Terms and Privacy
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Terms of Service:
The following terms and conditions govern all use of the costco97.com website and all content, services and products available at or through the website (taken together, the Website). The Website is owned and operated by Costco97.com (“Costco97”). The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Costco97’s Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Costco97 (collectively, the “Agreement”).
Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Costco97, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.
- Your costco97.com Account and Site. If you create an account on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the account. You must not describe or assign keywords to your account in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and Costco97 may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause Costco97 liability. You must immediately notify Costco97 of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. Costco97 will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.
- Responsibility of Contributors. If you submit comments, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, “Content”), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
- the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
- if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;
- you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;
- the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
- the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
- the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
- your Content is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;
- your Content and account is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your account profile URL or name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; and
- you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Costco97 or otherwise.
By submitting Content to Costco97 for inclusion on your Website, you grant Costco97 a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Costco97 will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.
Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Costco97 has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Costco97’s sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Costco97’s reasonable opinion, violates any Costco97 policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Costco97’s sole discretion. Costco97 will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.
- Responsibility of Website Visitors. Costco97 has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Costco97 does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Costco97 disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
- Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which costco97.com links, and that link to costco97.com. Costco97 does not have any control over those non-Costco97 websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Costco97 website or webpage, Costco97 does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Costco97 disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-Costco97 websites and webpages.
- Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy. As Costco97 asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by costco97.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Costco97 in accordance with Costco97’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Policy. Costco97 will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. Costco97 will terminate a visitor’s access to and use of the Website if, under appropriate circumstances, the visitor is determined to be a repeat infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Costco97 or others. In the case of such termination, Costco97 will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Costco97.
- Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Costco97 to you any Costco97 or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Costco97. Costco97, costco97.com, the costco97.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with costco97.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Costco97 or Costco97’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Costco97 or third-party trademarks.
- Advertisements. Costco97 reserves the right to display advertisements on your blog unless you have purchased an ad-free account.
- Attribution. Costco97 reserves the right to display attribution links such as ‘Blog at costco97.com,’ theme author, and font attribution in your blog footer or toolbar.
- Partner Products. By activating a partner product (e.g. theme) from one of our partners, you agree to that partner’s terms of service. You can opt out of their terms of service at any time by de-activating the partner product.
- Changes. Costco97 reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Costco97 may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
- Termination. Costco97 may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your costco97.com account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you have a paid services account, such account can only be terminated by Costco97 if you materially breach this Agreement and fail to cure such breach within thirty (30) days from Costco97’s notice to you thereof; provided that, Costco97 can terminate the Website immediately as part of a general shut down of our service. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
- Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website is provided “as is”. Costco97 and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Costco97 nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
- Limitation of Liability. In no event will Costco97, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement for substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Costco97 under this agreement during the one (1) month period prior to the cause of action. Costco97 shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
- General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Costco97 Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
- Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Costco97, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
- Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Costco97 and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Costco97, or by the posting by Costco97 of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the California, USA, excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in Contra Costa County, California. Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in Contra Costa County, California, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; Costco97 may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.
Privacy Policy
Last modified: February 8, 2024
We at Costco97 have created this Privacy Policy to describe how information is collected, used, and disclosed when you visit or use a Costco97 Offering. By accessing and/or using this Costco97 website or any Costco97 Offering, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
The term “Costco97” means Costco97 and/or its Affiliates. The term “Affiliate” means, with respect to any party, any person or entity which controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such party. The term “Costco97 Offering” means the websites of Costco97, including www.Costco97.com, any other sites on which this Privacy Policy is posted, and any other Costco97 application, service or product licensed, downloaded or otherwise accessed by you through third party sites or sources, including the products and services available through any of the foregoing.
Information That We May Collect
Personally Identifiable Information:
We may collect the following information when you sign up with a Costco97 Offering: first name, last name, date of birth, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit or debit card information or other payment details, depending on your form of payment.
Technical Information:
When a user accesses a Costco97 Offering, we may collect technical information about the user’s device, such as the IP address that requested the display of the Costco97 Offering, the operating system type, and the identifiers associated with the device.
Sign Up and Survey information:
Any information you provide to us, and any information you choose to share about yourself as part of your use of any Costco97 Offering, may be stored as entered.
