United Pet Club Platform Agreement & Consent

Effective date: August 1, 2026  |  Version: 1.1

This Platform Agreement & Consent (the “Agreement”) is a binding legal contract between you and United Pet Technologies Inc. By creating an account, checking the acceptance box, clicking “I Agree,” or otherwise accessing or using the Platform, you accept this Agreement and the consents set out below. If you do not agree, do not create an account and do not use the Platform.

Please read Section 13 (Binding Arbitration & Class-Action Waiver) carefully. It affects how disputes are resolved and requires individual arbitration instead of court or jury trials.

1. Definitions

1. “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our” means United Pet Technologies Inc., a for-profit corporation, which owns, operates, and is solely responsible for UnitedPetClub.com and all related websites, subdomains, applications, APIs, and services.
2. “United Pet Club” or “UPC” means the brand, community, and services operated by the Company. United Pet Club Inc. is a separate non-profit corporation and an Affiliate of the Company; it may receive data and content under this Agreement for charitable, educational, welfare, advocacy, and research purposes.
3. “Platform” means UnitedPetClub.com together with all other websites, mobile and desktop applications, APIs, microsites (including pet profile microsites), tools, content, and services made available by the Company, whether now existing or later created.
4. “You,” “your,” or “User” means the individual or entity that registers for, accesses, or uses the Platform.
5. “Organization” means any business, breeder, club, rescue, shelter, kennel, cattery, veterinary practice, association, registry, or other entity that registers for or uses the Platform, and each person who acts on its behalf.
6. “Affiliate” means any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Company, including United Pet Club Inc.
7. “User Content” means any data, text, photographs, images, video, audio, documents, pedigrees, health and breeding records, listings, reviews, comments, messages, profiles, and other materials that you or an Organization submit, upload, post, generate, or transmit through the Platform.
8. “Pet Data” means any information relating to an animal, including identity, breed, lineage and pedigree, photographs and biometric-derived features, microchip and identifier numbers, ownership and transfer history, health, medical, reproductive, genetic, behavioral, location, and registry information.
9. “Personal Data” means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
10. “De-Identified Data” means data that has been aggregated, anonymized, or processed so that it no longer reasonably identifies any individual.
11. “Platform Data” means data the Company generates, derives, infers, aggregates, or compiles from or about your use of the Platform, including analytics, models, insights, statistics, and De-Identified Data.

2. Who You Are Contracting With

1. The Platform, including UnitedPetClub.com and all of the Company’s other sites and apps, is operated exclusively by United Pet Technologies Inc. Your agreement is with the Company.
2. United Pet Club Inc. (non-profit) is an Affiliate. Where this Agreement grants rights, licenses, or consents to the Company, those rights, licenses, and consents are also granted to the Company’s Affiliates (including United Pet Club Inc.) and to the Company’s successors, assigns, service providers, and authorized partners, in each case acting on the Company’s behalf or under the Company’s direction.

3. Eligibility & Accounts

1. You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, to create an account. Users between the minimum permitted age and the age of majority may use the Platform only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by this Agreement.
2. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information and to keep it up to date.
3. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for all activity under your account. Notify us immediately of any unauthorized use.
4. If you register or act on behalf of an Organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that Organization, and “you” includes that Organization.
5. We may refuse, suspend, restrict, or terminate any account at our discretion, including for violation of this Agreement.

