Terms & Conditions

eDogAdvisor website Terms and Conditions of Use

eDogAdvisor (the “Website”) is provided solely to assist customers in obtaining information on services available for dog owners, posting opinions on dog ownership related issues and engaging in forums for dog owners.

The terms “we”, “us”, “our” ‘’operator’’ and “eDogAdvisor” refer to eDogAdvisor.co.uk The term “you” refers to the customer visiting the Website and/or contributing content on this Website.

This Website is offered to you conditioned upon your acceptance without modification of any/all the terms, conditions, and notices set forth below (collectively, the “Agreement”). By accessing or using this Website in any manner, you agree to be bound by the Agreement. Please read the Agreement carefully. If you do not accept all of these terms and conditions, you are not authorised to use this site. Be sure to return to this page periodically to review the most current version of the Agreement. We reserve the right at any time, at our sole discretion, to change or otherwise modify the Agreement in accordance with the Terms and Conditions herein and your continued access or use of this Website signifies your acceptance of the updated or modified Agreement.

Use of the website

As a condition of your use of this Website, you warrant that (i) all information supplied by you on this Website is true, accurate, current and complete, (ii) if you have a eDogAdvisor account, you will safeguard your account information and will supervise and be completely responsible for any use of your account by anyone other than you and (iii) you are 16 years of age or older in order to register for an account and contribute to our website. (iv) possess the legal authority to enter into this agreement and to use this Site in accordance with all terms and conditions herein.

eDogAdvisor does not knowingly collect the information of anyone under the age of 16. We retain the right at our sole discretion to deny access to anyone to this Website and the services we offer, at any time and for any reason, including, but not limited to, for violation of this Agreement.

Copying, transmission, reproduction, republication, posting or redistribution of the Site Content or any portion thereof is strictly prohibited without the prior written permission of eDogAdvisor. To request permission, you may contact eDogAdviser as follows:

hello@edogadvisor.co.uk

Users of the website will not incur any charges for using the website in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. However, the website contains links to third-party websites which are operated and owned by independent service providers or retailers. Such third-parties may charge a fee for use of certain content or services provided on the website. Therefore, you should make whatever investigation you feel is necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any transaction with any third party to determine whether a charge will be incurred. Where eDogAdvisor provides details of charges on the website, such information is provided for convenience and information purposes only. eDogAdvisor in no way guarantees that this information is correct nor is it in anyway responsible for content or services provided on such third party websites.

Prohibited activities

The content and information on this Website (including, but not limited to, messages, data, information, text, music, sound, photos, graphics, video, maps, icons, software, code or other material), as well as the infrastructure used to provide such content and information, is proprietary to us. You agree not to otherwise modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell or re-sell any information, software, products, or services obtained from or through this Website. Additionally, you agree not to:

(i) use this Website or its contents for any commercial purpose;

(ii) access, monitor or copy any content or information of this Website using any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or any manual process for any purpose without our express written permission;

(iii) violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers on this Website or bypass or circumvent other measures employed to prevent or limit access to this Website;

(iv) take any action that imposes, or may impose, in our discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;

(v) deep-link to any portion of this Website for any purpose without our express written permission; or

(vi) "frame", "mirror" or otherwise incorporate any part of this Website into any other website without our prior written authorisation.

(vii) attempt to modify, translate, adapt, edit, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any software programs used by TripAdvisor in connection with the Website or the services

Privacy policy

eDogAdvisor believes in protecting your privacy. Any personal information you post on the Site will be used in accordance with our privacy policy. Click here to view our Privacy Policy.

Posting reviews and comments

eDogAdvisor welcomes contributions from users. Please be aware that by submitting content to this Website by electronic mail, postings on this Website or otherwise, including any reviews, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or the like contained in any submissions (collectively, “Submissions”), you grant eDogAdvisor and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to (a) use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform such Submissions throughout the world in any media, now known or hereafter devised; and (b) use the name that you submit in connection with such Submission. You acknowledge that eDogAdvisor may choose to provide attribution of your comments or reviews at our discretion. You further grant eDogAdvisor the right to pursue at law any person or entity that violates your or eDogAdvisor’s rights in the Submissions by a breach of this Agreement. You acknowledge and agree that Submissions are non-confidential and non-proprietary.

eDogAdvisor does not edit or control the User Messages posted to or distributed on the website including through any reviews, bulletin boards or other communications forums, and will not be in any way responsible or liable for such User Messages. eDogAdvisor nevertheless reserves the right for any reason in its sole discretion to remove without notice any Reviews, Registered Business and/or Site Content. eDogAdvisor may request proof of purchase before publishing some reviews. Only one review per person per business is permitted unless further review(s) provide new insight not contained in the orginal review(s).

You must not post a review if:

- you have a financial interest in the subject matter of the review;

- you are an owner, partner, member, employee, business partner or affiliate of any person who has a financial interest in the subject matter of the review; and/or

- you are otherwise connected with, or related to, any person who has a financial interest in the subject matter of the review.

