User Agreement

1. Agreement to Use the Site Responsibly

By using MewCats, you agree to use the site lawfully, respectfully, and in a way that does not interfere with other readers, site security, or site availability.

2. Purpose of the Site

MewCats is an informational resource for cat owners and readers interested in cat care, behavior, breed choice, adoption, enrichment, and daily cat life. It is not an account-based app, paid platform, comment community, points system, or user-submission service.

3. User Responsibilities

You are responsible for using MewCats for lawful purposes, respecting intellectual property rights, avoiding misuse or abusive automated access, and verifying important information before acting on it. You should seek qualified professional help for urgent, high-stakes, veterinary, health, safety, legal, or financial decisions.

4. Content Reliance

MewCats content is general information. Do not rely on it for emergency pet care, veterinary diagnosis, treatment, medication decisions, diet treatment plans, or urgent behavior/safety decisions. If a cat shows pain, injury, sudden behavior change, eating or drinking change, vomiting, diarrhea, urination or bowel changes, litter box changes, suspected poisoning, breathing trouble, or other concerning symptoms, consult a qualified veterinarian promptly.

5. Prohibited Uses

You must not interfere with the site or its servers, attempt unauthorized access, use bots or scraping in abusive ways, republish substantial portions of content without permission, misrepresent an affiliation with MewCats, or use the site to distribute harmful, illegal, misleading, abusive, or infringing material.

6. Third-Party Content and Links

You may encounter links to third-party websites, shelters, veterinary resources, tools, products, advertisers, or platforms. You are responsible for reviewing third-party terms, privacy policies, pricing, claims, safety information, and professional qualifications where relevant.

7. Site Changes and Availability

MewCats may update, remove, reorganize, correct, or expand content over time. Access may be interrupted, unavailable, or changed without notice. Older pages may be replaced when new site features, legal pages, or editorial standards are introduced.

8. Reporting Issues

If official contact channels are enabled in the future, readers may use them to report errors, outdated information, rights concerns, or policy questions. Official contact information will be published when contact channels are enabled for this site.

9. Relationship to Other Policies

This User Agreement should be read together with the Privacy Policy at `/privacy-policy/` and the Terms of Use at `/terms/`.