Terms & Conditions

Terms & Conditions

Last updated: August 2026

We treat your pets like they’re our own.

These Terms & Conditions apply to services provided by Fly Your Tail OÜ, trading as Fly Your Tail.

Legal company name: Fly Your Tail OÜ

Registration number: 16907535

Registered address:Harju maakond, Tallinn, Lasnamäe linnaosa, Lõõtsa tn 5, 11415 , Estonia

Email: julia@flyyourtail.com

Website: www.flyyourtail.com

These Terms should be read together with the quotation or service proposal accepted by the client and our Privacy Policy.


1. About These Terms

These Terms apply to pet relocation, pet travel coordination, documentation support, veterinary sample logistics and any other services expressly agreed between Fly Your Tail and the client.

In these Terms:

“Client”, “you” or “owner” means the person or organisation engaging Fly Your Tail.

“Pet” or “animal” means the animal for which services are being requested.

“Third-party provider” may include airlines, cargo operators, freight forwarders, veterinarians, laboratories, ground transport companies, customs brokers, quarantine facilities, government authorities, destination agents and other independent service providers.

Only the services specifically listed in the accepted quotation or written service scope are included.

Any additional work requested outside the agreed scope may be separately quoted.


2. Formation of the Contract

A quotation does not itself constitute a confirmed booking.

A contract is formed when:

  1. the client accepts the quotation or service proposal in writing;
  2. the client accepts these Terms & Conditions;
  3. Fly Your Tail confirms that the engagement has been accepted; and
  4. any payment required to commence work has been received.

Written acceptance may include confirmation by email, WhatsApp, online form or another agreed written communication method.

The accepted quotation, these Terms & Conditions and any subsequent written amendments together form the agreement between Fly Your Tail and the client.


3. Nature of Our Services

Fly Your Tail provides pet relocation coordination and related logistics services.

Depending on the service booked, we may coordinate:

  • Veterinary preparation
  • Import and export documentation
  • Government permits
  • Laboratory testing
  • International veterinary sample shipments
  • Route planning
  • Airline bookings
  • Manifested-cargo arrangements
  • In-cabin or accompanied-baggage planning
  • Travel kennel review or supply
  • Customs clearance
  • Quarantine arrangements
  • Airport handling
  • Ground transport
  • Collection and delivery
  • Destination services
  • Travel-day support

Fly Your Tail is not an airline or air carrier.

Where transport or another service is performed by an independent third party, that provider remains responsible for the service it performs and may apply its own terms and conditions.


4. Quotations and Pricing

Quotations are prepared using the information available at the time.

Clients must provide accurate information regarding:

  • Species
  • Breed
  • Age
  • Weight
  • Body measurements
  • Travel kennel dimensions
  • Medical or behavioural information
  • Origin and destination
  • Travel dates
  • Documentation status
  • Owner travel arrangements

Incorrect, incomplete or changed information may affect the route, kennel, airline acceptance, government requirements or price.

Fly Your Tail professional fees

Unless marked as estimated, Fly Your Tail’s own professional or coordination fees are valid for the period stated in the quotation.

Unless otherwise stated, our quotation validity is 30 days.

Third-party costs

The following may be estimates or pass-through costs and can change after quotation:

  • Airline freight
  • Airline surcharges
  • Fuel surcharges
  • Cargo handling
  • Customs charges
  • Government fees
  • Import or export permits
  • Quarantine fees
  • Veterinary fees
  • Laboratory fees
  • Courier charges
  • Storage
  • Ground transport
  • Destination-agent charges
  • Taxes and duties

Airline tariffs, flight capacity, government fees and third-party charges may change without notice.

Where a material price change occurs before booking or commitment, Fly Your Tail will inform the client wherever reasonably possible.

Where a third-party service has already been authorised or committed, the client remains responsible for the resulting cost.


5. Taxes, VAT and Customs Charges

Prices are inclusive or exclusive of VAT as stated in the quotation or invoice.

