IVPA reserves the right to approve or deny all sponsors and remove their information from all IVPA marketing at any time, should a conflict of interest arise or one of the conditions listed below is violated.

IVPA Sponsorship is intended to support and sustain independently owned and locally operated veterinary practices. Individuals or organizations who participate in the following activities will be denied membership membership:

• Give discounts, special offers, or pricing to any privately owned national practice group or publicly traded veterinary practice groups, that are not also offered to IVPA member hospitals
• Sit on the board or employed as a senior executive (director level or higher) of a publicly traded veterinary practice
• Act as legal counsel to a publicly traded or privately owned national practice
• Own a controlling or majority interest in a privately held national practice.
• Employed as a senior executive (director level or higher) in a privately held national practice.

Membership may be denied or restricted should an applicant privately own multiple practices, such that there would be little
expectation the applicant could play a role in direct oversite of individual practices and would be considered to own a national practice.

By applying for sponsorship, you certify that your company does not participate in any of the above abovementioned activities and is eligible for IVPA sponsor status.