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Terms of Service

Last updated: July 8, 2026 · Effective only after counsel review

Welcome to KinStation. These terms govern your use of the KinStation website, mobile apps, and any related services (the “Service”). KinStation is operated by Nexude LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company (NJ Entity ID 0451490388). By using the Service you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service. KinStation is currently available only to users in the United States.

Educational purpose only — not veterinary advice

KinStation is an educational reference. The encyclopedia, behavioral AI, first-aid pages, and any other content on the Service are for general information. They are not veterinary advice, not a diagnosis, and not a treatment plan. They do not establish a veterinarian-client-patient relationship.

Always call your veterinarian. If your pet is sick, injured, or behaving unusually, contact a licensed veterinarian or an emergency animal hospital immediately. If you cannot reach your regular vet, call the nearest emergency animal hospital. Do not delay professional care because of anything you read on KinStation.

No liability for medical decisions

To the fullest extent permitted by law, KinStation, Nexude LLC, and our reviewers, contractors, and contributors are not liable for any decision you make about your pet’s health, behavior, diet, housing, or care. You take full responsibility for your pet’s welfare. The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” with no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

Behavioral AI guardrails

The behavioral AI is designed to escalate to a licensed veterinarian for medical signs, sudden behavior change, bite history, and any potentially urgent situation. It will not provide numeric medication doses. The escalation rules are intentionally conservative. If the AI tells you to call your vet, please do.

User accounts

You can use KinStation with a KinStation account (your email and a password) or with a Nexude single sign-on account. You agree to provide accurate information, keep your credentials confidential, and notify us if you suspect unauthorized use of your account. You must be at least 13 years old to create an account.

Account-security measures.To protect your account and the Service, we apply automated protections to sign-in and sign-up — including rate limits and a temporary lock after repeated failed login attempts. If your account is locked, wait a short while and try again, or reset your password. These measures are best-effort and provided “as is”; they do not replace your responsibility to use a strong, unique password and keep it confidential.

Security & anti-abuse enforcement

Automated protections. To keep KinStation safe, available, and spam-free, we use automated anti-abuse measures — rate limiting, bot detection (including hidden form fields and submission-timing checks that are not visible to you and collect no additional personal data), content screening, and login-attempt monitoring. We may also block access from specific IP addresses or networks that we associate with abuse, ban-evasion, or automated attacks, which can affect account creation and sign-in from that network.

Community enforcement. We may rate-limit how often an account can post and may suspend or ban accounts that violate our community rules. Suspended accounts cannot post until reinstated, and every post is reviewed before it is published. See our community rules. You must not attempt to circumvent these protections (for example, by evading a ban with a new account or network, scripting or automating access, or probing our rate limits) — doing so is a violation of these terms and may result in termination. This restates, and does not limit, the Prohibited uses section.

Automated safety detection

We scan public posts for dangerous or illegal content. To protect the community, we run automated systems that analyze the text of public posts — community threads and replies, tank and build journals and their entries, public habitat comments, public board comments, and group names and descriptions — for dangerous or illegal content, including credible threats of violence, terrorism, child sexual exploitation, human trafficking, illegal drug, weapon, or wildlife-trade solicitation, hate incitement, doxxing, blackmail, animal cruelty, and scams. We do not scan private messages, and KinStation has no private-messaging feature today.

What happens when content is flagged. Most flagged content stays visible and is simply queued for a human moderator to review. Content in the most serious, hard-illegal categories (such as child-safety, credible threats, terrorism, and trafficking) may be automatically hidden pending human review, and we may refer content to law enforcement or other authorities where we believe it is required or appropriate — especially in child-safety or imminent-harm situations. Automated detection is a safety aid, not a guarantee: it can miss harmful content and it does not replace your own responsibility for what you post or our rights under the User-generated content, Community Q&A, and Security & anti-abuse enforcement sections.

Crisis content brings support, not punishment. When the system detects language suggesting self-harm, suicidal thoughts, or acute mental-health distress, it is treated as a support case: the post is not removed for that reason, supportive crisis resources are surfaced, and our team is alerted so a person can look. See our Community Safety page for the crisis resources we show.

Appeals and accuracy. Automated detection may occasionally be wrong. If you believe your content was hidden or flagged in error, you can appeal through the in-app report tool or by contacting us; a human reviews the decision, and content an administrator clears as a false positive is not auto-removed again. Flagged content, a one-way hash of it, the detected categories, and related signals are retained in a restricted moderation log for human review, safety, and to improve detection accuracy and reduce false positives over time, as described in our Privacy Policy. This section is a working draft pending counsel review.