Any applicable VAT will be charged in accordance with Estonian and EU tax rules.

Unless expressly included in the quotation, the following are not included:

  • Import VAT
  • Customs duties
  • Local taxes
  • Customs assessments
  • Storage caused by customs delays

These amounts remain the responsibility of the client.


6. Client Responsibilities

The client must provide complete, truthful and accurate information.

The client is responsible for:

  • Providing requested documents on time
  • Ensuring documents are legible and complete
  • Attending veterinary appointments when required
  • Keeping required vaccinations valid
  • Following testing and treatment timelines
  • Providing accurate pet measurements
  • Declaring known medical conditions
  • Declaring behavioural or aggression concerns
  • Notifying Fly Your Tail of changes in health, weight or condition
  • Notifying Fly Your Tail of changes to travel dates or owner travel plans
  • Providing immigration, residence or ownership evidence where required
  • Ensuring no prohibited items are placed in the kennel or shipment
  • Complying with instructions issued by airlines, authorities and veterinarians

Failure to cooperate within required timelines may make the original travel date impossible.


7. Documentation

Unless otherwise agreed, documentation requested electronically must be supplied in clear and legible format.

PDF is preferred for official documents.

Veterinary, ownership and travel documents should identify the correct owner or legally authorised person where required by the destination or export authority.

The client must promptly notify Fly Your Tail if:

  • A document contains an error
  • A name changes
  • A passport changes
  • A vaccination expires
  • A travel date changes
  • A pet’s health changes

Fly Your Tail may review documents for relocation purposes but cannot guarantee government acceptance.

Government authorities make the final decision regarding permits, certificates and entry or export approval.


8. Veterinary Requirements and Pet Fitness

The client must disclose all relevant medical and behavioural information before travel.

This includes, where applicable:

  • Chronic illness
  • Respiratory disease
  • Heart conditions
  • Neurological conditions
  • Seizures
  • Recent surgery
  • Pregnancy
  • Medication
  • Previous travel problems
  • Anxiety
  • Aggression
  • Escape behaviour
  • Brachycephalic characteristics

Fly Your Tail may request a veterinary fitness-to-travel assessment where appropriate.

If the animal’s condition changes before travel, the client must notify Fly Your Tail immediately.

Fly Your Tail may recommend postponement or cancellation where there is a reasonable welfare concern.


9. Sedation and Medication

Fly Your Tail does not recommend routine sedation for air travel.

Any medication administered before travel must be discussed with and prescribed or approved by the pet’s veterinarian.

The client must disclose medication administered before airline acceptance.

Fly Your Tail is not responsible for adverse effects caused by medication prescribed, supplied or administered by third parties, except where liability cannot legally be excluded.

Airlines may refuse animals that appear sedated, excessively drowsy, unresponsive or otherwise unfit to travel.


10. Travel Kennels

Kennel selection is based on factors including:

  • Pet measurements
  • Breed
  • Airline
  • Route
  • Aircraft
  • Travel method
  • Applicable IATA Live Animals Regulations
  • Airline-specific requirements

Clients must provide accurate measurements.

If measurements are incorrect, or the pet grows or changes size, a larger kennel may be required.

This may result in:

  • Increased freight charges
  • Aircraft restrictions
  • Route changes
  • Rebooking
  • Postponement

Fly Your Tail may review a kennel before travel, but the airline makes the final decision on kennel acceptance.

A Fly Your Tail review is therefore not a guarantee of airline acceptance.

Where a custom kennel is ordered, cancellation or refund may be restricted once production or procurement has begun.

Clients are encouraged to crate-train their pets before travel.


11. Airline and Route Acceptance

All airline bookings remain subject to airline approval.

A quotation, provisional booking or route recommendation does not guarantee:

  • Airline space
  • Aircraft suitability
  • Kennel acceptance
  • Breed acceptance
  • Cargo capacity
  • Weather acceptance
  • Government permission
  • Quarantine availability
  • Final travel date

Airlines may change:

  • Aircraft
  • Schedule
  • Route
  • Embargo rules
  • Breed restrictions
  • Temperature limits
  • Cargo capacity

without Fly Your Tail’s control.