Cookies and Web beacons:
Cookies are text files that we and our service providers may place on your device’s browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as personalized Costco97 advertisements on third party websites and mobile applications, and personalized third party advertisements within certain Costco97 Offerings. We may use cookies to remember your settings, preferences and usage within a Costco97 Offering. Web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies are small pieces of code that we and our service providers may place on a Costco97 Offering to monitor and collect data about visitor behavior within the Costco97 Offering.
When you visit our website, log in, register or open an email, cookies, ad beacons, and similar technologies may be used by our online data partners or vendors to associate these activities with information they or others have about you, including your email address. We (or service providers on our behalf) may then send communications and marketing to these email addresses. You may opt out of receiving this advertising by visiting https://app.retention.com/optout.
Cookies and Web beacons:
We may receive a confirmation when you open email from Costco97, if your computer supports such capabilities. We may also track other types of information, such as newsletter signups, how long our users have been participating in any Costco97 Offerings, the last time a user accessed a Costco97 Offering, user behavior, sweepstakes, contests or other promotions featured on a Costco97 Offering, ad response measurement and other Costco97 Offerings analytics.
Social Networking Sites:
If you access a Costco97 Offering via a third party social networking site, Costco97 may receive information about your social networking site profile, including without limitation the information you make publicly available, your social networking site user ID, your first, last and usernames, profile and cover photos. If you share content with new members, we may collect the information associated with that shared content, including your friends’ social networking site user IDs, email addresses and content.
Mobile:
When you download or access Costco97 Offerings via a mobile device, we and our service providers may receive information about your location (based on your IP address) and your mobile device, including various unique identifiers associated with your device, hardware type and the version of your operating system. We and our service providers may use this information to provide you with personalized advertising and other content, including advertising and content based on your location.
Aggregated, Anonymous Information:
We may collect aggregated, anonymized information via Costco97 Offerings that does not identify any single user or device. If you choose to provide a username within a Costco97 Offering, please do not provide as your username any information that identifies you in real life, such as your real name.
Use and Security of Collected Information
We may use your email address, and provided names to uniquely identify you as a user on a Costco97 Offering, to provide you with services and advertising. We may use or display your information, if applicable, for the purposes of competitions or sweepstakes. We may use your date of birth to confirm your eligibility to participate in Costco97 Offerings.
Subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we may use your contact information to process our newsletters and/or email campaigns and to send you updates, security alerts, or administrative messages relating to Costco97 Offerings. Your contact information will allow us to notify you about new features, enhancements, handle and/or route your customer questions and issues, and inform you of sweepstakes, contests, prizes, and/or special events.
If our “Tell a friend” or other content sharing feature is available within a particular Costco97 Offering and you choose to participate in it, your email will be shared with the person to whom you send the Costco97 Offering using this feature. We may use an IP address to surface the appropriate country-based version of a Costco97 Offering to a user, or to exercise our ability to restrict access to the site by users who have violated our Terms of Use.
We and our third party service providers use cookies and other technologies, such as mobile device identifiers, to enhance your experience with Costco97 Offerings. These technologies enable us and our service providers to run offerings such as personalized Costco97 advertisements on other websites and mobile applications and personalized third party advertisements within certain Costco97 Offerings. We and our third party service providers may also use cookies and other technologies to manage and measure the performance of third party advertisements within certain Costco97 Offerings, and Costco97 advertisements on third party sites and mobile applications. This helps us and our service providers provide more relevant advertising to you. We and our third party service providers may also use web beacons to monitor user behavior and collect information about visitors viewing a web page.
We may use information collected to calculate aggregate, anonymized statistics about our user community for the purpose of enhancing our Costco97 Offerings, or for security purposes.
If you access via Social Media we may use your social networking site profile ID to link your social networking site account with personalized Costco97 advertisements on the social networking site. We may use your social networking site first, last and user names and icon to identify you to the social networking site account you’ve provided us for the purposes of competitions and sweepstakes.
If you access Social Media and provide us with another person’s contact information for purposes of delivering information, we may use this information to contact and, if necessary, remind that person that she or he has been invited to join a Costco97 Offering. All invitees are provided with the option not to receive further invitations from Costco97.
We at Costco97 take reasonable measures to help protect the information we collect from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.