4. License You Grant Over User Content and Pet Data

1. Grant of license. You hereby grant the Company a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, and sublicensable (through multiple tiers) license to host, store, reproduce, cache, back up, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, publish, publicly display and perform, distribute, transmit, analyze, process, and otherwise use all User Content and Pet Data, in any media and by any technology now known or later developed, for any purpose permitted by this Agreement.
2. Scope of purposes. Permitted purposes include operating, providing, securing, maintaining, and improving the Platform; developing new products, features, and services; analytics and business intelligence; research and development; training, validating, and improving artificial intelligence and machine-learning models; marketing and promotion; and the other purposes described in this Agreement.
3. Ownership of underlying content. As between you and the Company, you retain ownership of User Content you lawfully own, subject to the broad license granted above. Nothing in this Agreement transfers title to your Personal Data except as expressly stated, but the license granted is intended to be as broad as applicable law allows.
4. Pet Data authority. Where you submit Pet Data, you represent that you own the animal or are otherwise authorized to provide that Pet Data and to grant the rights in this Section.
5. Survival. The licenses in this Section survive deletion of your content or account to the extent the content has been shared with others, incorporated into Platform Data, used in backups, or used to train models, as described in Section 11.

5. Company Ownership of Platform Data and Derived Works

1. As between you and the Company, the Company exclusively owns all Platform Data, including all analytics, insights, statistics, aggregations, inferences, De-Identified Data, and all models, algorithms, weights, datasets, improvements, and other works that the Company creates, derives, or trains from User Content or Pet Data.
2. You assign to the Company all right, title, and interest you may have in such Platform Data and derived works, and you waive any moral rights in them to the extent permitted by law.
3. The Company may use, retain, license, sell, and commercialize Platform Data and De-Identified Data indefinitely and for any purpose, without restriction and without compensation to you.

6. Organization Data Rights

1. If you are an Organization, you grant the Company the same broad rights set out in Sections 4 and 5 over all data and content you submit, store, generate, or manage through the Platform, including data about your members, customers, animals, listings, transactions, and operations (“Organization Data”).
2. You represent and warrant that you have obtained all consents, authorizations, and legal bases necessary for the Company and its Affiliates to receive, store, manage, and use Organization Data as described in this Agreement, including any required notices to, and consents from, the individuals to whom that data relates.
3. You grant the Company full authority to store, host, process, manage, and use Organization Data to provide the Platform and for the purposes described in this Agreement, and you acknowledge the Company may act as a processor, controller, or independent controller of such data as the context requires.
4. You will indemnify the Company for any claim arising from your failure to obtain such consents or authorizations (see Section 12).

7. Intellectual Property & Content Ownership Warranties

1. You represent and warrant that you own, or have all necessary rights, licenses, consents, and permissions to, all User Content, Pet Data, and Organization Data you provide, and to grant the licenses in this Agreement.
2. You will only provide content that you own or are authorized to use, and that does not infringe or misappropriate any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, publicity, privacy, or other right of any third party.
3. You will not upload content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, fraudulent, deceptive, or that you are contractually or legally prohibited from sharing.
4. The Company respects intellectual property rights and will respond to valid infringement notices, including under applicable notice-and-takedown regimes. We may remove content and terminate repeat infringers.
5. The Company, the Platform, and all associated software, designs, trademarks, logos, and content (other than User Content) are owned by the Company or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. You receive no rights in them except the limited right to use the Platform under this Agreement.

8. Feedback

If you provide suggestions, ideas, or feedback about the Platform, you grant the Company a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use and commercialize that feedback without restriction, attribution, or compensation.

9. Consents

By accepting this Agreement, and subject to the granular controls you can manage in your account settings, you provide the following consents. Where applicable law requires opt-in consent for a specific purpose, that purpose is governed by the separate consent controls in your account, and your choices there prevail for that purpose.

9.1 Essential Cookies & Technologies

1. You consent to the use of cookies, local storage, device identifiers, pixels, SDKs, and similar technologies that are strictly necessary to operate, secure, authenticate, and deliver the Platform. These cannot be disabled while you use the Platform.
2. Non-essential cookies and technologies (for analytics, personalization, and advertising) are used in accordance with your cookie and consent preferences and applicable law.

9.2 Data Collection & Processing

You consent to the Company collecting, storing, and processing your Personal Data, User Content, Pet Data, and Organization Data to operate and improve the Platform, secure it, prevent fraud and abuse, provide support, comply with law, and for the other purposes in this Agreement.