Where necessary, Fly Your Tail may recommend an alternative airline, route, airport or travel date.


12. Third-Party Providers

International pet relocation normally requires independent third parties.

Fly Your Tail may coordinate services supplied by:

  • Airlines
  • Freight forwarders
  • Ground handlers
  • Veterinarians
  • Laboratories
  • Couriers
  • Customs brokers
  • Government agencies
  • Quarantine facilities
  • Destination agents
  • Ground transport providers

These providers remain responsible for the services they perform.

Fly Your Tail is not responsible for independent decisions, acts or omissions of third parties outside our reasonable control.

Nothing in this clause excludes responsibility that legally arises from Fly Your Tail’s own failure to exercise reasonable care in performing the services we have agreed to provide.


13. Authority to Act

By engaging Fly Your Tail, the client authorises Fly Your Tail and its appointed providers to act as the client’s representative where reasonably necessary for the agreed relocation or logistics service.

This may include:

  • Import procedures
  • Export procedures
  • Customs clearance
  • Cargo documentation
  • Quarantine booking
  • Government applications
  • Airline communication

A formal power of attorney, authorisation letter or other documentation may be required.

The client agrees to provide such authority where reasonably necessary.


14. Changes Requested by the Client

Changes requested after work or booking has begun may result in additional charges.

This includes changes to:

  • Travel date
  • Airline
  • Route
  • Destination
  • Origin
  • Travel method
  • Owner travel plans
  • Pet details
  • Travel kennel

Additional charges may include:

  • Fly Your Tail administrative work
  • Airline change fees
  • Rebooking fees
  • New permits
  • New certificates
  • Veterinary appointments
  • Laboratory testing
  • Customs changes
  • New destination handling

The client will be informed of material additional costs where reasonably possible before they are committed.


15. Changes Required by Airlines or Authorities

Airlines, airports, government agencies and other authorities may change their requirements after booking.

Changes can include:

  • New veterinary requirements
  • Additional laboratory tests
  • New permits
  • Revised certificate formats
  • Airline embargoes
  • Route restrictions
  • Quarantine changes

Fly Your Tail will make reasonable efforts to adapt the relocation.

Any unavoidable additional third-party costs arising from such changes remain payable by the client unless otherwise required by law.


16. Payment

Payment terms will be stated in the quotation or invoice.

Unless otherwise agreed, full payment is due within 5 days of acceptance.

Fly Your Tail is not required to commence work or commit third-party expenditure until the required payment has been received.

Where work must begin urgently, Fly Your Tail may require immediate payment.

Payments must be made only to the bank or payment details shown on an official Fly Your Tail invoice.

Clients should verify any unexpected request to change payment details directly with Fly Your Tail before making payment.


17. Consumer Right of Withdrawal

This section applies only where the client qualifies as a consumer and a statutory right of withdrawal applies.

Where a contract is concluded at a distance or off-premises, an eligible consumer may generally have 14 days from conclusion of the service contract to withdraw without giving a reason.

A consumer may notify Fly Your Tail of withdrawal by sending an unequivocal written statement by email or another durable written method.

Request to begin work immediately

Pet relocation frequently involves time-sensitive work.

If the client asks Fly Your Tail to begin providing services before the 14-day withdrawal period has expired, the client expressly requests early performance.

If the client subsequently exercises a valid right of withdrawal after work has started, the client may be required to pay an amount proportionate to the services already provided up to the time of withdrawal, together with non-refundable third-party costs lawfully incurred at the client’s request.

Where a service has been fully performed during the withdrawal period after the consumer’s express request and legally required acknowledgement, the statutory right of withdrawal may cease in accordance with applicable law.

Nothing in this section reduces any mandatory consumer rights.


18. Client Cancellation

The client may request cancellation in writing.

