Terms of Use

DogFoodAdvisor.com has made every effort to design this Web site to be useful, informative, helpful, honest and fun.

Please let us know if you’d like to see improvements or changes that would make it even easier for you to find the information you need.

However, we must ask that you agree to abide by all of the following terms and details.  Take a moment to review this page because by using this site you automatically agree to these conditions.

Naturally, if you don’t agree, please do not use the web site.

DogFoodAdvisor.com reserves the right to make any modifications it deems necessary.  So, please return to this page to keep up to date.

Your continued use of the DogFoodAdvisor.com web site implies you accept these changes as they are made.

Restrictions on Use of Online Materials

All online materials on the DogFoodAdvisor.com site including (without limitation) text, software, names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade names, images, photos, illustrations, audio clips, video clips, and music are copyrighted intellectual property.

All usage rights are owned and controlled by DogFoodAdvisor.com. You may download online materials for non-commercial, personal use only provided you:

  1. Retain all copyright, trademark and property notices
  2. Make no modification to the materials
  3. Do not use the materials in a manner that suggests an association with any of our products, services, events or brands
  4. Do not download quantities of materials to a database, server, or personal computer for reuse for commercial purposes

You may not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute online materials in any way or for any other purpose unless you first obtain our written permission.

You may not add, delete, distort or misrepresent any content on the DogFoodAdvisor.com site.  Any attempt to modify online material or to defeat or circumvent our security features is prohibited.

Everything you download (including software, files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and all associated data) is considered licensed to you by DogFoodAdvisor.com or third-party licensors for your personal, non-commercial home use only.

We do not transfer title of the software to you.  That means that we retain full and complete title to the software and to all associated intellectual property rights.

You may not redistribute or sell the material or reverse-engineer, disassemble or otherwise convert it to any other usable form.

Submitting Your Online Material to Us

All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, data, comments, or other information you send to DogFoodAdvisor.com through our site (other than information we promise to protect under our published Privacy Policy) becomes and remains our property, even if this agreement is later terminated.

For this reason, we are not required to treat any such submission as confidential. You cannot institute legal action against us for using any ideas you submit. If we do elect to use your submission or idea (or anything related to these materials) we are not required to pay you or anyone else for their use.

We retain exclusive ownership of all present and future submissions of any kind. We may use this material for any purpose we deem appropriate to our DogFoodAdvisor.com mission, without compensating you or anyone else for them.

You acknowledge that you are responsible for any submission you make.  This means that you (and not DogFoodAdvisor.com) have full responsibility for your message (including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright).

Limitation of Liability

DogFoodAdvisor.com will not be liable for any damages or injury that accompany or result from your use of any of its site.  This includes (but is not limited to) damages or injury caused by any:

  1. Use of (or inability to use) the site
  2. Use of (or inability to use) any site to which you hyperlink from ours
  3. Failure of our site to perform in the manner you expected or desired
  4. Error on our site
  5. Omission on our site
  6. Interruption of availability of our site
  7. Defect on our site
  8. Delay in operation or transmission of our site
  9. Computer virus or line failure

Please note we are not liable for any other damages including:

  1. Damages intended to compensate someone directly for loss or injury
  2. Damages reasonably expected to result from a loss or injury (known in legal terms as “consequential damages”)
  3. Other miscellaneous damages and expenses resulting directly from a loss or injury (known in legal terms as “incidental damages”)

We are not liable even if we have been negligent or if our authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages or both.

However, certain state laws may not allow us to limit or exclude liability for these “incidental” or “consequential” damages.

If you live in one of those states, the above limitation obviously would not apply which would mean that you might have the right to recover these types of damages.

DogFoodAdvisor.com was never meant to be used as a substitute for sound professional advice (veterinary or otherwise).

Readers are encouraged to consult with a veterinary health professional before acting on any information obtained anywhere on this web site.

In any event, our liability to you for all losses, damages, injuries, and claims of any and every kind (whether the damages are claimed under the terms of a contract, or claimed to be caused by negligence or other wrongful conduct or claimed under any other legal theory) will not be greater than the amount you paid (if anything) to access our site.

Links to Other Web Sites

We sometimes provide links to other web sites directly from ours.

Such links should not be construed as an endorsement, approval or agreement with any information or resources offered at sites you can access through our site.

Be sure to check the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address window provided in your web browser to confirm you are still viewing from within DogFoodAdvisor.com or have been moved to another web site.

DogFoodAdvisor.com cannot be responsible for the content or practices of third party sites that may be linked to our site.

When DogFoodAdvisor.com provides links or references to other Web sites, no inference or assumption should be made and no representation should be inferred that DogFoodAdvisor.com is connected with, operates or controls these Web sites.

Any approved link must not represent in any way, either explicitly or by implication, that you have received the endorsement, sponsorship or support of any DogFoodAdvisor.com site or endorsement, sponsorship or support of DogFoodAdvisor.com, including its respective employees, agents or directors.

Termination of This Agreement

This agreement remains effective until terminated by either party.

You may terminate this agreement at any time by destroying all materials obtained from all DogFoodAdvisor.com web site along with all related documentation, copies and installations.

DogFoodAdvisor.com may terminate this agreement at any time and without notice to you, if (in its sole judgment) you breach any term or condition of this agreement.

Upon termination, you must destroy all materials.

In addition (by providing material on our web site) we do not in any way promise that the materials will remain available to you.

And DogFoodAdvisor.com is entitled to terminate all or any part of any of its Web site without notice to you.

Jurisdiction and Other Points to Consider

If you use our site from locations outside of the United States, you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws.

These Terms of Use shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the state of Virginia, as it is applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within such jurisdiction.

To the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate DogFoodAdvisor.com and/or its affiliates’ intellectual property rights, DogFoodAdvisor.com and/or its affiliates may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the State of Virginia, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.

Any other disputes will be resolved as follows:

If a dispute arises under this agreement, we both agree to first try to resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in James City County, Virginia.

Any costs and fees other than attorney fees associated with the mediation will be shared equally by each of us.

If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution through mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration at James City County, Virginia, under the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration may be entered in any court with jurisdiction to do so.

DogFoodAdvisor.com may modify these Terms of Use as well as the agreement they create simply by updating this posting as needed and without notice to you.

This is the entire agreement regarding all the matters that have been discussed.

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