Terms of Service
General Rules
- We reserve the right to remove, at any time and without notice, any content from DormDumpster.
- Refrain from using inappropriate language, including language that may look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate profanity, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal drugs/controlled substances or illegal activities.
- Members are not allowed to submit ads that are directly or indirectly related to the subject of alcohol, illegal drugs, and pornography. Failing to abide by this will result in immediate termination of the member’s account.
- You must have an email account from a supported school to apply for the Service. If a person is found to have registered with a fraudulent address or submitting fraudulent ads, the account will be terminated immediately.
- Cheating of any kind is expressly prohibited; this includes exploiting any deficiency in our code or design, or in the code or design of any third party product or service used in connection with DormDumpster, to gain access or abilities not clearly intended by the product's design. Communicating information about such activities to others will also be considered illegal.
- We reserve the right to contact your ISP regarding any inappropriate activities by you with the Service.
- Your subscription to the Service is intended for your individual and personal use only. You may not share, license, sub-license, parse, pass-on, or in any other way attempt to share, extend, or monetize your access to the Service.
- We reserve the right to immediately terminate or suspend anyone who fails to abide by these General Rules.
Subscription Terms of Service
- You must be eighteen years of age or older to register as a member or use the site of DormDumpster.
- Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. By using the Website, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to agree to and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
- DormDumpster may terminate your membership and delete all your records for any reason, at any time, without notice.
User Conduct
- You agree that no materials posted by your account will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party. This includes copyright, trademark, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights.
- You agree that your posts will not contain libelous, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful material.
- You agree not to collect email addresses, phone numbers, or other contact information of users from the Website by means for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails or other unsolicited communications.
- You agree to in no way create a false identity on the Website.
- You agree not to use automated scripts to collect information from the Website or for any purpose.
- You agree that you will not use the Service in any unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Service.
- You agree to abide by the policies of not falsely describing any product, service, item, tangible or intangible, in any venue on this Website.
- You may not attempt to flood this Website with any information by posting an excessive number of ads, messages, or any other posting.
- You agree to never post ads containing content that is illegal; containing anything in relation with alcohol, drugs, or pornography.
- You may not create fake, fraudulent, or redundant ads for any purpose.
- You may not use or attempt to use another member’s account, service or system without written authorization from the Website.
- You agree that you will not upload, post, email, transmit, or make available any content deemed to be harmful, threatening, harassing, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable.
- You agree that you will not impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent yourself or your affiliation with any person or entity.
- You agree you will not upload, post, email, transmit, or make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation.
- You agree that you will no upload, post, email, transmit, or make available any material 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.
Protection of Your Password and Unauthorized Access
- Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You are strongly encouraged to select a difficult password and not re-use that password on any other sites where it may be read by the owners or administrators of that site.
- Accessing or attempting to access any user account not belonging to you without permission is strictly prohibited.
- Accessing another user's account in this manner is grounds for a permanent ban of all accounts from the Website.
- Your email, password, and other account information are not shared with any third party and are strictly for the use of the Website.
Violations and Penalties
- Topics and messages that violate these General Rules will be deleted from the boards and additional penalties may be applied at the moderators' discretion. Re-posting deleted violations (yours or those of others) is also considered a violation.
- User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of our editors and our designated moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by our editors and moderators.
- Intentional, repeated, or severe violations are cause for the banning of your account, all use of the boards from your IP address or your entire ISP. In such event, we also reserve the right to contact your ISP concerning your activities.
Contacting You
- We may contact you via email to provide you with information about the Service or your account or to provide you with information about special offers available only to Service members.
Copyright Policy
- DormDumpster respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or are aware of any infringing material on the Website, feel free to contact us at contact@dormdumpster.com and provide us with the following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website; your address, telephone number, and email address; a written statement that describes how the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Links to External web sites
- The Website may contain links to other websites. DormDumpster and our affiliates are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions express in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy or completeness by DormDumpster. It is your decision to leave the Website and access these third-party sites and you do so at your own risk.
Disputes between Users
- You are solely responsible for your interactions and transactions with other DormDumpster users. DormDumpster reserves the right, with no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users.
Other Disclaimers
- DormDumpster is not responsible for any inaccurate content posted on the Website or in connection with the Service, whether caused by members of the Website or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service.
- DormDumpster is not responsible for the conduct and interaction, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website or user of the Service.
- You understand the Privacy Policy for DormDumpster and agree to the details within. You may view the Privacy Policy by navigating to http://www.dormdumpster.com/privacy.
No Warranty
- DormDumpster provides no warranty, expressed or implied that the Service will be available, functional, or operational at any time. The Service may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons. DormDumpster assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, user or user communications. DormDumpster is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, or failure of communications systems due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or combination thereof. THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICE, AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND DORMDUMPSTER DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. DORMDUMPSTER CANNOT GUARANTEE AND DOES NOT PROMISE ANY SPECIFIC RESULTS FROM USE OF THE WEBSITE. DORMDUMPSTER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, AND IN PARTICULAR DORMDUMPSTER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF REVENUE, OR LOSS OF USE, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SITE OR THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN IT, WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES ARISE IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, TORT, UNTER STATUTE, IN EQUITY, AT LAW, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF DORMDUMPSTER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW FOR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES; THEREFORE SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY BE INAPPLICABLE.
No Consequential Damage Liability
- Under no circumstances will DormDumpster be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from the use of the Website or the Service, any content posted on the Website or transmitted to users, or any interactions between users of the Website, whether online or offline.
Indemnity
- You agree to indemnify and hold DormDumpster, its board members, owners, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, and other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorney's fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service in violation of this Agreement or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
Governing Jurisdiction of the Courts of Iowa
- The site is operated and provided in the State of Iowa. As such, we are subject to the laws of the State of Iowa, and such laws will govern this Agreement, without giving effect to any choice of law rules. We make no representation that the Website or other services are appropriate, legal or available for use in other locations. Accordingly, if you choose to access the Website you agree to do so subject to the internal laws of the State of Iowa.
Questions and Misunderstandings
- In the event that you have questions about this Agreement, you agree to cease and desist the use of the Website and contact DormDumpster by email at contact@dormdumpster.com