9.3 Research

You consent to the Company and its Affiliates (including United Pet Club Inc.) using your data and Pet Data, in identifiable or De-Identified form, for research, studies, and the advancement of animal health, welfare, breeding, and veterinary science, including research conducted with or published by academic, scientific, governmental, and commercial partners.

9.4 Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

You consent to the Company using your User Content and Pet Data (including pet photographs and breed/lineage records) to develop, train, validate, and improve artificial-intelligence and machine-learning models and features. Models and their outputs are Platform Data owned by the Company.

9.5 Marketing & Communications

1. You consent to receive service, transactional, and administrative communications relating to your account, which are not promotional and cannot be opted out of while you maintain an account.
2. Subject to your preferences and applicable law, you consent to receive marketing and promotional communications by email, SMS/text, push notification, in-app message, and messaging services such as WhatsApp. You may withdraw marketing consent at any time through your account settings or the unsubscribe mechanism in the message; standard message and data rates may apply.

9.6 Analytics, Personalization & Advertising

Subject to your preferences and applicable law, you consent to the use of your data for analytics, telemetry, diagnostics, personalization of content and recommendations, and advertising, including measuring and improving advertising.

9.7 Partner & Third-Party Sharing

Subject to your preferences and applicable law, you consent to the Company sharing relevant data with trusted partners (for example insurance providers, breed registries, payment processors, and service providers) to provide and improve services you request or that enhance the Platform.

9.8 Public Listing & Search Indexing

1. You consent to the Company publishing the pages you choose to make public — including profile, listing, pet, and post pages — and to making them available to search engines, AI assistants, and other automated services that may index, cache, summarize, and cite them.
2. Profiles of professionals and organizations are listed by default, because being findable is the purpose of a public business listing. Profiles of individual pet owners are not listed unless you opt in through your account settings.
3. Listing is separate from visibility: a public page remains viewable by anyone who has its link whether or not a search engine lists it.
4. You may change this choice at any time. When you withdraw, we remove the page from our sitemap and instruct search engines not to list it; we cannot compel a third party to delete copies it has already collected.

9.9 Withdrawal of Consent

You may withdraw a consent that requires opt-in at any time through your account’s privacy and consent controls. Withdrawal is prospective only and does not affect (a) processing already carried out, (b) processing for which the Company has another lawful basis, (c) De-Identified Data, or (d) data already incorporated into Platform Data, backups, or trained models.

10. Privacy & Your Statutory Rights

1. The Company’s collection and use of Personal Data is described in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by reference. Where this Agreement and the Privacy Policy conflict regarding Personal Data, the Privacy Policy governs the handling of Personal Data.
2. Nothing in this Agreement waives or limits any non-waivable right you have under applicable data-protection laws (such as the EU/UK GDPR, the laws of Canada including PIPEDA, the California Consumer Privacy Act, and similar laws), including rights of access, correction, deletion, portability, and objection. The broad licenses and ownership provisions in this Agreement apply to the fullest extent those laws allow and are read down, rather than invalidated, where a law restricts them.
3. You may exercise your statutory privacy rights through the controls in your account or by contacting us using the details in Section 18.

11. Data Retention & Effect of Deletion

1. The Company may retain data for as long as needed to provide the Platform, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and for the purposes in this Agreement.
2. If you delete content or close your account, the Company may retain and continue to use: (a) De-Identified Data and Platform Data; (b) content already shared with or copied by other users or Organizations; (c) data in routine backups for a commercially reasonable period; (d) data the Company must keep to meet legal, tax, audit, security, or fraud-prevention obligations; and (e) models already trained on your data.

12. Acceptable Use

1. You will not misuse the Platform, including by: violating any law; infringing others’ rights; uploading malware; scraping, harvesting, or reverse-engineering except as permitted by law; circumventing security or access controls; interfering with the Platform’s operation; impersonating others; or engaging in fraudulent, abusive, harassing, or deceptive conduct.
2. You will not use the Platform to facilitate animal cruelty, illegal animal trade, or any transaction prohibited by law.
3. We may investigate and take any action we consider appropriate, including removing content, suspending or terminating accounts, and cooperating with law enforcement.