Account succession & legal access

KinStation is a custodian of digital assets under the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA). If an account holder passes away or becomes incapacitated, or where a court order, subpoena, guardianship order, or other legal order applies, a verified executor, next of kin, guardian, conservator, attorney, or authorized agent may request memorialization, a data export to the estate, deletion, legal hold, or production via our account access request process. Every request requires certified proof of identity and authority (e.g. death certificate, letters testamentary, guardianship order, or the court order itself), is manually reviewed with a cooling-off period, and high-authority requests require legal-counsel review and a two-person sign-off. KinStation will never reveal a password or transfer login access; outcomes are limited to memorialization, data export, deletion, or legal hold/production. Knowingly false or fraudulent requests may be reported to law enforcement. This section is a placeholder pending counsel review.

User-generated content

You retain ownership of content you submit — pet records, photos, provider listings, reviews, and any text you contribute. By submitting content you grant KinStation a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, display, reproduce, and distribute that content as needed to operate and promote the Service.

You represent that your content does not infringe anyone else’s rights, is not unlawful or harassing, and is not deceptive. We may remove content that violates these terms or our community standards.

Public profiles & visibility

Your KinStation profile is private by default. If you choose to make it public in account settings, your profile page displays your display name, the species in your collection (the animals you mark as kept), the community threads you have published, and public activity stats derived from that activity (a reputation score and achievement badges) — to anyone, signed in or not. It does not display your email, your pet medical records, your saved or bookmarked items, or the species and forums you follow. You can switch your profile back to private at any time, which immediately removes it from public view. Only publish a display name, and keep a collection, you are comfortable showing publicly.

Referrals (“Invite a Keeper”)

You may invite others to KinStation with your personal invite link. If a person who is new to KinStation creates an account through your link and verifies their email, we credit your account with a referral reward (currently a number of free premium days). Conditions: the reward is granted only after the referred account verifies its email; each new account can be referred only once; you cannot refer yourself; and the reward applies only to genuine, new accounts. We may withhold or revoke rewards, and may suspend or change the referral program at any time, if we detect self-referral, duplicate or automated sign-ups, or other abuse. Referral rewards have no cash value, are non-transferable, and are not redeemable for money. Program details are a working draft pending counsel review.

Trade-value estimates

Some features (including certain Pro features) display an estimated hobby trade value for species color/pattern morphs. These figures are rough, automatically generated community estimates provided for general interest only. They are not appraisals, offers, price quotes, or guarantees of value, and real prices vary widely by source, locality, size, health, and condition. Do not rely on them to buy, sell, insure, or value any animal. KinStation is not a party to any transaction between you and any other person and is not liable for decisions you make based on these estimates.

Community Q&A

The community lets pet owners ask and answer questions. Every post enters a moderation queue and is not published until approved — posts do not appear publicly the moment you submit them. Posting may require a verified email. Community answers are owner-to-owner peer information, not veterinary advice; for anything medical, contact a licensed veterinarian. We may hide, lock, remove, or refuse posts, and suspend accounts, to keep the community safe and on-topic.

Tank journals (build threads)

Journals are public, member-posted build logs. Unlike Q&A posts, journals and their entries publish immediately (no pre-review), but they remain subject to the same community rules, the report mechanism, and our right to hide or remove them. Posting requires a verified email and is blocked for suspended or rate-limited accounts. Journals are owner-to-owner hobby information, not veterinary advice. When you link an image to a journal or entry, you confirm you have the right to use and display it; do not post images you do not own or have permission to share.

Habitat Lab & care tracking

The Habitat Lablets you create profiles for the habitats you keep — aquariums, terrariums, vivariums, paludariums, aviaries, hutches, garden beds, greenhouses, ponds, and more — and log dated parameter readings, maintenance events, inhabitants, schedules, photos, and camera links for each. It is an informational reference tool only. Nothing it displays, calculates, or suggests — including readings, target ranges, trend lines, stability scores, swing warnings, and out-of-range alerts — constitutes veterinary advice, husbandry or horticultural advice tailored to your habitat or its inhabitants, a dosing instruction, or an equipment recommendation. Target-range color-coding and stability scores are informational color-coding derived from generic published reference targets, not calibrated to your specific system, and a green reading does not mean your habitat is healthy any more than a red reading means it is unsafe. The Habitat Lab never computes doses; any amounts you record are free text you entered yourself. This restates, and does not limit, the Educational purpose only and No liability for medical decisions sections of these terms, which apply to the Habitat Lab in full.

