1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
www.minorityclassifieds.org provides a collection of online
resources, including classified ads and email services (referred
to hereafter as "the Service") subject to the following Terms of
Service ("TOS"). By using the Service in any way, you are
agreeing to comply with the TOS. In addition, when using
particular www.minorityclassifieds.org services, you agree to
abide by any applicable posted guidelines for all
www.minorityclassifieds.org services, which may change from time
to time.
Should you object to any term or condition of the TOS, any
guidelines, or any subsequent modifications thereto or become
dissatisfied with www.minorityclassifieds.org in any way, your
only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of
www.minorityclassifieds.org.
2. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change,
modify or otherwise alter these terms and conditions at any
time. Such modifications shall become effective immediately
upon the posting thereof. You must review this agreement on a
regular basis to keep yourself apprised of any changes. You can
find the most recent version of the TOS at:
http://www.minorityclassifieds.org/about/terms.html
3. CONTENT
You understand that all postings, messages, text, files,
images, photos,video, sounds, or other materials ("Content")
posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Service, are
the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content
originated. More specifically, you are entirely responsible for
each individual item ("Item") of Content that you post, email or
otherwise make available via the Service. You understand that
www.minorityclassifieds.org does not control, and is not
responsible for Content made available through the Service, and
that by using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that is
offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise
objectionable. Furthermore, the www.minorityclassifieds.org site
and Content available through the Service may contain links to
other websites, which are completely independent of
www.minorityclassifieds.org. www.minorityclassifieds.org makes
no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness
or authenticity of the information contained in any such site.
Your linking to any other webites is at your own risk. You agree
that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the
use of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and
that under no circumstances will www.minorityclassifieds.org be
liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of
any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted,
emailed or otherwise made available via the Service. You
acknowledge that www.minorityclassifieds.org does not pre-screen
or approve Content, but that www.minorityclassifieds.org shall
have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion
to refuse, delete or move any Content that is available via the
Service, for violating the letter or spirit of the TOS or for
any other reason.
4. THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES
The www.minorityclassifieds.org site and Content available
through the Service may contain features and functionalities
that may link you or provide you with access to third party
content which is completely independent of
www.minorityclassifieds.org, including web sites, directories,
servers, networks, systems, information and databases,
applications, software, programs, products or services, and the
Internet as a whole.
Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals found
on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of
goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties
or representations associated with such dealings, are solely
between you and such organizations and/or individuals. You
should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or
appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline
transaction with any of these third parties.
You agree that www.minorityclassifieds.org shall not be
responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort
incurred as the result of any such dealings. If there is a
dispute between participants on this site, or between users and
any third party, you understand and agree that
www.minorityclassifieds.org is under no obligation to become
involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more
other users, you hereby release www.minorityclassifieds.org, its
officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from
claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every
kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected,
disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related
to such disputes and / or our service.
5. NOTIFICATION OF CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that
constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual
property rights have been otherwise violated, please notify
www.minorityclassifieds.org for notice of claims of copyright or
other intellectual property infringement, at
http://www.minorityclassifieds.org/index.php?op=contact_us
Please provide us with the following Notice:
a) Identify the material on the www.minorityclassifieds.org
site that you claim is infringing, with enough detail so that we
may locate it on the website;
b) A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that
the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its
agent, or the law;
c) A statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury that
(1) the above information in your Notice is accurate, and (2)
that you are the owner of the copyright interest involved or
that you are authorized to act on behalf of that owner;
d) Your address, telephone number, and email address; and
e) Your physical or electronic signature.
www.minorityclassifieds.org will remove the infringing
posting(s), subject to the the procedures outlined in the
Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).
6. PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
a. We don't share your information with third parties for
marketing purposes
b. We don't employ tracking devices for marketing purposes
("cookies", "web beacons," single-pixel gifs)
c. We don't send you unsolicited communications for marketing
purposes
d. Account information is password-protected. Keep your
password safe
e. www.minorityclassifieds.org does not knowingly collect any
information from persons under the age of 13. If
www.minorityclassifieds.org learns that a posting is by a person
under the age of 13, www.minorityclassifieds.org will remove
that post.
f. www.minorityclassifieds.org, or people who post on
www.minorityclassifieds.org, may provide links to third party
websites, which may have different privacy practices. We are not
responsible for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies
of those third party websites, and encourage all users to read
the privacy policies of each and every website visite
g. We sometimes collect your email address, for purposes such
as sending self-publishing and confirmation emails,
authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email
services, etc
h. www.minorityclassifieds.org does not store credit card
information. PayPal.com is an authorized retailer of
www.minorityclassifieds.org. www.minorityclassifieds.org does
not process any payments
i. We may collect personal information if you provide it in
feedback or comments, post it on our classifieds or interactive
forums, or if you contact us directly. Please do not post any
personal information on www.minorityclassifieds.org that you
expect to keep private
j. Our web logs collect standard web log entries for each
page served, including your IP address, page URL, and timestamp.
Web logs help us to diagnose problems with our server, to
administer the www.minorityclassifieds.org site, and to
otherwise provide our service to you
k. All postings to www.minorityclassifieds.org are stored in
our database, even after deletion, and may be archived elsewhere
l. Although we make good faith efforts to store the
information in a secure operating environment that is not
available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security
m. Search engines and other sites not affiliated with
www.minorityclassifieds.org
n. www.minorityclassifieds.org may disclose information about
its users if required to do so by law or in the good faith
belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond
to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process
o. www.minorityclassifieds.org may also disclose information
about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the
good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary
to: enforce our Terms of Use; respond to claims that any posting
or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or
protect the rights, property, or personal safety of
www.minorityclassifieds.org, its users or the general public
p. We welcome your feedback on this document through our
feedback form:
http://www.minorityclassifieds.org/index.php?op=contact_us
Your use of the www.minorityclassifieds.org website or the
Service signifies acknowledgement of and agreement to our
Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge and agree that
www.minorityclassifieds.org may, in its sole discretion,
preserve or disclose your Content, as well as your information,
such as email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps, and other
user information, if required to do so by law or in the good
faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably
necessary to:
- comply with legal process; enforce the TOS; respond to
claims that any
- Content violates the rights of third-parties; respond to
claims that contact
- information (e.g. phone number, street address) of a
third-party has been
- posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form
of harassment;
- protect the rights, property, or personal safety of
www.minorityclassifieds.org, its users or the general
public.
7. CONDUCT
You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available
Content:
a) that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive,
harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive of another's privacy,
or is harmful to minors in any way;
b) that is pornographic or depicts a human being engaged in
actual sexual conduct including but not limited to (i) sexual
intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital,
anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same
or opposite sex, or (ii) bestiality, or (iii) masturbation, or
(iv) sadistic or masochistic abuse, or (v) lascivious exhibition
of the genitals or pubic area of any person;
c) that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward
an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion,
gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
d) that violates the Fair Housing Act by stating, in any
notice or ad for the sale or rental of any dwelling, a
discriminatory preference based on race, color, national origin,
religion, sex, familial status or handicap (or violates any
state or local law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of
these or other characteristics);
e) that violates federal, state, or local equal employment
opportunity laws, including but not limited to, stating in any
advertisement for employment a preference or requirement based
on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or
disability.
f) with respect to employers that employ four or more
employees, that violates the anti-discrimination provision of
the Immigration and Nationality Act, including requiring U.S.
citizenship or lawful permanent residency (green card status) as
a condition for employment, unless otherwise required in order
to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal,
state, or local government contract.
g) that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not
limited to, a www.minorityclassifieds.org employee, or falsely
states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person
or entity (this provision does not apply to Content that
constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody of public figures.);
h) that includes personal or identifying information about
another person without that person's explicit consent;
i) that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful,
misinformative, or constitutes "bait and switch";
j) that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret,
copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, or Content
that you do not have a right to make available under any law or
under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
k) that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing", "link
referral code", "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid
schemes", or unsolicited commercial advertisement;
l) that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or
solicitation if: posted in areas of the
www.minorityclassifieds.org sites which are not designated for
such purposes; or emailed to www.minorityclassifieds.org users
who have not indicated in writing that it is ok to contact them
about other services, products or commercial interests.
m) that includes links to commercial services or web sites,
except as allowed in "services";
n) that advertises any illegal service or the sale of any
items the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by any
applicable law;
o) that contains software viruses or any other computer code,
files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the
functionality of any computer software or hardware or
telecommunications equipment;
p) that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an
excessive amount of Content (flooding attack) to the Service, or
that otherwise negatively affects other users' ability to use
the Service; or
q) that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers
or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the
origin of Content transmitted through the Service.
