🐾💙🧡 Your Friendly Neighborhood Babysitter & Pet Sitters LLC 🧡💙🐾
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📋 CLIENT SERVICE AGREEMENT, BOOKING, PAYMENT & CANCELLATION CONTRACT
Thank you for choosing Your Friendly Neighborhood Babysitter & Pet Sitters LLC. Please carefully review this legally binding agreement prior to booking services.
By requesting services, submitting payment, signing forms/waivers, completing intake forms, or using our services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to ALL terms outlined below.
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📌 PAYMENT INFORMATION — ZELLE ONLY
ALL payments must be submitted through Zelle ONLY to:
📧 Springfriendlysitters2@gmail.com
(Under Jonathan/Karina ONLY)
🚫 Our business phone number is NOT linked to Zelle
🚫 No other payment methods are accepted
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💳 BOOKING, PAYMENT & DEPOSIT POLICY
A 70% NON-REFUNDABLE & NON-TRANSFERABLE deposit is required immediately upon booking request/confirmation — NO EXCEPTIONS.
✔ Deposit/payment is due SAME DAY as your request is automatically approved.
✔ Remaining balance is automatically invoiced
✔ Final payment is due 1 day prior to service start date
✔ Full payment may be made upfront if preferred
Applies to ALL services:
• Boarding
• House Sitting
• Drop-Ins
• Doggy Daycare
• Taxi Services
• Baths & Nail Clippings
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📅 RESERVATIONS & LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Reservations are confirmed immediately upon submission through our forms, Walkies app, inbox, or direct communication.
Because we operate on a limited, appointment-only schedule:
• Dates are held specifically for your pet(s)
• Availability is removed for other clients
• We may decline or turn away other booking requests once dates are reserved
• Staffing, scheduling, and availability are arranged specifically around your reservation
Failure to submit payment does NOT automatically cancel your reservation or release balances owed under this agreement.
Late fees may apply for unpaid balances:
• $3 per day for unpaid deposits or overdue invoices
Failure to pay may result in:
• Cancellation of future bookings
• Collections/recovery efforts
• Requirement of 100% prepayment for future reservations
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❗ CANCELLATION POLICY — ALL SERVICES
🚫 ALL PAYMENTS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE
🚫 NO CREDITS
🚫 NO TRANSFERS
🚫 NO EXCEPTIONS
This policy applies regardless of reason, including:
• Personal or family emergencies
• Travel changes
• Illness (pet or owner)
• Schedule conflicts
• Flight delays/cancellations
• Finding alternative care after booking
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❌ STANDARD CANCELLATION PAYMENT SCHEDULE
Because reservations block limited availability and may prevent us from accepting other clients, the following cancellation policy applies to ALL reservations and services.
📌 Cancellations MORE than 14 days prior to service:
• 70% deposit/payment remains NON-REFUNDABLE & NON-TRANSFERABLE
📌 Cancellations within 7–14 days prior to service:
• 80% of the reservation total remains due and payable
• All payments remain NON-REFUNDABLE & NON-TRANSFERABLE
📌 Cancellations within 0–6 days prior to service:
• 100% of the reservation total remains due and payable
• All payments remain NON-REFUNDABLE & NON-TRANSFERABLE
📌 Same-day cancellations, last-minute cancellations, shortened stays, early returns, or no-shows:
• 100% of the reservation total remains due immediately
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❗ LONG-TERM, EXTENDED, HOLIDAY & HIGH-DEMAND RESERVATIONS
Long-term, extended, holiday, peak-season, and high-demand reservations block significant availability and may prevent us from accepting other clients.
Because staffing, scheduling, and availability are arranged specifically around these reservations, stricter cancellation terms apply.