Reminders and alerts are best-effort. Schedules, in-app notifications, reminder and overdue emails, and out-of-range alerts are convenience features delivered on a best-effort basis. A reminder or alert that is missed, delayed, mis-timed, or not delivered creates no liability for KinStation or Nexude LLC You remain solely responsible for the care of your animals and plantsand for all husbandry decisions — dosing, water changes, feeding, equipment adjustments, and livestock or plant purchases and removals — regardless of what the Habitat Lab shows or fails to show. You assume all risk of loss, including loss of or injury to livestock, coral, plants, equipment, and property, arising from or relating to your use of, or reliance on, this tool.

Camera links are member-provided third-party streams. If you attach a live-stream link to a habitat, KinStation embeds only YouTube and Twitch streams (subject to those platforms’ own terms and policies); any other link is shown as a link-out. KinStation never hosts, proxies, records, or monitors any stream, is not responsible for stream content or availability, and may remove any camera link at its discretion. You must not link a stream that exposes another person’s private information or otherwise violates these terms or a third party’s rights.

Habitat photos are user content. Photos you upload or link to a habitat timeline are user-generated content: the User-generated content section of these terms, including its ownership, license, and representation provisions, applies to them in full, and this paragraph restates, and does not limit, that section.

Inhabitant records are informational.Stocking-list entries — species, quantities, acquisition dates, sources, and statuses — are a personal log, not proof of ownership, provenance, or legality. Recording an animal or plant in the Habitat Lab does not make keeping it lawful in your jurisdiction; you are responsible for knowing and complying with the laws that apply to the species you keep, and, as stated elsewhere in these terms, you must never release a kept animal or plant into the wild.

Care contacts are stored for your own convenience. The care-contacts rolodex (vets, aquarists, breeders, stores, sitters, groomers, trainers) is a private convenience feature. The accuracy of the details you store is your responsibility, and by storing a third party’s details you assert that you have the right to do so. KinStation does not verify, endorse, or recommend any contact you store.

The Habitat Lab and its outputs are provided “as is” and “as available,” with no warranty of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or fitness for any particular purpose. This is in addition to, and does not limit, the general “as is” disclaimer and limitation of liability stated elsewhere in these terms, which apply to this tool in full. The current split of free and Pro features (for example, reading-history depth, analytics, exports, camera and photo limits) may change at any time. Feature-tier details are a working draft pending counsel review.

Boards

Boards (/boards) are named collections that you create to save and organize species, morphs, plants, community threads, and journals. Each board has a title, an optional description, and an optional cover-image URL you supply. Boards are your content; KinStation does not create, curate, or endorse the collections or their contents.

Public vs. private. When you create a board you choose whether it is public or private. A public boardis visible to anyone — signed in or not — at the board’s URL, on your public profile (if your profile is public), and in the KinStation Boards directory. A private board is visible only to you. You can change a board between public and private at any time; switching a board to private removes it from public view and the directory immediately.

Your representations and warranties.By creating or editing a board you represent and warrant that: (a) you own or have all necessary rights to the board’s title, description, and any cover-image URL you supply; (b) the image at any cover-image URL you link is not infringing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise unlawful; (c) no element of your board violates any applicable law or third-party right, including intellectual property rights; and (d) you have the right to grant KinStation the license described below. Do not supply a cover-image URL unless you own the image, have a license to use and display it publicly, or the image is in the public domain. Linking to an image hosted on a third-party site does not transfer any rights to that image to you or to KinStation; you are solely responsible for ensuring you have the right to use and link it.

License grant for boards. The base user-content license stated elsewhere in these terms applies to all board content. For public boards, you additionally grant KinStation a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to display the board’s title, description, item list, and cover image (a) at the board’s public URL, (b) on your public profile page, and (c) in the KinStation Boards directory, search results, and any promotional or social surface of the Service. This license ends when you delete the board or make it private, except that KinStation may retain cached or indexed copies for a reasonable transitional period.

No endorsement.KinStation’s decision to host, display, or include a board in the Boards directory is not an endorsement of the board, its contents, or its creator. KinStation does not verify the accuracy, legality, or completeness of board contents, and may at its discretion and without prior notice hide, remove, refuse, or unlist any board or its contents that we believe violates these terms, our community rules, any applicable law, or any third-party right, or that we receive a credible complaint or takedown notice about. Removal does not affect our right to retain records for legal, safety, and abuse-prevention purposes.

