Yes! Fluv is a legally registered tech platform in Taiwan. The full company name is Coai Creative Technology Inc. For more details, please refer to our User Agreement.
Yes! Fluv signs an intermediary agreement with all service providers. Pet care services at home are not classified as “specific pet businesses,” but all providers must report their own income for tax purposes and comply with Taiwan’s Animal Protection Law. See the official government document here.
Currently, Fluv does not offer services that require a special pet business license. According to Taiwan's Regulations on Specific Pet Industry, Article 4:
Fluv does not currently allow paid pet boarding services, and this is clearly stated in our intermediary agreement.
According to the competent authority's current interpretive rulings, the criteria for recognizing a specific pet boarding business require carrying out the activity at a "fixed place of business" in a manner that is "frequent, repeated, and conducted for profit."
This determination logic, as confirmed with the competent authority, actually originates from discussions held at a legal symposium of the High Administrative Court.
At that symposium, the High Administrative Court had already clearly stated that the absolute objective precondition for classifying someone as an "operator" within a residence is that "an individual keeps a large number of specific pets and engages in the activity repeatedly."
However, the competent authority has not yet established any clear quantitative standards (such as a maximum number of animals or days) for the punitive elements of "frequent, repeated" conduct or "keeping a large number" of pets:
