Terms of Use

Written to be read. If a sentence here needs a lawyer to translate it, it has failed at its job, and we would like to hear about it.

Draft of August 10, 2026 · Grizzly Mining Company LLC

What Coppernook is

Coppernook is a private board for one small community, where a neighbor can say what they need and other neighbors can offer to help. Grizzly Mining Company LLC builds and hosts it and offers it as is, at no charge.

Coppernook makes an introduction. Everything after the introduction is between you and your neighbor.

What Coppernook is not

Coppernook is not an employer, an employment agency, a staffing service, a contractor, a broker, a licensed care provider, a medical or transport service, or an emergency service. It does not screen, license, insure, bond, train, supervise, or run background checks on anyone, and it is not a party to any arrangement you make with another neighbor.

In an emergency, call 911. Coppernook is not monitored, and a post is not a call for help that anyone is on duty to answer.

Adults hold the accounts

You must be 18 or older to have an account, to post a request, or to offer help. Do not open an account for someone under 18 and do not hand yours to a child to use.

Children still come up, because a ride to practice or a hand with a sick kid is a real thing to need. Ask for what your family needs, and say only what the ask requires. An arrangement that involves a child is made by the parent or guardian responsible for that child, who is expected to be present for it. Nobody on this board is screened, licensed, insured, or background checked, and Coppernook makes no representation about anyone's fitness to be around a child. That judgment is yours, and so is the supervision.

Neighbors, not contractors

• Coppernook is a place to ask a neighbor for a hand. It is not a job board, a marketplace, or a way to find work.
• Do not advertise a business, solicit customers, quote a price, or post a rate.
• Do not bill anyone for something arranged here, and do not use a post as a lead for a service you sell.
• No money moves through Coppernook. There is no payment processing, no escrow, no fee, no subscription, and no cut of anything.

A thank you is welcome. A rate is not.

Gas money, a casserole, or something for the trouble is a kindness between the two of you, arranged between you, and Coppernook is not involved in it and takes no responsibility for it. Charging by the hour, the job, or the mile turns a favor into a service, and a service belongs somewhere other than this board.

Use the judgment you already use

You decide who comes to your place, whose truck you get into, and what you are willing to do for someone. You are allowed to say no, and you never owe a reason. Meet somewhere open if you would rather. Bring someone with you. Ask what a stranger is doing here before you hand over a key. Reasonable doubt is welcome, and not rudeness. Always be kind, courteous and wise.

You are responsible for your own safety, for anything you agree to do, and for anything that happens while you do it. Help offered here is voluntary and at your own discretion and risk.

What you learn here stays here

A name, a phone number, an address, or the reason someone asked belongs to that neighbor. Do not repost it, forward it, screenshot it into another group, publish it, or bring it up somewhere it was not offered. Do not use anything you learn here to sell to someone, to embarrass someone, or to settle something.

Say it the way you would at the post office

You will see these people at the store on Saturday. Anything written to demean, harass, threaten, or humiliate comes down, and so does anything aimed at a neighbor for asking for help or for declining to give it. Retaliation against someone for a post, an offer, or a refusal is treated the same as the original offense.

Bad faith ends access

Access to a Coppernook board is a courtesy extended by the community that runs it, and it can be withdrawn. Anyone who takes advantage of a neighbor, misuses what a post told them, misrepresents who they are, or breaks the law is removed and stays removed. Anything criminal or dangerous goes to the sheriff, not to a comment thread.

Posts that break these rules may be removed without notice. We may decline, suspend, or end anyone's access at any time, for any reason consistent with keeping the board trustworthy.

Your posts

What you write stays yours. You give Coppernook permission to show it to the neighbors on your town's board so the board can do its job, and nothing beyond that. You are responsible for what you post being true and for having the right to post it.

Availability and changes

Coppernook is offered as is and as available, with no warranty of any kind. Features can change or go away, and these rules can change. When they change materially, the change will be posted here and shown in the app rather than slipped in quietly.

Limits

To the fullest extent the law allows, Grizzly Mining Company LLC is not liable for anything arising out of your use of Coppernook, including anything a neighbor does or fails to do, anything that happens while help is being given or received, anything agreed between neighbors, or anything lost, damaged, or injured in the course of it. Coppernook is provided at no charge and its total liability to you is limited accordingly.

Getting in touch

Questions, corrections, a rule that reads wrong, or a neighbor who needs removing: contact@coppernook.com.

See also the Privacy Policy, which covers what Coppernook keeps, who can see it, and how to have it deleted.