or entity, or otherwise interfere with use of the Website;
  2. in violation of the Terms of Use or any applicable law;
  3. to modify, adapt, appropriate, reproduce, distribute, translate, create derivative works or adaptations of, publicly display, sell, trade, link to, or in any way exploit the Website or Website Content except as expressly authorized by Owner
  4. to mine, record or gather information about other users;

Termination

Owner may terminate or suspend your account or ability to use the Website, in whole or in part, at our sole discretion, for any or no reason, and without notice or liability of any kind.

Disclaimers and Liability

THE WEBSITE AND ALL WEBSITE CONTENT IS MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. OWNER MAKES NO WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS, OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, STATUTORY OR IMPLIED AS TO (1) THE OPERATION AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THE SITE, (2) THE ACCURACY, INTEGRITY, COMPLETENESS, QUALITY, LEGALITY, USEFULNESS, SAFETY, AND IP RIGHTS OF ANY OF THE SITE CONTENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ACCURACY OF INFORMATION LISTED ON THE SITE, AND (3) THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH AND/OR SOLD ON THE WEBSITE, AND. OWNER FURTHER DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, STATUTORY, OR IMPLIED WITH RESPECT THERETO, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, MERCHANTABLE QUALITY, DURABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

IN NO CASE SHALL OWNER, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR OF ANY OF THE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS SOLD THEREON, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT, OR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE CONTENT (OR PRODUCT) POSTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, IN SUCH STATES OR JURISDICTIONS, OWNER’S LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify Owner and its agents and representatives from and against any and all liabilities, expenses (including attorneys' fees) and damages from any claim or demand made by any third-party due to or arising out of (i) your access or use of the Website or of the products and services sold thereon, (ii) your violation of the Terms of Use, or (iii) the infringement by you, or any third-party using your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.

Privacy Policy

We know that you buy our products and services and use our Website because you trust us. This notice explains how we protect your privacy and treat your personal information. It applies to current and former customers. “Personal information” here means anything we know about you personally.

Protecting Your Information

We take important steps to protect your personal information. We treat it as confidential. We tell our employees to take care in handling it. We limit access to those who need it to perform their jobs. Our outside service providers must also protect it, and use it only to meet our business needs. We also take steps to protect our systems from unauthorized access. We comply with all laws that apply to us.

Collecting Your Information

The types of Personal Information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

The date and time of your visit, the originating IP address, and the pages and images requested.

How We Get Your Information

We get your personal information mostly from you. We may also use outside sources to help ensure our records are correct and complete.

Using Your Information

We do not make available to the general public any personally identifiable information you provide to us in connection with your registration on the Website. We use industry standard technology and efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information. These include secure servers and firewalls. All of the user data we collect is protected against unauthorized access. Only authorized employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to this information.

Opting Out

You may tell us not to share your information with our affiliates for their own marketing purposes or unaffiliated business partners as part of a joint marketing arrangement. Even if you don’t “opt out”, we will not share your information with unaffiliated companies for their own marketing purposes without a joint marketing arrangement. You can also “opt out” anytime by contacting us at:

optout@petstarter.com

Non-Personal User Content

Owner may use user submitted content such as ratings, reviews, feedback (“User Content”) in a number of different ways, including displaying it on the Website, reformatting it, incorporating it into other works, creating derivative works from it, promoting it, or distributing it. Accordingly, you irrevocably grant Owner permission to use your User Content for any purpose. You also irrevocably grant the Website users the right to access User Content in connection with their use of the Website.

You assume all risks associated with User Content, including reliance on its accuracy, completeness or usefulness, or any disclosure by you of information in your User Content that makes you personally identifiable. You may not imply that User Content is in any way sponsored or endorsed by Owner.

Owner cannot and does not review all User Content feedback, nor does it have any control over the same. Under no circumstances shall Owner be held responsible or liable for any claims or damages arising out of any reviews or feedback.

Owner may remove, edit or reinstate User Content at our sole discretion.

Cookies

We use cookies and log files to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your next visit to the Website; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our services; and (d) monitor metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may ask us for a copy of the personal information we have about you. Generally, we will provide it as long as it is reasonably retrievable and within our control. You must make your request in writing. For legal reasons, we may not show you anything we learned as part of a claim or lawsuit, unless required by law.

If you tell us what we know about you is incorrect, we will review it. If we agree, we will update our records. Otherwise, you may dispute our findings in writing, and we will include your statement whenever we give your disputed information to anyone else.

Questions

We want you to understand how we protect your privacy. If you have any questions about this notice, please contact us. When you write, include your name, address, and policy or account number.

Send privacy questions to:

privacy@petstarter.com

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. If we make any material changes, we will notify you as required by law.