Cochrane & Company
Web Site Terms of Use
These Terms constitute a legal agreement between “you” and Cochrane & Company and govern your access to and use of Company’s proprietary website [www.cochraneco.com] (the “Portal”). These Terms apply if you are accessing the Portal on behalf of an insurance agency or any other entity authorized to submit business to Cochrane & Company under an applicable Producer Agreement.
IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS HEREIN, COCHRANE & COMPANY IS UNWILLING TO GRANT YOU A LICENSE TO THE PORTAL AND YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO ACCESS OR USE THE PORTAL.
GENERAL TERMS
Subject to the terms and conditions herein and all terms of any applicable Producer Agreement with Cochrane & Company, Cochrane & Company grants you a limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable, non-assignable, license to use and access the Portal. The Portal is licensed to you, not sold. Some material available on this server may be protected by third-party copyrights. You are permitted to make copies of these protected materials when it is for use in business with Cochrane & Company only. All copies must maintain the original copyright notice. Access to any services or materials may be revoked without notice by Cochrane & Company.
MEMBER ACCOUNT & PASSWORD
This service requires you to open an account. You must complete the registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You also will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. Cochrane & Company will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by Cochrane & Company or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else's account at any time, without the permission of the account holder.
LIMITATION OF AUTHORITY; DISCLAIMER OF AGENCY RELATIONSHIP
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT FOR ANY RISKS SUBMITTED BY YOU TO COCHRANE & COMPANY, ALL QUOTE PRESENTMENT, UNDERWRITING, RATING, AND ANY OTHER ACTS RELATED TO BINDING INSURANCE COVERAGE, ARE SUBJECT TO THE REVIEW AND PRIOR WRITTEN APPROVAL OF COCHRANE & COMPANY. EXCEPT FOR ANY AUTHORITY EXPRESSLY GRANTED IN WRITING BY COCHRANE & COMPANY, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO ACT ON BEHALF OF COCHRANE & COMPANY OR ENTER INTO ANY BINDING OBLIGATIONS ON BEHALF OF COCHRANE & COMPANY. YOU FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WITH RESPECT TO COCHRANE & COMPANY, YOU ARE AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR AND THAT THERE IS NOT A PARTNERSHIP, FRANCHISE, JOINT VENTURE, OR EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COCHRANE & COMPANY AND YOU.
DISCLAIMER & LIMIT OF LIABILITY
The content provided on this server is presented AS IS and on an AS AVAILABLE basis without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of title, non-infringement or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No advice given by Cochrane & Company will create any warranty. While reasonable precautions have been taken, Cochrane & Company cannot guarantee the content on this server will be uninterruptible, error free or that any content, software or other material(s) accessible form this server will be free of viruses or other harmful content.
PRIVACY
Certain services available on this server require the use of "Cookies." If you disable the use of cookies on your computer, you will be unable to access all services available on this server. Cochrane & Company reserves to right to modify its use of Cookies at any time and without notice. Various services made available on this server may require non-public, personal information from you or your clients. This information is kept in strict confidence by Cochrane & Company and will not be sold, rented or leased to any third-party.
WEB SITE SECURITY
You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of this Web Site, including, without limitation, accessing data not intended for you or logging into a server or account which you are not authorized to access, attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization, attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Web Site, overloading, "flooding", "spamming", "mailbombing" or "crashing", sending unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services, or forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. Cochrane & Company will investigate occurrences which may involve such violations. Cochrane & Company may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
Links in this area may let you leave Cochrane & Company's site. The linked sites are not under the control of Cochrane & Company and Cochrane & Company shall not be responsible for the contents of any linked site.
GOVERNING LAW
Except for matters governed by the federal law of the United States of America, the foregoing provisions shall be governed by the laws of the State of Washington.
