Welcome to Petmi!

Petmi (the “Platform”), is a platform for pet lovers that enable users to connect with each other, post content, build communities, and transact businesses primarily (but not only) in Nigeria. This Platform is brought to you by Petmi Limited (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).

These Terms govern your use of Petmi Services (‘Website’ and ‘App’)

CONSENT

This Terms of Use constitutes a legally binding agreement between you, (whether as a guest or registered user) and Petmi in your access and use of the Platform as well as its content, services, and functionality made available on or through the Platform (collectively referred to as “the Services”).

We therefore kindly request that you carefully read through these Terms and Conditions of Use (the “Terms of Use” or “User Agreement”) before using the Platform and click on the Agree icon if you consent and agree to be bound by (1) this Terms of Use, (2) the Privacy Policy (“the Policy”) and (3) Disclaimer.

By using the Platform, you accept the terms and conditions contained on this Platform, which shall govern your use of this Platform, including all pages or links on the Platform. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy, please do not use the Platform and/or the Services and exit immediately.

In addition, if you do not agree to these Terms of Use or the Policy, you agree that your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using this Platform. That notwithstanding, if you proceed to browse, accessing, or otherwise using the Services in any manner, it will be deemed that you have accepted, without limitation or qualification, both the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy for the Platform (the “Policy”).

THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE

Our mission is to give pet lovers the power to build community and bring the world closer together. To help advance this mission, we provide the platform and services described below to you:

1. A personalised experience for you:

Your experience on Petmi is unlike anyone else’s: from the posts, stories, events, ads, and other content that you see in our Platform and other features that you might use, such as Trending, Marketplace and search. We use the data that we have – for example, about the connections you make, the choices and settings you select, and what you share and do on and off our Products – to personalise your experience.

• Connect you with people like you:

We help you find and connect with people, that matter and have similar interests as yours across our Platform that you use. We use the data that we have to make suggestions for you and others. Stronger ties make for better communities and we believe that our services are most useful when users are connected to people that they care about.

• Empower you to express yourself and communicate about what matters to you:

There are many ways to express yourself on Petmi and to communicate with friends, family and others about what matters to you – for example, sharing status updates, photos, videos and stories across the platform, sending messages to a friend or several people, creating events or groups, or adding content to your profile.

• Help you discover content, products and services that may interest you:

We show you ads, offers, and other sponsored content to help you discover content, products, and services that are offered by the many vendors, businesses and organisations that use Petmi services.

• Combat harmful conduct, and protect and support our community:

People will only build community on Petmi if they feel safe. We employ dedicated teams and develop advanced technical systems to detect misuse of our Platform, harmful conduct towards others and situations where we may be able to help support or protect our community. If we learn of content or conduct like this, we will take appropriate action – for example, offering help, removing content, removing or restricting access to certain features, disabling an account or contacting law enforcement.

• Research ways to make our services better:

We engage in research to develop, test and improve our Products. This includes analysing the data we have about our users and understanding how people use our Products, for example by conducting surveys and testing and troubleshooting new features. Our Privacy Policy explains how we use data to support this research for the purposes of developing and improving our services.

HOW OUR SERVICES ARE FUNDED

We don’t charge you to use Petmi Services or the other products and services covered by these Terms. Instead, vendors, businesses and organisations pay a subscription fee to have their products and services listed in our Marketplace for a particular period.

Listing of products and services in our Marketplace store is at our discretion and subject to approval, once the listing is approved subscription fee is then collected. When the item is in the store, buyers are able to chat with the seller directly. Petmi has no control over what happens at the point of purchase. We are simply the middle man.

By using our Products, you agree that we can show you ads that we think will be relevant to you and your interests. We use your personal data for marketing purposes to help determine which ads to show you.

Protecting people’s privacy is central to how we’ve designed our ad system. This means that we can show you relevant and useful ads without telling advertisers who you are.

We don’t sell your personal data to advertisers, and we don’t share information that directly identifies you (such as your name, email address or other contact information) with advertisers unless you give us specific permission. Instead, advertisers can tell us things such as the kind of audience that they want to see their ads, and we show those ads to people who may be interested. We provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads that help them understand how people are interacting with their content.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your personal data to determine some of the ads you see and provide all of the other services described below.

