Michigan Online Group Classifieds Terms of Use
	1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

	michonline 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 michonline services, you agree to abide by any applicable posted 
	guidelines for all michonline 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 michonline 
	in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of michonline.


	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://classifieds.michonline.org/about/termsofusehtml


	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 
	michonline 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 michonline site and Content available through 
	the Service may contain links to other websites, which are completely 
	independent of michonline. michonline 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 michonline 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 michonline does pre-screen or approve Content, but that michonline 
	shall not be held responsible for content that is considered offensive to any
	party.  Michonline is not reponsible for the posting of personal information,
	including but not limited to email address, phone numbers, street address, 
	credit card numbers, place of employment.

	4. THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES

	The michonline 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 michonline, 
	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 michonline 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 michonline is under no obligation to 
	become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other 
	users, you hereby release michonline, 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 michonline's agent for notice of claims of
	copyright or other intellectual property infringement ("Agent"), at

	abuse@michonline.org


	6. PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE

	Your use of the michonline website or the Service signifies acknowledgement of 
	and agreement to our Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge and agree that 
	michonline 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 michonline, 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
	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 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
	michonline 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 michonline sites which are not designated for such 
	purposes; or emailed to michonline 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. A partial list of prohibited items for sale and prohibited services 
	offered is provided at the following web address for your 
	convenience: http://classifieds.michonline.org/about/prohibited.items.html

	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 michonline;

	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 classified categories deemed irrelevant, by michonline, to the product being advertised.

	x) attempt to gain unauthorized access to michonline'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
	michonline website; or

	y) use any form of automated device or computer program that enables the 
	submission of postings on michonline 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 michonline's resources, you may not use a Posting 
	Agent to post Content to the Service without express permission or 
	license from michonline.  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 michonline.

	9. 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.  
	Any person wishing to post in such area will be told of fee before they are
	allowed to post in the paid area.  Unless noted as a paid area all areas are
	considered to be free of charge.


	10. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE

	You acknowledge that michonline 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 michonline
	has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any
	Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that
	michonline reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the
	Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that michonline
	shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification,
	suspension or discontinuance of the Service.


	11. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE

	michonline 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 michonline. 
	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.

	michonline 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).  If the total number of such
	postings displayed or linked to on your website exceeds one hundred (100)
	postings, your use will be presumed to be in violation of the TOU,
	absent express permission granted by michonline to do so.  You may also
	create a hyperlink to the home page of michonline sites so long as the
	link does not portray michonline, its employees, or its affiliates in a
	false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner.

	michonline 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.  michonline 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 'michonline' as the source, (d) your use or
	display does not suggest that michonline 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
	michonline's systems.  michonline 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
	michonline 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 michonline.


	12. TERMINATION OF SERVICE

	You agree that michonline, 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 michonline believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or
	spirit of the TOU. Further, you agree that michonline 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.
	Sections 2, 4, 6 and 12-18 shall survive termination of the TOU.


	13. 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 michonline. You further agree not to reproduce, 
	duplicate or copy Content from the Service without the express written 
	consent of michonline, 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 michonline 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
	michonline 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 michonline 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.


	14. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

	YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE michonline SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT
	YOUR OWN RISK. THE michonline 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,
	michonline DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY,
	TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE michonline SITE AND THE
	SERVICE.  TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, michonline DISCLAIMS ANY
	WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE
	michonline SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON
	THE michonline SITE.  TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, michonline
	DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN
	CONNECTION WITH THE michonline 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.


	15. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

	UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL michonline BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT,
	INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF michonline
	HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY
	ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE michonline SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE
	DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE michonline SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM
	INABILITY TO USE THE michonline SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION,
	SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE michonline 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 michonline SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY
	LINKS ON THE michonline SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR
	ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE michonline SITE
	OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE michonline 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.


	16. INDEMNITY

	You agree to indemnify and hold michonline, 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.


	17. FEEDBACK

	We welcome your questions and comments on this document, you can contact 
	classifieds@michonline.net