Pet & Plant Collection Cards (Pokédex)

KinStation lets you create cardsfor the pets and plants you keep — a flip card with a front “hero” face (a photo or image you supply, a name, and rarity/conservation rings) and a back face with a short care summary and links to that pet’s own records, reminders, or trackers. Your cards, the collection they form, and your completion progress are your content: you retain ownership, and the base user-content license stated elsewhere in these terms applies to everything on a card. Cards are intended for your personal record-keeping.

Card images.When you supply a hero image — by upload or by linking an image URL — you represent and warrant that you own the image, have a license to use and display it, or it is in the public domain, and that it is not infringing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise unlawful. Linking an image hosted elsewhere does not transfer any rights to you or to KinStation, and you are solely responsible for ensuring you have the right to use and link it. This mirrors the representations you make for Boards cover images.

No appraisal, no trade facilitation.A card may show a species’ or morph’s rarity ring, conservation status, or an estimated hobby trade value. As stated in our Trade-value estimates section, these are rough, automatically generated figures for general interest — not appraisals, offers, price quotes, or guarantees of value— and marking a pet or plant as one you keep is a personal log, not a claim of legal ownership, provenance, or a facilitated sale. KinStation is not a party to any transaction between you and any other person.

Care information on cards is not veterinary advice. The care summary, rarity/conservation rings, and any reminder or tracker links shown on the back of a card are educational reference only. They are not veterinary advice, not a diagnosis, and not a treatment plan, and they do not establish a veterinarian-client-patient relationship. Always consult a licensed veterinarian (for animals) or a qualified horticulturist (for plants) for decisions affecting a living thing’s health. This restates, and does not limit, the Educational purpose only and No liability for medical decisions sections of these terms, which apply to cards in full. Card content, including care summaries and rarity information, is provided “as is” and “as available,” with no warranty of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose.

Family of services (linking to Trovio)

KinStation is a product of Nexude LLC, which also operates other services — including Trovio, a personal collector’s vault. If you choose to, you can link your KinStation account to a Trovio vault so that some of your KinStation recognition items can be displayed there too. Linking is entirely optional, is always started by you from your Trovio settings, and nothing is shared until you complete the link.

What is shared when you link. If you link, Trovio receives only the recognition data you authorize: your KinDex collection entries (the species and morphs you mark as ones you keep, together with their rarity/conservation display and the estimated hobby-value string shown for them), your keeper and reputation badges, and your KinStation Premium status. That is all. Your pet and medical records, Habitat Lab data, saved items, follows, group memberships, community posts, email address, and browsing activity never leave KinStation for this feature.

Estimated values are hobby references, not appraisals. Any estimated hobby trade value that travels with a linked collection entry is carried as descriptive text exactly as our Trade-value estimatessection describes it — a rough, automatically generated community figure for general interest only. It is not an appraisal, offer, price quote, or guarantee of value, it is never converted into a monetary balance on Trovio, and it is never included in any Trovio total or “net worth” figure.

These items remain recognition data, not property. Displaying your KinStation cards, badges, or status on Trovio does not change their nature: they remain display and recognition data only— not property, currency, or transferable assets — they confer no ownership right or monetary entitlement, and they remain subject to KinStation’s rules, including correction or removal. This restates, and does not limit, the No appraisal, no trade facilitation language in our cards section.

Card naming. The public name of the collection-card mechanic remains subject to counsel review (see Proprietary marks & mechanics). Where these items are displayed on Trovio they are shown as “KinDex Card”, and the card names, icons, rarity system, and related marks remain the marks of KinStation and Nexude LLC wherever they appear.

You can unlink at any time. You can remove the link from either your Trovio settings or your KinStation settings. Unlinking stops all further sharing immediately, and Trovio deletes the copies it synced within 24 hours, keeping only an internal record that a deletion took place. This section is a working draft pending counsel review.

Biome Dex & Encyclopedia

The Biome Dexis an educational catalogue of habitats (“biomes”) and the species and plants associated with each. Biome entries, like encyclopedia entries, are compiled from open references and may be drafts pending review; treat them accordingly. Biome geography, climate, flora/fauna, and conservation notes are general information, not a field guide, not a legal guide to where a species may be kept or released, and not veterinary or horticultural advice — and certainly not professional advice of any kind. Never release a kept animal or plant into the wild based on anything in the Biome Dex; doing so may be illegal and ecologically harmful. All biome data is provided “as is” and “as available,” with no warranty of accuracy, completeness, or timeliness.

Groups & Teams

KinStation Groups let you create or join communities around an interest (for example, Orchid keepers, Bonsai, Flower-arrangement, a species, or a region) and, in future, form teams. Groups have a name, description, optional cover image, a privacy setting (public, private, or invite-only), and roles (owner, moderator, member).

