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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 suspension or 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 USA. All goods and services must be
both originating from, and directed towards, that market, and all verbiage
must be in US English. Based on this
focus, we will not accept, and actively deny, services and goods that
originate from outside the servicing area unless we feel it is of special interest to users in the 50 United States. We thank you for your consideration
of this when posting your ad.
These terms are subject to change at any time,
without warning.
Anyone is welcome to post a few free ads, no strings attached, as long as they adhere to our Terms of Use. Featured Members may post unlimited ads in any and all states and categories. Free users may not post multiple ads with identical titles, descriptions, or pictures. Just changing a word or two does not make an ad unique. We reserve the right to refuse any ad or user account that we feel does not comply with our Terms of Use.
If you belong to an MLM or affiliate program, please follow this important guideline:
A huge number of affiliates visit our site each day and post multiple identical ads in multiple states for the same exact business. You are most likely not the only affiliate from your company posting here. We do not want every single category in every single state filled with endless pages of identical copy-paste affiliate ads for the same 10 companies. We consider it spam.
If you sell Avon in Louisiana, ONLY post in Louisiana. If you are an affiliate who sells candles in Oregon, ONLY post in Oregon. Do not attempt to post 50 identical ads if you have not paid for the upgrade which allows you to do so.
Please, follow the rules, or your entire MLM or affiliate program will be permanently banned as a time saving measure.
Copyright of submitted materials
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.
Any text, pictures, and other materials posted by individual users of 50StatesClassifieds are copyright their respective owners, who retain full rights to their copyrighted materials; however, 50StatesClassifieds.com and by extension, all affiliated classifieds websites, reserve the right to syndicate an excerpt, as well as any or all content submitted by users, via our RSS feeds, as well as sites including, but not limited to, Twitter, Facebook, and Digg, for the purpose of marketing and promoting our sellers' stores and/or products. By submitting an ad to 50StatesClassifieds, or any of its' affiliated websites, you agree that we have the right to syndicate the content you submit, as described above.
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, intimidate, or send unsolicited commercial messages of any sort to 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 ads on our website, or to create or submit unwanted email ("spam") to any other users or
to our contact forms;
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, advance fee or other scams, items on the banned list, 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;
Common reasons that we deny ads and/or terminate user 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, nor do we
use it for anything on our end, but we ban any user 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 is prohibited. If you contact us ahead of time and ask permission, we can certainly consider giving you duplicate accounts if there is a good reason. But if we find 15 identical free accounts posting identical free ads without asking permission first, we will delete them and ban the company from posting in the future. So please, contact us first if you anticipate needing more than one account, and let us know that you're not just another automated spam-bot, and we'll be happy to accommodate your needs as long as your ads conform to this terms of service.
- Duplicate ads. As a Free
user, you are limited to a few ads of similar (but
not identical) content. Featured Members
do not have this restriction.
- Posting a website URL or link in the title of an ad.
- Multiple external links
per ad and linkspamming. One website reference per ad, please. There are clearly labelled areas where you may post your links in each ad.
- Hidden text of any kind
(clear text, html hiding, color masking, keyword stuffing to the point of it just being a big spammy list of unappealing and intentionally misspelled gibberish, and all other SEO no-no's. A little SEO is fine - we don't mind - but there is a big difference between a respectable amount of SEO, and a disrespectful amount of spam.)
- CAPS LOCK / SHOUTING - If you notice that you are typing in capital letters only, on the left side of your keyboard, press the Caps Lock key to turn your caps off.
- Any business opportunities
originating from outside North America.
- Misleading ads - Be up front and honest in your descriptions of your products or services. Do not force people to give you their email address, phone number, credit card number, or other personal information, in order to simply find out what your "fabulous business opportunity of a lifetime" is. If there is no way to tell what specific product or service you're selling, we will delete it.
- Cash Gifting, Pyramid Schemes, Ponzi Schemes, Online Surveys, Secret Shoppers, win a free laptop/ipod/ipad/iphone/etc, and all other similar scams
- Illegal products as determined
by current local and federal laws. You are required to comply with the
law in your city and state. It is not our responsibility to know every single law in every
single city, state, and county. You are solely responsible
for checking the lawfulness of your listing..
- 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.
- Materials or content
which promote hate, discrimination, or intolerance of any kind
- Please, be respectful of all people regardless of race, religion,
sexual orientation, physical ability, 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!)
- 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.
We do not allow ads for Loans, Credit Repair, Home Loan Modification, or any related industries, for the simple reason that it is a high-scam industry, there are too many of these companies trying to post for free, and as a free website who is trying to keep our overhead down, we have no time to research every single company that tries to post an ad.
Each free basic classified ad includes: easy ad editor to help
you make an attractive ad, 1 free picture, links may be posted in clearly designated areas of your ad, a free
counter to track your visitors, and a public profile page which you can
use to describe your seller policies, your business, etc.
We also offer very affordable upgrades to make your ad stand out! Register for an account for more information.
We hand screen each and every ad before it is approved for quality control. If you see spam
on our site which has somehow snuck by (perhaps our
hand slipped, or the ad was particularly convincing, or we've just never ran into that type of scam before), please let us know! Send the Ad# of the ad you feel is
spam to webmaster@50statesclassifieds.com
Duplicate free ads will
be deleted. Please do not spam us
by posting identical free ads in every state without explicit prior permission from one of our staff. We do allow multiple free ads per user, as long as they are unique and meet all of our guidelines. I
We may edit or remove content or 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), for spamming our website or our members,
or for no reason at all, without warning.
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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