Terms & privacy

1. What this platform is

Breed Radar is a public record of the animal breeding market. Breeder records are transcribed from public breed-club directories, and each one names its source and the date it was read. Reviews are written by users, and are the account of the person who wrote them.

We never write promotional copy about a breeder. The score, the ordering of results and a position in any ranking are not for sale, in any form.

2. Who may use it

You must be 18 or over and use accurate details. An account belongs to one person. If you represent a business, say so when you claim its record.

3. What you may write here

First-hand experience only. Not what you heard from somebody else, not more than one review of the same purchase, and not on another person's behalf.

You may review a breeder whether or not the record has been claimed. What you write is your responsibility, and by publishing it you give us a non-exclusive permission to show that text on the platform.

• Do not publish other people's personal data — somebody's home address, a private phone number, photographs of identifiable people.
• Do not state accusations of a crime as fact. Describe what happened to you.
• Do not post the same review on several records.

4. Moderation

We may hold a review for review, or remove it if it breaks these terms. We never rewrite your text: it is either published as you wrote it or not published, and in that case we tell you why.

Automated triage can only make the decision stricter — holding something back for a person to read. It can never publish what the rules held back.

If you believe content here is unlawful, you can notify us at the contact address. We answer with a reasoned decision.

5. Breeders: claiming your record

Your business's record may exist before you have heard of us, because it was transcribed from a public directory. Claiming it is free.

• By claiming the record and accepting these terms, you permit us to publish your name and any contact details you choose to add. None of that is published before then, and we pre-fill none of it.
• You can correct the facts on the record.
• You can reply to any review, underneath it, without limit and at no cost. The reply is free and permanent, and that is a clause: a breeder who could only answer by paying would be charged for their own defence.

Claiming is not verification. Verification rests on documents read by a person, and the record says so differently.

6. Records that have not been claimed

Appearing here does not mean the breeder signed up, endorses the platform, or has been verified. The record says where it came from and what the original listing does not evidence.

While a record is unclaimed we publish neither the responsible person's name, nor an email address, nor a phone number. The contact details that were in the source directories are not published under any circumstances.

If the business is yours, you can ask us to correct a fact, object to the processing — to the experience label alone, or to the whole record — and, if the breeding programme has closed, ask us to take the page off the record. No account is needed and there is no charge. We reply within 30 days with a reasoned decision. A request is not automatic removal: we consider it and explain the outcome.

7. Your animals

You can record your own animals and link them to a breeder's record, claimed or not. An animal record is private — it is seen by the person who created it and by whoever they choose.

The link to a breeder is your statement, not a fact we have verified, and it is not published on the breeder's record as though it were.

8. What we do not guarantee

Nothing in this section takes away consumer rights that the law gives you and that cannot be waived by contract.

• We do not guarantee that a review is true. It is one person's account, and publishing it is not endorsing it.
• We do not guarantee that a record is complete or current. The source is a club directory read on a date, and that date is on the record.
• An absence of complaints about a breeder is not evidence of good practice. It is an absence of information.
• We are not a party to your dealings with a breeder, and we do not broker a purchase.

9. Liability

We are liable for damage we cause intentionally or by gross negligence, and for anything the law does not allow us to exclude. We are not liable for a breeder's conduct, for a decision you take on the strength of a review, or for interruptions outside our control.

10. Closing your account

You can delete your account at any time. Reviews you wrote remain, without your identity: deletion removes who wrote it, not the account of what a business did. If you would rather a particular review were removed, tell us and we will explain what is possible.

11. Changes, governing law, and which version prevails

If we change these terms materially, we say so on the platform before the change takes effect. Portuguese law applies and the Portuguese courts have jurisdiction, without prejudice to any forum consumer law reserves for you.

These terms exist in Portuguese, English and Spanish. If they diverge, the Portuguese version prevails.

1. Who the controller is

Breed Radar. For anything in this notice, including exercising your rights: assistenza@breedradar.com.

You can complain to your data protection authority at any time, without contacting us first.

2. The breeder records, and where they came from

We transcribe records of breeding businesses from public breed-club directories: Clube Português de Felinicultura (read 17/08/2026), Asociación Felina Española (18/08/2026), and eight breed clubs affiliated to Clube Português de Canicultura (18–19/08/2026). Every record names its source and the date it was read.

Two sources were dropped on our own initiative, before any publication and without any complaint, because their own terms forbid reproducing their directories.

Each published record contains:

• the business name, spelled as the directory spells it;
• the town, the region and the country;
• the breeds the listing names, and the club membership;
• the address of the source listing and the date it was read.

And by our own decision it does not contain:

• the responsible person's name, while the record is unclaimed. We hold that name — the club published it and it is part of the dataset we transcribed — but we do not display it and do not send it to a visitor's browser. It stops being withheld only if the breeder claims the record, accepts the terms and chooses to publish it;
• an email address or a phone number, under any circumstances. The ones in the source directories were never published and will not be. If a contact appears on a record, the breeder added it;
• any field invented to fill a gap: no description, no start date, no animal count, no photograph, no verification.

Appearing in a directory does not evidence health testing, litter registration or an absence of complaints, and the record says so.

