Purina® petcentric place is an online social network for sharing dog and cat information, interests, facts, photos, and videos with other pet owners. The purpose of this site is to educate, entertain, and support pets and their owners. petcentric place is an interactive community, and therefore you are vital to upholding respectful content on this site. Please, take a few moments to review these terms of use.

petcentric place is owned and operated by Nestlé Purina PetCare Company (“Purina”). By using petcentric place, you accept and agree to the following petcentric place Terms and Conditions. Nothing in these petcentric place Terms and Conditions should be construed to confer any rights to third party beneficiaries.

Eligibility and registration

As part of the registration process, you will be asked to select a username and password and you will be responsible for all activities occurring under your username and for keeping your password secure. We may refuse to grant you a username that impersonates someone else, is or may be protected by trademark or proprietary rights law, or is vulgar, offensive or otherwise inappropriate, as determined by us in our sole discretion. You are solely responsible for any and all uses of your username, password, and account.

Appropriate conduct and content; personal use only

petcentric place is made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. Businesses, organizations, or legal entities may not use the petcentric place for any purpose.

By acceptance of these petcentric place Terms and Conditions, you agree that any information you provide about yourself and your pets is accurate and complete information at the time provided. In particular, you represent that you are 18 years of age or older. In addition, you agree to update any information provided to petcentric place to keep it accurate and complete. If you become a Member of petcentric place, your failure to accurately and completely provide, and timely update, information about yourself is reasonable grounds for suspension or termination of your membership.

You may not use petcentric place for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. International users agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content, including laws regulating the export of data from the United States or your country of residence. You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, photos, links and other content ("Materials") that you submit, post, and display on petcentric place.

We may, but shall have no obligation to, refuse, edit, and/or remove Materials that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable, or infringes or violates any party's intellectual property or other proprietary rights or these petcentric place Terms and Conditions. We also reserve the right in our sole discretion to refuse, edit, and/or remove any content that may be deemed by the petcentric place community to be inappropriate without providing you notice.

Children's privacy

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. This website is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 18. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we have actual knowledge is under the age of 18.

Examples of illegal or unauthorized uses include, but are not limited to:

Modifying, adapting, translating, or reverse engineering any portion of the petcentric place service; using any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of petcentric place; collecting any information about other Members (including usernames and/or e-mail addresses) for unauthorized purposes; reformatting or framing any portion of the web pages or site images that are part of petcentric place; creating user accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretenses; creating or transmitting unwanted electronic communications such as "spam," or chain letters to other Members or otherwise interfering with other Member's enjoyment of the service; submitting Materials of any third party without such third party's prior written consent; directing any user (for example, by linking) to any Materials of any third party without such third party's prior written consent; submitting Materials that falsely express or imply that such Materials are sponsored or endorsed by petcentric place; submitting Materials that infringe, misappropriate or violate the intellectual property, publicity, privacy or other proprietary rights of any party; transmitting any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses or other items of a destructive nature; submitting Materials that are unlawful or promote or encourage illegal activity; displaying an advertisement as part of your or your pet’s profile; any automated use of the system, including the use of scripts to send messages or post comments; or submitting false or misleading information.

While petcentric place prohibits such conduct and content on its site, you understand and agree that you nonetheless may be exposed to such Materials and that you use petcentric place at your own risk.

Changes to petcentric place Terms and Conditions

We reserve the right to modify or terminate the petcentric place service for any reason, and without notice, without liability to you, any other Member or any third party. We also reserve the right to modify these petcentric place Terms and Conditions from time to time without notice. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these petcentric place Terms and Conditions so that you will be apprised of any changes.

petcentric place’s proprietary rights

By submitting, posting, or displaying any Materials on or through petcentric place, you automatically grant Purina a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license to publicly display or re-display such Materials on the petcentric place website and in all other forms of media (including, without limitation, e-mail blasts and mobile or text messages) that are used by Purina or its agents in connection with the promotion, marketing, use, or expansion of petcentric place.

You represent to Purina that you own all Materials you provide and/or have the unencumbered legal right to grant the above-referenced license with respect to all Materials you provide. You further represent to Purina that such materials do not infringe any third party copyrights or other third party intellectual property rights. You agree to indemnify Purina for any and all loses resulting form the invalidity or inaccuracy of such representation.

Except as expressly authorized by petcentric place, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display or sell any of petcentric place's proprietary information which includes the sum of all postings and photos to the site. The petcentric place logo and “petcentric place” are trademarks of Purina or one of its global affiliates.

Please do not send to petcentric place or post on any petcentric place forum anything that constitutes a trade secret, confidential or proprietary information. We are not in a position to accept such information, nor can we agree to obligations of nondisclosure or confidentiality with regard to submitted plans or ideas. You agree that any information or materials that you, or individuals acting on your behalf, provide to petcentric place will not be considered confidential or proprietary.

petcentric place includes information and content generated from a wide variety of sources, including board certified veterinarians, trainers, and other professional service providers, as well as, other Users and petcentric place Members. Users should understand that petcentric place is a place to review and share information and thoughts about pet care -- but the information is largely informational and represents a limited number of opinions. petcentric place cannot guarantee the timeliness, accuracy, efficacy, or veracity of any information provided at petcentric place, nor the efficiency or applicability of any advice, opinions or content as they may be interpreted and applied to your pet. petcentric place and petcentric place’s staff are not and will not be responsible for any misleading, false, or otherwise injurious information and advice communicated on our website, or for any results obtained from the use of such information or advice. petcentric place will not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by a User through the User's reliance on information, content and advice appearing on our website.

petcentric place is being made available to you “As Is,” without representations or warranties of any kind.

Standard Terms and Conditions for Purina Websites

In addition to these petcentric place Terms and Conditions, you agree to be bound by Purina’s standard Terms and Conditions for its websites, as the same may be modified and updated from time to time, with respect to your use of petcentric place.