The Site may contain discussion forums, bulletin boards, review services or other forums in which you or third parties may post reviews of dog ownership experiences or other content, messages, materials or other items on the Site ("Community Areas"). You are solely responsible for your use of such Community Areas and use them at your own risk. By using any Community Areas, you expressly agree not to post, upload to, transmit, distribute, store, create or otherwise publish through the Site any of the following:

  1. Any message, data, information, text, music, sound, photos, graphics, code or any other material ("content") that is false, unlawful, misleading, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing or advocates harassment of another person, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent or otherwise objectionable;
  2. Content that 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;
  3. Content that would constitute, encourage, promote or provide instructions for a conduct of an illegal activity, criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, violate the rights of any party in any country in the world, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law.
  4. Content that provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
  5. Content that may infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual or proprietary right of any party. In particular, content that promotes an illegal or unauthorised 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;
  6. Content that impersonates any person or entity or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity, including eDogAdvisor;
  7. Unsolicited promotions, mass mailings or “spamming”, transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," political campaigning, advertising, contests, raffles, or solicitations;
  8. Content containing commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes;
  9. Private information of any third party, including, without limitation, surname (family name) addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers.
  10. Contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
  11. Viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files;
  12. Content that is unrelated to the topic of the Interactive Area(s) in which such Content is posted; or
  13. Content or links to content that, in the sole judgment of eDogAdvisor, (a) violates the previous subsections herein, (b) is objectionable, (c) which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Interactive Areas or the Site, or (d) which may expose eDogAdvisor or its affiliates or its users to any harm or liability of any type.

eDogAdvisor takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Content posted, stored or uploaded by you or any third party, or for any loss or damage thereto, nor is eDogAdvisor liable for any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography or profanity you may encounter. As a provider of community services, eDogAdvisor is not liable for any statements, representations or content provided by its users in any public forum, personal home page or other Community Area. Although eDogAdvisor has no obligation to screen, edit or monitor any of the Content posted to or distributed through any Community Area, eDogAdvisor reserves the right, and has absolute discretion, to remove, screen or edit without notice any content posted or stored on the Site at any time and for any reason, and you are solely responsible for creating backup copies of and replacing any content you post or store on the Site at your sole cost and expense.

You are and shall remain solely responsible for the content of any comments you make and you agree to indemnify eDogAdvisor and its affiliates for all claims resulting from any comments you submit. eDogAdvisor and its affiliates take no responsibility and assume no liability for any comments submitted by you or any third party.

Customer reviews are provided for informational purposes only. Customer reviews reflect the individual reviewer's results and experiences only and are not verified or endorsed by eDogAdvisor. We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage arising from any reliance you may place on any review published on the Website.

If it is determined that you retain moral rights (including rights of attribution or integrity) in the content, you hereby declare that (a) you do not require that any personally identifying information be used in connection with the content, or any derivative works of or upgrades or updates thereto; (b) you have no objection to the publication, use, modification, deletion and exploitation of the content by eDogAdvisor or its licensees, successors and assigns; (c) you forever waive and agree not to claim or assert any entitlement to any and all moral rights of an author in any of the content; and (d) you forever release eDogAdvisor, and its licensees, successors and assigns, from any claims that you could otherwise assert against eDogAdvisor by virtue of any such moral rights.

Any use of the Community Areas or other portions of the Site in violation of the foregoing violates these Site Terms and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the Community Areas and/or the Site. In order to cooperate with legitimate governmental requests, subpoenas or court orders, to protect eDogAdvisor's systems and customers, or to ensure the integrity and operation of eDogAdvisor’s business and systems, eDogAdvisor may access and disclose any information it considers necessary or appropriate, including, without limitation, user profile information (i.e. name, email address, etc.), IP addressing and traffic information, usage history, and posted content. eDogAdvisor’s right to disclose any such information shall take precedence over any terms of eDogAdvisor's Privacy Policy.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

Information submitted to the Website is governed according to the website’s current Privacy Policy.

You agree to provide true, accurate, current, and complete information when registering with the Website. It is your responsibility to maintain and promptly update this account information to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete. If you provides any information that is fraudulent, untrue, inaccurate, incomplete, or not current, or we have reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is fraudulent, untrue, inaccurate, incomplete, or not current, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account without notice and to refuse any and all current and future use of the Website.

Although sections of the Website may be viewed simply by visiting the Website, in order to access some Content and/or additional features offered at the Website, you may need to register as a member. If you create an account on the Website, you may be asked to supply your name, a User ID and password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur in connection with your password or account. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of either your password or account or any other breach of security. You further agree that you will not permit others, including those whose accounts have been terminated, to access the Website using your account or User ID. You grant the Operators and all other persons or entities involved in the operation of the Website the right to transmit, monitor, retrieve, store, and use your information in connection with the operation of the Website and in the provision of services to you. The Operators cannot and do not assume any responsibility or liability for any information you submit, or your or third parties’ use or misuse of information transmitted or received using website. To learn more about how we protect the privacy of the personal information in your account, please visit our Privacy Policy.

Warranty disclaimer

The website and associated materials are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, the operators disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property. The operator makes no representations or warranty that the website will meet your requirements, or that your use of the website will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free; nor do the operators make any representation or warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the website. The operator makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of the website or the information, content, materials, or products included on the website.

In no event shall the operator or any of their agents, vendors or suppliers be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for loss of profits, business interruption, loss of information) arising out of the use, misuse of or inability to use the website, even if the operator has been advised of the possibility of such damages. This disclaimer constitutes an essential part of this agreement. Because some jurisdictions prohibit the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you.

You understand and agree that any content viewed, downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the website is at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data or business interruption that results from the download of content. The operator shall not be responsible for any loss or damage caused, or alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the information or ideas contained, suggested or referenced in or appearing on the website. Your participation in the website is solely at your own risk. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from the operator or through the operator, their employees, or third parties shall create any warranty not expressly made herein. You acknowledge, by your use of the website, that your use of the website is at your sole risk.

Liability limitation

Under no circumstances and under no legal or equitable theory, whether in tort, contract, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, shall the operator or any of their agents, vendors or suppliers be liable to user or to any other person for any indirect, special, incidental or consequential losses or damages of any nature arising out of or in connection with the use of or inability to use the  website or for any breach of security associated with the transmission of sensitive information through the website or for any information obtained through the website, including, without limitation, damages for lost profits, loss of goodwill, loss or corruption of data, work stoppage, accuracy of results, or computer failure or malfunction, even if an authorised representative of the operator has been advised of or should have known of the possibility of such damages.

eDogAdvisor’s total cumulative liability for any and all claims in connection with the website will not exceed five pounds sterling (£5.00). User agrees and acknowledges that the foregoing limitations on liability are an essential basis of the bargain and that the operators would not provide the website absent of such limitation.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Operator, agents, vendors or suppliers from and against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from or related to your use or misuse of the Website, including, without limitation, your violation of these Terms and Conditions, the infringement by you, or any other subscriber or user of your account, of any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity.

Links to third-party sites

This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than eDogAdvisor. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. Further, it is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you select or software you download (whether from this Website or other websites) is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses, defects and other items of a destructive nature. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators. In some cases you may be asked by a third party site to link your profile on eDogAdvisor to a profile on another third party site. Choosing to do so is purely optional, and the decision to allow this information to be linked can be disabled (with the third party site) at any time.

Software available on this website

Please note that all Software, including, without limitation, all HTML, XML, Java code and Active X controls contained on this Website, is owned by eDogAdvisor, and/or its affiliates, and is protected by copyright laws and international treaty provisions. Any reproduction or redistribution of the Software is expressly prohibited, and may result in civil and criminal penalties.

Without limiting the foregoing, copying or reproduction of the software to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is expressly prohibited. The software is warranted, if at all, only according to the terms of the license agreement.

Copyright and trademark notices

All contents of this Website are: ©2014 eDogAdvisor. All rights reserved. eDogAdvisor is not responsible for content on websites operated by parties other than eDogAdvisor.

Reference to any products, services, processes or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof by eDogAdvisor.

Policy for removal of illegal content

If you have any complaints or objections to material or content including User Messages posted on this Site, or if you believe that material or content posted on this Site infringes a copyright that you hold, please contact us immediately at hello@edogadvisor.co.uk

eDogAdvisor will make all reasonable endeavours to remove illegal content as soon as possible.

Modifications

eDogAdvisor may change, add or delete these Terms and Conditions or any portion thereof from time to time in its sole discretion where it deems it necessary for legal, general regulatory and technical purposes, or due to changes in the services provided or nature or layout of the Site. Thereafter, you expressly agree to be bound by any such amended Terms and Conditions.

eDogAdvisor may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the website at any time, including availability of any feature, database or content. eDogAdvisor may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to all or parts of the Site without notice or liability for technical or security reasons, to prevent against unauthorised access, loss of, or destruction of data or where we consider in our sole discretion that you are in breach of any provision of these Terms and Conditions or of any law or regulation and where it decides to discontinue providing a service.

Your continued use of eDogAdvisor now, or following the posting of any such notice of any changes will indicate acceptance by you of such modifications.

Termination

These Terms and Conditions of Use are effective until terminated by either party. If you no longer agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, you must cease use of the Website. If you are dissatisfied with the Website, its content, or any of these terms, conditions, and policies, your sole legal remedy is to discontinue using the Website. The Operators reserve the right to terminate or suspend your access to and use of the Website, or parts of the Website, without notice, if we believe, in our sole discretion, that such use (i) is in violation of any applicable law; (ii) is harmful to our interests or the interests, including intellectual property or other rights, of another person or entity; or (iii) where the Operators have reason to believe that you are in violation of these Terms and Conditions of Use.

General

This Website is owned and operated by a U.K. company, Cotswold Web Limited, and this Agreement is governed by the laws of the United Kingdom. Access to the Content may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries.

You agree that no joint venture, agency, partnership, or employment relationship exists between you and eDogAdvisor and/or Affiliates as a result of this Agreement or use of this Website.

Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.