Cancellation becomes effective when received by Fly Your Tail.

Any refund will be calculated based on the status of the case at the time cancellation is received.

Amounts that may be deducted include:

  • Services already performed
  • Reasonable administrative work completed
  • Airline cancellation charges
  • Non-refundable cargo charges
  • Government fees
  • Permit fees
  • Veterinary fees
  • Laboratory fees
  • Courier charges
  • Custom kennel costs
  • Quarantine deposits
  • Destination-agent fees
  • Other third-party costs already committed

Any refundable balance will be returned within a reasonable period after all third-party cancellation amounts have been confirmed.

Where legally required, mandatory consumer withdrawal rights take precedence over this clause.


19. Failure to Provide Required Information or Documents

If the client fails to provide information, payments or documents within required timelines, Fly Your Tail may:

  • Suspend work
  • Postpone travel
  • Rebook the service
  • Cancel the relocation

Where cancellation results from the client’s failure to comply with required timelines, any refund will be calculated after deducting work already performed and non-refundable or committed third-party costs.

Fly Your Tail does not guarantee that the original travel date can be retained after a missed documentation deadline.


20. Cancellation or Suspension by Fly Your Tail

Fly Your Tail may suspend or cancel services where reasonably necessary, including where:

  • Required payment has not been received
  • Information provided is false or materially incomplete
  • Veterinary requirements cannot be completed in time
  • The pet is not fit to travel
  • The pet is aggressive or poses a safety concern
  • The kennel is unsuitable
  • The route becomes unavailable
  • Government approval is refused
  • Airline acceptance is withdrawn
  • Legal restrictions prevent performance
  • The client refuses to follow required welfare or regulatory instructions

Where cancellation results from circumstances attributable to the client, the client remains responsible for services already performed and committed third-party costs.

Where Fly Your Tail cancels solely for its own operational reasons and not because of the client, the pet, a third party or an event beyond our reasonable control, any unused Fly Your Tail professional fees will be refunded.


21. Aggressive, Fearful or Reactive Animals

Fly Your Tail may decline, suspend or modify services for animals reasonably considered:

  • Aggressive
  • Dangerous
  • Highly reactive
  • Extremely fearful
  • Escape-prone
  • Unsafe for normal handling

This decision may be made in the interest of:

  • The pet
  • Staff
  • Veterinarians
  • Handlers
  • Other animals
  • Members of the public

Additional handling, specialist equipment or transport costs may be required.


22. Travel Disruption and Events Beyond Reasonable Control

International pet travel can be affected by events beyond Fly Your Tail’s reasonable control.

Examples include:

  • Severe weather
  • Natural disaster
  • Airport closure
  • Border closure
  • War
  • Civil unrest
  • Strike
  • Epidemic or disease outbreak
  • Government action
  • Airline embargo
  • Aircraft change
  • Flight cancellation
  • Flight delay
  • Cargo-system outage
  • Quarantine closure
  • Regulatory change
  • Security event

Fly Your Tail will make reasonable efforts to minimise disruption and arrange alternatives where possible.

However, Fly Your Tail cannot guarantee that the original route, flight or travel date can be maintained.

Reasonable additional third-party costs resulting from rebooking, storage, boarding, veterinary care, permits, accommodation or transport remain the client’s responsibility where permitted by law.


23. Emergency Welfare and Veterinary Care

If urgent action is reasonably necessary to protect the animal’s welfare or comply with airline or government requirements, Fly Your Tail or an appointed provider may seek appropriate assistance.

This may include:

  • Veterinary examination
  • Veterinary treatment
  • Boarding
  • Additional hydration or feeding
  • Emergency ground transport
  • Temporary animal accommodation
  • Rebooking
  • Additional handling

Where time permits, Fly Your Tail will attempt to contact the client before significant additional expenditure is authorised.

If the client cannot reasonably be contacted and delay could compromise the animal’s welfare or legal compliance, the client authorises reasonable necessary action.

