Terms and Conditions of Use

Welcome to California Consumers First (“CCF”) website (the “Website”). By accessing or in any way using this Website, you agree to CCF’s privacy policy (to view our Privacy Policy click here) and the following Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to any aspect of the Privacy Policy or to these Terms and Conditions, please do not use this Website.

Although we may attempt to notify you when major changes are made to our Privacy Policy or these Terms and Conditions, you should periodically review the most up-to-date versions. CCF may, in its sole discretion, modify, or revise the Privacy Policy and these Terms and Conditions at any time, and you agree to be bound by such modifications or revisions. Your continued use of this Website indicates your acceptance of the Privacy Policy, these Terms and Conditions, and any changes therein. In the event of any material change to the Privacy Policy or these Terms and Conditions, CCF will post a prominent notice of the revision on the Website’s home page or e-mail you such notice at an e-mail address you have provided to CCF.

This Website is intended for exclusive use by persons who have reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction. By accessing or in any way using this Website, you affirm that you have reached the age of majority and that you are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in these Terms and Conditions. You represent that you are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction. And you agree to abide by and comply with these Terms and Conditions.

Website Content

All materials provided by CCF contained on this Website (“CCF Content”) are the copyrighted property of CCF, unless otherwise attributed. CCF Content may be accessed, downloaded, printed or transmitted only for personal, non-commercial use. CCF Content may not be used or redistributed for commercial purposes. You may not, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, distribute, or otherwise use CCF Content in any way or for any other purpose without the prior express written permission of CCF. Additionally, you may not add to, delete, distort, or misrepresent any of CCF Content.

The trademarks used in this Website are owned by CCF. The names of actual companies and products mentioned may be the trademarks of their respective owners. You may not use any of CCF’s trademarks displayed anywhere on this Website or in any CCF Content. All rights are reserved.

Any attempts to modify any CCF Content or to defeat or circumvent the Website’s technical security measures without the prior express written permission of CCF are prohibited.

Website Use

You agree not to use the Website to:

  • Upload, post, e-mail, transmit, or otherwise make available anything:
    • That is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, false or inaccurate, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable;
    • That you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary information, and confidential information, learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements); or
    • That infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party.
  • Harm minors in any way;
  • Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
  • Post any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation;
  • Post any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
  • Interfere with or disrupt the Website or servers or networks connected to the site, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies, or regulations of networks connected to the Website;
  • Launch any automated system, including without limitation, “robots,” “spiders,” or “offline readers” that accesses the Website in a manner that sends more request messages to the Website’s servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional online web browser;
    • Notwithstanding the foregoing, CCF grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. CCF reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases.
  • Violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law, intentionally or unintentionally;
  • Stalk or otherwise harass another; and/or
  • Collect or store personal data about users.

CCF reserves the right to remove any and all CCF Content, user-submitted content, and/or any other content related to the Website at any time without prior notice. Further, CCF reserves the right to deny access to any user at any time without any prior notice for violation of these Terms and Conditions.

Disclaimer of Warranties

You agree that your use of the Web site shall be at your sole risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, CCF, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, trustees, and agents, disclaim all warranties, express or implied, in connection with the Web site and your use thereof. CCF makes no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of this site’s content or the content of any sites linked to this site and assumes no liability or responsibility for any:

  • Errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content;
  • Personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to and use of the Website;
  • Any unauthorized access to or use of CCF secure servers and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored therein;
  • Any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the Website;
  • Any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like which may be transmitted to or through the Website by any third party;
  • And/or any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, e-mailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the Website.

Limitation of Liability 

CCF, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, trustees, and agents, shall not be liable for any damages or injury that accompany or result from your use of this Website. In no event shall CCF, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, trustees, or agents, be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages whatsoever resulting from:

  • Any errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content;
  • Any personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to and use of this Website;
  • Any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored therein;
  • Any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from this Website;
  • Any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like, which may be transmitted to or through this Website by any third party; and/or
  • Any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of your use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the Website, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not CCF is advised of the possibility of such damages.

The foregoing limitation of liability shall apply to the extent permitted by law in the applicable jurisdiction.

You specifically acknowledge that CCF will not be liable for user submissions or the defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of any third party and that the risk of harm or damage from the foregoing rests entirely with you.

Certain state laws may not allow CCF to limit or exclude liability for incidental or consequential damages. If you live in a state whose laws in some cases prohibit limitation or exclusion of incidental or consequential damages, some or all of the above limitation arguably may not apply to you. But, in any event, CCF’s liability to you for any and all losses, damages, injuries, and claims of any kind will not be greater than the amount you paid to access this Website.

Submitting Your Content to the Website

Any content submitted to this Website, including but not limited to remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, avatars, or comments, becomes and remains property of CCF, even if this agreement is later terminated. Any and all such submitted content is subject to these Terms and Conditions.

