These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your use of DogCity Ltd. (“DogCity App”) website and the DogCity App application - www.dogcityapp.com (the “DogCity Services”).  By browsing and using the DogCity Services, you agree to be bound by and to comply with these Terms.  If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, please do not use the DogCity Services.

Use of the DogCity Services

We agree to provide you with the DogCity Services. The Services includes (the Service): Offering personalised opportunities to create content, connect, communicate, discover, and share. Fostering a positive, inclusive, and safe environment. We develop and use tools and offer resources to our community members that help to make their experiences positive and inclusive, including when we think they might need help. We also have teams and systems that work to combat abuse and violations of our Terms and policies, as well as harmful and deceptive behaviour. We use all the information we have-including your information-to try to keep our platform secure. We also may share information about misuse or harmful content with law enforcement. Automated technologies also help us ensure the functionality and integrity of our Service. All your data is end-to-end encrypted and secure by our xxxx. Encryption may sometimes fail. You are solely responsible for all costs and expenses which you incur in relation to your use of the DogCity Services, including, but not limited to, any charges relating to internet access. DogCity may change the content of the DogCity Services at any time and without any notice to you. You agree that we can download and install updates to the Service on your device.

Availability of the DogCity Services

DogCity reserves the right to modify, suspend access to or discontinue the DogCity Services, either temporarily or permanently, either with or without notice to you.  DogCity may prevent or restrict your access to the DogCity Services if you do not comply with any part of these Terms or any applicable laws.

License Agreement

DogCity grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license (the “License”) to access and use the DogCity Services. You may only use the DogCity Services on a device that you control. The terms of this License will also govern any upgrades provided by DogCity that replace and/or supplement the original DogCity Services, unless such upgrade is accompanied by a separate license, in which case the terms of that license will govern. However, your right to use the DogCity Services does not include any of the following, which is explicitly prohibited when using the DogCity Services:

  • Modifying or otherwise making any derivative uses of the DogCity Services or any portion thereof.

  • Using any data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction methods, downloading (other than page caching) of any portion of the DogCity Services or any information contained therein;

  • Attempting to access areas/features of the DogCity Services that you are not authorised to access;

  • Any activity that will compromise the security of the DogCity Services;

  • Reverse engineering or access to the DogCity Services in order to build a competitive product or service;

  • Using the DogCity Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the functioning of the DogCity Services in any manner; and/or

  • Using the DogCity Services other than for its intended purposes or in any way that infringes any of the terms and conditions of this agreement.

By using or accessing the DogCity Services you agree, represent and warrant not to do any of this. In case of non-compliance, we may terminate your use of the DogCity Services.

Permissions for Use

You must be at least 13 years old to use the DogCity Services. If you are under 18, you represent that you have your parent or guardian’s permission to use the DogCity Services. Please have them read this Agreement with you. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a user under the age of 18, by allowing your child to use the DogCity Services, you are subject to the terms of this Agreement and responsible for your child’s activity on the DogCity Services. You must not be prohibited from receiving any aspect of our Service under applicable laws or engaging in payments related Services if you are on an applicable denied party listing. We must not have previously disabled your account for violation of law or any of our policies. You must not be a convicted sex offender.

Intellectual Property Rights

You may use the DogCity Services and its content only as permitted by these Terms and as necessary to enable you to access any services we may provide to you through the DogCity Services.

You shall not circumvent or delete any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices contained in the DogCity Services, including any intellectual property notices, or any other security technology embedded or contained within the DogCity Services.

As part of our agreement, you also give us permissions that we need to provide the Service. We do not claim ownership of your content, but you grant us a license to use it. Nothing is changing about your rights in your content. We do not claim ownership of your content that you post on or through the Service. Instead, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights (like writings or recordings) on or in connection with our Service, you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings). You can end this license anytime by deleting your content or account. However, content will continue to appear if you share it with others and they have not deleted it.

You acknowledge and agree that the DogCity Services retains all its rights and all intellectual property rights in all the content DogCity owns (not yours)  and/or its licensors and nothing in these Terms grants you any proprietary rights in the DogCity Services or its content.

Use restrictions

You can't impersonate others or provide inaccurate information. You don't have to disclose your identity on DogCity, but you must provide us with accurate and up to date information (including registration information). Also, you may not impersonate someone you aren't, and you can't create an account for someone else unless you have their express permission. You can't do anything unlawful, misleading, or fraudulent or for an illegal or unauthorised purpose. You can't violate (or help or encourage others to violate) these Terms or our policies, including in particular the Community guidelinesYou can't do anything to interfere with or impair the intended operation of the Service. You can't attempt to create accounts or access or collect information in unauthorised ways,this includes creating accounts or collecting information in an automated way without our express permission. You can't attempt to buy, sell, or transfer any aspect of your account or solicit, collect, or use login credentials of other users. You can't post private or confidential information or do anything that violates someone else's rights, including intellectual property.

