Effective date: September 13, 2026
Welcome to Coops and Crops (https://coopsandcrops.blogspot.com). These Terms and Conditions form a legal agreement between you and Coops and Crops governing your access to and use of this website, including all articles, pages, comments, and related features. By accessing or using the website in any way, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, please do not use the website. Because the site is hosted on Blogger, Google's own terms of service also apply to your use of the platform, and we encourage you to review them.
Educational Purpose of the Website
Coops and Crops exists to share information, experience, and opinions about small-scale backyard farming, including gardening, food preservation, and raising small animals. All content is provided for your personal, non-commercial, educational use only. The website is intended for readers aged 13 and older, and by using it you represent that you meet this age requirement or are using the site under the supervision of a parent or guardian.
Intellectual Property Rights
All original content on this website, including articles, text, graphics, logos, and the Coops and Crops name, is the property of Coops and Crops and is protected by applicable copyright and intellectual property laws, with all rights reserved, © 2026 Coops and Crops. You may freely link to any article or page, and you may quote brief excerpts provided you clearly credit Coops and Crops and include a link back to the original page. You may not, however, republish, reproduce, sell, or redistribute substantial portions of the site's content in any form, including print, other websites, or content farms, without our prior written permission. Some images on the site are licensed from free stock photography providers such as Pexels and remain subject to the terms of their respective licenses.
Acceptable Use
You agree to use this website only for lawful purposes. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the site or its related systems, scrape or harvest content or data at scale, introduce malware or malicious code, interfere with the site's normal operation, misrepresent your identity, or use the site in any way that could harm us, our readers, our hosting provider, or third parties. We reserve the right to restrict or terminate access to the website for any conduct that we reasonably believe violates these Terms or is harmful to the site or its community.
Comments and User Content
This website may allow readers to post comments on articles. You are solely responsible for any content you submit, and by posting a comment you confirm that it is your own opinion, that it does not violate any law or third-party right, and that it does not contain spam, advertising, personal information of others, hateful or harassing material, or anything else you would not say respectfully in person. By submitting a comment, you grant Coops and Crops a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to display, publish, and store that comment as part of the website. We do not pre-screen comments, but we reserve the right, without notice, to edit, hide, or remove any comment at our sole discretion, and we may report illegal content to the appropriate authorities.
Third-Party Links and Services
For your convenience, the website contains links to third-party websites, tools, and resources, including suppliers, reference organizations, and partner sites. We do not operate or control those third parties, and we are not responsible for their content, products, services, or practices. Your interactions with any third-party website are governed by that party's own terms and policies and are solely between you and that party. You access third-party links entirely at your own risk.
Advertising and Affiliate Relationships
The website may display advertisements and contain affiliate links, which may generate revenue for Coops and Crops. The presence of an advertisement or affiliate relationship never constitutes our endorsement, warranty, or guarantee of any product or service. Details of how advertising, cookies, and affiliate tracking work are described in our Privacy Policy, and further disclosure appears in our Disclaimer, both of which form part of these Terms.
No Warranties
The website and all content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the website will be available at all times, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that any defects will be corrected. Everything you read here should be evaluated against the qualifications described in our Disclaimer, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.
Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Coops and Crops and its operators shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, crops, animals, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the website or your reliance on any content published on it. Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with the website is to stop using it. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so parts of this section may not apply to you, in which case our liability is limited to the smallest amount permitted by law.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Coops and Crops and its operators from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in any way connected with your use of the website, your content submissions, or your violation of these Terms or of any law or the rights of a third party.
Changes to These Terms, Governing Law, and Severability
We may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting the updated version on this page, and the revised version takes effect when posted with an updated effective date at the top. Your continued use of the website after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms, so please review this page periodically. These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States, without regard to conflict of law principles. If any provision of these Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect, and the invalid provision will be replaced by an enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original. Questions about these Terms and Conditions can be sent to us anytime through the contact form on this website.