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By visiting or using CoopSage, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree to them, do not use the site. This is a content site, not a negotiated service arrangement, so the terms posted here are the terms that control use.
What CoopSage is
CoopSage is an editorial and informational website focused on chicken keeping, backyard flocks, eggs, housing, feeding, health basics, predator protection, and related topics. The site is meant to provide practical information, commentary, and first-hand-style notes for readers interested in poultry and flock management.
The site is not a veterinary clinic, legal service, emergency help line, government agency, hatchery, feed dealer, or equipment manufacturer. Readers should use the material accordingly.
No veterinary, medical, legal, or professional advice
The content on CoopSage is provided for general informational and editorial purposes only. It is not a substitute for veterinary care, medical care, legal advice, tax advice, engineering advice, or any other licensed professional service.
If a bird is sick, badly injured, or in distress, the right course is to contact a qualified veterinarian or appropriate poultry resource. If a reader has legal, regulatory, zoning, tax, or business questions related to poultry keeping, they should consult an appropriate professional or agency instead of relying on a general website article.
Use at your own risk
Chicken keeping involves animals, equipment, weather, tools, feed, medications, fencing, housing, predators, local laws, and conditions that vary from place to place. What works in one yard may not work the same way in another. Readers are responsible for using judgment and deciding what is appropriate for their own property, flock, climate, experience level, and legal requirements.
Any action taken based on content from CoopSage is taken at the reader’s own risk.
Content ownership
Unless otherwise stated, the written content, site design, layout, logos, graphics, and original material published on CoopSage are protected by copyright and other applicable rights. Readers may read, link to, and share pages in ordinary ways, but that does not grant permission to copy entire articles, republish site content as their own, scrape the site in bulk, or reproduce substantial portions of the material elsewhere without permission.
Permitted and prohibited use
Readers may use the site for ordinary personal, informational, and non-exclusive browsing purposes. That includes reading pages, sharing links, and referencing the site in normal ways.
Readers may not:
- Copy or republish substantial site content without permission
- Use the site in a way that violates law or regulation
- Interfere with site operation, security, or performance
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to site systems or accounts
- Use automated systems to scrape, harvest, or reproduce the site at scale without permission
- Misrepresent CoopSage content as professional veterinary, medical, legal, or official advice
External links and third-party content
CoopSage may link to third-party websites, services, stores, product pages, videos, articles, government sources, or other outside resources. Those links are provided for convenience, reference, or context. CoopSage does not control those sites and is not responsible for their content, availability, privacy practices, pricing, claims, or policies.
If a reader clicks through to another site, that site’s rules and practices apply from that point forward.
No guarantees about accuracy, completeness, or availability
Reasonable effort may be made to keep content useful and accurate, but CoopSage does not guarantee that every page will always be complete, current, accurate, error-free, or suitable for every purpose. Poultry guidance changes, products change, local laws change, and lived conditions vary. The site may also change, pause, or remove content at any time without notice.
The site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis to the fullest extent allowed by law.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, CoopSage and its operator will not be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or other damages arising out of or related to use of the site, inability to use the site, reliance on content, errors or omissions in content, linked third-party resources, or outcomes related to decisions made by readers.
If a jurisdiction does not allow certain liability limitations, then those limitations apply only to the extent permitted by that jurisdiction’s law.
Indemnity
By using the site, a reader agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless CoopSage and its operator from claims, liabilities, losses, damages, costs, and expenses arising out of the reader’s misuse of the site, violation of these terms, infringement of another party’s rights, or unlawful conduct connected to site use.
Changes to the site and these terms
CoopSage may update, revise, suspend, remove, or expand site content at any time. These terms may also be updated from time to time. Continued use of the site after updated terms are posted means the user accepts the revised terms.
Governing law
These terms will generally be governed by the applicable laws of the operator’s jurisdiction, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, unless a different rule is required by law.
Contact
Questions about these terms can be sent to CoopSage33@gmail.com.