Terms of Service

1. Agreement to these terms

These terms govern your use of the website at kennelandkin.com. The site is published by KCS Global Group, of 2nd Floor, Shop No. 22, 19/22, Maitri Nagar, Risali – 490006, District Durg, Chhattisgarh, India. In these terms, “we”, “us” and “our” mean KCS Global Group, and “you” means the person using the site.

By visiting or using this site, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree to them, please stop using the site. We are not asking you to sign anything — your use of the site is your acceptance.

3. Who may use the site

This site is intended for adults. By using it you confirm that you are at least 18 years old, or that you are using it with the supervision of a parent or guardian who agrees to these terms on your behalf.

4. Permitted use

You are welcome to do all of the following, and you do not need to ask us first:

• Read, print, and save articles for your own personal or household use.
• Share a link to any page on this site, anywhere, including on social media.
• Quote a short extract in a review, article, or discussion, provided you credit Kennel and Kin and link back to the page you took it from.
• Use what you learn here in caring for your own animals.

5. Our content and intellectual property

All articles, photographs, illustrations, layouts, and the Kennel and Kin name and branding are owned by KCS Global Group or used under licence, and are protected by copyright and trade mark law, including the Copyright Act, 1957 of India and equivalent laws elsewhere.

Beyond the permitted uses in section 4, you may not copy, republish, translate, adapt, distribute, or commercially exploit our content without our written permission. Rewriting or paraphrasing an article to disguise its origin is still copying.

If you would like to reproduce something — for a school, a rescue organisation, a clinic, or a publication — write to info@kennelandkin.com. We grant permission more often than you would expect, and we would rather be asked than find out later.

6. Scraping and automated access

You may not use automated systems to extract content from this site at scale. That includes crawlers, scrapers, spiders, and any tool that copies pages in bulk, except for search engine crawlers obeying our robots.txt file.

We expressly do not permit our content to be used for training, fine-tuning, or grounding artificial intelligence or machine learning models, whether commercial or otherwise, without a written licence from us. Continuing to access the site by automated means after reading this does not create permission.

Requests for a data or licensing arrangement are genuinely welcome at info@kennelandkin.com.

7. Comments and anything you submit

If you leave a comment, send us an email, or submit a correction, you keep ownership of what you wrote. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish, display, store, and edit it for length or clarity in connection with the site.

When you submit anything, you confirm that:

• It is your own work, or you have the right to submit it.
• It is not defamatory, abusive, threatening, obscene, or unlawful.
• It does not infringe anyone’s copyright, trade mark, or privacy.
• It is not advertising, spam, or an attempt to place a link for search purposes.

We moderate comments and may edit, refuse, or remove any of them at our discretion, without explanation. Removing a comment is not a judgement about you.

8. Things you must not do

• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, its server, or any connected system.
• Introduce malware, or any code designed to damage or disrupt the site.
• Place an unreasonable load on our infrastructure, including through denial-of-service attacks.
• Misrepresent yourself as affiliated with Kennel and Kin, or use our name or branding in a way that suggests we endorse you.
• Use the site for any unlawful purpose, or in breach of any law that applies to you.
• Frame, mirror, or embed the site in a way that obscures its origin.

9. Advertising and affiliate links

This site carries advertising and contains affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. This is how the site is funded.

Advertisers and affiliate partners have no influence over what we publish or how we assess anything. We are not the seller of any advertised or linked product, we do not handle those transactions, and we are not responsible for a third party’s products, pricing, delivery, warranty, or customer service. Your purchase is a contract between you and that retailer.

10. Links to other websites

We link to veterinary associations, universities, retailers, and other outside sources. Those links are provided because we think they are useful. We do not control those websites, we are not responsible for their content or their practices, and a link is not an endorsement of everything that appears there. Once you leave kennelandkin.com, these terms no longer apply.

11. No warranties

We put real effort into accuracy: articles are researched against primary sources, checked by a second editor, and reviewed on a schedule. Even so, the site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we make no warranty that the content is complete, current, or free from error, that the site will be uninterrupted or secure, or that it is fit for any particular purpose of yours. Guidance about animals changes, and an article that was accurate when written may be overtaken by newer veterinary consensus.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, KCS Global Group, its directors, employees, and contributors will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of your use of this site or your reliance on anything published here. This includes indirect and consequential loss, loss of profit, and loss or harm to an animal.

Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, our total liability to you is limited to one thousand Indian rupees (INR 1,000).

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, for fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be limited under the law that applies to you. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify KCS Global Group against any claim, loss, or reasonable cost arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the site, or content you submitted to it.

14. Availability and changes to the site

We may change, move, update, or withdraw any part of the site at any time. We may correct or revise articles, and we do so under our corrections process. We do not guarantee that the site will always be available, and we are not liable for periods when it is not.

15. Suspending access

We may block or restrict access to the site where we reasonably believe someone is breaching these terms — for example, scraping the site, posting abusive comments, or attempting to attack it. We do not need to give notice before doing so.

16. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of the site, are governed by the laws of India.

The courts at Durg, Chhattisgarh, India have exclusive jurisdiction over any such dispute. If you are a consumer resident in another country, this does not remove any protection you have under the mandatory consumer law of the country where you live.

Before starting any formal proceeding, please write to info@kennelandkin.com. Most disputes are resolved faster by an email than by a court.

17. General terms

Severability

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the unenforceable part is read as narrowly as needed to make it valid.

No waiver

If we do not enforce a term on one occasion, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.

Entire agreement

These terms, together with our privacy policy and disclaimer, are the whole agreement between you and us regarding the site.

Assignment

We may transfer our rights under these terms if the business or the site is sold or restructured. Your rights are unaffected.

Third parties

No one other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms.

18. Changes to these terms

We update these terms when our practices or the law change. The effective date at the top of this page always shows the current version, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it. If we make a change that materially affects your rights, we will say so prominently on the site rather than changing it quietly.