The client remains responsible for reasonable third-party costs arising from such action.

Fly Your Tail does not diagnose or provide veterinary treatment.


24. Excessive Soiling or Additional Welfare Handling

Where additional handling becomes reasonably necessary because of:

  • Excessive kennel soiling
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhoea
  • Comfort stops
  • Additional cleaning
  • Welfare-related transport
  • Extended delays

reasonable additional third-party charges may be payable by the client.


25. Personal Belongings

Fly Your Tail recommends keeping items inside the kennel to the minimum permitted by the airline.

Any bedding, toys, leads, bowls or personal items travel at the client’s risk.

Fly Your Tail is not responsible for loss or damage to personal belongings caused by airlines, handlers or other independent third parties, except where liability cannot legally be excluded.


26. Animal Welfare and Inherent Travel Risk

Air travel and relocation involve unavoidable physical and environmental factors.

These may include:

  • Noise
  • Movement
  • Temperature variation
  • Unfamiliar surroundings
  • Handling
  • Transit
  • Separation from the owner
  • Stress

Some animals may be more susceptible to travel-related effects because of:

  • Age
  • Breed
  • Medical condition
  • Brachycephalic anatomy
  • Temperament
  • Previous health history

Fly Your Tail will use reasonable care in planning and coordinating the services within its control.

However, no pet relocation service can guarantee that international travel is entirely risk-free.


27. Liability

Fly Your Tail is responsible for performing the services expressly agreed with reasonable care and skill.

Fly Your Tail does not itself operate aircraft, airports, quarantine facilities, veterinary clinics, government authorities or independent transport providers.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Fly Your Tail is not responsible for loss, delay, injury, expense or disruption resulting solely from circumstances outside its reasonable control, including independent acts of airlines, authorities and third-party providers.

Fly Your Tail is not responsible for illness, deterioration or injury arising solely from:

  • A pre-existing medical condition
  • An undisclosed condition
  • Natural causes
  • Age-related conditions
  • Breed-related characteristics
  • Self-injury by the animal
  • Veterinary treatment provided independently
  • Medication administered independently

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability:

  • For fraud or wilful misconduct
  • For liability that cannot legally be excluded
  • Where applicable consumer law requires otherwise

Nothing in these Terms limits any mandatory statutory rights of a consumer.


28. Insurance

Pet insurance, travel insurance and cargo insurance are not included unless expressly stated in the quotation.


29. Veterinary Sample Logistics

Where Fly Your Tail coordinates international veterinary sample transport, the following additional conditions apply.

The client, veterinarian or submitting clinic is responsible for:

  • Correct sample collection
  • Correct specimen type
  • Correct specimen volume
  • Accurate labelling
  • Correct patient identification
  • Appropriate initial preparation

Fly Your Tail may coordinate:

  • Packaging guidance
  • Courier booking
  • Customs documentation
  • Temperature-controlled transport
  • Laboratory communication
  • International routing

Sample transport may be affected by:

  • Courier delays
  • Customs inspections
  • Flight delays
  • Temperature excursions
  • Incorrect specimen preparation
  • Insufficient volume
  • Laboratory rejection
  • Damaged packaging
  • Regulatory restrictions

Fly Your Tail cannot guarantee:

  • Sample viability
  • Laboratory acceptance
  • Diagnostic outcome
  • Laboratory turnaround time

Where re-collection or re-shipment is required for a reason outside Fly Your Tail’s reasonable control, additional costs may apply.


30. Communications

The client agrees that Fly Your Tail may use the contact details provided for service-related communications.

Email and WhatsApp may be used for:

  • Instructions
  • Approvals
  • Document requests
  • Booking updates
  • Cost approvals
  • Travel updates

Instructions or approvals sent from the client’s usual email address or WhatsApp number may be treated as written instructions.

For material cost changes, Fly Your Tail will seek express client approval where reasonably possible.


31. Data Protection

Personal data is processed in accordance with the Fly Your Tail Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection law, including the GDPR where applicable.