Sharing Information
We may share customer information with Costco97 Affiliates, and as described below.
Third Party Marketplaces and Service Providers:
We may disclose your personal information as well as aggregate, anonymous information to third party business partners, marketplaces, and third parties who perform services for us, such as credit card processing, prize fulfillment, delivering packages, sending postal mail, collecting and analyzing data, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), and providing advertising and marketing assistance, including serving ads on our behalf on third party websites and mobile applications and serving ads on behalf of third parties within certain Costco97 Offerings. Those third parties have access to your personal information only as necessary to perform their functions, and for no other purposes.
Business Transfers:
As Costco97 continues to grow, we might sell or buy certain subsidiaries and/or business units. In such transactions, customer information is generally one of the transferred assets. Also, in the unlikely event that Costco97 or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information would in most cases be one of the transferred assets.
Protection of Costco97 and Others:
We may also disclose your information if there is a violation of the Terms of Use or other agreements; if we have a good faith belief that we have to disclose it in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena); or if needed to protect the rights, property or safety of Costco97, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with entities for fraud detection and protection, and credit risk reduction.
Accessing Your Information and Your Choices
You may contact us about your information and your choices for limiting the use and disclosure of your information by emailing us here; or by sending us postal mail at: Costco97, 5000 Executive Parkway, Suite 445, San Ramon, CA 94583.
Promotional email communications:
When you visit Costco97.com or subscribe your email address via a Costco97 Offering, you may be automatically registered to receive one or more of our promotional e- newsletters. Note that when you visit more than one page on our website or provide an email address through a Costco97 Offering, we treat that as a request to be enrolled in one of our promotional e-newsletter lists, even if you previously opted out of receiving newsletters from us, but if you change your mind and wish to opt out again, you may do so at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any newsletter and then following the instructions provided. If you express interest in a Costco97 Offering by clicking on a banner within a newsletter, you may be automatically registered to receive newsletters relating to the Costco97 Offering that appeared in the banner.
At any time, you may opt-out of receiving a newsletter by selecting the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any newsletter. We treat each Costco97 Offering individually, so if you are receiving mailings from more than one Costco97 Offering, if you want to unsubscribe you must do so with respect to each individually. Please note that we reserve the right to send you non-promotional, account or administrative emails even if you opt out of receiving promotional e-newsletters.
Cookies, Online Advertising and Analytics:
Please refer to your browser settings and help section to learn about blocking, erasing or being notified of cookies. However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of Costco97 Offerings’ essential features, we recommend that you leave cookies turned on. To opt out of receiving personalized advertising from many ad networks, data exchanges, marketing analytics and other services providers, please visit aboutads.info. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org.
By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with Google and our other third party advertising partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.
Mobile Advertising:
Most mobile devices provide the ability to opt out of the collection and use of information from the apps you use for purposes of serving ads targeted to your interests. For more information, and to exercise these choices, consult the settings on your device.
Third-Parties
Costco97 Offerings may allow you to share information through social media (such as by logging in through a social media account or using a “Like” button”) or contain links to social media services or other third parties. The use of these features and links are subject to the privacy policies of those companies and your settings on those services. Costco97 has no control over, and is not responsible for, the information submitted to or collected by social networks or other third parties. We encourage you to review those third party privacy policies to understand the way your information may be collected and handled by such third parties.
Children
Costco97 Offerings are designed to avoid the collection and use of “personal information” as defined in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) from children under 13 other than for support of internal operations. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are under 13, you may not register or otherwise provide any personal information to us.
Costco97 respects the privacy of parents and children and is committed to complying with COPPA . If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal information to Costco97, he or she can contact us via email here or by send us postal mail at: Costco97, 5000 Executive Parkway, Suite 445, San Ramon, CA 94583. We will take steps to promptly delete the information upon learning that it relates to a child under the age of 13. We recognize the importance of safeguarding the privacy of children and encourage parents to check and monitor their children’s use of online activities regularly.
Agreement with Costco97 Policies
By accessing and/or using any of the Costco97 Offerings, you signify your understanding of and agreement with this Privacy Policy, and to our Terms of Service. If you do not agree with our policies, please do not access or use any Costco97’s Offerings.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “last modified” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how Costco97 protects your information.