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Offensive content
Offensive content will not be
tolerated by petsonthenet.co.nz. As visitors are responsible for posting their own lost or
found ads directly on the site, it is impossible for us to check every
ad posted immediately for appropriateness. Should you find an ad that is
inappropriate or offensive in any way, whether it is the text or the
photo, please email us now on mail@petsonthenet.co.nz
and we will remove the ad in it's entirety. We reserve the right to cancel without warning any ad placed on
petsonthenet.co.nz that is considered offensive, inappropriate or is not directly related
to the content of this site.
Grossly inappropriate or illegal material posted on the site will be
passed onto the correct authority with all details we have of the person
responsible ie) NZ Police for further investigation.
Privacy of
your information
Pets on the Net will not under any circumstances divulge your name, address or email
address to any other party. We will never give, sell, swap or otherwise
distribute your information including e-mail addresses to any other party.
We will not send you unsolicited e-mails unrelated to the actual lost and found
classified process. However where you agree and subscribe to join us, we will send you updates
about this site from time to time as agreed. As we offer a free
service, we do rely on paid advertising to continue the service for free,
so it is possible that our email updates may be sponsored by advertisers
and may contain advertising from time to time, but your details wil never
be passed to any of advertisers who "tag along" on our ezine. You may
unsubscribe from this update service at any time.
Should you post material on our site that is considered to be grossly
inappropriate/offensive or of an illegal nature we waive your right to
privacy for the greater good of the decent and law abiding members of
our community and we will immediately forward your full details to
the NZ Police or appopriate territorial authorites for further
investigation.
Remember, Pets on the Net is a family friendly site, for all ages!
Spam
(unsolicited email) on Pets on the Net and Harvesting of email
addresses/information from Pets on the Net
Unsolicited email through petsonthenet.co.nz to our advertisers, ads,
message board, guest book partcipants etc, will not be tolerated. We ask
anyone reciveing an inappropriate spam email to please forward it to us
directly at mail@petsonthenet.co.nz.
Do not reply or attempt to unsubscribe from any spam email, it just makes
it worse!
Pets on the Net formally warns any person or company who emails any
person on petsonthenet.co.nz in order to spam them or to promote their own
company/product. Further action will be taken if we find more written
proof of these activities continuuing.
Pets on the Net respects the privacy of your details and email address,
please see "privacy of your
information" above and also our "offensive
content policy".
Your security on the internet
We strongly suggest that you do not put your full
name, full address (street address is enough) on the ad you post on the
internet. A first name is sufficient. Be careful of putting too much personal information on your ad ie)
"Not
home in the mornings so always call afternoons", "Single lady has lost
dearly loved cat". It is OK to put "loved family pet" or
"toddler misses dog", but don't be specific ie) do not include children's
names or
ages.
The software we use will protect the privacy of your e-mail address
details from site visitors. Instead of displaying your e-mail for all the
world (and all the spammers to see) a hyperlink saying "click here to
reply" will appear to all visitors to the your ad.
Rewards
Pets on the Net is not liable for payment of any reward offered by the
owner, nor any "finders fee" claimed by a finder. If a
finder suggests a "finders fee", attempt to get a name and
address where your pet is to be picked up and call the police - this is
illegal and tantamount to blackmail. On the other hand If you decide to give a small reward,
that's up to you.
(If you want to give petsonthenet.co.nz
a small reward for our part in your success, we gratefully accept! We will
use any such rewards/donations to further promote the site, so more people will be
able to learn about/use our free service.)
If the finder has spent money on vet
care or food for you pet, you as the owner are responsible for repayment/reimbursement
to the finder. Costs should be fair and reasonable and
a receipt should be shown to you confirming any costs met by the
finder. Pets on the Net is
in no way responsible for any vet care, food, housing or damage done by
pets in care of the finder.
Onus is on the Owner IMPORTANT!
Petsonthenet is in no way responsible for matching lost pets with finders.
Nor is this the finders responsibility. Sole responsibility to search
found ads lies with the pet owner who should regularly check the site for any pets
that might be theirs. Once a day is recommended as most
animal welfare agencies hold strays for seven days before they rehome or euthanise animals.
Also while we do get the "incoming strays" list from the
Auckland SPCA, we do not automatically get their "found book".
This is the book where the SPCA writes pets that have been found by the
public, but not handed to the SPCA yet. You need to call every few days to
check the found book at the SPCA on 256 7300. Pets on the Net still saves
you lots of phone time because you can search the SPCA database yourself
online.
The SPCA's, pounds, vets, any animal welfare organisations etc are not
responsible for checking petsonthenet.co.nz to see if the animal they have
can be crossmatched to our lost ads. The sole responsibility is with the
owner to do this. This would be an impossible and resource intensive task
for any animal welfare agency, some dealing with in excess of 100 strays a
day...we are grateful to those who do support this service by inputting
their stray animals regularly onto our database. Please check with any
animal welfare organisation in your area that may collect your pet, to see
if they do input their "incoming strays" to this site, otherwise
you will have to keep phoning them regularly (and ask them to consider
using petsonthenet's free service to save you both time!).
Misinformation in Ads
Pets on the Net is in no way responsible for any misinformation or omission
in any ad. For example a person may find a cat and misrepresent it
as "brown" when it is a "tabby" meaning the owner may pass
it over when searching. Like wise a finder may list a found dog as a "Pitbull" when it is in fact a "Staffie".
Cross breeds can be hard to identify and we recommend you look at all
possible variations when searching the database. We can only ask finders
who place ads to
put as much information as possible. It is the responsibility of the pet
owner to follow up any ad that could possibly be your pet. Sometimes people even get the
animals sex wrong - not all of us are vets, take all information with a
grain of salt.The best way to identify your pet, is to add a free photo to
your ad, a picture says a thousand words.
No
Charge for Electronic Photo Uploads
Photos may be uploaded electronically (from your own computer)
at no cost. Your photo should not exceed 50,000KB or 200 x 200 pixels for
space reasons. All pictures electronically posted need to be in JPG or GIF
format and should be of an appropriate nature. Any offensive photo, we may
remove (see our Offensive Content
Policy).
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Manual Photo Uploads
If you don't have a picture of your pet on your computer already or you
can't scan it in yourself or through a friend/service with a scanner, we
can scan it for you. We will scan the
photo and then upload it on your behalf to your ad for $14.50. Please mail your
photo/drawing and cheque to Pets on the Net, PO Box 16291, Sandringham, Auckland.
We will return your your photo promptly.
Charges on this site
Please note that Pets on the Net never intends to charge finders of pets
to add photos to their found pet ads. However
to recoup costs on the amount of bandwidth required to publish lost photos, we
reserve the right to possibly charge a small fee for lost pet ads with photos. After
over 15 months of operation we have absolutely no intention of making this change but reserve the right
to do so if required to keep the site running financially. Until otherwise
publicly advised on the site, all ads and photo ads are at no charge* (see
exclusions below). All existing ads at the time of such a change
over would also remain free for as long as you wanted to keep them on the
site. Text ads for finders and owners
will continue to always be at no charge. Found photo/text ads will
always continue to be free for pet
finders also.
*Ads that do have charges
Please
note that there is a charge for our e-memorial
section, the rates are clearly stated in that section, our Pets for
Sale / Breeders Directory and our Pet Services Directory are also all paid
commercial sections.
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