CCF expressly prohibits any and all submissions of the following content:

  • Nudity, pornography, and sexual material of a lewd, lecherous, or obscene nature or intent or that violates local, state, or national laws;
  • Any material, including but not limited to remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, avatars, or comments, that violates or infringes in any way upon the proprietary rights of others including, without limitation, copyright, patent, or trademark rights;
  • Any material that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, slanderous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane, libelous, false or inaccurate, invasive of another’s privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable, including posting private information belonging to or about other individuals;
  • Content that promotes, encourages, or provides instructional information about illegal activities;
  • Hate propaganda or hate mongering, swearing, or fraudulent material or activity.

If any portion of the content posted by any visitor is found by CCF to be in violation of any website policy, including these Terms and Conditions, at any time, CCF reserves the right to modify or remove such content or delete such submissions at any time without prior notice.

Warranty: By submitting content to CCF’s servers, you represent and warrant that all submitted content complies with all applicable Website policies, including these Terms and Conditions. Further, by submitting content, you represent and warrant that you own the copyright in all submitted content and have all necessary permissions from any persons or places depicted therein to upload the content and to grant to CCF an irrevocable license to use the submitted content according to CCF’s sole discretion, including but not limited to use in connection with third-party social networking or video websites such as Facebook.com, Twitter.com, or YouTube.com or any other website CCF deems appropriate. You warrant that CCF need not treat any such submitted content as confidential, and you agree that you cannot and will not sue CCF for using or republishing in any manner any content or ideas you submit.

Grant of Rights/License: By submitting content to the Website, you grant CCF (and its successors, assigns, licensees, agents, and affiliates) an irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, create derivative works from, transfer, and sell such content in any format either now known or hereafter created, and to use any information identifying the author provided in connection with that content, wholly in accordance with CCF subjective discretion. You expressly grant CCF the right to share or repost any such submitted content in any altered or unaltered form, without any further authorization from you, to affiliates, entities under agreement with CCF and other Web sites, including but not limited to, Facebook.com, Twitter.com, and YouTube.com.

DMCA Notice and Takedown

As required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Section 512(c)(2), if you believe that any material or content on this Website infringes your copyright, you must send a notice of claimed infringement to CCF at the following address:

California Consumers First

2014 Capitol Ave Ste 100-4025, Sacramento, CA 95811

Email: info@californiaconsumersfirst.com

Written Notice: To be effective under Section 512(c)(3)(A), you must provide CCF a written notification that includes the following elements:

  • A description of each work claimed to have been infringed, including any relevant information about the infringing activity;
  • A description of the location on the Website where the alleged infringement is occurring, providing sufficient detail to allow CCF to locate the infringing material;
  • Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
  • A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
  • A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate and that you are the owner of the copyright interest involved or that you are authorized to act on behalf of that owner; and
  • Your physical or electronic signature.

CCF does not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property rights on the Website, and CCF will remove the infringing content if properly notified of infringement. As stated above, CCF reserves the right to remove any and all content and user submissions without prior notice.

Links to Other Sites

This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties. You agree not to hold CCF responsible for the content or operation of any and all such outside websites. A hyperlink from this Website to another website does not imply or mean that CCF endorses the content on that website or the operator or operations of that site. You are solely responsible for determining the extent to which you may or should use any content located at any other websites which you might access through this Website. Additionally, any link to a third-party site submitted or posted by you must not in any way represent that you have received the endorsement, sponsorship or support of CCF or its employees, agents, or directors.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless CCF, its affiliates, related parties, officers, directors, employees, trustees, agents, independent contractors, advertisers, partners, and co-branders from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney’s fees, that may be made by any third party, that is due to or arising out of your conduct or connection with this Website, your submission of content, your violation of any applicable law or these Terms and Conditions of Use, or any other violation of the rights of another person or party.

Termination

CCF or you may terminate this agreement at any time. You may terminate this agreement by destroying: (a) all materials obtained from this Website, and (b) all related documentation and all copies and installations. CCF may terminate this agreement immediately without notice if, in its sole judgment, you breach any term or condition of this agreement. Upon termination, you must destroy any and all such materials.

Miscellaneous

This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the use of the Website.

The above Terms and Conditions will be governed by the law of the state of Louisiana. You expressly agree that the exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions or your use of this site shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in the state of Louisiana.

These Terms and Conditions, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by CCF without restriction.

You and CCF agree that any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to the Web site must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues. Otherwise, such claim or cause of action is permanently barred.

If any part of these Terms and Conditions is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. Possible evidence of use of this site for illegal purposes will be provided to law enforcement authorities.

CCF can be reached at:

California Consumers First

2014 Capitol Ave Ste 100-4025, Sacramento, CA 95811

Email: info@californiaconsumersfirst.com

Terms of Use Last Updated: August 3, 2025

Modifications to These Terms of Use

We reserve the right to amend or change these Terms at any time.  In the event of any material change, CCF will post a prominent notice of such a revision to these Terms on this site’s home page or e-mail you such notice at an e-mail address you have provided to us.