Terms of Use

Last updated: 18 October 2026

These Terms of Use apply to this website. By accessing or using this website, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the website.

1. About This Website

This website is operated by IconicSX Limited, registered in Scotland, Company No. SC796112, registered office: [address]. Contact: [email protected].

This website is an educational resource. It does not sell animals or other goods and does not provide services to visitors.

2. Ownership of Content

All content on this website, including text, articles, photographs, images, graphics, diagrams, logos and the selection and arrangement of that content, is owned by IconicSX Limited or used under licence, and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.

“IconicSX” and “Iconic Sphynx” are registered trade marks of IconicSX Limited.

3. Permitted Use

You may view and read the content of this website for your own personal, non-commercial use.

You may quote short extracts of written content for the purposes of criticism, review, discussion or education, provided that you clearly identify this website as the source and include a link to the original page.

Any other use, including copying, reproducing, republishing, distributing, modifying or creating derivative works from any content, requires our prior written permission.

4. Photographs and Images

Photographs and images on this website may not be copied, downloaded for reuse, republished, edited or used on any other website, social media account, advertisement or publication without our prior written permission.

This applies to all photographs of our cats, whether or not they carry a watermark.

5. Prohibited Use

You must not:

  • use any automated means, including bots, scrapers, crawlers, spiders or scripts, to access, copy, monitor or extract content or data from this website, other than search engines indexing the website for public search results;

  • bulk download or systematically collect content from this website;

  • use any content from this website to train, fine-tune or develop artificial intelligence or machine learning systems without our prior written permission;

  • present our content, or any part of it, as your own, or remove or obscure any copyright notice, watermark or attribution;

  • impersonate this website, IconicSX Limited or any person associated with it, or create websites, accounts or materials designed to appear connected with us;

  • attempt to bypass, disable or interfere with any security feature of this website;

  • use this website in any way that is unlawful or that could damage, overload or impair it.

We may block access from any device, network or service that we reasonably believe is being used in breach of these terms.

6. Educational Information Only

The content of this website is provided for general educational and informational purposes only.

It does not constitute veterinary advice and is not a substitute for advice from a qualified veterinary surgeon or for the results of laboratory testing. Decisions about the health, breeding or care of any animal should be made with appropriate professional advice.

Information about genetics reflects published research and laboratory results available at the time of writing. Scientific understanding may change, and we do not guarantee that all content is complete or current.

7. Links to Other Websites

This website may contain links to other websites, including scientific publications and laboratory resources. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or privacy practices of those websites.

8. Limitation of Liability

We provide this website free of charge and on an “as is” basis. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss or damage arising from the use of, or reliance on, any content on this website.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under the law of Scotland or the United Kingdom.

9. Privacy

Information about how we process personal information when you visit this website, including our website security monitoring, is set out in our Privacy Policy.

10. Permission Requests and Reporting Misuse

To request permission to use any content, or to report copying or impersonation of this website, please contact [email protected].

11. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. The current version will always be published on this website with the date of the latest update.

12. Governing Law

These Terms of Use are governed by the law of Scotland, and the courts of Scotland have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.