Our Legal Stuff

Copyright

First of all, this work is Copyright 1990-2000 by Mischievous Productions, LTD. and Dr. D. A. Rickards, DVM, and the staff of the All Animal Clinic. Portions of ths work ARE public domain and were sourced from said. No part of this work in its present format may be reproduced in any form, including electronic transmissions, without express written permission from the publishers. The same goes for images: the photos are the respective property of their takers, and logos are property or trademark of the respective companies, and cannot be used without their express permission. Please have respect and originality when designing your stuff!!

Privacy Policy

We don't appreciate it when websites we visit abuse our linking and privacy rights, so we pledge never to abuse yours.

Petalk.com's goal is to provide readers with the information they want and need. To do that, we may gather some general information about those who access our sites.

We will only collect personally identifying information that users voluntarily provide to us in registering for services (such as a mailing list), filling out surveys and entering contests, if at any time these are offered. If you consent at the time you provide us with your information, we may also use that personal information editorially- to improve and customize our content- or we may employ volunteered personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, and may provide that information and aggregate statistics, at irregular intervals, to reputable, pre-screened organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. Users can revoke their consent at any time to stop their information from being used for marketing and promotional purposes by sending an e-mail request to us , or they can simply opt not to register for special services, surveys and contests.

Petalk.com will limit internal access of user information to employees responsible for conducting business with our customers.

Web surfers should be aware that by voluntarily disclosing personal information on -any site's- bulletin boards, those details can easily be collected and employed by third parties. Children should get their parents' permission before sending out any personal information, or making any purchases over the Internet.

Although we encourage our affiliates to adopt appropriate privacy policies, this policy applies only to sites under the Petalk.com domain. We do not control the privacy policies, banner advertisements, iframes, graphics, pop-up windows, scripting, or other such materials of Petalk.com affiliate sites, or any other sites we may link to.

Linking Policy for petalk.com

Petalk and the All Animal Clinic ("Petalk.Com") grants a non-exclusive, limited license ("License") to the owners of any web sites who place a text link containing our domain name or a link containing the graphic banner below on their site ("Licensee") to use our trademark(s) contained in our domain name and the graphic banner below to develop a link between their site and http://www.petalk.com/. Links to http://www.petalk.com/ other than a text link containing our domain name or a link containing the graphic banner below are forbidden. The materials on Licensee's site shall not imply any association with or relation to Petalk and the All Animal Clinic or imply in any way that any materials from http://www.petalk.com/ are maintained within Licensee's web site.

No changes or modifications to the domain name or graphic banner may be made. Use of the domain name or graphic banner for purposes other than linking to http://www.petalk.com/ is expressly forbidden. The domain name and graphic banner must not be used or associated with any obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, profane, defamatory or unlawful site or materials in any way, or in any manner that would adversely affect the name, reputation and goodwill of Petalk and the All Animal Clinic and its services. Petalk and the All Animal Clinic retains and reserves all rights in and to Petalk and the All Animal Clinic's trade names, trademarks and logos, copyrights and all other intellectual property with respect to the domain name and graphic banner. Petalk and the All Animal Clinic reserves the right to cancel the License at any time and for any reason. Upon receipt of such notification, use of the domain name and graphic banner must cease and the link between the web sites must terminate. Use of any other trademarks, trade names, graphic banners, copyrighted material or any other intellectual property of Petalk and the All Animal Clinic for any purpose is expressly forbidden.

All materials are provided "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the foregoing exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties.

Petalk and the All Animal Clinic shall not be responsible for any loss, damage, liability or expense that may ac or result from your use of the link, domain name or graphic banner, including, but not limited to, any computer virus, technical, hardware or software failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, or failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions. The granting of this License does not indicate nor should it be construed in any way to represent an endorsement by Petalk and the All Animal Clinic of any materials on a web site containing our domain name or graphic banner or any other intellectual property.

Petalk and the All Animal Clinic controls and operates its web sites from its headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States of America. Petalk and the All Animal Clinic in no way implies that the domain name or graphic banner are appropriate or available for use outside of the United States. If you use our materials from locations outside of the United States, you are responsible for compliance with any applicable laws.

Petalk and the All Animal Clinic may at any time revise this Linking Policy. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the  then current Linking Policy to which you are bound.

The use of our domain name and the graphic banner containing our trademark(s) on the web site indicates the agreement by the web site owner to the foregoing terms and conditions.