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Acceptance of Terms CampusBlvd.com provides its services to you subject to the following Terms of Service (TOS) which may be updated from time to time. You can receive the most current version of the TOS at any time by contacting us at links@campusblvd.com and requesting the most recent version. 1. Family-Friendly Content You agree to notify us when you place your order if your site is related to Adult, Pharmaceuticals, or Gambling, defined as:
You also agree not to knowingly link to any sites involving Adult, Pharmaceuticals or Gambling unless your site is directly related to these topics. You understand that linking to off-topic Gambling, Pharmaceutical, or Pornography sites puts you at extremely high risk of receiving a Google penalty and/or criticism from the visitors to family-friendly sites that form the bulk of our inventory partners. You understand that if your site incurs a Google penalty during the link term - indicated by a drop to PageRank of zero and accompanied by questionable SEO practices - we will remove your link and you will be given no refund. Please do not engage in activities that will get you banned. If you are unsure of what activities will get you banned, we suggest you research this prior to purchasing your links. 2. �PageRank (PR) Guarantee CampusBlvd.com agrees to place your advertisement on your selected site with the PR as listed in our inventory at the time of your order. Google has been known to perform PR updates on a periodic basis. Since there are no clearly defined schedules as to when, how frequent, or which sites will be affected by the PR updates, CampusBlvd.com updates the PR and any pricing adjustment of our Inventory Partners� sites on approximately a bi-annual basis. The PR and pricing for links will remain as is in our inventory until all the adjustments are complete.� PLEASE NOTE: Reductions in PR does not mean that the site has any less link popularity, less traffic or less quality. It only means Google is counting things differently. 3. Site Replacement Flexibility / Refunds Because we work with a �live� inventory there will be times one or more of the sites in your order may need a replacement for various reasons (i.e. the webmaster has rejected your site for content reasons, the PR has changed, the page you are ordering has become full, etc.). We will attempt to contact you with replacement options via e-mail. If we do not hear back from you with your selected replacement(s) within 5 business days we will then select a suitable replacement(s) for you. We will always do our best to ensure the replacement(s) selected will be 1) as closely related as possible 2) the same PR 3) the same or close to the same pricing of your original order. In the event we can not find a suitable replacement of the same PR and price we will properly adjust your billing. 4. 3rd Party You understand that CampusBlvd.com works with other webmasters to place your links on their sites. We have an agreement with these webmasters to place and maintain links. If at any time a webmaster breaches the agreement, we are not responsible for their actions. This includes removing or moving links without our prior consent or knowledge. It is the responsibility of the client to notify CampusBlvd.com in writing at links@campusblvd.com should they discover a problem with the links they are renting. Should it be determined that the links were not up or modified without the consent of the client; CampusBlvd.com will either provide a replacement link, a credit, or a refund of the amount equivalent to one month�s purchase for that link for the month in which CampusBlvd.com was contacted.� 5. Contact You agree not to contact the webmaster or inventory partner of the site where your advertisement is displayed for any reason whatsoever during the term hereof and for a period of two (2) years from the date your campaign has been terminated. All communications, negotiations, and contact must go through CampusBlvd.com. If for any reason you are directly contacted by any Inventory Partner where your sites are placed on or by anyone previously affiliated with Cityopoly Inc. and CampusBlvd.com you agree to inform them of your contractual obligations and notify us immediately. Our inventory partners and anyone previously affiliated with us have also agreed to the same said terms. 6. Changes to Site after Acceptance Your site is originally accepted on the grounds that we deem it acceptable for the specific site(s) that your page(s) will be placed on. Once we accept your site for placement, you may not change material elements of the site in a way that can be construed as using questionable SEO techniques that may cause your site and more importantly our inventory partner�s sites to possibly get penalized. In addition, you may not add Adult, Gambling, Pharmaceutical links or content on your site if it was not originally an Adult, Gambling, or Pharmaceutical site when it was accepted. If we find that you have changed your site to use what we deem as questionable SEO techniques (meaning it would lead to a penalty by Google) or add Adult, Gambling, Pharmaceutical links, we will allow you seven (7) business days to change it or we will be forced to remove your links and you will not be entitled to a refund of any payments we have received up to that point. 7. Order Process Upon receipt of payment we will begin to place your order with our inventory partners. You will then begin to receive notification of the location of your rented link(s). Depending on the size of your order it may take up to five business (5) days to place your entire order. On some occasions it may take longer and we will contact you to determine whether you would like a replacement site or wish to wait for that site to place. �.edu� and �special authority site(s)� may take up to 10 days for the link(s) to place from the time payment is received due to the fact that .edu and authority sites are extremely selective and must undergo a review and approval process. If you are purchasing a combination of products, in addition to .edu link(s) and/or special authority site(s), after forty five (45) days from the date your payment was received we will review your account to charge in accordance with the Billing standards stated above. If the link(s) have not been placed, at that point we will charge you for the remainder of your order and adjust your billing once the link(s) have been placed. Some of our inventory sites may contain �sitewide� linking strategies, particularly news and blog sites. If this is a concern to you please notify us PRIOR to placing your order.� 8. Link Text Changes It is the client�s responsibility to verify the link text placed for their link(s) is correct. In the event that there was an error in your link text you are required to contact us immediately or within three (3) business days from the date of placement so that we may correct the text. No refunds will be given as a result of link text errors. Link text changes are very time consuming to our webmasters and frequent modifications may negatively affect your campaign. Therefore, you are permitted to make three (3) link text changes per link throughout the link�s duration by going to the Active Links tab under your My CampusBlvd account and clicking �Edit�. Link text modifications can take up to five (5) business days to complete. Any additional link text changes are subject to a $20 per link text change fee. 9. Disclaimers and Limitations of Liability You agree that Cityopoly Inc. and CampusBlvd.com are not liable or responsible for any penalties, lost income, or legal matters that may arise due to your linking campaign. We cannot control what Google or other search engines consider to be acceptable at any given time. IN NO EVENT SHALL CITYOPOLY INC. AND CAMPUSBLVD.COM BE LIABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE OR THE SERVICES (I) FOR ANY AMOUNT IN THE AGGREGATE IN EXCESS OF THE AGREED FEES PAID FOR THE PREVIOUS MONTH SERVICES; OR (II) FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM PLACING LINKS ON YOUR BEHALF FOR YOUR SITE. You agree that you are purchasing links for your site at your own risk and that Cityopoly Inc. and CampusBlvd.com, are not responsible for anything that may arise as a result. 