Additional Rights We Retain

If you use content covered by intellectual property rights that we have and make available in our Service (for example, images, designs, videos, or sounds we provide that you add to content you create or share), we retain all rights to our content (but not yours). You must obtain written permission from us or under an open source license to modify, create derivative works of, decompile, or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us.

Content Removal and Disabling or Terminating Your Account

We can remove any content or information you share on the Service if we believe that it violates these Terms of Use, our policies (including our Community Guidelines, or we are permitted or required to do so by law. We can refuse to provide or stop providing all or part of the Service to you (including terminating or disabling your account) immediately to protect our community or services, or if you create risk or legal exposure for us, violate these Terms of Use or our policies (including our Community Guidelines), if you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights, or where we are permitted or required to do so by law. If we take action to disable or terminate your account, we will notify you where appropriate. If you believe your account has been terminated in error, or you want to disable or permanently delete your account, consult us via email.

Content you delete may persist for a limited period of time in backup copies and will still be visible where others have shared it. This paragraph, and the section below called "Our Agreement and What Happens if We Disagree," will still apply even after your account is terminated or deleted.

Rights Under this Agreement.

This agreement does not give rights to any third parties. You cannot transfer your rights or obligations under this agreement without our consent. Our rights and obligations can be assigned to others. For example, this could occur if our ownership changes (as in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets) or by law. You shall not copy, reproduce or redistribute any of the DogCity Services or its content, in whole or in part, unless you have DogCity’s express written consent to do so. Any links or connections to third-party websites, web services and content contained in the DogCity Services are not under DogCity’s control and DogCity is not responsible for, and does not endorse, such websites, web services and content or any cookies such third parties may place on your computer or device. Your use of these third-party websites, web services and content may be subject to third-party terms and requirements and you acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for adhering to these. You shall use your own independent judgment regarding your interaction with any third-party websites, web services or content.

Security

You shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that you do not introduce computer viruses, worms, software bombs or other similar items into the DogCity Services.  You shall not use the DogCity Services in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise the DogCity Services or its security.

Accuracy of Information Contained in The DogCity Services

Though DogCity tries very hard to ensure that information on the DogCity Services are correct, neither DogCity, nor any third parties, provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the content found or offered on the DogCity Services for any particular purpose.  You acknowledge and agree that the content on the DogCity Services may contain inaccuracies or errors and that you rely on such content entirely at your own risk.

Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, DogCity accepts no liability in any event (including, but not limited to, (i) negligence for any damages or loss of any kind, (ii) direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages or losses arising out of, or in connection with, any error, omission, defect, computer virus or system failures, or (iii) loss of any profit, goodwill or reputation) arising out of or in connection with the access to, use of, unavailability of, performance of or linking to the DogCity Services or any of its content.

You acknowledge and agree that if you do not own the mobile or device on which you access the DogCity Services, you have obtained permission from the owner to use and access the DogCity Services from such a mobile or device and that you are responsible for the use of and access to the DogCity Services by way of such a mobile or device.

Our Service is provided "as is," and we can't guarantee it will be safe and secure or will work perfectly all the time.
We also don’t control what people and others do or say, and we aren’t responsible for their (or your) actions or conduct (whether online or offline) or content (including unlawful or objectionable content). We also aren’t responsible for services and features offered by other people or companies, even if you access them through our Service.
Our responsibility for anything that happens on the Service (also called "liability") is limited as much as the law will allow. If there is an issue with our Service, we can't know what all the possible impacts might be. You agree that we won't be responsible ("liable") for any lost profits, revenues, information, or data, or consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive, or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms, even if we know they are possible. This includes when we delete your content, information, or account.

Other

DogCity reserves the right to update these Terms from time to time by making a revised version available to you on the DogCity Services. Your continued use of the DogCity Services following any changes will mean that you accept such changes. It is your responsibility to check these Terms from time to time to verify such changes.  DogCity may similarly revise our Privacy policy. You shall have no right to vary these Terms without DogCity’s express prior written agreement. Our rights and obligations can be assigned to others, for example, this could occur if our ownership changes (as in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets) or by law. You shall not assign, novate or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms without DogCity’s prior written consent.

No one other than a party to these Terms has any right to enforce them under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise.

If any provision or part-provision of these Terms is held or made invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court or legislative instrument, it shall be deemed modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid, legal and enforceable. If such modification is not possible, the relevant provision or part-provision shall be deemed deleted. Any modification to or deletion of a provision or part-provision under this clause shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the rest of these Terms.

Your use of the DogCity Services and any dispute arising out of such use is subject to the laws of England and Wales, and the English courts will have jurisdiction in any such matters. You cannot transfer your rights or obligations under this agreement without our consent. 

As of October 30th 2023