When you use this website and/or the information it contains, you agree to the Terms of Use on this page, our Privacy Policy, and also to any other notices or other similar messages on our site.

If you do not agree to all of the above, you may not use the website or any of its content.

Cooperative Purchasers at its sole discretion has the right to alter, add or delete items in our Terms of Use without any notice or liability to you.

Should we alter our Terms of Use, such alterations are effective as soon as such changes are posted to the site.

This page shall always contain our most current Terms of Use. You agree that reviewing this page for any changes during any subsequent visits is your sole responsibility and that by continuing to view or use this site, you agree to the Terms of Use contained herein.

These Terms of Use were last modified on January 20, 2009.

Disclaimer

Cooperative Purchasers uses its best efforts to obtain timely, accurate information; however, Cooperative Purchasers, its officers, shareholders, agents, employees, vendors, suppliers, and shall be not responsible for any problems that may come as a direct, indirect, or other result of using this website or information contained in it.

Cooperative Purchasers at its sole discretion reserves the right to alter, add or delete products; to alter, disable or restrict access to or discontinue (temporarily or altogether), any section, page or portion of this website or any information contained herein with no liability or notice to you.

As a visitor to our website, you are our virtual guest. As such, you fully agree and acknowledge any and all risks, personal, pecuniary, and other to you and others take by reliance upon our site and/or upon any information found or made available whether the reliance is by you, your agents or others.

In no event whatsoever shall Cooperative Purchasers, including but not limited to, its principals, shareholders, staff, vendors, suppliers, or contractors; its data providers or hosting company; or its advertisers be liable for damages that come directly, indirectly, or other, from the use, performance, functionality, or information of this website, even if you have been made aware of the potential for damages.

Privacy Policy

By using our site, you also agree that you have read, understand, and agree to the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy.

Confidentiality and Transmissions via the Internet

Any data or information transmission, including email and website data, over the Internet or other similar networks is insecure. By using the Internet you and your data or other information are continually subject to potential loss, interception, and/or alteration in transit.

As such, Cooperative Purchasers assumes absolutely no liability for any damage(s) or costs resulting from such transmissions. This includes the exchange of email with us or by filling out any form or webpage of our website. This includes emails that may or even might contain your, or your company's, personal or other confidential information.

Even though Cooperative Purchasers takes reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of any information you provide us and to handle such information according to the standards in our Privacy Policy, in no event will any information you provide or make available to us, ntentionally, unintentionally, or otherwise, be deemed confidential, create any pecuniary obligations to you or your company on our part, or result in liability to you of any type on our part, if such information is inadvertently released by us or discovered or otherwise accessed by third parties without our consent.

Regardless, our policy is not to share email addresses or other contact information of our users with others without their prior consent.

User Conduct and Other Obligations

By using our site, you agree to follow all applicable laws and regulations when you or your agents use this website. Further, you also agree not to use this website to:

1. upload, post, transmit, or make available any content that:
   1. may be objectionable, offensive, defamatory, obscene, unlawful, lewd, abusive, threatening, or in any way harmful;
   2. may infringe on the rights of others including: right of intellectual property, rights of publicity, rights of privacy, or other rights proprietary to others;
   3. may contain any type of virus, trojan horse, "time bomb", malware, or any other harmful program, application, code, or element;
2. place burdens or otherwise excessive loads on, distrupt, interfere with, or attempt to acquire access to any portion of our website, computers, servers, network, data, or infrastructure that has not been explicitly granted to you;
3. provide partial, incorrect, or otherwise false, misleading or misrepresentative information about you or your company to us, impersonate any other person or company, or otherwise attempt to mislead anyone about your identity or the origin or source of any content, email, message or other communication;
4. transmit junk mail or email (whether or not in bulk), so-called "chain letters," or other bulk email or similar messages;
5. collect data or information about other visitors to our website without their consent or otherwise extract or extrapolate information, data, or data fields, including without limitation any data, financial or otherwise, or email addresses;
6. sell or otherwise grant access to (or the use of) this website. This includes but is not limited to any content that exists on or is downloaded or accessed from this website, except as granted and permitted in writing by Cooperative Purchasers;
7. redistribute our site's content (including financial data) in any way including via web page, print, fax, email, Internet newsgroups or forums, and/or other paper or electronic services or methods;
8. alter formats that we provide our financial or pricing data in into other ways that somehow circumvent the regular interfaces we use to provide to such data; and
9. embed and/or import financial or pricing data we provide into any information services (including both online and offline formats), data files or software applications, including but not limited to accounting, pricing, forcasting, and payroll systems, except as specifically granted to your company in writing by Cooperative Purchasers.

