Posting Rules & Privacy Policy
PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THESE POSTING RULES & PRIVACY POLICY. EVERY USER MUST KNOW AND FOLLOW
Posting Rules
1. Prohibited and Restricted Items
1. Adoption of Children & Babies
2. Adult/Pornographic Material
3. Alcohol
4. Animals for fight/race
5. Bitcoin
6. Blood, Bodily Fluids and Body Parts
7. Burglary Tools
8. Counterfeit Products
9. Database
10. E-cigarette
11. Electronic Surveillance Equipment
12. Embargoed Goods
13. Endangered Species
14. Event Tickets
15. Fire crackers
16. Fireworks, Explosives and Explosive Substances
17. Government IDs and Licenses
18. Hazardous Chemicals
19. Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable Items
20. High school diplomas, university certificates, etc.
21. Hospital equipment and general aesthetic
22. Human Parts and Remains
23. Illegal Drugs
24. Items that hurt the Laws for the Protection of Historical, Artistic and Cultural significance
25. Ivory products
26. Lottery Tickets, Sweepstakes Entries
27. Offensive Material - examples include ethnically or racially offensive material
28. Pharmaceutical products (prescribed or not)
29. Photos of artists/singers/entertainers are not allowed unless with permit
30. Playing cards
31. Police, Army, Navy and Air force Related Items
32. Political
33. Products without the approval and registration of government agencies such as CNG, Pepper Spray, LPG, Cylinders
34. Sheeshah or Hookah with flavor content
35. Software to unlock phones and video games
36. Steroids
37. Stocks and Other Securities
38. Surveillance Equipment
39. Tobacco Products
40. Ultrasound machines
41. Unrealistic price and other offers
42. Used Cosmetics
43. Used Undergarments
44. Weapons & Knives
45. Wildlife Products - mounted specimens, and ivory
46. Wholesale/Bulk selling of Branded Products (Electronic Items/Mobiles)
2. Prohibited and Restricted Services
1. Adult Massage services
2. Any kind of government service - Only consultancy/guidance is allowed
3. Bulk SMS/Email Services
4. Escorts
5. Multi-Level Marketing Services
6. People looking for relationship, dating and / or friendship
7. Quick get-rich schemes
8. Surrogacy
3. Rules about Birds & Animals
1. In birds, we only allow Chickens, Roosters, Chicks, Geese, Emus, Pigeons, Turkeys & Ducks
2. In Animals, we only allow Dogs, Cats, Fishes, Bovine, Pigs, Equines, Rabbits, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs & Goats
3. Birds and animals used for fighting or racing is strictly prohibited
4. MaaAds only allows ads selling Meat & Eggs of the animals/birds listed above with an exception of Cow meat.
5. We do not allow animals & birds which fall under the restricted category as per THE INDIAN WILDLIFE (PROTECTION) ACT 1972 & WORLD WILDLIFE FEDERATION.
4. The following items are restricted or prohibited because they would potentially infringe on intellectual property rights
1. Counterfeit items
1. Faces, names and signatures and autographed items
2. Software & movie piracy
3. Watermark/logo/URL of other websites
4. New Luxury brands
5. Prohibited Practices
To promote a safe, fair and enjoyable experience, MaaAds has established a set of rules and policies for item listings. You are requested, not to..
1. Post Duplicate Ad listings - Any ad posted more than once with the same content or Title in the same city and category would be considered as a Duplicate Ad. We advise you to post multiple ads only if you have different items or services. All duplicate ads would be deleted and posters penalized if the problem persists.
2. Post Mature Audience/Sexually oriented material: Classifieds relating to items that includes items intended for use in sexual activity would not be permitted. Please also be aware that titles with graphic adult language are inappropriate, regardless of the item contained in the listing itself.
3. Write Misleading Titles
4. Upload Inappropriate/wrong picture with the Ad
5. List items in inappropriate categories
6. Misrepresent the item location
7. Quote Unrealistic Price
6. Miscellaneous info - Your listing, information, Advertisement
1. Shall not be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing. Further shall not be fraudulent, misrepresenting, misleading or pertain to the sale of any illegal, stolen goods and or services which do not belong to you or you do not have the authority for.
2. Shall not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms or other computer programmes that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
3. Shall not be allowed to libel anyone or include hate, derogatory, slanderous speech directed at individuals or groups. You should not advocate violence against other users or individuals or groups.
7. Consequences of Breach of Listing Policy
Users who violate the prohibited items policy and or the restricted items policy may be subject to the following actions 1. Permanent blacklisting from MaaAds community 2. Reporting to Law Enforcement or Appropriate Authorities
Privacy Policy
Collection
1. Information posted on MaaAds is obviously publicly available.
2. Like email address, physical contact information, and (depending on the service used) sometimes financial information.
3. computer sign-on data, statistics on page views, traffic to and from MaaAds and Ad data (all through cookies – you can take steps to disable the cookies on your browser although this is likely to affect your ability to use the site).
• Other apps installed on device.
• IMEI number.
• other information, including users IP address and standard web log information.
Use
We use users' personal information to:
1. provide our services
2. resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems
3. encourage safe trading and enforce our policies
4. customize users' experience, measure interest in our services, and inform users about services and updates
5. communicate marketing and promotional offers to you
6. Do other things for users as described when we collect the information.
Using Information from MaaAds
You may use personal information gathered from MaaAds only to follow up with another user about a specific posting, not to send spam/ phising or collect personal information from someone who hasn't agreed to that.
Access, Modification, and Deletion
You can see, modify or erase your personal information by reviewing your posting or account status page. Contact customer support at our contact page to review any personal information we store that is not available on MaaAds. There may be a charge associated with such requests but these will not exceed the amounts permitted by law. We delete personal information when we no longer need it for the purposes we described earlier. We retain personal information as permitted by law to resolve disputes, enforce our policies; and prevent bad guys from coming back.
Data Security
We use a number of mechanisms (encryption, passwords, physical security) to protect the security and integrity of your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. So while we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once any personal information comes into our possession, we will take reasonable steps to protect that information from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Confidentiality of Information
Users who use any of the features on MaaAds agree and accept that they have been fully informed by MaaAds that the use of features may lead to publication, to all users of MaaAds, of any personal information posted by them while using any specific feature on MaaAds. Users further agree that the authenticity of, and consequences from the posting by users of any personal information of themselves or any other person, are the sole responsibility of the user. Users further agree and accept that the terms of the Privacy Policy will be applicable to the use of all features, existing and new. However, the Users agree and accept that confidentiality of information posted on such features has been waived by the Users of such features themselves.
General
We may update, upgrade, modify (partially &/or fully) this policy at any time, with updates taking effect when you next post or after 30 days, whichever is sooner. If we or our corporate affiliates are involved in a merger or acquisition, we may share personal information with another company, but this policy will continue to apply. Send questions about this policy to maaads@yahoo.com or post at Contact Page