Additionally, you agree not to:
r) contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted;
s) "stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
t) collect personal data about other users for commercial or
unlawful purposes;
u) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers,
data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service
- unless expressly permitted by www.minorityclassifieds.org;
v) post non-local or otherwise irrelevant Content, repeatedly
post the same or similar Content or otherwise impose an
unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our
infrastructure;
w) post the same item or service in more than one classified
category or in more than one location area that does not relate
to the area concerning your ad;
x) attempt to gain unauthorized access to
www.minorityclassifieds.org's computer systems or engage in any
activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes
with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, the
Service or the
www.minorityclassifieds.org website; or
y) use any form of automated device or computer program that
enables the submission of postings on
www.minorityclassifieds.org without each posting being manually
entered by the author thereof (an "automated posting device"),
including without limitation, the use of any such automated
posting device to submit postings in bulk, or for automatic
submission of postings at regular intervals.
8. NO SPAM POLICY
You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email
advertisements to www.minorityclassifieds.org email addresses or
through www.minorityclassifieds.org computer systems, which is
expressly prohibited by these TOS. Any unauthorized use of
www.minorityclassifieds.org computer systems is a violation of
the TOS and certain federal and state laws, including without
limitation the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. 1030 et
seq.). Such violations may subject thesender and his or her
agents to civil and criminal penalties.
9. PAID POSTINGS
We may charge a fee to post Content in some areas of the
Service. The fee is an access fee permitting Content to be
posted in a designated area.
Each party posting Content to the Service is responsible for
said Content and compliance with the TOS. All fees paid will be
non-refundable in the event that Content is removed from the
Service for violating the TOS.
10. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE
You acknowledge that www.minorityclassifieds.org may
establish limits concerning use of the Service, including the
maximum number of days that Content will be retained by the
Service, the maximum number and size of postings, email
messages, or
other Content that may be transmitted or stored by the
Service, and the frequency with which you may access the
Service. You agree that www.minorityclassifieds.org has no
responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store
any Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You
acknowledge that www.minorityclassifieds.org reserves the right
at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part
thereof) with or without notice, and that
www.minorityclassifieds.org shall not be liable to you or to any
third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance
of the Service.
11. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE
www.minorityclassifieds.org grants you a limited, revocable,
nonexclusive license to access the Service for your own personal
use. This license does not include:
(a) access to the Service by Posting Agents; or (b) any
collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or
derivative use of the Service nor any use of data mining,
robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools
for any purpose unless expressly permitted by
www.minorityclassifieds.org.
A limited exception to (b) is provided to general purpose
internet search engines and non-commercial public archives that
use such tools to gather information for the sole purpose of
displaying hyperlinks to the Service, provided they each do so
from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses using an
easily identifiable agent and comply with our system's settings.
"General purpose internet search engine" does not include a
website or search engine or other service that specializes in
classified listings or in any subset of classifieds listings
such as jobs, housing, for sale, services, or personals, or
which is in the business of providing classified ad listing
services.
www.minorityclassifieds.org permits you to display on your
website, or create a hyperlink on your website to, individual
postings on the Service so long as such use is for noncommercial
and/or news reporting purposes only (e.g., for use in personal
web blogs or personal online media). You may also create a
hyperlink to the home page of www.minorityclassifieds.org sites
so long as the link does not portray
www.minorityclassifieds.org, its employees, or its affiliates in
a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner.
