Who these terms cover
“CPA,” “we” and “us” mean the Colorado Press Association. “You” means anyone who visits or uses the site, including members, newsroom administrators, employers, donors and the public. Some services, such as job listings, Local News Ally gifts, awards and Local News Matters campaign materials, have additional terms shown where you use them. If those terms conflict with these, the service’s own terms apply to that service.
Using directory and member information
CPA publishes information about Colorado news organizations and the people who work at them so the public can find local news and members can find and work with one another. CPA and its members put real work into gathering and maintaining this information. It is offered for individual use, not as raw material for other people’s lists, products or campaigns. These rules cover all of it: the public newsroom directory and newsroom pages, member profiles, staff lists, contact details and any other information about newsrooms, members or people on the site.
What you may do
- Look up newsrooms and people one at a time to find, read, contact or work with them.
- Contact an individual newsroom or person, including for business, such as pitching a story, offering a product or service, proposing a partnership or applying for a job.
- Keep notes about the specific newsrooms and people you actually work with, for your own use.
- Link to newsroom and profile pages, and share an individual listing with a colleague who needs it.
What you may not do
Unless CPA has given you written permission, you may not:
- Scrape or automate. Don’t scrape, crawl or harvest the site, or use bots, scripts, browser automation, AI agents or other automated means to collect information from it, including by calling the site’s data feeds or interfaces for that purpose.
- Collect in bulk. Don’t copy, download or compile all or a substantial part of the directory or member information by any means. That includes gathering it by hand. Building a list of every newsroom, every newsroom of a certain type or in a region, or every contact at member newsrooms breaks these terms just as scraping does.
- Resell or repackage. Don’t sell, license, rent, publish or otherwise commercialize directory or member information, or put it into a database, mailing list, media directory, lead list, data product or service used by or offered to others.
- Message in bulk. Don’t use it for bulk or automated communication, such as mass email, mail merges, automated outreach sequences, robocalls or texts, or the same message sent to large numbers of newsrooms or people. Don’t add people to marketing or mailing lists without their consent.
- Train AI on member information. Don’t use information available only to signed-in members to train, fine-tune or test artificial intelligence models, or to build datasets from it.
- Profile people. Don’t combine directory or member information with other data to profile, track or target individuals.
- Share member access. Don’t share your member access, or information available only to signed-in members, with anyone who doesn’t have that access.
These rules apply to everyone, including CPA members and companies that serve the news industry. A newsroom may, of course, use and share its own information however it likes.
Search engines and AI services may crawl the site’s public pages as our robots.txt file allows. That permission doesn’t extend to reselling or repackaging what they collect, or to using it for bulk messaging.
Need to reach many newsrooms?
Talk to us. CPA offers statewide advertising through Colorado Audiences and press release distribution to Colorado newsrooms, and we may be able to provide information under a separate written agreement. Contact CPA.
Enforcement
CPA may block or limit traffic, suspend or close accounts and suspend member access for anyone who breaks these rules, and may take legal action to stop misuse and recover our costs.
Your account
- You sign in with one-time codes sent to your email. Keep your codes and your email account secure, and don’t let anyone else use your account. You’re responsible for activity on it.
- Keep your own information accurate.
- Newsroom administrators may add and edit information only for people who work with their newsroom, and should keep it accurate and professional.
- CPA decides who is eligible for member access and may change or end access, for example when a newsroom’s membership lapses or an account is misused.
Posting and participating
These rules apply to anything you post or submit through CPA’s website and online services, such as profiles, newsroom information, job listings, calendar events, news items, messages to CPA and any comments or discussions we host. They don’t govern members’ journalism or what anyone says elsewhere, including on social media. CPA doesn’t police members’ conduct outside our own site and services.
Respectful disagreement is welcome. When you post or submit something, don’t:
- attack, harass, threaten or abuse anyone, including other users, CPA staff or the people members cover;
- post hate speech or content that disparages people based on race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or similar characteristics;
- post obscene, vulgar or sexually explicit material;
- post spam, unrelated advertising or the same content repeatedly;
- post material you don’t have the right to share, including someone else’s copyrighted work or private information about another person;
- impersonate anyone, use a fake account or misrepresent your connection to a newsroom or organization;
- post anything false, misleading or unlawful, or anything that could harm the site or its users, such as malicious code; or
- share or coordinate prices, advertising or subscription rates, wages or other competitively sensitive business information with other news organizations.
CPA may review, edit for length and format, decline or remove anything posted or submitted to the site, and may suspend people who break these rules. To report a problem, email info@colopress.net.
Content you submit
You keep ownership of what you submit. By submitting it, you give CPA a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, display, format, edit for length and distribute it in connection with CPA’s programs, such as the directories, jobs board, calendar, news, awards and member communications. You confirm that you have the right to submit it and that it’s accurate.
Job listings
CPA member newsrooms list jobs free. Other employers pay the fee shown on the Post a job page after CPA verifies the employer. CPA reviews every listing and renewal and may decline, edit or remove listings that are misleading, discriminatory, not genuine openings or no longer open. Applications go directly to the employer. CPA isn’t part of any hiring decision and doesn’t guarantee any listing or applicant.
Local News Ally gifts
Monthly gifts renew each month until you cancel. To cancel or change a gift, email info@colopress.net. The Colorado Press Association is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit trade association. Gifts are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.
CPA content and trademarks
The site’s text, design, graphics and logos, and the Local News Matters campaign, belong to CPA or are used with permission. Photos may belong to others; see photo credits. You may link to our pages and quote brief passages with credit. Members may use campaign materials and CPA member badges as described on those pages. Otherwise, please don’t copy, republish or adapt site content, or use CPA’s name or logos in a way that suggests CPA endorses you, without our permission.
If you believe something on the site infringes your copyright, send a notice to info@colopress.net or our mailing address. Identify the work, where it appears on our site and your contact information, and state that you believe in good faith the use isn’t authorized. We’ll respond promptly and may remove the material.
Information and links
We work to keep the site accurate, but much of the directory information comes from newsrooms and public sources and can go out of date. Guides and resources are general information, not legal advice. For legal questions, consult a lawyer. Links to other websites are provided for convenience. CPA doesn’t control them and isn’t responsible for their content.
Disclaimers and limits on liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, the site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind. CPA isn’t liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost profits or data, arising from your use of the site. CPA’s total liability for any claim about the site is limited to the greater of $100 or the amount you paid CPA for the service at issue in the previous 12 months.
If your use of the site or your violation of these terms leads to a claim against CPA, you agree to cover CPA’s reasonable losses and costs, including legal fees.
Governing law
Colorado law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute about these terms or the site will be decided in the state or federal courts located in Denver, Colorado, and you consent to those courts’ jurisdiction.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. We’ll post changes here and update the date at the top. If you keep using the site after a change, you accept the updated terms. If any part of these terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies, and if we don’t enforce a provision right away, we can still enforce it later.
Contact us
Questions about these terms, or requests for permission, go to:
Colorado Press Association
2101 Arapahoe Street
Denver, CO 80205
info@colopress.net
303-571-5117