BlancoAds is a free classified ad service brought to you by
Blanco-Texas.com.Although it may look pretty boring, it's necessary that we
follow these guidelines in posting information on BlancoAds.
Please read this page before submitting an ad. Thanks.
1. Acceptance of Terms
BlancoAds provides free classified and paid display
advertising, (referred to hereafter as "the Service") subject
to the following Terms of Use ("TOU"). By using the Service in
any way, you are agreeing to comply with the TOU. In addition,
when using particular BlancoAds services, you agree to abide by
any applicable posted guidelines for all BlancoAds services,
which may change from time to time. Should you object to any
term or condition of the TOU, any guidelines, or any subsequent
modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with BlancoAds in
any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use
of BlancoAds.
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 TOU on this page:
http://www.blanco-texas.com/bca-terms-of-use.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 BlancoAds does not control, and is not responsible for
Content made available through the Service. Furthermore, the
BlancoAds site and Content available through the Service may
contain links to other websites, which are completely
independent of BlancoAds. BlancoAds 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 BlancoAds 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 BlancoAds 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 TOU or for any other reason.
If you believe an ad posted on BlancoAds.com to be fraudulent,
or in any way promoting an illegal activity, please contact the
local authorities and HREF="http://www.blanco-texas.com/bca-contact-blancoads.html"
class="entrylink" TARGET="_blank">BlancoAds.com
immediately.
Blanco Police Department
(830) 833-4525
Blanco County Sheriff's Office
(830) 868-7104
4. Third Party Content, Sites, and Services
The BlancoAds 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 BlancoAds, 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 BlancoAds 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 BlancoAds is under no obligation to become
involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more
other users, you hereby release BlancoAds, 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
BlancoAds' agent for notice of claims of copyright or other
intellectual property infringement ("Agent"), through the HREF="http://www.blanco-texas.com/contact.html"
class="entrylink" TARGET="_blank">Contact page or at:
Sherri Stockman
Blanco-Texas.com
PO Box 489
Blanco TX 78606
Please provide our Agent with the following Notice:
a) Identify the material on the BlancoAds 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.
BlancoAds will remove the infringing posting(s), subject to the
the procedures outlined in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
(DMCA).
6. Privacy and Information Disclosure
Blanco-Texas.com has established a Privacy Policy to explain to
users how their information is collected and used, which is
located at the following web address:
http://www.blanco-texas.com/terms-of-use.html#privacy
Your use of the BlancoAds website or the Service signifies
acknowledgement of and agreement to our Privacy Policy. You
further acknowledge and agree that BlancoAds 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 TOU; 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 BlancoAds, 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;
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 BlancoAds 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 BlancoAds sites which
are not designated for such purposes; or emailed to BlancoAds
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, including without limitation items the sale of which is
prohibited or regulated by Texas 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 BlancoAds;
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;
x) attempt to gain unauthorized access to BlancoAds' 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
BlancoAds website; or
y) use any form of automated device or computer program that
enables the submission of postings on BlancoAds 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. Posting Agents
A "Posting Agent" is a third-party agent, service, or
intermediary that offers to post Content to the Service on
behalf of others. To moderate demands on BlancoAds' resources,
you may not use a Posting Agent to post Content to the Service
without express permission or license from BlancoAds.
Correspondingly, Posting Agents are not permitted to post
Content on behalf of others, to cause Content to be so posted,
or otherwise access the Service to facilitate posting Content
on behalf of others, except with express permission or license
from BlancoAds.
9. No SPAM Policy
You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email
advertisements to BlancoAds email addresses or through
BlancoAds computer systems, which is expressly prohibited by
these TOU, will use or cause to be used servers
located in Texas. Any unauthorized use of BlancoAds computer
systems is a violation of the TOU and certain federal and state
laws. Such violations may subject the sender and his or her
agents to civil and criminal penalties.
10. 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
TOU. All fees paid will be non-refundable in the event that
Content is removed from the Service for violating the TOU.
11. Limitations on Service
You acknowledge that BlancoAds 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 BlancoAds has
no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to
store any
Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You
acknowledge that BlancoAds reserves the right at any time to
modify or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or
without notice, and that BlancoAds shall not be liable to you
or to any third party for any modification, suspension or
discontinuance of the Service.
12. Access to the Service
BlancoAds 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
BlancoAds. 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
robots.txt file.
"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.
BlancoAds 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 create a
hyperlink to the home page of BlancoAds site so long as the
link does not portray BlancoAds, Blanco-Texas.com, its
employees, or its affiliates in a false, misleading,
derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter.
BlancoAds offers various parts of the Service in RSS format so
that users can embed individual feeds into a personal website
or blog, or view postings through third party software news
aggregators. BlancoAds permits you to
display, excerpt from, and link to the RSS feeds on your
personal website or personal web blog, provided that (a) your
use of the RSS feed is for personal, non-commercial purposes
only, (b) each title is correctly linked back to the original
post on the Service and redirects the user to the post when the
user clicks on it, (c) you provide, adjacent to the RSS feed,
proper attribution to 'BlancoAds.com' as the source, (d) your
use or display does not suggest that BlancoAds promotes or
endorses any third party causes, ideas, web sites, products or
services, (e) you do not
redistribute the RSS feed, and (f) your use does not overburden
BlancoAds' systems. BlancoAds reserves all rights in the
content of the RSS feeds and may terminate any RSS feed at any
time.
Use of the Service beyond the scope of authorized access
granted to you by BlancoAds 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 first obtain a license from BlancoAds and
Blanco-Texas.com.
13. Termination of Service
You agree that BlancoAds, 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 BlancoAds believes that you
have acted inconsistently with the letter or
spirit of the TOU. Further, you agree that BlancoAds 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.
14. 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 BlancoAds. You further agree not to reproduce,
duplicate or copy Content from the Service without the express
written consent of BlancoAds, 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 BlancoAds 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 BlancoAds 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 BlancoAds 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.
15. Disclaimer of Warranties
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE BLANCOADS SITE AND THE SERVICE IS
ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE BLANCOADS 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, BLANCOADS DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE
SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF
THE BLANCOADS SITE AND THE SERVICE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, BLANCOADS DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER
SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE
BLANCOADS SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY
LINKS ON THE BLANCOADS SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW, BLANCOADS DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER
HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN
CONNECTION WITH THE BLANCOADS 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.
16. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL BLANCOADS BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY
DAMAGES (EVEN IF BLANCOADS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE
BLANCOADS SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM
USE OR MISUSE OF THE BLANCOADS SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM
INABILITY TO USE THE BLANCOADS SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE
INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR
TERMINATION OF THE BLANCOADS 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 BLANCOADS SITE OR THE SERVICE
OR ANY LINKS ON THE BLANCOADS SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY
INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN
CONNECTION WITH THE BLANCOADS SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS
ON THE BLANCOADS 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.
17. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold BlancoAds, 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 TOU, your breach of any of the representations and
warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of
another.
18. General Information
The TOU constitutes the entire agreement between you and
BlancoAds and governs your use of the Service, superseding any
prior agreements between you and BlancoAds. The TOU and the
relationship between you and BlancoAds shall be governed by the
laws of the State of Texas without regard to its conflict of
law provisions. You and BlancoAds agree to submit to the
personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located
within the county
of Blanco, Texas. The failure ofBlancoAds to exercise or
enforce any right or provision of the TOU shall not constitute
a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the
TOU is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be
invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should
endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected
in the provision, and the other provisions of the TOU 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 TOU must be
filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action
arose or be forever barred.
