FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions
1. (Q) What is KANITO?
(A) KANITO is the first ITALIAN social network fully DEVOTED TO DOGS.Our mission is to provide dog owners and businesses a DEDICATED platform to interact on daily experiences, habits and needs related to the WORLD OF DOGS.
2. (Q) What KANITO IS NOT
(A) KANITO is no dog's yellow pages, nor a bundle of dog's photos, a dog's forum or the "expert corner" for your dog: KANITO is all these features together -and much more! It's based on users' direct and REAL-TIME PARTICIPATION. We want to prvide you the most fun and useful DOG EXPERIENCE!
3. (Q) Who is KANITO looking for?
(A) KANITO is dedicated to any person who owns dog for company, sport, fun or work, and to all those seeking to adopt one. If you are a PRIVATE OWNER with a doggy at home, or if you are a BUSINESS such as breeder, shelter, dogsitter etc..., KANITO is the site for comprehensive fun and useful contents dedicated to you!
4. (Q) What can I do on KANITO?
(A) On KANITO you can browse and get in contact with numerous DOG PROFILES, each one with its relative information such as city, sex, breed, age, behaviour and funny details, and you can interact with them by sending messages, adding them to your favorites or by sending a bone as a gift! You can also enjoy PHOTO ALBUMS and VIDEO GALLERIES for each dog, and read BLOGS written by the masters. KANITO is also a source of joy and a mean by which interacting with others members on dog-related issues. The GROUPS section allows you to be part of specific themed clubs (such as for a specifi race, city or neighborhood), with FORUM you will always be updated on current issues and share thoughts, comments and suggestion of themese related to your dog health, agility and the most appropriate food. The PARKS section is dedicated to every piece of land where to walk your dog: quite a good way to get to know new people, and why not, start a new friendship! Last, don't miss the DOG OWNERS and BUSINESSES sections, on which you can browse and contact with other private dog owners, or enter a virtual window of a pet store, a breeder, a hotel for dogs and the new opening of beach club for dogs!
5. (Q) What distinguish KANITO from other Italian websites for pets?
(A) KANITO supplies a platform on which every user can upload, manage, share contents at their sole discretion, througha high level of interaction, making of KANITO a website with ongoing, updated contents. In contrast to this approach, traditional websites upload themselves the contents, leaving the user with a limited capability of interaction (e.g. comments only). This is the main difference between current 2.0 web and the old 1.0.
6. (Q) Do I need to register to use KANITO?
(A) NO, but with no subscription you can only browse limited sections, and you will not be able to interact with other users. SIGNUP NOW! it's free and it take few seconds only! We therefore strongly advice you to signup and get your USER PROFILE, and add as many DOG PROFILES as you wish, comments, writing blogs, join the forum and much more!
7. (Q) Is KANITO a free service?
(A) YES. KANITO is totally FREE OF CHARGE, both for Private and Business Users.
8. (Q) How do I signup on KANITO?
(A) From the Homepage, click on the "Join Now" link at top right. You will then be asked to choose between Private user (e.g. if you have a dog in your house for company, fun or cbeauty contests) and Business (e.g. if you are a dogsitter, a breeder or a dog beach). If you choose to signup as business, you will still be able to add both your family dogs, and those related to your business (e.g. those on adoption from your activity).
(A) YOURSELF, with a photo of you, NOT that of your dog. Once you register, you can add as many dogs as you like. By doing so, your "human profile" will be linked automatically to you dog profiles. E.g. if you have 2 dogs, your "human profile" will show you as the owner of 2 dogs, showing a thumbnail for each one of them. By clicking on one thumbnail, you will be redirected to that dog's profile. Confused? Check this user, and then his dog: note how the two profiles are linked?
10. (Q) What's the difference between Private and Businesses profile types?
(A) An Owner-type user is any master who owns a dog who is willing to meet new dogs and new masters. A Business-type user refers to any professional or company working on products and services related to dogs, such as Breeders, Trainers, Kennels, Dogsitters, Hotels and Pet Stores.
11. (Q) I would like to register as a Private user, what can I do on the site and what's forbidden?
(A) You can upload contents related to you and to your dogs such as photo, videos, blogs, add parks and so on. You cannot publish any content that does not belong to you, or for which you do not have proper authorization. You cannot upload and publish any type of commercial content, nor you are allowed to contact users for selling ad promoting any product or service. If you don't follow these simple rules we will be forced to suspend and delete your account. For more information please take a look a our Terms.
12. (Q) I would like to register as a Business user, what can I do on the site and what's forbidden?
(A) You can upload contents related to your business such as photo, videos, blogs, add parks and so on. For instance, if you are a breeder and you offer new puppies, you can add them as dogs and upload their photos, videos and write daily blogs. If you are a trainer, you can publish photos and videos related to your training sessions and your facility, describing your professional approach on your blogs or the latest facilities you invested in. You cannot upload and publich contents that do not belong to you, or for which you don't have authorization. You cannot publish any commercial information (beyond your profile sections mentioned before) nor you can send direct messages containing commercial offers to any users. If you don't follow these simple rules we will be forced to suspend and delete your account. For more information please take a look a our Terms.
A) It depends: if for example you are the founder of a small association with full control on it, you can regiter as a business and add both your family dog and those related to your activity. If instead let's say you work for a shelter, we suggest you to register as a dog owner (adding your rivate dog), and register your shelter as a business, adding its many dogs to adopt. If you still have any dubt, please write us at info(at)kanito.it.
14. (Q) I run a dog-related website (association, club, breeder, pet store). Would you consider banner exchange in order to promote each other's webste and increase both traffic?
(A) Please! Click here and scroll down to download our banners and send yours to info(at)kanito.it. Got no banner? We'll make it for you! Just send us your logo or your website address and we will design a state-of-the-art banner!
15. (Q) Do you offer marketing solutions to increase my visibility on KANITO?
(A) Please write us at info(at)kanito.it and we will be glad to offer customized solutions depending on your specifi requests. Any updates regarding our marketing will be also posted on KANITO under the "News" section and in our Forum>Updates.
16. (Q) What do you mean by social network, or web 2.0?
(A) A 2.0 website is a social network where users can share their interests and contents with a higher degree of interaction with respect to traditional sites (forums, directories, classifieds...). Large scale examples of social networks are Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. The main difference from traditional websites (web 1.0) is the capability of uploading the own contents sharing them with other users, sending messages using internal mailing system, linking your preferred users to your profile, and actively partecipating to the site contents, making these website both sources and uses of any type of information being constantly updated.
