Terms And Conditions
This website is operated by PoundAd Limited trading as "PoundAd".
In consideration of PoundAd agreeing to permit you to use this website to place an advert and/or search its database, you agree that you will only use, reproduce and print materials comprising the results of such searches for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. You may not otherwise copy, reproduce, redistribute, download, republish, transmit, display, adapt, alter, create derivative works from or otherwise extract or re-utilise any such material.
On accessing the website on this and on each subsequent occasion you will be deemed to have accepted all of the terms and conditions that apply to its use. PoundAd reserves the right to alter these terms and conditions at any time and it is your obligation to check if changes have been made. Your use of this web site after changes are posted on-line shall constitute acceptance of the new terms and conditions.
PoundAd gives no warranties, conditions, guarantees or representations, express or implied, as to the following:
- The completeness or accuracy of the advice and information contained on this website or any website to which it is linked.
- The content of the advertisements for items included in the PoundAd database, including but not limited to the ownership, quality, compliance with description or fitness for purpose of any such items.
- Completeness of the results of any search of the PoundAd database or that the items selected by the search are the only items on the PoundAd database which might meet the searcher's requirements.
- PoundAd shall not be liable for any damages, including without limitation, indirect or consequential damages, howsoever arising out of your use of this web site or in respect of any of your actions or omissions taken in reliance on any of the advice or informationcontained on this website or any website to which this website is linked.
- PoundAd does not warrant that this website will be available without interruption or that it is error, virus or bug free.
This website may contain hypertext links to websites operated by parties other than PoundAd or its associated companies. PoundAd does not control such websites and is not responsible for their content. PoundAd's inclusion of hypertext links to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material contained on these web sites or of the owners.
If any of these terms and conditions shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable, it shall not affect the enforceability of any of the remaining provisions.
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and in accordance with English law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
If you do not agree to obey these terms and conditions you must stop using this site immediately.
All rights, including copyright, in the content of these web pages and any photographs which may appear on the website from time to time and all database rights in PoundAd's database, are owned or controlled for these purposes by PoundAd.
Definitions of Private Adverts
Private Ads Offered:
- Any item(s) that was(were) solely for a persons own personal use.
- Full time/part time employment offered by a company.
- Holiday homes/timeshare for sale.
Private Ads Wanted:
- Any item(s) wanted for a person's own private use.
- A permanent position required by an individual (must state permanent in advert).
- Old cars required for banger racing (hobby).
- Items required by private collector (must state Private Collector in advert), although offered and wanted items in the same section is not allowed.
Your Advert
By submitting your advert online you are requesting that your advert appears in PoundAd (Website). The advert will not appear until we have verified and accepted your advert copy and received payment. We will only have to contact you (by return e-mail address, if supplied) if we are not able to accept the advert copy.
Your advert copy (including text and photographs) must be legal, decent, honest and truthful and comply with the British Code of Advertising Standards Authority. We may amend the advert to ensure compliance with such requirements.
We are not able to verify the truthfulness of any statements made by you in your advert copy. Accordingly, you shall be responsible for any losses, expenses or other costs incurred by us which are caused by an untrue statement deliberately made or provided by you.
The copyright in all adverts shall be owned by us and you hereby assign all such copyright to us.
Your Personal Data
PoundAd reserve the right to refuse to publish any advertisement without ascertaining any reason, and to classify, edit and delete at its sole discretion. The placing of any advert is an acceptance of these conditions.
Definitions of Business Adverts
Business Ads Offered:
- Any service offered in exchange for payment.
- Advertisers offering several items in the same section (i.e. more than 2 cars, TV's etc).
- Dogs for stud, as this is usually in exchange for payment.
- Any amount of hay or straw (unless it is one odd bale).
- Livery, stabling or yard facilities for horses available for rent.
- Holiday homes for rent.
- Rooms, flats, house-share, lodgers, garages, storage space for rent.
- Avon/Betterware/Tupperware agents required.
Trade Ads Wanted:
- Items wanted in association with a person's business, e.g scrap items to be purchased for reconditioning.
- Work wanted by a self employed tradesman.
- Car boot items wanted (to re-sell?)
Unacceptable Adverts
- Shotguns, handguns, rifles, and other firearms including ammunition, de-activated weapons, replicas and antique guns are not acceptable. Air rifles are allowed .22 and .177 calibre and under, the calibre must be stated in the advert. No 12 bore/ 12 gauge.
- Adverts requiring home workers are not allowed.
- Models wanted by amateur photographers are not acceptable. However, models required by registered model agency’s are acceptable.
- Masseurs and beauty therapists need to produce proof of training/registration before advertising in the business section. Please email or send a copy of your certificate to your nearest centre. Adult videos/material are not acceptable.