10. Jurisdiction Any claim or dispute associated with this Agreement between the Parties will be settled by binding arbitration before a single arbitrator under the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. The hearing shall take place in Chicago. The parties do hereby waive all questions of personal jurisdiction or venue for carrying out this provision. 11. Guarantee Any Guarantee stated in the offer / agreement, is agreed to as written in this document and supersedes any and all other communications whether electronic, written or verbal. 12. Spam Guidelines CampusBlvd.com does not tolerate spamming techniques! Our Inventory Partners maintain the right to remove your link if you violate our Spamming policy. This includes but is not limited to the following techniques: Bait and Switch, Cloaking, Hidden Text, Keyword Stuffing, Automatically Generated Doorway Pages, Duplicate Content, etc. 13. Confidentiality Each party acknowledges that it may directly or indirectly disclose Confidential Information to the other party in the course of negotiation of and performance of this Agreement. All such Confidential Information disclosed hereunder shall remain the sole property of the disclosing party (or other third party), and the receiving party shall have no interest in, or rights with respect thereto, except as set forth herein. Each party agrees to treat such Confidential Information with the same degree of care and security as it treats its most confidential information. Each party may disclose such Confidential Information to employees and agents who require such knowledge to perform services under this Agreement. Except as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement, neither party shall disclose the Confidential Information of the other party to any third party without the prior written consent of the disclosing party, and the duty of confidentiality created by this section shall survive any termination of the Agreement.� �Confidential Information� means all proprietary, secret, or confidential information or data relating to either party and its affiliates, operations, employees, products or services, clients, customers or potential customers. Confidential Information shall include customer lists, card member account numbers, pricing information, computer access codes, instruction and/or procedural manuals, and the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Information shall not be considered Confidential to the extent, but only to the extent, that such information is: (i) already known to the receiving party free of any restriction at the time it is obtained; (ii) subsequently learned from an independent third party free of any restriction and without breach of this Agreement; (iii) or becomes publicly available through no wrongful act of the receiving party; (iv) independently developed by the receiving party without reference to any Confidential Information of the other; or (v) required to be disclosed by law. The suppliers, customers, marketing methods, marketing slogans, marketing materials and other promotional material are hereby deemed to be Confidential Information and may not be disclosed or used in any way by the client without the prior express written consent of CampusBlvd.com. 14. Unauthorized Reproduction Prohibited - Linking Policy The reproduction, duplication, distribution (including by way of email, facsimile or other electronic means), publication, modification, copying or transmission of material from this Site is STRICTLY PROHIBITED unless you have obtained the prior written consent of Campusblvd.com or unless it is expressly permitted by this Site. The material covered by this prohibition includes, without limitation, any text, graphics, logos, photographs, audio or video material or stills from audiovisual material available on this website. The use of materials from this website on any other website or networked computer environment is similarly prohibited. Linking to this website is by permission only. Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute materials found on this website or to link to this website can be made by contacting Campusblvd.com by email at: links@campusblvd.com You are also strictly prohibited from creating works or materials that derive from or are based on the materials contained in this website including, without limitation, fonts, icons, link buttons, wallpaper, desktop themes, on-line postcards and greeting cards and unlicensed merchandise. This prohibition applies regardless of whether the derivative materials are sold, bartered or given away. Copyright infringement is a violation of federal law subject to criminal and civil penalties. Campusblvd.com is a service mark of Cityopoly Inc. 15. Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement. Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2) ("DMCA"), CampusBlvd.com has designated to the U.S. Copyright Office an agent to receive notifications of claimed copyright infringement relating to this Website (the "Designated Agent"). All such notifications relating to this Website must be submitted in a manner consistent with the DMCA to the following Designated Agent: Service
Provider: Cityopoly Inc. Copyright All contents Copyright � 2008 Cityopoly Inc. All rights reserved. The contents of all material available on this website, http://www.campublvd.com are copyrighted by Campusblvd.com unless otherwise indicated. All rights are reserved by Campusblvd.com, and content may not be reproduced, downloaded, published or transferred in any form or by any means, except with the prior written permission of Campusblvd.com, except that you may download pages or other content for your own personal and noncommercial use on a single computer. However, no part of such content may be otherwise or subsequently reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, published or transferred, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of, and express attribution to, Campusblvd.com, except where site pages allow such reproduction, downloading, dissemination, publishing or transference. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy content from the website, and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on the website. At certain places on this website, http://www.campusblvd.com, third parties may have volunteered original contributions. The original copyright in such submissions remains with the author(s) and the copyright reserved by Campusblvd.com is in the materials as a collective work and/or compilation thereof in this site, pursuant to copyright laws and international conventions. |
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