YOUR COMMITMENTS TO PETMI AND OUR COMMUNITY

We provide these services to you and others to help advance our mission. In exchange, we need you to make the following commitments:

1. ​Who can use Petmi

When people stand behind their opinions and actions, our community is safer and more accountable. For this reason, you must:

i. use the same name that you use in everyday life;

1. provide accurate information about yourself;

1. create only one account (your own) and use your timeline for personal purposes;

Password

To fully enjoy our Services, you may be required to create an account and in which case you will be given (or you may provide) a username and password. Please note that you are fully and solely responsible for any and all use of the Services and such, you are required to keep your password secret at all times. Do not share your password with any third part.

Kindly notify us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your username or password has been lost or compromised or misused in any way. Also immediately report any unauthorized or suspicious activity in your account.

Also do not share your password, give access to your Petmi account to others, or transfer your account to anyone else (without our permission).

We try to make our platform broadly available to everyone, but you cannot use Petmi if:

i. You are under 18 years old (or the minimum legal age in your country to use our Products). . Individuals under the age of 18, or the applicable age of maturity, may utilize our Services only with involvement of a parent or legal guardian, under such person’s account. By using our Platform or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you represent and warrant to us that you are at least 18 years of age.

ii. You are a convicted sex offender.

We’ve previously disabled your account for violations of our Terms or Policies.

You are prohibited from using our products, services under applicable laws.

2. What you can share and do on Petmi

We want people to use the platform to express themselves and to share content that is important to them, but not at the expense of the safety and well-being of others or the integrity of our community. You, therefore, agree not to engage in the conduct described below (or to facilitate or support others in doing so):

You may not use our Products to do or share anything:

i. That breaches these Terms, our Community Standards, and other Terms and Policies that apply to your use of Petmi.That is unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent.

ii. That infringes or violates someone else’s rights, including their intellectual property rights.

iii. You may not upload viruses or malicious code, or do anything that could disable, overburden or impair the proper working or appearance of our services.

iv. You may not access or collect data from our Platform using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data that you do not have permission to access.

We can remove or restrict access to content that is in violation of these provisions.

If we remove content that you have shared in violation of our Community Standards, we’re not obliged to let you know and explain any options you have to request another review.

To help support our community, we encourage you to report content or conduct that you believe violates your rights (including intellectual property rights) or our terms and policies.

3​. The permissions you give us

We need certain permissions from you to provide our services:

Permission to use content that you create and share: Some content that you share or upload, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property laws.

You own the intellectual property rights (things such as copyright or trademarks) in any such content that you create and share on this platform. Nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want.

However, to provide our services, we need you to give us some legal permissions (known as a ‘license’) to use this content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our products and services as described in Section 1 above.

Specifically, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings).

This means, for example, that if you share a photo on Petmi, you give us permission to store, copy and share it with others (again, consistent with your settings) such as service providers that support our service.

This license will end when your content is deleted from our systems.

You can delete content individually or all at once by deleting your account. When you delete content, it’s no longer visible to other users; however, it may continue to exist elsewhere on our systems where:

i. Immediate deletion is not possible due to technical limitations (in which case, your content will be deleted within a maximum of 90 days from when you delete it);

your content has been used by others in accordance with this license and they have not deleted it (in which case, this license will continue to apply until that content is deleted); or

ii. Where immediate deletion would restrict our ability to:

investigate or identify illegal activity or breaches of our Terms and Policies (for example, to identify or investigate misuse of our Products or systems);

comply with a legal obligation, such as the preservation of evidence; or

comply with a request of a judicial or administrative authority, law enforcement or a government agency;

in which case, the content will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it has been retained (the exact duration will vary on a case-by-case basis).

In each of the above cases, this license will continue until the content has been fully deleted.

Permission to use your name, profile picture, and information about your actions with ads and sponsored content: You give us permission to use your name and profile picture and information about actions that you have taken on Petmi next to or in connection with ads, offers, and other sponsored content that we display across our Products, without any compensation to you. For example, we may show your friends that you are interested in an advertised event or have liked a Page created by a brand that has paid us to display its ads on our Platform

Permission to update software that you use or download: If you download or use our software, you give us permission to download and install updates to the software where available.

• ​Limits on using our intellectual property

If you use content covered by intellectual property rights that we have and make available in our Products (for example, images, designs, videos, or sounds that we provide, which you add to the content that you create or share on our Platform), we retain all rights to that content (but not yours).

You can only use our copyrights or trademarks (or any similar marks) as expressly permitted by our Brand Usage Guidelines or with our prior written permission.

