Terms of Service

Angelpaws lets you search and view animals listed by verified shelters and rescues, and contact a shelter about an animal you're interested in. Browsing and sending an inquiry never requires an account. Optionally, you can create a light account to save favorites and searches. Shelters and rescues can register, get verified by our admin team, and manage their own animal listings.

Angelpaws does not itself operate a shelter, does not own any animal listed on the site, and does not process any adoption fees or payments — those are handled entirely between you and the shelter, off our platform. Donations are not part of the service at this time.

• You're responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for all activity under your account.
• You agree to provide accurate information when registering, and to keep it up to date.
• You must be old enough, under the laws that apply to you, to enter into this agreement. Angelpaws is not directed at children under 13 (see our Privacy Policy).

When using Angelpaws, you agree not to:

• Submit false, misleading, or fraudulent information in an inquiry, application, or account.
• Use the inquiry form to send spam, harassment, or anything unrelated to a genuine interest in adopting the animal.
• Scrape, bulk-download, or systematically extract listing data other than through normal browsing.
• Attempt to access another user's or shelter's account, or any data you're not authorized to see.
• Interfere with or disrupt the platform's normal operation, including circumventing rate limits or security controls.

Shelters and rescues that register on Angelpaws are responsible for the accuracy of every listing they publish — including an animal's health, temperament, and availability status — to the best of their knowledge at the time of posting, and for updating a listing promptly once an animal is no longer available.

A shelter's listings only become publicly visible after our admin team verifies the organization. Angelpaws may reject or revoke verification, or remove/archive a listing, at its discretion — for example, for inaccurate, abusive, or inappropriate content.

Shelters remain solely responsible for complying with all laws and regulations that apply to them, including applicable state and local animal-welfare recordkeeping requirements for the animals they list.

Health, temperament, and other information about an animal is entered by the listing shelter or rescue, not independently verified by Angelpaws. We do our best to give shelters good tools to record this information accurately, but we make no representation or warranty about its accuracy or completeness. Always ask the shelter directly and meet the animal in person before making an adoption decision.

Submitting an inquiry through Angelpaws does not reserve an animal or guarantee an adoption. Any adoption decision, application, fee, and contract is strictly between you and the shelter — Angelpaws is not a party to it.

The Angelpaws name, logo, and site design belong to us. Shelters retain ownership of the photos and descriptions they upload, and grant Angelpaws a license to display that content on the platform for the purpose of listing the animal for adoption.

We may suspend or terminate your access to Angelpaws, or remove a listing, if we reasonably believe you've violated these Terms, misused the platform, or if a shelter's verification is revoked. You may stop using the service, or ask us to delete your account, at any time (see our Privacy Policy for what deleting an account means for the data we hold).

Angelpaws is provided 'as is' and 'as available', without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Angelpaws will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of the service, or from any interaction, adoption, or transaction between you and a shelter facilitated through the platform.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from these Terms or your use of Angelpaws will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

If we make material changes to these Terms, we'll update the date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, post a notice on the site. Continuing to use Angelpaws after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.