Data Licensing Conditions

Effective date: 2026-09-20

These conditions apply to any organisation or individual ("you", "the Licensee") who is granted access to our scientific, peer-reviewed, breed database, structured breed data, images, or any sample or demonstration extract of it ("the Licensed Data"). They apply in addition to our Terms of Service and are intended to protect data we have created, curated, and compiled at considerable effort. By accessing or using the Licensed Data, you agree to these conditions.

1. Scope of the License

1.1. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Licensed Data solely for the purposes set out in your active subscription or written agreement with us.

1.2. The license does not transfer ownership of the Licensed Data or any intellectual property rights in it. We, and where applicable our contributors, remain the owners of the Licensed Data at all times.

1.3. You may not resell, redistribute, sublicense, or publish the Licensed Data, in whole or in part, except as expressly permitted in writing by us.

1.4. In these conditions, "Subscription" means a self-serve plan taken through our website or developer portal, and "Written Agreement" means a signed licence, statement of work, or order form with us. "AI System" means any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, agent, assistant, or feature, whether yours or a third party's.

1.5. Under a Subscription, you may use the Licensed Data in an AI System within the limits of your plan, the Terms of Service, and section 5, provided that output derived from it is not presented as veterinary advice.

1.6. Under a Written Agreement, use of the Licensed Data in an AI System is granted only where the agreement says so. The agreement will state whether output may be made available to consumers or the general public, or is confined to a defined business use with identified professional users, and each is licensed on its own terms. If a Written Agreement does not address AI Systems, the Licensed Data may not be used in one.

1.7. "Clinical Data" means the parts of the Licensed Data that are clinical in nature, including physiological reference ranges, breed health predispositions and their odds ratios, severity and comorbidity data, body condition scoring, and veterinary terminology codes. Clinical Data is not part of a standard breed data license. It is licensed only where your Written Agreement lists it and only for the professional purposes the agreement states, such as veterinary care, insurance underwriting and claims, or research. It must not be presented to a consumer as a diagnosis or as advice, and where it reaches an end user you must display the disclaimer we specify.

2. The License Depends on an Active Subscription

2.1. Your right to access, store, and use the Licensed Data exists only for as long as you hold an active, paid subscription or a current written agreement with us.

2.2. If your subscription lapses, is cancelled, expires, or is terminated for any reason, your license ends immediately and all rights granted under these conditions cease.

2.3. We may suspend or terminate the license if you breach these conditions or our Terms of Service.

3. Deletion on Termination

3.1. On termination or expiry of your license, you must, within thirty (30) days, permanently and irreversibly delete all copies of the Licensed Data in your possession or control, including copies held in backups, caches, data warehouses, and on the systems of any sub-processor acting on your behalf.

3.2. You must also remove the Licensed Data, and anything derived from it, from any derivative products you have created. This includes, without limitation, removing it from datasets, embeddings, vector stores, indexes, fine-tuned or trained artificial intelligence and machine learning models, and any other product, feature, or model whose behaviour or content was informed by the Licensed Data.

3.3. You warrant that, on request, you will confirm in writing that you have completed the deletion and removal required by this section. We may ask for reasonable evidence of compliance.

3.4. Obligations of confidentiality, attribution, and non-use of the Licensed Data survive termination.

4. Demonstration and Evaluation Data Slices

4.1. Any sample, demonstration, or evaluation extract we provide ("Demo Slice") is supplied solely so that you can evaluate the suitability of the Licensed Data before entering into, or during, a license.

4.2. You must not use a Demo Slice for any purpose other than evaluation. In particular, you must not use it in production, in any commercial product or service, to train or fine-tune any model, or to enrich, supplement, or build any dataset.

4.3. You must delete each Demo Slice once your evaluation is complete, and in any event if you decide not to proceed to a license.

5. Protecting the Licensed Data as Your Own

5.1. You must protect the Licensed Data with at least the same degree of care you apply to your own confidential and proprietary data, and never with less than a reasonable standard of care.

5.2. You must not use the Licensed Data to train, fine-tune, distil, or otherwise improve any AI System that is not your own licensed product, and you must not expose it to any third-party AI service whose terms permit the provider to do so. This includes the consumer versions of products such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot.

5.3. You may pass the Licensed Data through a third-party AI service where the provider's applicable terms exclude training on your inputs, whether by default or because you have disabled the relevant setting, and any retention is limited to security or abuse monitoring for a stated period. You must be able to show us those terms on request, and you must stop using the service with the Licensed Data if its terms change so that this condition is no longer met. Where the Licensed Data includes Clinical Data, retention by the provider must be excluded altogether.

5.4. We impose this condition because we are the creators and compilers of much of the Licensed Data. We do not consent to it being ingested by models or services that do not respect our conditions, and you must not place it in a position where that can occur.

6. Our Rights as Creators

6.1. The Licensed Data is the product of our own work in creating, researching, photographing, labelling, and compiling dog and cat breed information. Nothing in these conditions grants you any right to claim authorship of, or rights in, the Licensed Data.

6.2. You must not remove, obscure, or alter any attribution, watermark, or notice we include with the Licensed Data.

6.3. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you under these conditions.

7. Breach

7.1. If you breach these conditions, we may suspend or terminate your license and require immediate deletion of the Licensed Data under section 3.

7.2. You remain responsible for any use of the Licensed Data by your staff, contractors, and sub-processors as if it were your own.

8. Contact

8.1. For licensing questions, evaluation access, or to confirm deletion, contact us at aden@thatapicompany.com.

9. Changes

9.1. 2026-09-20: added definitions and AI System use under Subscriptions and Written Agreements (1.4 to 1.6), the Clinical Data layer (1.7), and reworded 5.2 and 5.3 to separate training from retention. These changes apply to Written Agreements entered into or renewed on or after that date. Existing Written Agreements continue on their current terms until renewal.