You must obtain our written permission (or permission under an open-source license) to modify, create derivative works of, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us.

4. Additional provisions

1. Updating our Terms

We work constantly to improve our services and develop new features to make our Platform better for you and our community. As a result, we may need to update these Terms from time to time to accurately reflect our services and practices. We will only make changes if the provisions are no longer appropriate or if they are incomplete, and only if the changes are reasonable and take due account of your interests.

We may, at our sole discretion, review, revise and/or update this Terms of Use and the Platform at any time. We, therefore, advise that you read through these Terms of Use periodically. You further agree that we will have no further obligation to notify you of any modifications and such updates or modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof or on any specified date. The most current version of the Terms of Use can be accessed at any time by selecting the Terms of Use link on the bottom of the home page for the Platform.

Once any updated Terms are in effect you will be bound by them if you continue to use our Platform. We hope that you will continue using our Platform, but if you do not agree to our updated Terms and no longer want to be part of the Petmi community, you can contact us to delete your account at any time.

2. Account suspension or termination

We want Petmi to be a place where people feel welcome and safe to express themselves and share their thoughts and ideas.

If we determine that you have clearly, seriously or repeatedly breached our Terms or Policies, including in particular our Community Standards, we may suspend or permanently disable access to your account. We may also suspend or disable your account if you repeatedly infringe other people’s intellectual property rights or where we are required to do so for legal reasons.

Where we take such action, we’ll let you know and explain any options you have to request a review, unless doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; or where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.

You can learn more about what you can do if your account has been disabled and how to contact us if you think that we have disabled your account by mistake.

If you delete or we disable your account, these Terms shall terminate as an agreement between you and us, but the following provisions will remain in place:

3. Limits on liability

We work hard to provide the best Platform we can and to specify clear guidelines for everyone who uses them. Our Platforms, however, are provided “as is”, and we make no guarantees that they will always be safe, secure or error-free, or that they will function without disruptions, delays, or imperfections.

To the extent permitted by law, we also DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not control or direct what people and others do or say, and we are not responsible for their actions or conduct (whether online or offline) or any content that they share (including offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful, and other objectionable content).

We cannot predict when issues may arise with our Products or Services. Accordingly, our liability shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and under no circumstances will we be liable to you for any lost profits, revenues, information or data, or consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms or our Platforms.

4. Disputes

We try to provide clear rules so that we can limit or hopefully avoid disputes between you and us. If a dispute does arise, however, it’s useful to know upfront where it can be resolved and what laws will apply.

If you are a consumer, the laws of the country in which you reside will apply to any claim, cause of action or dispute that you have against us that arises out of or relates to these Terms and you may resolve your claim in any competent court in that country that has jurisdiction over the claim. In all other cases, you agree that the claim must be resolved exclusively in the Nigerian Courts. You also agree that you submit to the personal jurisdiction of courts in Nigeria for the purpose of litigating any such claim and that the laws of Nigeria will govern these Terms and any claim, without regard to conflict of law provisions.

• ​Other

These Terms make up the entire agreement between you and Petmi Limited regarding your use of our Platform. They supersede any prior agreements.

Some of the products that we offer are also governed by supplemental terms. If you use any of those Products, supplemental terms will be made available and will become part of our agreement with you. For instance, if you access or use our Products for commercial or business purposes, such as buying ads, selling products, developing apps, managing a group or Page for your business, or using our measurement services, you must agree to our Commercial Terms.

If any portion of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining portion will remain in full force and effect. If we fail to enforce any of these Terms, it will not be considered a waiver. Any amendment to or waiver of these Terms must be made in writing and signed by us.

You will not transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms to anyone else without our consent.

You may designate a person (called a legacy contact) to manage your account if it is memorialised. Only your legacy contact or a person who you have identified in a valid will or similar document expressing clear consent to disclose your content upon death or incapacity will be able to seek disclosure from your account after it is memorialised.

These Terms do not confer any third-party beneficiary rights. All of our rights and obligations under these Terms are freely assignable by us in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise.

You should know that we may need to change the username for your account in certain circumstances (for example, if someone else claims the username and it appears unrelated to the name that you use in everyday life). We will inform you in advance if we have to do this and explain why.

We always appreciate your feedback and other suggestions about our products and services. But you should know that we may use them without any restriction or obligation to compensate you, and we are under no obligation to keep them confidential.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

Read our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer.