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Use of any part of Checkitdaily.com constitutes your agreement to the terms below. To use or in using this site you agree to the fowling Terms Of Use. If you do not agree with anything in the above and below content "statement" please do not use this site or its services. 1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS checkitdaily.com provides a collection of online resources, including classified ads, forums, and various email services, (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 checkitdaily.com services, you agree to abide by any applicable posted guidelines for all checkitdaily.com services. Should you object to any term or condition of the TOU, any guidelines, or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with checkitdaily.com in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of checkitdaily.com. checkitdaily.com has the right, but is not obligated, to strictly enforce the TOU through self-help, community moderation, active investigation, litigation and prosecution. 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 at: http://www.checkitdaily.com/classified/terms.php 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 checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com site and Content available through the Service may contain links to other websites, which are completely independent of checkitdaily.com. checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com does not always pre-screen or approve Content, but that checkitdaily.com 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. 4. THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES The checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com, 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 checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby release checkitdaily.com, 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. If you are a California resident, you waive Ohio Civil Code Section , which says: "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor." 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 checkitdaily.com agent for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement ("Agent"), at 6. PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE Your use of the checkitdaily.com website or the Service signifies acknowledgement of and agreement to our Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge and agree that checkitdaily.com may, in its sole discretion, may contact you directly via email, telephone, mail, or any method deemed necessary by checkitdaily.com. By posting, you agree we may 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 checkitdaily.com, its users or the general public. 7. CONDUCT You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content: (1) that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, or is harmful to minors in any way; (2) that is pornographic or depicts a human being engaged in actual sexual conduct including but not limited to sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex, or bestiality, or masturbation, or sadistic or masochistic abuse, or lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person; (3) 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; (4) 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); (5) 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. (6) 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. (7) that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a checkitdaily.com employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity; (8) that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent; (9) that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, or constitutes "bait and switch"; (10) 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; (11) that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing," "link referral code," "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or unsolicited commercial advertisement; (12) that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if: posted in areas of the checkitdaily.com web-site which are not designated for such purposes; or emailed to checkitdaily.com users who have not indicated in writing that it is ok to contact them about other services, products or commercial interests. (13) that includes links to commercial services or web sites, except as allowed in "services"; (14) 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 Ohio law. (15) 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; (16) 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 (17) 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: (18) contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted, or make unsolicited contact with anyone for any commercial purpose; (19) "stalk" or otherwise harass anyone; (20) collect personal data about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes; (21) attempt to gain unauthorized access to checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com website; or (22) use any form of automated device or computer program that enables the submission of postings on checkitdaily.com 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. (23) use any form of automated device or computer program ("flagging tool") that enables the use of checkitdaily.com "flagging system" or other community moderation systems without each flag being manually entered by the person that initiates the flag (an "automated flagging device"), or use the flagging tool to remove posts of competitors, or to remove posts without a good faith belief that the post being flagged violates these TOU; 8. NO SPAM POLICY This web site encourages you to post ads in the classifieds as long as they are not duplicates or other forms of spam. This web site may take action to delete classifieds ads and/or user accounts that we believe are misusing this service. Prohibited spam or otherwise impermissible marketing activities in the classifieds may include, but are not limited to, the following: * Posting an ad that is unrelated to the category in which the ad is placed. * Posting identical ads in the same category and location. * Posting an ad with inappropriate links, titles, descriptions, or unauthorized use of content to which the person posting does not have rights. * Posting a multi-level marketing position or other non-traditional job. * Posting an ad for the sole purpose of collecting user information or raising money. * Posting an ad that contains unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional materials. This may include an ad that instruct the user(s) to contact the person/company posting the ad for more information and then require the user to pay a fee for that information. * Posting a job ad that requires a monetary investment by the user at any time. * Posting an ad that requires a user to register before getting detailed information about the product or position. * Posting an ad through unauthorized robots (crawling software). You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email advertisements to checkitdaily.com email addresses or through checkitdaily.com computer systems, which is expressly prohibited by these Terms, will use or cause to be used servers located in the usa. Any unauthorized use of checkitdaily.com computer systems or there servers, 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. C B' 1030 et seq.), Such violations may subject the sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties. 9. PAID POSTINGS We may charge a fee to post Content & extended listings in some areas of the Service. The fee is an access fee permitting Content to be posted in a designated area, and/or advertising fee Each party posting Content to the Service is responsible for said Contentand compliance with the TOU. All fees paid will be non-refundable in theevent that Content is removed from the Service for violating the TOU. 10. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE You acknowledge that checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that checkitdaily.com reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that checkitdaily.com shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service. checkitdaily.com 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. checkitdaily.com 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 'checkitdaily.com' as the source, (d) your use or display does not suggest that checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com systems. checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com. 11. TERMINATION OF SERVICE You agree that checkitdaily.com, 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 checkitdaily.com believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOU. Further, you agree that checkitdaily.com 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. 12. 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 checkitdaily.com. You further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from the Service without the express written consent of checkitdaily.com, 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 checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com 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 checkitdaily.com 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. 13. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE CHECKITDAILY.COM SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE CHECKITDAILY.COM 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, CHECKITDAILY.COM DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE CHECKITDAILY.COM SITE AND THE SERVICE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CHECKITDAILY.COM DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE CHECKITDAILY.COM SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON THE CHECKITDAILY.COM SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CHECKITDAILY.COM DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHECKITDAILY.COM 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. 14. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL CHECKITDAILY.COM BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF CHECKITDAILY.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE CHECKITDAILY.COM SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE CHECKITDAILY.COM SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE CHECKITDAILY.COM SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE CHECKITDAILY.COM 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 CHECKITDAILY.COM SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE CHECKITDAILY.COM SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHECKITDAILY.COM SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE CHECKITDAILY.COM 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. 15. INDEMNITY You agree to indemnify and hold checkitdaily.com, 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. 16. GENERAL INFORMATION The TOU constitute the entire agreement between you and checkitdaily.com and govern your use of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and checkitdaily.com. The failure of checkitdaily.com 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. 17. VIOLATION OF TERMS AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES Please report any violations of the TOU, by flagging the posting(s) for review, this is done by the report abuse link found on every classified ad posting or by emailing to: 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. You understand and agree that, because damages are often difficult to quantify, if it becomes necessary for checkitdaily.com to pursue legal action to enforce these Terms, you will be liable to pay checkitdaily.com the following amounts as liquidated damages, which you accept as reasonable estimates of checkitdaily.com' damages for the specified breaches of these Terms: a. If you post a message that (1) impersonates any person or entity; (2) falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity; or (3) that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent, you agree to pay checkitdaily.com one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each such message. This provision does not apply to Content that constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody of public figures. b. If checkitdaily.com establishes limits on the frequency with which you may access the Service, or terminates your access to or use of the Service, you agree to pay checkitdaily.com one hundred dollars ($100) for each message posted in excess of such limits or for each day on which you access checkitdaily.com in excess of such limits, whichever is higher. c. If you send unsolicited email advertisements to checkitdaily.com email addresses or through checkitdaily.com computer systems or servers, you agree to pay checkitdaily.com twenty five dollars ($25) for each such email. d. If you post Content in violation of the TOU, other than as described above, you agree to pay checkitdaily.com one hundred dollars ($100) for each Item of Content posted. In its sole discretion, checkitdaily.com may elect to issue a warning before assessing damages. e. If you are a Posting Agent that uses the Service in violation of the TOU, in addition to any liquidated damages under clause (d), you agree to pay checkitdaily.com one hundred dollars ($100) for each and every Item you post in violation of the TOU. A Posting Agent will also be deemed an agent of the party engaging the Posting Agent to access the Service (the "Principal"), and the Principal (by engaging the Posting Agent in violation of the TOU) agrees to pay checkitdaily.com an additional one hundred dollars ($100) for each Item posted by the Posting Agent on behalf of the Principal in violation of the TOU. f. If you aggregate, display, copy, duplicate, reproduce, or otherwise exploit for any purpose any Content (except for your own Content) in violation of these Terms without checkitdaily.com express written permission, you agree to pay checkitdaily.com three thousand dollars ($3,000) for each day on which you engage in such conduct. Otherwise, you agree to pay checkitdaily.com actual damages, to the extent such actual damages can be reasonably calculated. Notwithstanding any other provision of these Terms, checkitdaily.com retains the right to seek the remedy of specific performance of any term contained in these Terms, or a preliminary or permanent injunction against the breach of any such term or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in these Terms, or any combination thereof. We reserve the right to change and or modify these guidelines at any time without notice. |