Terms of Use

Using this site

These terms apply to your use of KnowCatHub. By reading the site you accept them.

If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

These terms do not affect rights you have under consumer law, and nothing here removes a right that cannot lawfully be removed.

No account is required, so there is nothing to sign and no membership to cancel.

Definitions

These words are used throughout with the meanings below.

The site

KnowCatHub, including every page and asset served from it

Content

Text, structure, design, images, and data published on the site

You

Any person or system that requests a page from the site

Automated agent

Any crawler, scraper, or script that is not a person browsing

Short extract

A quotation short enough not to substitute for reading the page

We, us, our

The editorial team that publishes the site

Nature of the content

KnowCatHub publishes general information about cats. It is a publication and not a service.

Nothing on this site is veterinary, medical, legal, or professional advice, and using the site does not create a professional relationship.

The disclaimer sets out the limits of the content in full and forms part of these terms.

Where the disclaimer and these terms overlap, both apply. Neither narrows the other.

Content ownership

Text, page structure, design, and images on this site are owned by KnowCatHub or used with permission, except where stated otherwise.

Names, marks, and links belonging to third parties remain the property of those third parties. Referring to an organisation is not a claim over its name.

Naming an organisation as a source does not imply that it endorses this site or has reviewed it.

Nothing on this site transfers ownership of anything to you.

Permitted use

You may read, print, and share links to pages on this site for personal, non-commercial use.

You may quote a short extract with clear attribution and a link to the page it came from. No permission is needed for that.

Educational and non-commercial reuse beyond a short quotation is often possible. Ask first via the contact page.

Nothing here overrides rights you already hold under fair dealing, fair use, or the equivalent in your own country.

Prohibited use

You may not do any of the following without written permission.

• Republish a full article, or a substantial part of one, on another site or in another publication.
• Present content from this site as your own work, or remove attribution from it.
• Scrape or bulk-download the site systematically, including for training a machine learning model.
• Use the site in a way that damages it, degrades it for others, or attempts to gain unauthorised access.
• Frame or reproduce the site so that it appears to be your own.
• Alter content and republish it in a way that implies we wrote the altered version.

Automated access and AI training

Automated access must respect the instructions in robots.txt. Ignoring those instructions is a breach of these terms.

Using this content to train a machine learning model is not permitted without written consent.

That restriction applies to bulk collection and model training. Using an assistant to help you read or summarise a page for yourself is ordinary use.

Requests that degrade the service for other readers may be blocked without notice.

Things you send us

There is no comment system, no forum, and no upload feature, so the site hosts nothing written by readers.

If you email us a correction, you are giving us permission to act on it and to change the page.

We will not publish your name or your message without asking you first.

Where a correction leads to a change, the change belongs to the site. The underlying fact, of course, belongs to nobody.

Availability

This site is provided as it is and as it is available.

We do not guarantee that it will be available without interruption, that it will be free of errors, or that any particular page will remain published.

Pages may be corrected, rewritten, or withdrawn at any time. A page that can no longer be supported is withdrawn rather than left up.

Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, KnowCatHub is not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of this site or from reliance on anything published on it.

That includes loss or harm relating to an animal. Decisions about an animal's health and care are yours, and where they are clinical they belong with a veterinarian.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Where a jurisdiction does not permit an exclusion above, that exclusion applies only so far as that jurisdiction allows.

What these terms do not take away

Terms of use are usually written to protect the publisher. These are too, and it is worth being explicit about their limits.

General clauses

These are the ordinary clauses that keep the rest workable.

Severability

If one clause is unenforceable, the rest continues to apply

No waiver

Not enforcing a term once does not give up the right to enforce it later

Entire agreement

These terms and the disclaimer are the whole agreement about the site

Assignment

We may transfer these terms if the site changes hands. You may not

Notices

Changes are published on this page. We hold no address to write to you at

Headings

Section headings are for navigation and do not affect meaning

Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated. The current version is always the one published on this page, and the review date at the foot of the page shows when it last changed.

Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised terms.

Mandatory consumer protections in your own country continue to apply regardless of what is written here.

Links to other sites

Pages here link to veterinary bodies, universities, registries, and poison control services as the sources claims were checked against.

Those organisations are independent of this site. We do not control their content, we are not responsible for it, and a link is not an endorsement of anything else they publish.

Following a link takes you to a site with its own terms and its own privacy policy, both of which apply once you are there.

If a link here is broken or points somewhere unexpected, telling us is genuinely useful, because a stale link on a sourced claim weakens the claim.

Feedback and suggestions

Anything you send us, including corrections, suggestions, and comments, is treated as non-confidential unless you say otherwise.

By sending a suggestion you allow us to act on it without owing you payment or credit. This is a practical necessity rather than a claim over your ideas, since the same suggestion frequently arrives from several people.

Where a reader identifies a specific error and asks to be credited, we are happy to credit them on the corrected page.

We do not accept unsolicited article submissions, and anything sent as one will not be published.

Ending access

These terms apply for as long as you use the site, and you can stop using it at any time.

We may block access from an address that is scraping the site at a rate that affects other readers, attempting to break it, or using it in a way these terms prohibit.

Blocking is a technical measure to keep the site working, not a penalty, and ordinary reading will never trigger it.

The sections covering content ownership, liability, and the things you send us continue to apply after you stop using the site.

No accounts, and what that means

There is nothing to sign up for here. No account, no login, no newsletter, and no comment system.

That means there is no account for you to lose access to, and nothing for anybody to take over. It also means we cannot restore anything for you, because nothing is stored against you in the first place.

Anything you want to keep should be saved on your own device. A page can be corrected, rewritten, or withdrawn, and no version of it is held for you.