📌 For ALL long-term, extended, holiday, peak-season, and high-demand reservations:
• Cancellations MORE than 14 days prior to service:
➡️ 60% deposit/payment remains NON-REFUNDABLE & NON-TRANSFERABLE
• Cancellations within 7–14 days prior to service:
➡️ 100% of the reservation total remains due and payable
• Cancellations within 0–6 days prior to service:
➡️ 100% of the reservation total remains due and payable
📌 Same-day cancellations, no-shows, shortened stays, early returns, or last-minute cancellations:
➡️ 100% of the reservation total remains due immediately
🚫 NO refunds
🚫 NO credits
🚫 NO transfers
🚫 NO exceptions
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🚫 NO REFUNDS • NO CREDITS • NO TRANSFERS
No refunds, credits, discounts, or rescheduling credits will be issued for:
• Early pick-ups or returns
• Unused boarding days
• Unused drop-ins
• Unused daycare days
• Unused overnight stays
• Schedule changes
• Shortened stays
• Pets refusing to stay
• Travel changes or delays
• Holiday or peak-season reservations
• Same-day cancellations
• Last-minute cancellations
• No-shows
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🔁 BOOKING CHANGES
• Must be requested at least 24+ hours in advance
• Changes are NOT guaranteed
• If unavailable, the original reservation remains active
• NO refunds or credits will be issued
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⚠️ HIGH-DEMAND & HOLIDAY BOOKINGS
✔ Same policies apply at ALL times
✔ NO exceptions for:
• Holidays
• Summer
• Peak seasons
• Last-minute bookings
• High-demand reservations
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🐶 SERVICE REQUIREMENTS & SAFETY POLICIES
📌 DAILY VISIT REQUIREMENT
• No every-other-day visits
• Visits must occur at least once daily
• Visits must be consecutive
• We do NOT conduct visits when another pet sitter, family member, guest, maintenance worker, or other individual is entering the home during scheduled services unless previously disclosed and approved
📌 WEEKEND OVERNIGHT POLICY
• Minimum of 2 consecutive nights required (Friday–Sunday)
📌 HEALTH POLICY
• No services provided for contagious or infectious illnesses
• Illnesses must be disclosed prior to service
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🌡️ WEATHER POLICY
• No walks during severe heat advisories or unsafe weather
• Walks may be adjusted to early morning or evening hours
• Indoor enrichment/play may be provided when necessary for safety
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🚫 RIGHT TO REFUSE OR DISCONTINUE SERVICE
We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or discontinue services due to:
• Aggressive or unsafe pet behavior
• Lack of disclosure
• Unsafe home conditions
• Non-payment
• Repeated policy violations
• Disrespectful, threatening, or harmful behavior toward our staff or family
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🔁 REPEATED CANCELLATIONS
Clients with repeated cancellations may be required to:
• Pay 100% upfront for future reservations
• Accept stricter booking requirements
• Accept all future bookings as NON-REFUNDABLE
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📌 CLIENT RESPONSIBILITY & LIABILITY
Clients accept full responsibility for:
• Their pet(s)
• Their home/property
• Any risks involving illness, injury, escape, damage, pregnancy, or death
• Any damages or veterinary costs caused by their pet(s)
Clients confirm:
• Pet(s) are current on required vaccinations
• All medical, behavioral, aggression, anxiety, escape-risk, and safety concerns have been fully disclosed
Failure to disclose information may result in:
• Immediate termination of services WITHOUT refund
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📸 PHOTO & MEDIA RELEASE
Clients grant permission for photos/videos of their pet(s) to be used for:
• Updates
• Social media
• Promotional/marketing purposes
Unless otherwise requested in writing.
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⚖️ LEGAL AGREEMENT
By booking services, clients agree:
• NOT to initiate chargebacks
• To accept responsibility for collection/recovery costs
• That disputes shall be resolved through binding arbitration within the State of Texas
• To waive rights to court proceedings and jury trials where permitted by law
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✅ CLIENT ACKNOWLEDGMENT
By submitting payment, signing forms/waivers, completing intake forms, using services, or electronically agreeing to this contract, you confirm that:
✔ You are at least 18 years old
✔ You are legally authorized to enter this agreement
✔ You understand and agree to ALL policies outlined above
📌 Your electronic signature, submitted forms, date, timestamp, IP address, payment submission, and booking request constitute a legally binding agreement.