By transmitting data through or to our website, including uploading, posting or otherwise conveying to our website any content, you grant Cooperative Purchasers, our successors, agents, and assigns, a non-exclusive, royalty free, world-wide, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, distribute, or redistribute said content in any manner otherwise than as may be explicitly stated in our Privacy Policy.

Indemnification by User

You, as user of our site, agree to indemnify, defend and hold Cooperative Purchasers, its principals, shareholders, affiliates, business partners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents completely harmless from any loss, pecuniary or otherwise; claim, liability, demand, damage, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) asserted by any third party that relates to your use in any way of this website or a breach of this Terms of Use page.

Cooperative Purchasers reserve the right to have and assert exclusive defense and control of any and all matter subject to indemnification by you, which shall not in any way excuse your own obligations of and for indemnity.

Third Party Websites, Content, Products, and Services

Any links or other pointers or references to other websites and references to products, services, or other offerings provided by third parties are provided for your benefit and convenience only.

In no way do these links constitute explicit or implicit endorsements or approvals by us in any way of:

1. the companies or other organizations that manage, operate, and control these websites
2. the content, terms of use, and privacy policies of these websites
3. these third party products, services, and offerings.

Since we have no control or responsibility over websites or the content that's maintained by third party organizations, or for the products, services, or other offerings put forth by third parties, we explicitly refute any liability for your use of any of the above. Further, you acknowledge and agree this shall be done entirely at your own risk.

Proprietary Rights

All content on this website, including (without limitation) interface layout, text or graphical content, all programs, complied binaries, source code, interface text, documentation and graphics, is the exclusive copyright property of Cooperative Purchasers. As such it is protected by treaty and international copyright law.

Our website's content is to be used by you only for your personal or commercial use as provided for in these Terms of Use. Our content may not be taken out of context or presented, intentionally or otherwise, in a misleading or discriminatory manner. Any rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by us.

Notice of Copyright Infringement

Our policy is to always comply with intellectual property laws. As such, we shall act promptly upon receiving any claimed notice of copyright infringement. If you believe that your work to have been reproduced on this website consistent in a manner that constitutes an infringement of your copyright, please provide notice of such infringement containing each of the following information:

1. A legitimate physical or electronic signature of a person who is empowered to act by the copyright owner on his or her behalf for the purposes of the complaint.
2. Clear identification of the copyrighted work which is claimed to have been infringed.
3. Clear identification, including the date, time, and complete URL of the infringement of the material on our website that is claimed to be infringing, including the subject matter being infringed.
4. Complete contact information of the complaining party, including the postal address, telephone number or email address.
5. A statement by the complaining party that they have good-faith belief that the use of the exact material, in the manner complained of, is unauthorized by the copyright's owner, the owners' agent or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, asserting both the legitimacy of the information in the notice of copyright infringement and the notice itself are accurate, and that the complaining party is fully authorized to act on behalf of the right's owner who is allegedly infringed.

Copyright questions:

Please send any questions or other notices to:

Cooperative Purchasers
2131 East 51st Street
Vernon, California 90058
Tel: 323-588-6800
Fax: 323-588-5040
email: copyright -{at}- CooperativePurchasers.com

General

If one or more provisions of these Terms of Use are held invalid or unenforceable in any respect by a court that has competent jurisdiction, to the maximum extent permitted by law, such provision shall be enforced. Any remaining provisions of these Terms of Use shall continue in full force and effect.

No waiver of any provision of these Terms of Use shall ever be construed or deemed a continuing or further waiver of such provision or of any other provision of these Terms of Use.

You agree these Terms of Use, our written Privacy Policy, and any other notices posted on this website were originally written in English. While translations, electronic, manual, and otherwise, into other languages of any of the foregoing documents may be somehow obtained or made available, such translations may be out of date, incomplete, inaccurate, or any combination thereof. As such, you further agree if ever there is any conflict between the original English language version of the forgoing documents and any other translations thereto, the English language version of such documents shall govern wholly.

These Terms of Use are and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the City of Los Angeles, the State of California, and the laws of the United States of America as applicable therein, without any regard to conflict of laws provisions thereto.

Contact

Should questions or concerns arise about our website or these Terms of Use, we encourage you to contact us at: support [at] Cooperative Purchasers.com.