Website Policies & Disclaimers

Crown & Collar Institute materials are educational, recognition-based, and documentation-based. Information on this website is not veterinary advice, legal advice, tax advice, genetic counseling, medical advice, or a guarantee of any outcome.

Breeders, programs, puppy families, veterinarians, researchers, and contributors should consult qualified professionals when making veterinary, breeding, legal, financial, tax, genetic, or health-related decisions.

Crown & Collar Institute recognition is not automatic.

Membership, founding access, application submission, directory listing, registry participation, payment of future fees, or interest in an award does not guarantee recognition, awards, title codes, pedigree notation, badge use, breeder approval, dog approval, litter approval, pairing approval, program approval, or professional approval.

Recognition may be granted only after Crown & Collar Institute review of documentation, transparency, alignment with applicable guidelines, and available review standards.

Crown & Collar Institute is developing its own award, title, guideline, recognition, and registry/program record system.

Approved recognition may be entered into Crown & Collar Institute records and displayed on Crown & Collar Institute pedigree records, dog records, litter records, pairing records, kennel profiles, breeder records, program profiles, award records, and recognition summaries.

Unless a written agreement exists, Crown & Collar Institute does not claim that IOEBA, AKC, UKC, ABKC, APRI, or any other third-party registry automatically accepts, endorses, displays, or issues Crown & Collar Institute awards, title codes, or recognition records.

Crown & Collar Institute guidelines may discuss health testing, DNA-based pairing review, genetic diversity, COI/eCOI, veterinary screening, breed-specific concerns, structure, temperament, puppy development, and preservation.

No website content, award, title, directory listing, pedigree notation, DNA result, health record, or Crown & Collar Institute review guarantees health, temperament, fertility, structure, working ability, therapy-dog suitability, service-dog suitability, facility-dog suitability, emotional-support suitability, registry acceptance, breed acceptance, or long-term outcome.

DNA testing does not replace veterinary care, OFA/CHIC screening where available, orthopedic evaluation, cardiac evaluation, eye examination, airway or respiratory review, patella testing, thyroid testing, breed-specific veterinary screening, or professional guidance.

Working Canine Prospect Recognition™ does not guarantee that any puppy will become a therapy dog, service dog, facility dog, emotional-support animal, or working dog.

Final suitability depends on health, temperament, development, training, handler needs, environment, legal requirements, professional evaluation, and long-term outcomes.

Genetic Restoration & Preservation Recognition™ does not guarantee health improvement, breed acceptance, registry acceptance, fertility, structure, temperament, working ability, or long-term outcome.

Crown & Collar Institute does not support novelty breeding, color chasing, hidden ancestry, misleading purebred claims, extreme traits, or casual crossbreeding under the name of preservation.

Crown & Collar Institute may reference, review, or interact with veterinary guidance, veterinary colleges, university-level research, genetics professionals, biological science professionals, researchers, laboratories, educators, nonprofits, and breed-health resources.

Unless specifically stated in writing, Crown & Collar Institute does not claim formal endorsement, accreditation, sponsorship, certification, partnership, or approval by any university, veterinary college, laboratory, registry, veterinarian, researcher, scientific organization, nonprofit, or third-party organization.

Professional membership, contributor honors, advisory participation, or directory listing does not mean the professional certifies, guarantees, approves, endorses, or assumes responsibility for every breeder, dog, litter, pairing, kennel, program, title, award, pedigree notation, registry record, or Crown & Collar Institute decision.

Crown & Collar Institute may maintain public directories for participating breeders, founding members, veterinary professionals, scientific contributors, researchers, educators, or other approved participants.

Directory listing does not automatically mean approval, certification, endorsement, health clearance, breeding approval, award status, service-dog suitability, therapy-dog suitability, facility-dog suitability, working-canine suitability, registry acceptance, or good standing unless specifically stated in Crown & Collar Institute records.

Crown & Collar Institute may designate a portion of proceeds, program revenue, membership revenue, application revenue, sponsorship revenue, or other eligible income toward nonprofit organizations that further the Institute’s mission and goals.

Specific nonprofit recipients, donation percentages, campaign dates, donation amounts, and giving structures should be announced separately when approved and documented.

Statements about nonprofit giving do not automatically mean payments, fees, purchases, applications, or memberships are tax-deductible.

Support for a nonprofit organization does not automatically mean that the nonprofit endorses Crown & Collar Institute unless a written agreement states otherwise.

When visitors submit forms through this website, Crown & Collar Institute may collect information such as name, email address, program or kennel name, breed information, location, registry or pedigree information, website or social media links, recognition interests, professional information, and messages submitted through the form.

This information may be used to respond to inquiries, review membership interest, evaluate recognition interest, organize documentation, communicate with applicants, manage directory requests, or support Crown & Collar Institute administrative processes.

Crown & Collar Institute should not sell submitted personal information.

Visitors should avoid submitting sensitive personal information through public forms unless specifically requested through a secure process.

Crown & Collar Institute materials, written content, recognition frameworks, award structures, title-code systems, guideline language, educational resources, and related intellectual property are protected materials of Crown & Collar Institute unless otherwise noted.

Crown & Collar Institute concepts, written materials, recognition frameworks, title-code systems, educational language, and guideline structure were developed by L. Athena “Charity” Knowles unless otherwise noted.

Unauthorized copying, reproduction, modification, distribution, scraping, reposting, resale, or commercial use of Crown & Collar Institute materials is not permitted without written permission.

Crown & Collar Institute may update website content, guidelines, awards, title codes, breed health pages, research resources, membership policies, directory listings, review standards, and disclaimers as the Institute develops.

Information may change as research, veterinary guidance, breed-specific health information, registry pathways, testing options, documentation standards, and Crown & Collar Institute systems evolve.