Terms & Conditions
Welcome to Streets Dogs – A Home For Every Heart. These Terms & Conditions govern your use of the Streets Dogs website and the services, information, donation facilities, and other features made available through our website.
By accessing or using our website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms & Conditions. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, please do not use the website or its services.
1. About Streets Dogs
Streets Dogs is an animal-welfare initiative dedicated to helping homeless, abandoned, injured, and vulnerable street dogs.
Our activities may include animal rescue, emergency assistance, feeding programs, veterinary care, rehabilitation, sterilization and vaccination initiatives, adoption and rehoming support, animal-welfare awareness, and community activities.
2. Use of Our Website
Visitors may use our website for legitimate purposes, including:
- Learning about Streets Dogs and our activities
- Learning about animal rescue and welfare
- Supporting our programs
- Making voluntary donations
- Contacting our organization
- Learning about dogs available for adoption, where applicable
- Sharing information about animal welfare
You agree not to use the website for any unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, or unauthorized purpose.
3. Donations
Streets Dogs accepts voluntary donations from individuals and supporters who wish to contribute towards our animal-welfare activities.
When making a donation, you confirm that:
- The information provided by you is accurate to the best of your knowledge.
- You are authorized to use the payment method used for the transaction.
- The donation is made voluntarily.
- You understand that donations are generally non-refundable except in circumstances covered by our Donation Refund & Cancellation Policy.
Donations may be used according to the organization’s operational needs and the areas where support is most urgently required.
4. Use of Donations
Streets Dogs aims to use donated funds responsibly and for purposes connected with our animal-welfare mission.
Depending on the circumstances, funds may support:
- Rescue operations
- Veterinary treatment
- Emergency medical care
- Food and feeding programs
- Medicines
- Vaccination and sterilization
- Shelter and rehabilitation
- Transportation
- Adoption and rehoming
- Rescue equipment
- Animal-welfare awareness programs
- Other activities directly supporting our mission
Where a donor contributes to a particular appeal or campaign, Streets Dogs will make reasonable efforts to use the contribution for that purpose. However, if the specific campaign requirement has already been fulfilled or circumstances change, the organization may redirect funds toward another closely related animal-welfare need.
5. Payment Processing
Online donations may be processed through third-party payment gateways, banks, card networks, or other authorized payment service providers.
Streets Dogs does not directly store sensitive card information such as full card numbers, CVV numbers, or banking passwords on its website unless expressly stated otherwise.
Payment transactions are subject to the terms, conditions, security procedures, and privacy policies of the relevant payment service provider.
6. Transaction Errors
If you experience an error during a donation or believe that you have been charged incorrectly, please contact Streets Dogs as soon as possible with the transaction details.
We will make reasonable efforts to investigate legitimate payment issues and coordinate with the relevant payment provider where necessary.
7. Website Content
The information, photographs, videos, graphics, logos, articles, stories, and other content published on the Streets Dogs website are provided primarily for animal-welfare awareness, educational, informational, and organizational purposes.
While we make reasonable efforts to keep information accurate and up to date, circumstances involving rescued animals can change quickly. Therefore, information relating to individual animals, rescue cases, adoption availability, medical conditions, or ongoing campaigns may change without prior notice.
8. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, the Streets Dogs name, logo, branding, original written content, photographs, graphics, videos, and other original materials published on the website belong to Streets Dogs or are used with appropriate permission.
You may not reproduce, modify, distribute, sell, or commercially exploit our copyrighted materials without prior permission, except where permitted by applicable law.
9. Photography and Animal Stories
Photographs and stories published on our website may be used to document rescue cases, raise awareness, and communicate the work carried out by Streets Dogs.
Some images may show animals before and after rescue, including animals that are injured, sick, abandoned, or in difficult circumstances. Such content is published for genuine animal-welfare and awareness purposes.
10. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, social-media platforms, payment providers, or other external services.
Streets Dogs is not responsible for the content, availability, security, or privacy practices of third-party websites or services. Your use of such services may be subject to their own terms and policies.
11. Prohibited Activities
Users must not:
- Use the website for fraudulent purposes
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website
- Introduce malicious software or harmful code
- Attempt to interfere with website operations
- Use our website to impersonate Streets Dogs or its representatives
- Misuse donation facilities
- Submit false or misleading information
- Copy or commercially exploit our content without authorization
- Use our website for any unlawful activity
12. Privacy
Your use of our website may involve the collection and processing of certain information. Streets Dogs handles personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Our Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and protected.
13. Website Availability
We aim to keep our website accessible and operational. However, we cannot guarantee that the website will always be available without interruption.
The website may occasionally be unavailable because of maintenance, technical problems, hosting issues, security measures, internet connectivity, or circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
14. Limitation of Liability
Streets Dogs makes reasonable efforts to provide accurate information through its website. However, to the extent permitted by applicable law, Streets Dogs shall not be responsible for losses resulting from reliance on information that may have changed or become outdated.
Nothing in these Terms & Conditions is intended to exclude or limit any liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited under applicable law.
15. Changes to These Terms
Streets Dogs may update these Terms & Conditions from time to time to reflect changes in our activities, website functionality, payment services, legal requirements, or operational practices.
Updated terms will be published on this website, and the revised version will become effective from the date stated on the updated page.
16. Governing Law
These Terms & Conditions shall be interpreted and applied in accordance with the applicable laws of Sri Lanka, unless otherwise required by applicable law.
17. Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding these Terms & Conditions, donations, payments, refunds, or our animal-welfare activities, please contact Streets Dogs using the contact information available on our website.
Streets Dogs – A Home For Every Heart