General Posting Policies
General ADLand Posting Policies
As a stipulation of your use of AdLand.co.za you agree that you are older than 18 years of age.
We want to make sure that the site is as clean, friendly and usable as possible for everyone. Ads that fall outside the posting rules stated in this section or our AdLand Terms of Use may be removed from the site.
You are solely responsible for all information that you submit to AdLand and any consequences that may result from your post. We reserve the right at our discretion to refuse or delete content that we believe is inappropriate or breaching our terms of use. We also reserve the right at our discretion to restrict a user's usage of the site either temporarily or permanently, or refuse a user's registration.
General reasons for ad removal or ads being placed on hold
•Against policy
• Duplicate of another ad posted by you
• Posted under wrong category (You must choose the single most relevant category for your ad)
• We only accept ads in English (Foreign translation may be included below if appropriate) and Afrikaans
• No overseas ads accepted, AdLand is only for local community or local businesses
• No website links (url) to any sites or product/service may be inserted. We do however have an exchange link policy – please contact us for more details.
• Not descriptive enough (Ads that do not provide enough detail will be removed as this makes for a bad browsing experience)
• Appears to be a copy of another ad posted on AdLand (You may not copy other user ads, you ad must be original)
• Inappropriate language
• Inappropriate photo/ image or duplicate image/photo from others. Photos/images must be from the pet/product/service itself. Scammers use images/photos from other ads to con men into a scam!
• Username or Contact person must be a person name, email address, company names or any other name used will be rejected! If you are placing an ad for a service or a company, please use the name of the contact person the user will contact. No name contact persons give a bad user experience and will be rejected as a scam!
• Discriminatory on race/religion/nationality
• Ads that report other fraudulent ads. Please report potentially fraudulent ads HERE with ad details (ad id, or ad title or description of the ad). If suspicion regarding names email address, etc, is suspected the ad will be removed.
• City or Area of the Advertiser must be stipulated. Provinces Alone are NOT ALLOWED, state your City and NOT merely your Province e.g. Pretoria and NOT Gauteng or Nylstroom and NOT Limpopo! You may include your Province. Ads that do not comply with this, will not be published or be removed!
The Following Ads or Postings are NOT Allowed:
· Loans or money lending, small loans, get out of debt, blacklisted, etc.
· Any creams or pills or whatever product/s that promise or advertise enlargements of any body parts or any listing that may have any reference to such things are not allowed and will be removed.
· Abortion services and ads related to this are not allowed.
· Ads promoting good luck charms or any such thing as spells and magic are not allowed.
· Ads seeking or offering children for adoption
· Prescription medication or drugs
· Ads looking for or offering surrogate motherhood
· Postings looking for or offering firearms, ammunition and explosives.
· No foul language, insulting comments, racism, sexism, or offensive labels.
· Ads looking for or offering organs for transplantation
· Ads looking for or offering sperm or ova
· Medical / healing, etc, claims and alternative medicine (e.g. crystal therapists, spiritual healers, Sangomas, acupuncture, astrologists, etc.)
· Dealer fireworks allowed, but not private firework sales.
· Postings promoting on political and religious advertisement
· Copied media
· Pirated products
· Certain types of work from home ads. Merely work from home ads that state the business name, and actual selling of products from home, will be allowed. Work from home ads that are common “sending of e-mails” or data entry online will not be approved.
· Adult: DVD’s, books, movies, etc. ALL adult content ads are not allowed
· Free to good home pet, puppy,dog kittens, etc ads are not allowed
AdLand reserves the right to remove any postings that we feel are not relevant, or of value to our AdLand community, with or without notice.
We reserve the right to remove an ad even after it has been published.
There may be several reasons why an Ad may have been removed from the site including:
· Your ad has been removed
ü When this happens your ad may be temporarily suspended (this depends on a few things) until we look at it. We check reported ads as quickly as we can. As long as we find that it hasn't broken any Posting Policies or AdLand Terms of Use it should be back up again shortly. Check back after a few hours to see if this is the case or contact us for more info, providing as much detail as you can about the ad.
· Your ad has been reported (Reported ads) to us.
ü Ads either reported to us (Reported ads) or identified by our automated tools as inappropriate, that we then find do break our Posting Policies or Terms of Use will be removed from the site with or without notice.
If you have checked out all of these possibilities and none of them apply to your ad then please Contact Us and we'll be happy to help you out.
AdLand does not offer any type of purchase protection, secure transaction or payment tools. AdLand is never involved in any transaction, and does not handle payments, shipping, guarantee transactions, provide escrow services, or offer "buyer protection" or "seller certification"