13. Marketplace & Member Transactions

1. The Platform may let users and Organizations list, buy, sell, transfer, adopt, breed, or otherwise transact regarding animals, goods, and services. Unless expressly stated, the Company is not a party to those transactions and acts only as a venue and technology provider.
2. You are solely responsible for your transactions, listings, representations, and compliance with applicable laws (including animal-welfare, sale, licensing, registration, and consumer-protection laws). You assume all risk arising from dealing with other users or Organizations.
3. The Company does not guarantee the identity, conduct, legality, quality, health, pedigree, or suitability of any animal, party, listing, good, or service.

14. Disclaimers

1. No professional advice. The Platform does not provide veterinary, medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Content is for general informational purposes only. Always consult a qualified professional. In an animal emergency, contact a veterinarian.
2. “As is.” The Platform is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, and non-infringement, to the fullest extent permitted by law.
3. We do not warrant that the Platform will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that data will not be lost.

15. Limitation of Liability

1. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company and its Affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees, and agents, will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business, arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Platform, even if advised of the possibility.
2. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company’s total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Platform will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amounts you paid the Company in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred Canadian dollars (CAD $100).
3. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; in those jurisdictions our liability is limited to the smallest extent permitted by law.

16. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its Affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your User Content, Pet Data, or Organization Data; (b) your breach of this Agreement or your representations and warranties; (c) your violation of any law or third-party right; (d) your transactions with other users or Organizations; and (e) your failure to obtain any required consent or authorization.

17. Suspension & Termination

1. You may stop using the Platform and close your account at any time.
2. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, including for breach of this Agreement or risk to the Platform or others.
3. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 19.

18. Binding Arbitration & Class-Action Waiver

1. Informal resolution first. Before starting any proceeding, you agree to contact us and attempt to resolve the dispute informally for at least 60 days.
2. Arbitration. Except where prohibited by law, any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Platform that is not resolved informally will be finally resolved by binding, individual arbitration administered under the rules of a recognized arbitral body in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, rather than in court.
3. Class-action waiver. To the fullest extent permitted by law, disputes will be brought only in your individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative proceeding.
4. Exceptions. Either party may bring a claim in small-claims court or seek injunctive relief for intellectual-property or unauthorized-access matters. Nothing here waives non-waivable rights, including any non-waivable right of consumers in your jurisdiction.

19. Governing Law & Venue

This Agreement is governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada, and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to Section 18, the courts located in Vancouver, British Columbia have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to that jurisdiction and venue, except where applicable law gives you a non-waivable right to bring proceedings elsewhere.

20. Changes to This Agreement

1. We may update this Agreement from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice (for example by email or an in-Platform notice) before they take effect.
2. Your continued use of the Platform after changes take effect constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Platform and may close your account.

21. General

1. Entire agreement. This Agreement, together with the Privacy Policy and any policies referenced in it, is the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the Platform and supersedes prior agreements on that subject.
2. Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the rest remains in effect.
3. No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.
4. Assignment. You may not assign this Agreement without our consent. We may assign it to an Affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.
5. Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
6. Export & sanctions. You represent that you are not subject to sanctions and will comply with applicable export-control and sanctions laws.
7. Relationship. No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship is created by this Agreement.
8. Notices. We may give notice through the Platform or by email to the address on your account.
9. Language. Where we provide translations, the English version governs to the extent permitted by law.

22. Contact

United Pet Technologies Inc.
Attn: Privacy & Legal
Email: legal@unitedpetclub.com

Acknowledgment & Acceptance

By checking the box and creating an account, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Platform Agreement & Consent, that you grant the licenses and consents described above, and that you make the representations and warranties set out in it. You agree that your electronic acceptance has the same legal effect as a handwritten signature.

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