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By registering for a user account, and posting ads, you
are indicating your agreement with the following terms and conditions.
Failure to adhere to these rules will result in termination
of your account.
Classified ad posting services are provided "as
is" with no warranty implied or expressed.
50StatesClassifieds is a North American based company,
servicing the US and Canada. All goods and services should and must be
both originating from, and directed towards, that market. All verbiage
must be in US English, utilizing proper grammar and context. Based on this
focus, we will not accept, and actively deny, services and goods that
originate from outside the servicing area. We thank you for your consideration
of this when posting your ad.
These terms are subject to change at any time,
without warning.
We hand screen each and every ad for quality control. If you see spam
on our site which has somehow snuck by (perhaps we were tired, or our
hand slipped), please let us know! Send the URL of the ad you feel is
spam to us in an email: webmaster@50statesclassifieds.com
Featured
Sellers may post unlimited ads. If you are a free user, you may post
up to 20 unique ads only. Any user posting
multiple ads with identical titles and descriptions, or any user posting
more than 1 link to their website in their ads, will be banned. Please
do not abuse our generosity by spamming us. If you are unsure if this
applies to you, ask! We want you to enjoy our website, and welcome
users who will use our website responsibly. We really do want you to
use the website. We just don't like people who come in and blast us
with 500 identical ads and upload 500 free pictures, but don't contribute
to the site in any real way. Hosting and bandwidth is expensive! And
using our website is a priviledge, not a right!
Common reasons that we deny or terminate accounts include, but
are not limited to:
- Entering false contact information during the User Registration
process. We do not share this information with any third party, or
use it for anything on our end, but we do look through all new users
and ban anyone who has filled in gibberish, swear words, or other
rude / fake / offensive information.
- Duplicate accounts, or similar registration information to that which
has been previously entered by other users.
- Duplicate ads. As a Free
user, you are limited to twenty ads of similar (but
not identical) content. Featured Members
do not have this restriction.
- Multiple external links
per ad and linkspamming. One website reference per ad, please.
- Hidden text of any kind
(clear text, html hiding, color masking.)
- CAPS - Please turn your Caps Lock off before posting any ads.
- Any business opportunities
originating from outside North America.
- Misleading health insurance ads - do not claim to offer
health insurance if in fact, you only offer a "discount plan".
- Non-FDA Approved Health
Care products, diet regiments, pills, tonics, etc.
- MLM, Cash Gifting, Pyramid
or Ponzi Schemes.
- Illegal products as determined
by current local and federal laws. You are required to comply with the
law. It is not our responsibility to know every single law in every
single city, state, county, etc and you are solely responsible
for checking the lawfulness of your listing. However, if we see
something that we know for certain to be illegal, we will delete
it without warning.
- Profanity, sexual or
pornographic content, graphic photographs or descriptions of violent
acts, or any other content which may disturb
sensitive viewers and children is absolutely prohibited. If we remove
an adult picture from your listing, do not re-post it or you risk
being permanently banned.
- Materials or content
which promote hate, discrimination, or intolerance of any kind
- Please, be respectful of all people regardless of race, religion,
sexual orientation, viewpoints, etc.
- Any material which violates
copyright laws, or information which violates the rights or privacy
of any 3rd party.
- Personal identity information
of any party other than your business or your self. (home addresses
and phone numbers which do not belong to you must never be
shared, but we also caution you against sharing your own personal information
on the Internet. It's a big world and there are a lot of strange
people out there. Be careful!)
- "Work from home", "mlm", and
other types of business opportunity ads which do not specifically
state what you are selling are not allowed. If the end user must fill
out a form, or pay money, or refer some friends, just to find out
what the business opportunity is and what it is they'd be selling,
then we do not allow it to be posted on our website.
- "Work from home", "mlm", and
other types of online business opportunity ads which charge users
a fee to join and/or which require the "business owner" to make a
monthy purchases in order to receive their commission checks.
- We may modify this document
to include new terms at any time. It is your responsibility to check
this space and stay up to date with the rules.
Each classified ad includes: easy ad editor to help
you make an attractive ad, 1 link to 1 website, a free
counter to track your visitors, and a public profile page which you can
use to describe your seller policies, your business, etc.
Duplicate ads will
be deleted. Please do not spam us
by posting identical ads in every state. Post a Nationwide Featured Ad
instead. The web hosting and bandwidth for our website cost a lot of
money, and the amount of resources we allow non-paying
users to consume will understandably be limited.
As a condition of use, you promise not to use the Services
for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use,
or any other purpose not reasonably intended by 50 States Classifieds.
By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to use our
Services:
1. to abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other users;
2. to contribute any Content that is infringing, libelous, defamatory,
obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive or otherwise violates any
law or right of any third party;
3. for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. If you are an international
user, you agree to comply with all US laws regarding online conduct
and acceptable content;
4. to post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted, any communication
or solicitation designed or intended to obtain password, account, or
private information from any user;
5. to create or submit unwanted email ("spam") to any other users or
any URL;
6. to violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited
to copyright laws);
7. to submit ads or comments linking to ponzi schemes, scams, or questionable
content;
8. With the exception of search engines, you will not use any robot,
spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Site for any
purpose without our express written permission. Additionally, you agree
that you will not: (i) take any action that imposes, or may impose
in our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large
load on our infrastructure; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere
with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on
the Site; or (iii) bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict
access to the Site;
We may remove any Content and accounts at any time for
any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or
allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such Content),
or for no reason at all, without warning.
50StatesClassifieds.com respects the intellectual property of others.
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes
copyright infringement, please email webmaster@50statesclassifieds.com.
50StatesClassifieds.com may provide, or third parties may provide,
links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because 50StatesClassifieds.com
has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree
that 50StatesClassifieds.com is not responsible for the availability
of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not
responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products or other
materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further
acknowledge and agree that 50StatesClassifieds.com shall not be responsible
or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or
alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on
any such Content, goods or services available on or through any such
site or resource.
50StatesClassifieds.com may terminate or suspend any and all Services
and your 50StatesClassifieds.com account immediately, without prior
notice or liability, if you breach any of the terms or conditions of
the Terms of Use. Upon termination of your account, your right to use
the Services will immediately cease. If you wish to terminate your
50StatesClassifieds.com account, you may simply discontinue using the
Services, or you may contact us to remove your account completely.
All provisions of the Terms of Use which by their nature should survive
termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation,
ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations
of liability.
50 States Classifieds reserves the right, at its sole discretion,
to modify or replace the Terms of Use at any time. You shall be responsible
for reviewing and becoming familiar with any such modifications. Use
of our Services constitutes your
acceptance of the Terms of Use.
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