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1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
aplinonline.com provides an online resource, including
classified ads & forums, (referred to hereafter as "our Service")
subject to the following Terms of Use ("Terms"). By using our Service in
any way, you are agreeing to comply with these Terms. In addition, when
using particular aplinonline.co.uk services, you agree to abide by any
applicable posted guidelines for all aplinonline.co.uk services, which
may change from time to time. Should you object to any terms or
condition of these Terms, any guidelines, or any subsequent
modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with aplinonline.co.uk in
any way, you MUST immediately discontinue use of aplinonline.co.uk.
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 these Terms at:
http://aplinonline.co.uk/classified/terms.asp
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 our Service, are the sole
responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. More
specifically, you are entirely responsible for all content that you
post, email or otherwise make available via our Service. You understand
that aplinonline.co.uk does not control, and is not responsible for
Content made available through our Service, and that by using our
Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent,
inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise objectionable. Furthermore, the
aplinonline.co.uk site and Content available through our Service may
contain links to other websites, which are completely independent of
aplinonline.co.uk. aplinonline.co.uk 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 websites 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 aplinonline.co.uk 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
Aplinonline.co.uk does not pre-screen or approve Content, but that
Aplinonline.co.uk shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its
sole discretion to refuse, delete or move any Content that is available
via our Service, for violating the Terms or for any other reason.
4. THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES
The aplinonline.co.uk site and Content available through our
Service may contain features and functionalities that may link you or
provide you with access to third party content which is completely
independent of aplinonline.co.uk, 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 our 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 aplinonline.co.uk 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
aplinonline.co.uk is under no obligation to become involved. In the
event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby
release aplinonline.co.uk, 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. PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
aplinonline.co.uk has established a Privacy Policy to explain to
users how their information is collected and used. Your use of the
aplinonline.co.uk website or our Service signifies acknowledgement of
and agreement to our Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge and agree
that aplinonline.co.uk 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 these
Terms; 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 aplinonline.co.uk, its users or the
general public.
6. CONDUCT
You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available
Content:
a) that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing,
defamatory, libellous, 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 impersonates any person or entity or falsely states or
otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity (this
provision does not apply to messages that are lawful non-deceptive
parodies of public figures.);
e) that includes personal or identifying information about
another person without that person's explicit consent;
f) that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, mis-informative,
or constitutes "bait and switch";
g) 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;
h) that constitutes or contains "junk mail," "spam," "chain
letters," or "pyramid schemes";
i) that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or
solicitation if: posted in areas of the Aplinonline.co.uk sites which
are not designated for such purposes; or emailed to Aplinonline.co.uk
users who have not indicated in writing that it is ok to contact them
about other services, products or commercial interests.
j) that includes links to commercial services or web sites,
except as allowed in sponsored ad sections;
k) that advertises any illegal service or the sale of any items
the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by any applicable law;
l) 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;
m) that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive
number of messages (flooding attack) to the Service, or that otherwise
negatively affects other users' ability to use our Service; or
n) that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or
otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of
Content transmitted through our Service.
Additionally, you agree not to:
o) contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted;
p) "stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
q) collect personal data about other users for commercial or
unlawful purposes;
r) post non-local or otherwise irrelevant Content or otherwise
impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our
infrastructure;
s) attempt to gain unauthorized access to Aplinonline.co.uk '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 Aplinonline.co.uk website; or
t) use any form of automated device or computer program that
enables the submission of postings on Aplinonline.co.uk 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.
7. NO SPAM POLICY
You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email
advertisements to Aplinonline.co.uk email addresses or through
Aplinonline.co.uk computer systems, which is expressly prohibited by
these Terms. Any unauthorized use of Aplinonline.co.uk computer systems
is a violation of these Terms 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 the sender and his or her
agents to civil and criminal penalties.
8. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE
You acknowledge that aplinonline.co.uk may establish limits
concerning use of our 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 our Service, and the frequency with which you may access the
Service. You agree that Aplinonline.co.uk has no responsibility or
liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or
transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that aplinonline.co.uk
reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or
any part thereof) with or without notice, and that Aplinonline.co.uk
shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification,
suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
9. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE
aplinonline.co.uk grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive
license to access our Service for your own personal use. This license
does not include any collection, aggregation, copying, duplication,
display or derivative use of our Service nor any use of data mining,
robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools for any
purpose unless expressly permitted by aplinonline.co.uk. A limited
exception 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 our Service. "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.
aplinonline.co.uk permits you to display on your website, or
create a hyperlink on your website to, individual postings on our
Service. You may also create a hyperlink to the home page of
aplinonline.co.uk so long as the link does not portray aplinonline.co.uk,
its employees, or its affiliates in a false, misleading, derogatory, or
otherwise offensive matter.
Use of our Service beyond the scope of authorized access granted
to you by Aplinonline.co.uk immediately terminates said permission or
license.
10. TERMINATION OF SERVICE
You agree that aplinonline.co.uk, 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 our Service, for any
reason, including, without limitation, if Aplinonline.co.uk believes
that you have acted inconsistently with our Terms. Further, you agree
that aplinonline.co.uk 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.
11. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
Although aplinonline.co.uk 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 aplinonline.co.uk 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 Aplinonline.co.uk 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.
12. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE APLINONLINE.CO.UK SITE AND THE SERVICE
IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE APLINONLINE.CO.UK 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, APLINONLINE.CO.UK DISCLAIMS ANY
WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE APLINONLINE.CO.UK SITE AND THE SERVICE. TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, APLINONLINE.CO.UK DISCLAIMS ANY
WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON
THE APLINONLINE.CO.UK SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH
ANY LINKS ON THE APLINONLINE.CO.UK SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW, APLINONLINE.CO.UK DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER
HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE APLINONLINE.CO.UK SITE OR THE
SERVICE.
13. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL APLINONLINE.CO.UK BE LIABLE FOR
DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY
DAMAGES (EVEN IF APLINONLINE.CO.UK HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE
APLINONLINE.CO.UK SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM
USE OR MISUSE OF THE APLINONLINE.CO.UK SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM
INABILITY TO USE THE APLINONLINE.CO.UK SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE
INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF
THE APLINONLINE.CO.UK 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
APLINONLINE.CO.UK SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE
APLINONLINE.CO.UK SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR
ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE
APLINONLINE.CO.UK SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE
APLINONLINE.CO.UK 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.
14. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold aplinonline.co.uk, 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 Terms, your breach of any of the representations
and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of another.
15. GENERAL INFORMATION
The Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and
aplinonline.co.uk and govern your use of our Service, superseding any
prior agreements between you and aplinonline.co.uk. The failure of
aplinonline.co.uk to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the
Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any
provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to
be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should
endeavour to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the
provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force
and effect. 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 Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such
claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
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