Web 2.0 sites' Terms of Service (enjoy)
(1) Weebly
Weebly Terms of Service:
"You agree that you will not:...(g) upload, post, or transmit unsolicited commercial email or \"spam\". This includes unethical marketing, advertising, or any other practice that is in any way connected with \"spam\", such as (a) sending mass email to recipients who haven't requested email from you or with a fake return address, (b) promoting a site with inappropriate links, titles, descriptions, or (c) promoting your site by posting multiple submissions in public forums that are identical;"
(2) HubPages
to watch HubPages 4 min video on their content policy
or read their Terms of Use:
"As a Website user or Author, You may Not:
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* Link to pages or sites that are unrelated to the topic and content of Your Hub.
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* Attempt to automatically redirect Website users to other domains, mislead users of the origins of the Hub Content contained in Your Hubs, or use Your Hubs as storage for remote loading or a door or signpost to a website outside of the Website.
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* Spam any User or mass email any User in an automated fashion.
* Collect personal identifiable information about the Users of Your Hubs and sell or transfer that information.
* Use any automatic or manual process to harvest email addresses or other information from the Website.
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* Publish Hubs or Content written primarily in a language other than English.
* Promote gambling or links to sites that promote/offer gambling for money.
* Display misleading tags, categorizations, and/or titles that don't match the Hub's content, including irrelevant or excessive tagging.
* Engage in behavior that is overly promotional, including excessive linking to any one site or domain.
* Engage in behavior designed to manipulate HubScores.
* Spam to promote Hubs or Profiles, including comment spam, forum spam, spam blogs, email spam, instant message spam, or similar.
* Use automation tools to create HubPages Accounts, Hubs, or Author Content, to follow topics or Authors, or to edit Hubs. This includes, but is not limited to, article spinner software, blog and comment blasters, and similar software and online tools and services."
(3) Tumblr
Tumblr Content Policy:
"Spam. Users that do not publish meaningful content, use deceptive means to generate revenue or traffic, or whose primary purpose is affiliate marketing, will be suspended."
(4) Squidoo
Squidoo has a nice page/lens that clearly explains what is not allowed (what you should avoid if you don't want your lens "locked"):
Top 8 Reasons Your Lens Could Get Locked
Here are 2 of them:
"2. Spam, the noun. Spam the noun is content on your lens that looks like spam. Examples: reappropriated and uncredited content from other sites or lenses; cut and pasted, uncurated content; tag stuffing--jamming a bunch of tags into a module or title, hoping to trick search engines; and more.
3. Lenses on one of our SquidDon't topics. Be sure to read up on topics that Squidoo just doesn't allow lenses on, like gambling lenses, pharmaceutical sales, credit card debt, ringtones, some affiliate networking sites and products and more."
(5) Info Barrel
Info Barrel TOS:
"4. Content. You hereby understand, acknowledge, undertake, represent and warrant that any Original Content sent by you with the intention it be published on the Site shall comply with the following requirements: (i) be your original work; (ii) shall have not been previously publicly published, in whole or in part, on the Internet or in any other media (iii) shall not contain any content of any kind whatsoever that is libelous, illegal or infringes any third parties' copyrights; (iv) if any third parties' copyrights are included in the Original Content, the express, unrestricted and unlimited permission of such copyrights owner for the use of such copyrighted materials has been obtained prior to submitting the Original Content; (v) shall not contain any derogatory, offensive, unlawful, harmful, threatening, vulgar, profane, abusive, harassing, obscene, pornographic, defamatory or tortuous content;"
(6) eHow
eHow Terms and Conditions of Use:
"...You acknowledge and agree that eHow is not responsible or liable for (i) the availability or accuracy of such sites or resources; or (ii) the content, advertising, or products or services on or available from such sites or resources. The inclusion of any link on the Site does not imply that we endorse the linked site. You use the links at your own risk. eHow's Privacy Policy is applicable only when you are on our Site. Once you choose to link to another website, you should read and understand that website's privacy statement before disclosing any personal information.
Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, third party merchants or advertisers that are found on or through the Site or which provide links on the Site, including, for example, "click to purchase" and other similar programs, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such merchant or advertiser. You waive any claim against eHow and agree to hold eHow harmless from any loss or damage of any kind incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such merchants or advertisers on the Site."
(7) Ezine Articles
Ezinearticles.com Terms of Service for Publishers:
"If you wish to publish/reprint any article from our site in your ezine, website, blog, forum, RSS feed or print publication, you must:
* Respect the copyrights of the authors by publishing the entire article as it is with no changes.
* Agree to include the FULL Resource box or SIG line at the end of the article.
* Agree not to change the title or content of the article in any way..." (these are just 3 of 15 points - all seem important!)
(8) Blogsome
Blogsome Terms of Service:
"You agree to not use the Service to:...(m) establish a blog as a site which is referred to in a mass-marketing campaign whether by email or otherwise;(n) establish a blog as part of a SEO campaign whose sole focus is to promote other websites and/or earn advertising revenue out of topics frequently used by spammers, such as weightloss sites, mesothelioma, credit/finances, luxury cruises, poker, blogs whose content primarily consists of erotica, adult content and other regular spam topics; (o) where main purpose of blog is to promote the illegal downloading of copyright material (or "warez") regardless of whether the material is hosted on the blog or not;"
(9) Scribd
Scribd General Terms of Use:
"BY USING THE SCRIBD PLATFORM YOU AGREE NOT TO:... post, upload or distribute marketing material, advertisements, spam, content designed to aid search engine optimization, content in HTML format with links or redirects, or other commercial content that in Scribd's sole opinion detracts from the Scribd experience."
(10) Docstoc
Docstoc Terms of Service:
"When submitting User Content to or otherwise using this Site and/or the services, You agree not to, without limitation:... * Post, upload or distribute marketing material, advertisements, spam, content designed to aid search engine optimization, content in HTML format with links or redirects, or other commercial content that detracts from the DOCSTOC experience;
* Engage in any activity or upload commercial content that generally detracts from the DOCSTOC experience;
* Take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;..."
(11) Blogger
Blogger Content Policy:
"Spam: Spam takes several forms in Blogger, all of which can result in deletion of your account or blog. Some examples include creating blogs designed to drive traffic to your site or to move it up in search listings and posting comments on other people's blogs just to promote your site or product."
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