Permanence
What The Reptile Club keeps on the permanent public record, what it does not, and why.
The Reptile Club exists to preserve pedigree, parentage, and provenance. A registry only has value if the records it keeps can be relied upon years from now. For that reason, approved registrations become part of a permanent public record.
This page explains what is preserved, what remains under your control, how genuine errors are handled, and how we respond to requests for removal.
Why permanence matters
The purpose of a pedigree registry is to provide a stable historical account of an animal and its place within a lineage. Breeders, buyers, and future keepers rely on that account when evaluating parentage, producer attribution, and ownership history.
If registrations could be removed or rewritten at will, the Registry would cease to be a reliable record. Permanence is therefore not an incidental feature of The Reptile Club. It is the foundation upon which the Registry is built.
What becomes part of the permanent record
When a registration is approved, the animal's registry record becomes part of The Reptile Club's permanent archive. This record may include:
- The animal's Registry code (RC number)
- Species
- Hatch date
- Recorded sire and dam
- Producer attribution
- Registration date
- Transfer history
- Other lineage and pedigree information associated with the registration
Once approved, these fields are considered part of the historical record and are generally locked from ordinary editing.
If a lineage field was left blank at the time of registration, it may be completed later through the Registry's lineage process. Once completed, that information also becomes part of the permanent record.
The registration remains in the Registry even if the original owner leaves the hobby, transfers the animal, or deletes their account.
What is not permanent
Your personal account information is not part of the permanent pedigree record. This includes information such as:
- Email address
- Account credentials
- Payment information
- Optional profile details
- Other account-level personal data
You may update or remove this information where applicable, and account deletion removes the personal account itself.
The registration record remains, but it is no longer connected to an active user account.
Your public breeder page and its listing in the breeder directory are not part of the permanent record. You control whether your breeder page is public or private, and setting it to private removes it from the directory and from public view. The registrations you have issued, and the producer attribution recorded on them, remain part of the permanent record.
Correcting a genuine error
Permanence does not mean mistakes cannot be corrected.
If a registration contains a genuine factual error, you may contact The Reptile Club at registry@reptileclub.com and request a review.
Each request is evaluated individually. Where sufficient evidence exists, we may correct the record in order to preserve its accuracy. Where evidence is incomplete or conflicting, we may decline the request in order to protect the integrity of the Registry.
Corrections exist to make the historical record more accurate, not to remove it.
Requests to remove a registration
The Reptile Club does not remove approved registrations simply because an owner changes their mind, leaves the hobby, sells the animal, or no longer wishes to be associated with the record. The registration remains as part of the Registry's historical archive.
Where applicable law grants rights relating to personal information, we honor those rights with respect to the personal data associated with your account. Those rights do not necessarily extend to the Registry record itself.
Because The Reptile Club operates as a pedigree archive and registry of record, we may retain approved registrations under legal exemptions that protect archives maintained in the public interest, including exemptions recognized under the GDPR, UK GDPR, and similar legal frameworks.
If you believe a specific registration should not be retained, you may contact registry@reptileclub.com. Every request receives an individual review.
Search engines
The Registry and search engines are separate systems.
Search engines decide independently whether a page appears in their results and administer their own removal processes. A page may be removed from a search engine's index without affecting the underlying Registry record.
If a registration is removed from search-engine results, the record itself remains part of The Reptile Club Registry.