Use of the Service beyond the scope of authorized access
granted to you by www.minorityclassifieds.org immediately
terminates said permission or license. In order to collect,
aggregate, copy, duplicate, display or make derivative use of
the the Service or any Content made available via the Service
for other purposes (including commercial purposes) not stated
herein, you must firstobtain a license from
www.minorityclassifieds.org.
12. TERMINATION OF SERVICE
You agree that www.minorityclassifieds.org, in its sole
discretion, has the right (but not the obligation) to delete or
deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or
otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Service (or any
part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and
discard any Content within the Service, for any reason,
including, without limitation, if www.minorityclassifieds.org
believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or
spirit of the TOS. Further, you agree that
www.minorityclassifieds.org shall not be liable to you or any
third-party for any termination of your access to the Service.
Further, you agree not to attempt to use the Service after
said termination. Sections 2, 4, 6 and 12-18 shall survive
termination of the TOS.
13. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
The Service is protected to the maximum extent permitted by
copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on
or through the Service is protected by copyright as a collective
work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws, and
international conventions. Any reproduction, modification,
creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the site
or the collective work, and/or copying or reproducing the sites
or any portion thereof to any other server or location for
further reproduction or redistribution is prohibited without the
express written consent of www.minorityclassifieds.org. You
further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from
the Service without the express written consent of
www.minorityclassifieds.org, and agree to abide by any and all
copyright notices displayed on the Service. You may not
decompile or disassemble, reverse
engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code
contained in the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, you
agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit
for any commercial purposes, any aspect of the Service.
Although www.minorityclassifieds.org does not claim ownership
of content that its users post, by posting Content to any public
area of the Service, you automatically grant, and you represent
and warrant that you have the right to grant, to
www.minorityclassifieds.org an irrevocable, perpetual,
non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy,
perform, display, and distribute said Content and to prepare
derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, said
Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses (through
multiple tiers) of the foregoing. Furthermore, by posting
Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically
grant www.minorityclassifieds.org all rights necessary to
prohibit any subsequent aggregation, display, copying,
duplication, reproduction, or exploitation of the Content on the
Service by any party for any purpose.
14. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE
AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE
www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON
AN "AS IS" OR "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF
ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY
RIGHTS ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW,
www.minorityclassifieds.org DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE
SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF
THE www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE AND THE SERVICE. TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, www.minorityclassifieds.org
DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED
THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE OR
THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON THE
www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, www.minorityclassifieds.org DISCLAIMS ANY
WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION
WITH THE www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE OR THE SERVICE.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied
warranties. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing
disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to
implied warranties.
15. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL www.minorityclassifieds.org BE
LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL
OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF www.minorityclassifieds.org HAS
BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM
ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE
OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF
THE www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM
INABILITY TO USE THE www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE OR THE
SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION,
ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE www.minorityclassifieds.org
SITE OR THE SERVICE. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH
RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR
PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE
www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON
THE www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF
ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN
CONNECTION WITH THE www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE OR THE
SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE www.minorityclassifieds.org SITE.
THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW. In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not
permitted. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing
limitation may not apply to you.
16. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold www.minorityclassifieds.org,
its officers, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns,
directors, officers, agents, service providers, suppliers and
employees, harmless from any claim or demand,
including reasonable attorney fees and court costs, made by
any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit,
post or make available through the Service, your use of the
Service, your violation of the TOS, your breach of any of the
representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any
rights of another.
17. GENERAL INFORMATION
The TOS constitute the entire agreement between you and
www.minorityclassifieds.org and govern your use of the Service,
superseding any prior agreements between you and
www.minorityclassifieds.org. The failure of
www.minorityclassifieds.org to exercise or enforce any right or
provision of the TOS shall not constitute a waiver of such right
or provision. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to
the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or
related to use of the Service or the TOS must be filed within
one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be
forever barred.
19. VIOLATION OF TERMS AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
Please report any violations of the TOS, by flagging the
posting(s) for review or by contacting us through the contact
form:
http://www.minorityclassifieds.org/index.php?op=contact_us
Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others
does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or
similar breaches.
20. FEEDBACK
We welcome your questions and comments on this document
through the www.minorityclassifieds.org contact form:
http://www.minorityclassifieds.org/index.php?op=contact_us
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