- No crossbows.
- No magpies, chicks or eggs.
- No endangered species.
- No birds of prey.
- Tortoises cannot be accepted without relevant documentation. Please email or send a copy of the documentation to your nearest centre.
- No cash offers in council exchange ads.
- No adverts for smart cards for satellite systems (D2 Mac decoder).
- No ITV digital cards, top box systems.
- No adverts for real fur items of clothing.
- No laser pointers.
- No rewards offered.
- Sky D2Mac smart cards.
- Sony PlayStation games on silver disc modification or converter chips for Sony PlayStation Software copied onto blank CD's.
- Copies, i.e. jewellery, CD's, clothes, perfume, it is illegal (As advised by Trading Standards).
- Cigarettes, cigars or alcohol. We are not licensed to sell these goods. (As advised by Trading Standards).
- CB radios - Superstar 360, President Lincoln, Sideband radios, CB radios with AM facility, Colt 1200 DX with low/med/high frequencies, Long range cordless phones, video senders. Radios with 80 channels are illegal.
In addition to this we can only advertise
- Tickets can only be advertised at face value or below. The face value must be stated within the text of your advert.
Orders for insertion of advertisements
Orders for insertion of advertisements on the PoundAd Website are accepted subject to the following conditions
In these conditions “PoundAd” means PoundAd Limited trading as 'PoundAd', "the Advertiser" means any person, firm or company ordering advertisements with PoundAd for inclusion on the Website.
- This contract is personal to the Advertiser, and the Advertiser may not assign or transfer or otherwise part with the contract without the PoundAd's prior written consent.
- Advertisement copy shall be legal, decent, honest and truthful, shall comply with the British Code of Advertising Practice, and with the requirements of current legislation.
- PoundAd reserves the right to make any alteration it considers necessary to or desirable to the advertisement and to require illustrations, artwork or copy to be amended to meet its approval.
- Copy may be changed as required by the Advertiser, provided adequate time is allowed.
- Advertisers may cancel advertisements after payment (this is a user function of the PoundAd site), however the fee is not refundable.
- The Advertiser shall ensure that it has all necessary rights, licences and consents to incorporate or to procure the incorporation by PoundAd into the advertising of any materials provided by the Advertiser, to publish or otherwise make available the advertising on the Internet (and to link the PoundAd website to those owned by third parties to which the Advertiser wishes the PoundAd web site to be linked). All of the Advertiser's rights to its registered trademarks which are incorporated into the advertisement shall remain the property of the Advertiser.
- All intellectual property rights (including without limitation copyright and design right) (IPR's) in or to the copy comprised in any advertisement (including without limitation drawings, sketches, artwork, photographs and text in respect thereof) shall belong to PoundAd absolutely. The Advertiser hereby assigns the IPR's to PoundAd. The Advertiser shall at PoundAd’s request sign, execute and do all such documents and acts as PoundAd may reasonably require to vest the IPR's to PoundAd and to protect and enforce them. The Advertiser undertakes that neither it nor any other person will assert any moral rights in or relating to the IPR's against PoundAd or any third party.
- No advertisement (or any part thereof) may be reproduced in any other publication or otherwise without PoundAd’s express prior written consent and the Advertiser shall not license, permit or authorise any such reproduction.
- The Advertiser agrees that questions and complaints from persons, are the exclusive responsibility of the Advertiser and the Advertiser shall indemnify PoundAd in respect of any claims or complaints brought against the PoundAd by any such third party.
- PoundAd shall provide the service with reasonable care and skill in a professional and timely manner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Advertiser acknowledges and agrees that it is technically impossible to provide the advertisement free of faults and that PoundAD does not undertake to do so.
- PoundAd may at any time vary the technical specifications of its website (or any part of it) for operational reasons.
- PoundAd may at any time remove any or all of the materials from the advertisement which in PoundAd’s opinion are unlawful or have been placed on the advertisement in breach of this agreement.
- From time to time PoundAd will need to carry out maintenance on its equipment and systems, and shall use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that, in so doing, reasonable notice is given and minimum disruption to the advertising is caused.
- The Advertiser shall report to PoundAd any suspected faults to the advertisement as soon as the suspected faults come to the Advertiser's attention.
- All goodwill arising in connection with the name "PoundAd" and the logos for PoundAd shall belong to PoundAd Limited.
- The Advertiser agrees to indemnify PoundAd in respect of all costs, damages or other charges falling upon PoundAd as the result of legal actions or threatened legal actions arising from the advertising published in accordance with the instructions supplied to PoundAd.
- The placing of an order for Business advertising to be included on the PoundAd website shall amount to an acceptance of the above.