Group content & conduct. All posts, comments, names, descriptions, and images inside a group are user-generated content and are subject to these terms, our community rules, the report mechanism, and our right to hide, lock, remove, refuse, or unlist content or groups. Group cover images follow the same image representations as Boards and cards above.

Group-owner responsibilities.If you create or own a group, you are responsible for setting its purpose and for moderating it in line with our community rules — for example, reviewing reports, removing rule-breaking content, and not using the group to harass, defraud, sell prohibited items, or promote unsafe or illegal animal/plant practices. Owning or moderating a group does not make you an employee, agent, or partner of KinStation, does not transfer any KinStation liability to you beyond your own conduct, and does not reduce KinStation’s own moderation rights or safe harbour. We may remove a group, reassign or remove an owner/moderator, or dissolve a group at our discretion, including for inactivity, abandonment, or rule violations.

Membership visibility.Whether your membership in a group is visible to others depends on the group’s privacy setting and your profile setting; see the Privacy Policy. Private and invite-only group contents are visible only to members.

Head-to-head Group Matches & future games (fair play). KinStation may introduce Group Matches and other friendly games between members or teams (for example, collection-completion challenges or knowledge quizzes). When these features are available, you agree to play fairly: no cheating, automation/bots, multi-accounting, result manipulation, or exploiting bugs, and no harassment of opponents. Games on KinStation are for fun and community engagement only — there is no wagering, no entry fee, no real-money prize, and no cash value to any in-game points, ranking, badge, or reward, and rewards are non-transferable. We may adjust, suspend, void, or reset matches, results, rankings, or rewards to correct errors or abuse, and we may disqualify or suspend accounts that violate fair-play rules. Eligibility may be limited by age and jurisdiction. This feature is forward-looking, flag-gated, and not yet live, and is a working draft pending counsel review.

Proprietary marks & mechanics

Several KinStation features are distinctive mechanics that KinStation claims as proprietary, including the following common-law marks (pending counsel and filing decisions): Pokédex Pet Card™, Biome Dex™, Habitat Lab™, KinStation Groups™, Group Matches™, and Living Loader™. Each mechanic, its name, and its design are proprietary to KinStation and Nexude LLC You may use each within the Service; you may not copy, clone, reverse-engineer, or reproduce the mechanic, its name, or its presentation in a competing product without our express written permission.

These proprietary-mechanic clauses are in addition to KinStation’s existing intellectual-property rights in its text, layout, taxonomy, iconography, and software, and to the anti-scrape / anti-ML-training restrictions in the Prohibited uses section.

Encyclopedia content and media licensing

Encyclopedia and plant entries are compiled from open references and are reviewed by licensed veterinarians where indicated. Some entries are drafts pending review; treat them accordingly. Photographs (including species and plant cover photos and colour/pattern-morph images), animal calls, and video clips shown across the Service are sourced from open repositories such as Wikimedia Commons and xeno-canto, are limited to licenses that permit our use, and remain the property of their respective authors under the licenses (for example, Creative Commons) shown with each item — attribution and license are displayed alongside the media. KinStation’s own text, layout, and software are owned by KinStation and Nexude LLC; you may not bulk-copy or redistribute them except as permitted above.

Provider listings and reviews

Clinic and sitter listings are submitted by providers and reviewed by KinStation staff before they are published. Reviews are written by users about their own experiences. KinStation does not endorse any provider, and inclusion of a provider in our directory is not a recommendation. We may remove listings or reviews at our discretion, including if we receive credible complaints.

Vet volunteer reviewers

Veterinary volunteer reviewers operate under a separate volunteer reviewer agreement which sets out scope, byline use, indemnity, and conflict-of-interest terms. Reviewer content is signed off in good faith and is still general information — it is not advice for any individual animal.

Prohibited uses

Account termination

You may close your account at any time by emailing [email protected]. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, create safety risk, or are inactive for an extended period. We will attempt to notify you before termination except in cases of urgent safety or legal risk.

Changes to the Service or these terms

KinStation is in active development. Features may change, be added, be flag-gated, or be removed. We may also update these terms; if a change is material we will notify active accounts by email and post an updated “last updated” date here. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the State of New Jersey (where Nexude LLC is organized), without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. You and KinStation agree that any dispute will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in that jurisdiction, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or confidential information.

Dispute resolution

Before filing any formal claim, you agree to contact us at [email protected] and give us a reasonable opportunity to resolve the issue. Most problems can be solved with a quick conversation.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Email [email protected]. Until forwarding is in place, you may also reach the operator directly at [email protected].