Information may need to be shared with airlines, authorities, veterinarians, customs agents and other providers in countries outside the European Economic Area where necessary to provide the requested service.

Please refer to the Fly Your Tail Privacy Policy for further information.


32. Photographs, Testimonials and Marketing Content

Unless the client notifies Fly Your Tail otherwise in writing, the client grants Fly Your Tail permission to use photographs and video content of the pet taken or provided in connection with the relocation for Fly Your Tail’s marketing and promotional purposes.

This may include use on:

  • The Fly Your Tail website
  • Social media
  • Blog articles
  • Educational content
  • Advertising and promotional materials
  • Relocation case studies

Fly Your Tail will use reasonable care not to publish personal information that unnecessarily identifies the client.

The client’s name, photograph, identifiable personal details, private messages, email or WhatsApp correspondence, or testimonial will not be published for marketing purposes without separate permission where required by applicable data-protection law.

The client may notify Fly Your Tail at any time that they do not wish future photographs or videos of their pet to be used for marketing purposes.

Such a request will apply to future use and will not affect material that was lawfully published or distributed before the request was received, although Fly Your Tail will take reasonable steps to discontinue future use where practicable.

Refusing or withdrawing marketing permission will not affect the pet relocation services provided by Fly Your Tail.


33. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, website content and materials created by Fly Your Tail remain the intellectual property of Fly Your Tail or its licensors.

This may include:

  • Articles
  • Destination guides
  • Checklists
  • Graphics
  • Written guides
  • Quotation formats
  • Original photographs
  • Website copy

Content may not be reproduced, republished, commercially distributed or presented as another company’s material without permission.

Clients may use documents supplied specifically for their own pet relocation for that purpose.


34. Complaints

If you are unhappy with any aspect of our service, please contact Fly Your Tail first so that we can review the issue.

Complaints should be sent to:

Email: julia@flyyourtail.com

Please provide:

  • Your name
  • Pet name
  • Route
  • Relevant booking details
  • Description of the issue
  • Any supporting documents

We will aim to respond within a reasonable period.


35. Consumer Disputes

Where applicable, consumers may have access to statutory alternative dispute resolution procedures.

Eligible Estonian consumer disputes may be submitted to the Consumer Disputes Committee operated through the Estonian Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority.

Use of an alternative dispute resolution mechanism does not remove any right the consumer may have to bring a matter before a competent court.


36. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Estonia.

Where the client is a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive the consumer of mandatory protections that apply under applicable consumer law.


37. Jurisdiction

The parties will first make reasonable efforts to resolve any dispute amicably.

If a dispute cannot be resolved, proceedings may be brought before the courts having jurisdiction under applicable law.

Nothing in these Terms requires a consumer to surrender a mandatory right to bring proceedings in another competent jurisdiction where applicable consumer law provides such a right.


38. Changes to These Terms

Fly Your Tail may update these Terms for future bookings where necessary because of:

  • Changes to law
  • Changes to services
  • Operational changes
  • Regulatory requirements

The version accepted when a contract is concluded will govern that booking unless:

  • the parties expressly agree otherwise; or
  • a change is required by mandatory law.

New versions published on the website apply to contracts entered into after their effective date.


39. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.

The invalid provision will be interpreted or replaced, where possible, in a manner that most closely reflects its intended lawful purpose.


40. Entire Agreement

The accepted quotation, agreed service scope, these Terms and any written amendments constitute the agreement between Fly Your Tail and the client regarding the relevant service.

If there is a conflict between these Terms and an expressly agreed provision in the quotation, the expressly agreed quotation provision will take precedence for that booking unless prohibited by law.


41. Contact Details

Fly Your Tail OÜ

Registration number: 16907535

Registered address: Harju maakond, Tallinn, Lasnamäe linnaosa, Lõõtsa tn 5, 11415

Estonia

Email: julia@flyyourtail.com 

Website: www.flyyourtail.com