3. The basis on which we publish a record

Legitimate interest — Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The purpose is to give a buyer verifiable information before they spend several thousand euros on a living animal, in a sector with no regulator and no public compliance register.

The balancing, in short:

• the data identifies the business, and the source is public and named on every record, with its date;
• we publish no personal contact details, and no name of anyone who never came to us;
• the experience label describes what buyers reported, never the person's character, and is not shown below three reviews;
• neutrality is structural: the score, the ordering and any ranking position cannot be bought, and replying to a review is free and permanent.

The full written assessment is under legal review. If you consider the processing affects you disproportionately, you can object — section 7.

4. What we collect from people who use the platform

• Account: your email address and the name you choose to display. Sign-in is by a link sent to your email, or with a Google account if you use that button.
• Reviews: the text you write, the per-dimension ratings, the purchase date and any files you attach as evidence. Anything you mark as moderator-only is shown to neither the public nor the breeder.
• Claiming a record: what you send to show you speak for the business.
• Your animals: what you record about them, including health records. It is private — seen by whoever created it and by whoever they choose.
• Security: a cryptographic digest of your IP address, kept for 10 minutes (15 during account recovery), to limit abuse. We do not keep the address.

We count page visits with Vercel Web Analytics, run by the company that hosts this site. It sets no cookie, does not follow you between sites and does not identify you: it measures page views, the site you arrived from, the country and the kind of device, in aggregate. The same tool counts a few moments in a form so we can see where people give up — that a search ran and roughly how many results came back, that somebody started filling a form in. Never what you typed: no search term, no field value and no name is attached to any of them. We use no tracking pixels, no tag managers and no advertising, and we sell data to nobody.

5. Who else sees the data, and where it is

• The public sees published reviews and what you write in the forum.
• The reviewed breeder sees the same, and has a free, permanent right of reply.
• A moderator, under a duty of confidence, sees the full review before it is published and the evidence attached to it.

Guarantees that are already built, written down here because they are easy to read backwards:

• An anonymous review hides your name from the public, not from moderation. A moderator can identify who wrote it, because a review nobody answers for is worth nothing. “Anonymous” here does not mean untraceable.
• The reviewed breeder never gets access to the attached evidence. That is deliberate: it is how reviewers get identified and pressured.
• Health documents and pedigrees sit in private storage, reachable only through short-lived signed addresses generated on the server — never through a guessable public path.
• An animal record is private by default. Its owner can share one animal's keepsake journal by link — its name, nicknames, favourites, personality — and can stop sharing at any time. The health log and its documents, the breeder and the date of birth are never shared: the shared page reads a database view that does not contain those columns. Of the microchip we keep only whether the animal has one — the number is neither asked for nor stored on any record.
• Permissions are enforced in the database itself and not only in the pages' code, so a bug in one page cannot expose another person's records.

Processors: Supabase (database, authentication and file storage, in Frankfurt), Vercel (hosting and execution, in Frankfurt) and Cloudflare (the anti-bot check on the sign-in and register forms). Compute and storage are both in Germany.

There are two transfers outside the European Economic Area: signing in with a Google account, if you use that button, and Cloudflare's anti-bot check on the sign-in and register forms, which receives your IP address and technical signals from your browser. Cloudflare uses no cookies for this check and does not track you across sites. No review text is sent to a language model: that integration exists in the code, is switched off, and has never been used. If it is ever switched on, this section names the processor before that happens.

6. How long we keep things

• Email address and display name: until you delete your account.
• Published reviews: indefinitely, because they are the record. Deleting your account removes who wrote it, not the account of what a business did.
• IP digest: 10 minutes, or 15 during account recovery.
• Moderation decisions: kept, because they are the evidence that we moderated with reasons.
• Documents from a claim: as long as the record and the claim exist.
• Breeder records: until the subject objects, or a reasoned removal decision.

Nothing is deleted by a scheduled process today. Retention periods for removed content are being set and will be listed here once they are; until then we delete on request.

7. Your rights

If you use the platform: you can ask for access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability and object to processing. You can delete your account yourself, at any time.

If you are a breeder whose record we transcribed, and you never came to us: you can object at any time on grounds relating to your situation — and the burden is on us to show compelling legitimate grounds for continuing, not on you to justify yourself. You can do it at three separate levels, and you do not have to ask for the largest:

• correct a fact on the record;
• object to the experience label alone — the one layer the platform itself authors;
• object to the whole record, including asking us to take the page off the record if the breeding programme has closed.

No account is needed and there is no charge: write to assistenza@breedradar.com. We reply within 30 days, extendable by 60 for a complex request, and we tell you why if we extend. The reply is a reasoned decision. A request is not automatic removal — we consider it and explain the outcome; if the objection prevails, we stop the processing and the record leaves every public page.

8. Unlawful content and decisions

If you believe content here is unlawful, you can notify us at assistenza@breedradar.com. We consider it and answer with a reasoned decision, telling you what we did and why.

9. Changes to this notice

If we change this notice materially, we say so on the platform before the change takes effect, and the date at the top changes. This notice exists in Portuguese, English and Spanish; if they diverge, the Portuguese version prevails.