K9 — The small print

Terms of service

These terms govern your use of K9 (the site at k9thedogcatcher.com, its pages, its emails and its data). By using the site, requesting beta access or starting a membership you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the site.

Who may use K9

• You must be at least 21 years old, or the legal age for sports wagering where you live if that is higher, and you must be legally allowed to view sports-betting information where you are.
• You may not use K9 where it is unlawful to do so. You are responsible for knowing the law where you live.
• One person per account. Do not share your sign-in, resell, scrape, re-publish or redistribute the reads, the Dog Reports, the tickets or any other member content. Quoting a read with a link to K9 is fine; copying the member pages elsewhere is not.

What K9 is

K9 is an information and entertainment service. It publishes research reads on boxing and mixed-martial-arts fights, probability estimates, comparisons against sportsbook prices, and a graded record of its own calls. It does not take bets, hold funds, or place wagers for anyone, and it has no relationship with any sportsbook beyond reading their published prices.

Accuracy and availability

• Reads are produced by automated research and models, and by the analysts' own picks, from public sources. They can be wrong, late or incomplete. Prices shown are the feed's prices at the time shown and may differ from what a sportsbook offers you.
• The record page shows every graded call, hits and misses alike. Past results do not predict future results.
• The site may be unavailable, changed or withdrawn at any time. Features marked beta or "no edge" or "paper" are what they say.

Your account

• Keep your password private. You are responsible for what is done with your account. Tell us if you think it has been compromised.
• We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, abuses the service, or is used to scrape or redistribute content, with or without a refund of the unused period at our discretion.
• You may close your account at any time by cancelling your membership and asking us to delete it (see Privacy).

Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, K9 and NovaShift Automations are not liable for any loss, including betting losses, arising from use of the site or reliance on anything in it. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Changes and law

We may update these terms; the date at the top changes when we do and continued use after a change is acceptance of it. These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which NovaShift Automations is organised.

Not financial or betting advice

Everything on K9 is for informational and entertainment purposes only. A read, a probability, a "value" label, a stake suggestion in units, a ticket, a Dog Report or an analyst's pick is an opinion produced from public information and a model. It is not advice, not a recommendation to wager, and not a guarantee of any outcome. Any decision to bet, and the amount, is yours alone.

Where the site shows a stake in units or a return per dollar, it is illustrating the arithmetic of a probability estimate against a price. If the estimate is wrong, so is the return. Edges that look large are more often a sign of missing information than of a mispriced market, and the site says so where it can.

Membership, trials and refunds

• Prices. A membership is a recurring subscription, monthly or yearly, at the price shown on the membership page when you subscribe. Prices may change for new periods with notice on the site; a change never applies mid-period.
• Free trial. A first membership may start with a free trial of the length shown at checkout. A card is collected at the start; you are not charged until the trial ends. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing. One trial per person.
• Renewal. Your membership renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. Your account page shows the renewal date.
• Cancelling. Cancel at any time from your account page ("Manage or cancel my plan"). Access continues to the end of the period you paid for and does not renew.
• Refunds. Payments are not refundable for a partial period, except where the law where you live requires it or where we have failed to provide the service for a substantial part of a period. If you believe you were charged in error, contact us within 30 days of the charge and we will look at it.
• Payments. Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card number. Stripe's own terms and privacy policy apply to the payment.
• Beta and complimentary access is granted at our discretion for a stated window, carries no fee and no refund, and may be ended at any time.

Privacy

What we collect

• Account data: your email address, a hashed password (never the password itself), the time you signed up and last signed in, your plan and its dates, and, for admins, a two-factor secret.
• Billing data: your Stripe customer and subscription identifiers, the subscription's status and the end of the paid period. Card details stay with Stripe.
• Preferences: the sportsbooks you tick, your parlay book, your analyst name and blind-mode setting, and locally in your browser a few display choices.
• Activity: sign-in sessions (a hashed token, the IP address and browser string, when it was last used), an audit log of account and admin actions with the IP address, feedback you send, and picks you record. We use this to keep accounts secure and the record honest.
• Email: the sign-in links, password resets, invitations and account emails we send you, through Resend, which processes the address to deliver them.

What we do not do

• We do not sell or rent your data. We do not share it with sportsbooks or advertisers.
• We do not run third-party advertising or tracking scripts. The site sets one cookie, your sign-in session, and reads fonts from Google Fonts and one script library from a public CDN, which see your IP address when your browser fetches them.

Who sees it

Your data is stored on our hosting provider (Railway) in a database only the application and the admins can reach. Stripe holds your payment data; Resend handles outbound email. Admins can see your email, plan, sessions and audit entries in order to run the service. Picks you record as an analyst are shown to members by the name you chose.

Your rights

You can see and change your email, password and preferences on your account page. You can ask us to export or delete your account data; we will do so within 30 days, keeping only what we must for billing records, security or the law. Contact details are below.

Retention

Account data is kept while the account exists and for up to 12 months after it closes, unless you ask for earlier deletion. Audit logs are kept for security purposes for 12 months. Billing records are kept as long as tax and accounting rules require.

Responsible gambling

Betting on fights is entertainment with a cost, not an income. The record page exists so you can see that even a good read misses often. Please:

• Only bet money you can afford to lose, and decide the amount before you look at the price.
• Never chase a loss. A unit is a unit; the stake arithmetic on this site never asks you to bet more after a miss.
• Take breaks. If betting stops being fun, or you are hiding it, that is the signal.
• Use your sportsbook's deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion tools. They work.

If gambling is causing you or someone close to you harm, free and confidential help is available:

If you would like us to close your account so you cannot use K9, write to us and we will do it the same day.

Photo credits

Fighter photos are the lead images of the fighters' Wikipedia articles, hosted on Wikimedia Commons under free licences (mostly Creative Commons). Each photo is credited to its author with its licence: hover a photo on a card, or see the credit under it on the fighter's page, which links to the file and its licence. K9 claims no rights in them. If you are pictured or hold the rights to a photo and want it removed, write to us.

Contact

NovaShift Automations. Signed-in members can also use the feedback form on any page. For billing questions, your Stripe receipt carries the merchant details; for a data request, write from the email address on the account.