Sharing a photo or video from a service

1. Who can ask, and what

Only the pet pro who did the service can ask to share a photo or video from it, and only one they posted on BarkCheck™. They can ask once for each photo or video.

A photo or video in which any person other than the pet pro can be seen or heard must not be shared, even if the owner approves it.

2. What the owner’s yes allows

By approving, the owner consents, for that one photo or video only, to:

• the pet pro posting it anywhere, such as their Instagram, Facebook or website, under the rules in section 5; and
• BarkCheck™ showing it on its public gallery with the pet’s name and the pet pro’s caption.

The permission is personal to that pet pro and can’t be passed to anyone else.

3. Every answer is final

A post on another service can be copied and shared again, and BarkCheck™ can’t reach it, so a yes can’t be taken back. A no can’t be changed either, and the pet pro can’t ask about that photo or video again.

4. The BarkCheck™ gallery

Once approved, the photo or video stays on the BarkCheck™ gallery. To have it taken off the gallery, the owner contacts support. That is the only removal BarkCheck™ does, and it doesn’t change what the pet pro may share. To ask for a post somewhere else to come down, the owner contacts the pet pro directly; BarkCheck™ doesn’t take part. Anyone can report a gallery item, and BarkCheck™ staff can take an item down at any time.

5. The pet pro’s promises and rules

When you ask, you promise that:

• you took the photo or video yourself, or you own it;
• no person other than you can be seen or heard in it;
• it has no music or other material someone else owns; and
• you are 18 or older.

You give BarkCheck™ a free, worldwide, non-exclusive license to store, copy, resize and show the photo or video, with your caption and your name, on its public gallery for as long as it stays there, and you consent to your name, image and voice appearing there.

When you share an approved photo or video, you agree to all of these:

• Post it yourself. Don’t give it to anyone else to post.
• Post it exactly as BarkCheck™ stored it. Don’t crop, cover or edit out the BarkCheck™ logo, and don’t edit, filter or combine it in a way that changes what it shows.
• Don’t sell it or license it, and don’t use it in paid advertising, without the owner’s written permission.
• Don’t name or tag the owner, and don’t name or show their street, town, home or anything else that could tell someone where the pet lives. That includes captions, comments, hashtags and location tags. Don’t add a location tag.
• Don’t share anything else from the service: the care record, messages, the owner’s contact details, how to get into the home, or the pet’s health information.
• If the owner asks you to remove a post because it puts their safety or privacy at risk, remove it within 48 hours, where the service lets you.
• Follow the rules of the service you post on, and the law.

If you break these terms, BarkCheck™ can stop you sharing through BarkCheck™, take the item off the gallery, and suspend or close your account. Breaking them can also make you responsible under section 10.

6. Location

Photos are saved without the location the camera recorded. Videos keep only a rounded location, about the town they were filmed in.

7. What BarkCheck™ does to protect privacy

BarkCheck™ doesn’t put an owner’s address or contact details on the gallery. It checks captions before publishing them and removes the phone numbers and email addresses it finds, but a check can miss something, so read your caption before you send it. A photo or video BarkCheck™ is holding for review can’t be shared through BarkCheck™ while it’s held.

8. Copyright

If you believe something on the BarkCheck™ gallery infringes your copyright, send a notice to BarkCheck™’s designated agent: Copyright Agent, BarkCheck LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801; phone 425-445-4418; email support@barkcheck.com. BarkCheck™ removes an item on a valid notice, puts it back on a valid counter-notice as the law provides, and ends the sharing, and may close the account, of anyone who infringes repeatedly.

9. Intimate images

To report an intimate image of you shared without your consent, contact support; the form opens with “Intimate image” as the subject. You don’t need an account. BarkCheck™ removes it, and copies of it that it can find, within 48 hours of a valid request.

10. Release and responsibility

• The owner. You decide whether to approve. Once you do, the photo or video can be seen, saved, copied and shared by people BarkCheck™ doesn’t know and can’t control, and anything that can be learned from it, including where a video was filmed, can be learned by them. To the fullest extent the law allows, you release BarkCheck™, and its owners, staff and contractors, from any claim arising from what the pet pro or anyone else does with a photo or video you approved.
• The pet pro. You are responsible for every post you make. To the fullest extent the law allows, you agree to cover BarkCheck™ and the owner for any loss, cost or claim, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your posts, from a promise in section 5 being untrue, or from your breaking these terms.
• Other services. BarkCheck™ doesn’t run Instagram, Facebook or any other service, and isn’t responsible for what they or their users do, keep, show or remove.
• As it is. BarkCheck™’s gallery and sharing are provided as they are. BarkCheck™ doesn’t promise that an item will stay up, reach anyone, or come down from another service.
• What this doesn’t cover. Nothing in these terms releases BarkCheck™ from its own fraud, willful misconduct or gross negligence, from what section 7 says BarkCheck™ does, or from any responsibility the law doesn’t allow to be released or limited.
• If part fails. If a court finds any part of these terms unenforceable, that part is limited as little as needed and the rest still applies.

11. Changes

BarkCheck™ may update these terms. A new version applies to asks and answers made after it is posted. Each ask and each approval records the version agreed to.