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Terms of Use
Welcome to ONLYforPETLOVERS.com. We ask that you review these Terms of Use, with the intent to enter into a binding license agreement that conditions your use of this site ("Agreement"). ONLYforPETLOVERS.com’s goal is to set forth and protect our rights so that we may provide you with access to a positive experience at our site. You are free not to accept and be bound by this Agreement. If after reading it, you do not desire to be bound, please leave the site. If you remain on this site, or return thereafter, you are confirming your informed desire to be bound by this Agreement.
1. Modifications/Termination. The terms of this agreement will not be modified on an individual basis. You agree that we may modify the terms of this Agreement (or discontinue this site) in our sole discretion, without advance notice, and that your right to access this site is conditioned on an ongoing basis with your compliance with the then-current version of these Terms and Conditions. You should therefore visit this page frequently.
2. Jurisdiction/Venue. This Web site is hosted in the United States and is intended to be viewed by visitors residing in the United States. In the event of any dispute arising out of or relating to your visit to this site, you agree that the exclusive venue for litigating disputes shall be in state or federal court in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
3. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THIS WEB SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THERE IS NO WARRANTY THAT ACCESS TO OR USE OF THIS SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; OR THAT ANY PARTICULAR RESULTS MAY BE OBTAINED BY USE OF THIS SITE. THIS SITE IS MADE AVAILABLE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR OTHERWISE, OTHER THAN THOSE WHICH ARE IMPLIED BY AND INCAPABLE OF EXCLUSION, RESTRICTION, OR MODIFICATION UNDER THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO THIS AGREEMENT. NEITHER WE NOR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY PROVIDING CONTENT VIA THIS SITE SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
4. Visitor’s Responsible conduct. You agree to act responsibly at this site and to treat other visitors with respect.
5. Limited License/ Copyright and Intellectual Property Law Restrictions. Except for public domain material, the content on this site is protected by intellectual property laws, including U.S. copyright laws. You are hereby granted a non-exclusive license to use the material at this site ("Content") while connected to this site (including, where available, to email individual stories to friends directly from this site). You are also granted a limited license to print one copy of any Content posted at the site, but only for your personal use. Unless specifically provided herein, all rights are reserved. Among other things, except to the extent required for the limited purpose of reviewing material on our site, electronic reproduction, adaptation, distribution, performance or display is prohibited. Changes to or deletion of author attribution or copyright notices are prohibited. Commercial use of any of the Content is strictly prohibited. The use of any of Web site’s trademarks is also strictly prohibited. You may not display this Web site by frames (or any of the Content via in-line links) without our express written permission, which may be requested by contacting us. The visitor may, however, establish ordinary links to our site without our written permission.
6. Discussion Boards, self-publishing, and other 3rd party products. Although ONLYforPETLOVERS.com does not have any obligation to monitor the services provided in this Web site, or the self-published content, we reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials, at our sole discretion, that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to ONLYforPETLOVERS.com and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com also reserves the right to permanently block any user or visitor who violates the terms and conditions outlined herein.
7. Links. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com provides links from our Web site to other sites as a convenience to our visitors. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com has no control over linked sites and makes no representations about any content or material available at these locations. Links shall not be deemed to imply sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement.
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is effective as of September 24, 2007, and will remain
in effect unless changed by www.onlyforpetlovers.com at its sole discretion.
By using the onlyforpetlovers.com Web site and its services, you, the
visitor, are confirming your acceptance of this Privacy Statement. If you do
not agree or are not comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy
Statement, your only remedy is to discontinue use of this Web site.
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com reserves the right, to modify this Privacy Statement at
any time. If ONLYforPETLOVERS.com materially changes how we use your
personal information we will notify you either by email or through written
notice on this Web site. Your continued use of any portion of this site
following notification or posting of such changes, will constitute your
acceptance of those changes. If you have questions or concerns about our
specific policies, please contact us through our feedback form at: www.onlyforpetlovers.com/feedback
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web
site.
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com is firmly committed to privacy. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com
takes our visitor's privacy concerns seriously and wants to take the
necessary steps to address those concerns, we strive to offer, you, our Web
site visitors the highest quality, interactive and personalized experience.
This is why ONLYforPETLOVERS.com has adopted the following policy, which
explains our position on information gathering and how we intend to use and
share any information collected at our Web site. It is important to note
that this privacy policy applies only to information collected by
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com and does not apply to information obtained or used by
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com or its affiliates through other means.
Our collection of visitor identifiable information.
When you register on ONLYforPETLOVERS.com, we collect personally identifying
information from you, the visitor. During registration you are asked to
provide your email address and some demographic information including such
items as your gender, year of birth, and address. The more information you
provide, the better we are able to customize our Web site services and your
experience to suit your needs and preferences. In addition to registration,
we may collect personally identifiable information from you when you enter
contests and sweepstakes (which may be done in conjunction with Web site
registration), participate in promotions and special programs, register for
premium or customized services, make a purchase at one of our merchants or
partners, subscribe to one of our print publications, or download
information, etc.
If you are making a purchase or enrolling in a service for which there is a
fee, ONLYforPETLOVERS.com, or a 3rd party working in partnership with us,
will collect your credit card, billing address, and other verifying
information. In addition, ONLYforPETLOVERS.com may collect personally
identifiable information from you when you provide any content, including
but not limited to photos, to ONLYforPETLOVERS.com for display or use our
Web site, this also includes but not limited to, when you participate in
user surveys, post messages to bulletin boards or chat areas, submit
personals or other classified listings, build a site page, report a problem
with our Web site or services, or submit pet photo(s), or comment to the
site.
If you use our referral service ("Email and Article/Photo to a Friend") to
tell a friend about our Web site, we will ask for your email address and
theirs. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com automatically sends a one-time email to the
address you provided. Neither your email address nor the email address you
provide is stored or used for any other purpose.
Our use of visitor's personally identifiable information
Our main goal is to provide you, the visitor, with a customized and more
enjoyable experience on ONLYforPETLOVERS.com. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com reviews
our users' preferences, demographics, traffic patterns, and other
information in aggregate so that we can better understand who our audience
is, and what it is you want. Tracking user preferences also helps
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com com serve you more relevant advertising. Please note
that ONLYforPETLOVERS.com com does not share your personally identifying
information with the advertiser.
We use a third party to serve ads when you visit our Web site. This third
party ad server may use certain information about your visit to our Web site
in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of
interest to you, but they are not allowed to collect or use personally
identifiable information about you for their own purposes.
All credit card information is transmitted in an encrypted form, using SSL
(secure socket layer) encryption, the present industry standard.
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com follows generally accepted industry standards to
protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission
and once ONLYforPETLOVERS.com receives it. No method of transmission over
the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however.
Therefore, while ONLYforPETLOVERS.com strives to use commercially acceptable
means to protect your personal information, ONLYforPETLOVERS.com cannot
guarantee its absolute security. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com assumes no liability
for disclosure of data due to errors in transmission or unauthorized third
parties. If you have any questions about security on ONLYforPETLOVERS.com,
you can contact us at:
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The email address provided by you at registration, or as updated, may be
used by ONLYforPETLOVERS.com and its affiliated entities, to contact you for
any reason, including: (1) Your account status (including an email
confirmation of registration), (2) Changes to the Web site, the Terms of Use
and Privacy Policy, (3) Participation in user surveys, asking for feedback
on the Web site and (4) Notifying you of existing or prospective products
and services offered by ONLYforPETLOVERS.com or our advertisers and
partners. This information helps us to improve our Web site. The information
provided by you at registration may be used by ONLYforPETLOVERS.com and its
affiliated entities, to contact you with special offers and promotions.
To update your personal information such as name, or mailing address, you
can sign into your account and visit the Edit Profile page. To update your
newsletter subscriptions you either a) visit your newsletter subscription
page in your account, or b) unsubscribe by following the instructions within
the email newsletter.
Keep in mind that if you opt-in to a third party offer on this Web site then
your relationship with the third party will be governed by that site's
respective Privacy Policies. If you no longer wish to receive communication
from the third party, then you will need to contact them directly to
opt-out. When you sign up for some third-party services on this site, such
as free coupons or look up Yellow Pages, you will be taken to a co-branded
site which may appear to be our Web site, however if the third party is
collecting information from you, the use of this information is governed by
the co-branded partner's privacy policy.
Our use of collected information.
Onlyforpetlovers.com uses cookies to store and track your preferences to
provide you with a more personalized user experience. A cookie is a message
that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's
hard drive. Most Internet sites use cookies. You can set your browser
preferences to reject all cookies but then you will not be able to
participate in most customized services, and you may be required to
repeatedly log in to participate in various services, promotions, or product
offerings. Cookies make your experience easier by saving your preferences
and passwords.
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com also uses cookies that contain no personal information
at all. These cookies, help ONLYforPETLOVERS.com estimate our audience size,
determine which areas of ONLYforPETLOVERS.com are the most popular, and
serve targeted advertising. Third party advertisers and our ad server may
set and access their cookies on your computer in accordance with their own
privacy policies. If you would like more information about the use of
cookies by our third party ad server and your ability to opt out of
receiving cookies from this third party, please contact us here: www.onlyforpetlovers.com/feedback
Some parts of the ONLYforPETLOVERS.com Web site use cookies to collect
information about visitors' use of our Web site and to facilitate your
return visits. Information collected about user activity may be done in
partnership using a 3rd party tracking tool. The information collected from
cookies is tracked to enhance security and to improve the functionality of
the onlyforpetlovers.com Web site by avoiding duplicate data entry,
facilitating navigation, and increasing the relevance of content. Cookies on
the site may collect the following information: a unique identifier, user
preferences and profile information used to personalize the content that is
shown, and membership information to access ONLYforPETLOVERS.com's services.
Some cookies used by ONLYforPETLOVERS.com may remain on the user's computer
after they leave the Web site
Most browsers can be configured to reject cookies or alert you when cookies
are being sent. Keep in mind that if you refuse cookies, it is possible that
some portions of onlyforpetlovers.com may not function exactly as intended.
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com may also collect IP addresses for the purposes of
systems administration or to report information in aggregate form to our
advertisers (e.g. how many visitors logged in to onlyforpetlovers.com. An IP
address is a number that is assigned to your computer automatically when you
use the Internet. When you visit onlyforpetlovers.com, our servers log your
IP address. Your IP address is not linked to anything personally
identifiable.
When does ONLYforPETLOVERS.com share information with others?
User information may be shared by ONLYforPETLOVERS.com with its affiliated
entities in order to provide you with a more integrated and customized user
experience. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com will not disclose your personally
identifiable information to third parties except (1) to the extent necessary
to provide you with a requested product or service, or (2) in order to
provide targeted promotional offers during the registration process. If you
do not accept any of the offers, your information will not be retained by
our registration offers partner.
To the extent you are notified of uses of your personal information which
are different from those described in this Policy Statement during your
enrollment in any particular service, sweepstakes, contest or promotion, the
uses of which you are specifically notified will govern that service,
sweepstakes, contest or promotion. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com may co-sponsor some
contests on our site with other companies. If you enter one of these
contests, our co-sponsor may receive the information collected. In such
cases, we will tell you who the co-sponsor is and notify you the use of this
information is governed by the co-sponsor's privacy policy.
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com reserves the right to disclose your personally
identifiable information as required by law and when ONLYforPETLOVERS.com
believes that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply
with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com's Web site.
What else should the visitor know about his/her privacy?
You, the visitor, should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal
information online in a public area, that information may be collected and
used by others. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com does not control the actions of our
visitors and registered users. If you disclose personal information in a
chat room, forum, on your home page, or any other publicly accessible place
on the onlyforpetlovers.com's Web site, you do so at your own risk and you
understand that your submitted information may be collected and used by
others to send you unsolicited messages, advertisements, or for other
purposes.
You are hereby reminded that protection of your privacy is your
responsibility. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of
any password you use to register, and you should always be careful and
responsible whenever disclosing information online.
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com Web site contains links to other sites that are not
owned or controlled by onlyforpetlovers.com. Please be aware that
onlyforpetlovers.com and its affiliated entities are not responsible for the
privacy practices of other sites
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable
information.
In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA),
ONLYforPETLOVERS.com will not knowingly provide access to persons under the
age of thirteen (13). If ONLYforPETLOVERS.com later learns that any
registered user is under the age of thirteen (13), ONLYforPETLOVERS.com will
take appropriate steps to remove the member's information from the database
and ONLYforPETLOVERS.com will proceed to restrict this individual from
future access to our site. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com feels strongly about
protecting the privacy of children. ONLYforPETLOVERS.com encourages kids to
involve their parents in any interactive activity they participate in
online.
Except where otherwise disclosed, ONLYforPETLOVERS.com will not collect or
use any personal information from children, ONLYforPETLOVERS.com knows to be
under the age of thirteen (13), without obtaining express parental consent.
All general information collected from users under the age of thirteen (13)
is used only for aggregate statistical analysis.
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