Our Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern your use of PetBudeez Product ("Product"). When you create an account in this Product or use the Product, you agree to these Terms.
The Product is an Electronic Tools Company Product provided to you by Electronic Tools Company. These Terms, therefore, constitute an agreement between you and Electronic Tools Company.
ARBITRATION NOTICE AND NO CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT
You, the Pet owner (and your pets) agree that if disputes arise between you and us, they will be resolved by arbitration. The arbitration will be individual and binding. You also waive your right to be included in a class-action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration. In the paragraphs below, we provide some exceptions that allow you to opt out of arbitration.
The PetBudeez Product
We agree to provide you with the Product. The Product includes all of the features, applications, technologies, and software that we provide to advance the Product's intended mission: to bring you closer to the pets you love and other pet owners who share your passion for pets.
The Product offering consists of:
Pets and Pet owners are different. Our Product is designed to strengthen your and your Pet's relationships through shared experiences you are interested in. PetBudeez tries to understand which pets and what you and your pets care about. We collect that data and use it to help you find, create, join and share in interactions of interest to you. We highlight content, features, offers, pets, and pet owners you might be interested in and offer ways to experience PetBudeez, based on what you, your Pet, and others do on the PetBudeez platform.
We have teams and systems that combat abuse and violations of our Terms and Privacy Policy and harmful and deceptive behavior. We use all the Information we collect, including your data, to secure our Product. Note that we may share Information about misuse or harmful content with legal authorities.
As part of our Product development, we create and use cutting-edge technologies that allow us to personalize, protect, and improve our Product on a vast scale for a broad global community. A big part of our work on the Product is to collect, organize and analyze Information.
To operate our Product on a global stage, we must store and transfer data across our computer systems worldwide, including outside your country of residence. This global Infrastructure is necessary to provide you with our Product. Electronic Tools Company, its affiliates, or partners may own or operate the Infrastructure.
The Information we collect is used to enrich our Product and your experience and to collaborate with others on research to make our Product better and contribute to the well-being of our Pet and pet owners' global community.
PetBudeez is free to you. Instead of paying to use PetBudeez, by using the Product, you acknowledge that you are giving us permission to show you ads that businesses and organizations pay us to promote on the Product. Your personal data, such as your activity and interests while on the PetBudeez platform, will allow us to select advertisements relevant to your interest and show them to you.
Note that we do not reveal your identity to advertisers. We don't sell your data to advertisers. They tell us their business goals and the type of audience they want to advertise to. We then show their ad to that audience.
Advertisers get from us reports about the performance of their ads. It helps them understand how people are interacting with their content on PetBudeez. For example, we give advertisers general interest information and the demography of the PetBudeez audience. This Information allows advertisers to match better the ads to the audience. Identifying Information (e.g., your name or email address) is not shared as it can be used to identify who you are and contact you. It is not shared unless you give us specific permission.
The Privacy Policy
To use PetBudeez, you must agree to the PetBudeez Privacy Policy. It explains exactly how we collect, use and share your Information. We provide PetBudeez to you free of charge. In return, you give us permission to collect and use your Information to improve PetBudeez and give you a better experience.The Privacy Policy describes the many ways you can control your Information, including in the PetBudeez Profile and Settings.
Your Obligations
In return for our providing you the Product free of charge, we require you to make the following commitments.
Who is allowed on the PetBudeez Platform? We want our Product to be as open and inclusive as possible, but we also want it to be safe, secure, and follow the law. So, please, commit to a few restrictions to be part of the PetBudeez community.
Prohibited Uses of PetBudeez
These prohibited uses of the Product are to provide a safe and open Product for a broad community of pets and pet owners.
When you register on the platform, your Information must be accurate and up-to-date. It may include personal data. It is prohibited to impersonate another pet or pet owner. You cannot create an account for another pet owner unless you have their express permission.
This prohibited use includes misusing any reporting, dispute, or appeals channel and
making groundless appeals or fraudulent reports.
This prohibited use includes creating accounts and the collection of Information on PetBudeez by using automated tools unless expressly authorized by us.
This prohibited use includes attempts to sell, buy, or transfer any attribute of your account, including your PetBudeez username; it is not permitted to collect, solicit, or use sign-in credentials or passcodes of other users. It is prohibited to collect, misappropriate, or request PetBudeez credentials (usernames, passwords, or passcode).
Under applicable law, you may use someone else's works only by following legal exceptions or limitations to copyright and related rights. When you post or share content, you represent that you have received all necessary rights to the content or own the content.
Permissions You Give to Us
As part of our Agreement, you give us the permissions needed to provide a good Product.
You are explicitly giving us permission to show your profile picture, your pet picture, your username, and data about your interactions with PetBudeez (e.g., likes) or relationships (e.g., follows) in connection with pets or pet owners' accounts, ads, and other content that you follow or interact with while on PetBudeez, with no compensation to you. Actions on content and follows of accounts can be seen only by pets and pet owners you gave permission to see that content or the follows. We will also respect your ad settings when we start showing ads. The initial release does not support advertisement.
Our Additional Rights
Removing Content, Temporary Disabling, or Terminating your account on PetBudeez
We can also terminate or change the Product, remove or block content or Information shared on our Product, or stop providing all or part of the Product after determining that it is necessary to avoid or mitigate legal problems or regulatory impacts. If your account was terminated in error, or you want to temporarily disable or permanently remove your account, please check our Help Page. The deletion process of your account will automatically begin 30 days after you request it. It will take up to 3 months to delete content. This content is no longer visible to other users during the deletion process. However, it remains subject to our Terms and Privacy Policy. Removing the deleted content from our backups and disaster recovery infrastructure takes three more months.
When we disable or terminate your account, or you delete your account, these Terms and Conditions are no longer applicable as an agreement between you and us. However, this section and the section called " What Happens to Our Agreement in case of if Disagreement" will still apply after your account is disabled, deleted, or terminated.
What Happens to our Agreement in case of Disagreement
Our Agreement may not be enforceable in some aspects
Who Has Rights Under this Agreement?
WARRANTIES
WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
In the event of a legal dispute
The following claims don't have to be subject to arbitration; they may be brought to court: the disputes involving intellectual property (like copyrights and trademarks), disputes related to violations of our Platform Policy, or attempts to interfere with the Product or engage with the Product in unauthorized ways (for example, using automated methods to access PetBudeez). Issues related to the scope and enforceability of the arbitration provision are to be decided by a court.
The Federal Arbitration Act governs this arbitration provision.
To opt out of this arbitration provision, within 15 days of the date you agreed to these Terms and Conditions, you must send your name, residence address, username, email address, or phone number you use for your PetBudeez account, a clear statement about wanting to opt out of the arbitration agreement. You must send this statement to Electronic Tools Company. ATTN: PetBudeez Arbitration Opt-out, 640 Gregory Circle, Sonoma, CA 95476.
Updating these Terms and Conditions
We may change our Product and our Privacy Policy, and we may need to make changes to these Terms and Conditions to make sure they accurately reflect our Product and Private Policy. We will notify you (through our Product unless otherwise required by law) before we make changes to these Terms and allow you to review them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use the Product, you will be bound by the updated Terms. If you disagree with the updated Terms and do not want to be bound by them, the best course is to delete your account.Your profile, photos, videos, comments, likes, and followers will be permanently removed when you delete your account. You can also choose to take a break and temporarily disable your account instead.