TERMS OF WEBSITE USE

This page (together with the documents referred to in it) sets out the terms and conditions on which you may make use of our website currently located at www.petcompare.com (hereinafter referred to as the "Website"), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using the Website.

Acceptable Use Policy
Enhanced Listing Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy

INFORMATION ABOUT US

This Website is operated by PetCompare Limited hereinafter referred to as "we" or "us", as appropriate). We are a company incorporated in England and Wales, registered no. 07267905 and have our principal place of business at The Loft, 42 Quay Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5BA.

ACCESSING OUR SITE

Access to the Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on the Website without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some or all parts of the Website.

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures for logging into the Website, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our Acceptable Use Policy.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Subject to the provisions relating to material uploaded by you (see "Uploading material to the Website", below), we are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in Website, and in the material published on it. For the avoidance of doubt, we are the owner of any copyright (and other intellectual property rights, in any and all editorial content on the Website produced from upload materials (whether published on the Website or not).

All works on the Website are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from the Website for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others to material posted on the Website.

You must not modify any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us.

If you print off, copy or download any part of the Website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED

Commentary and other materials posted the Website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to the Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. We assume no responsibility or liability for the accuracy, veracity, completeness of any information posted on the Website in the form of advertisements. Such responsibility and liability vests in the party whose product is being advertised. The Website contains social networking and blogs style functionality. As such members of the public are allowed to share amongst themselves their experiences, views and other information on pets and animals and their care. We accept no responsibility or liability for the content shared through and posted on the Website.

OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY

We aim to update the Website regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to the Website, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on the Website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

OUR LIABILITY

The material displayed on the Website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy, veracity or completeness. To the extent permitted by law we hereby expressly exclude:

• All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
• Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with the Website, or in connection with the use of the Website, the inability to use the Website, reliance or use of any information on the Website or any the use, inability to use or through reliance on any information on any websites linked to the Website, including, without limitation any liability for:
• loss of income or revenue;
• loss of business;
• loss of profits or contracts;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of data;
• loss of goodwill;
• wasted management or office time; and
• for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using the Website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all personal data provided by you is accurate, up-to-date, and complete.

TRANSACTIONS CONCLUDED THROUGH OUR SITE

Contracts for the supply of services formed through our site or as a result of visits made by you are governed by our Enhanced Listing Terms & Conditions.

UPLOADING MATERIAL TO THE WEBSITE SITE

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to the Website (whether as a blog or otherwise), or for use by other users of the Website, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy. You warrant that any such contribution does and will comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of this warranty.

Any material you upload to the Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and in uploading it you warrant that it is your own work and not copied from a third party and grant to us a non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty free, transferrable licence to use, broadcast, reproduce, modify and adapt such uploaded material and make the same available to third parties in unmodified and/or modified form.

In addition, you agree to waive your moral rights in any material you upload to the Website.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to the Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, defames them, breaches confidence or violates their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted or provided by you or any other user of the Website.

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on the Website. Our content standards are set out in our Acceptable Use Policy; however we reserve the right to remove any material or postings on the Website at our sole and unfettered discretion. We are under no obligation to use or display in any way any material that you upload to the Website.

VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES

You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

LINKING TO OUR SITE

You may link to the home page of the Website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

The Website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of the Website other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to make any use of material on the Website other than that set out above, please address your request to marketing@petcompare.com

LINKS FROM OUR SITE

Where the Website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to the Website although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.

These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

TRADE MARKS

PETCOMPARE is the trademark of and owned by Genius Ideas Limited and is used under licence by PetCompare Limited, 19 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 6EQ.

VARIATIONS

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on the Website.

YOUR CONCERNS

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact customerservices@petcompare.com

Thank you for visiting the Website.