Listing Policy
Updated 1 June 2023
For use of our Site and other services, you confirm and declare that you shall not list or post or provide information in relation to the sale or purchase or exchange of goods and services, content or information that are illegal under the laws of the Country of Listing and/or are not permitted as per the prohibited items policy listed below.
You also confirm that the information including but not limited to personally identifiable information you submit on our website will be stored in data centers anywhere across the globe and you do not have any objection.
1. Prohibited Items Policy
A. We specifically prohibit any listing or posting of classifieds or information in relation to the following items:
- Alcoholic Beverages, Liquor, tobacco products, drugs, psychotropic substances, narcotics, intoxicants of any description, medicines, palliative/curative substances nor shall you provide link directly or indirectly to or include descriptions of items, goods or services that are prohibited under any applicable law for the time being in force including but not limited to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, the Drugs And Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 Narcotic Drug and Prohibited Substances Act and the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
- Living, dead person and/or the whole or any part of any human which has been kept or preserved by any means whether artificial or natural including any blood, bodily fluids and/or body parts.
- Prostitution or any other service in the nature there of that purports to violate the provisions of Immoral Act or Indecent representation of women which violates the contemporary standards of morality and decency in Indian society.
- Religious items, including books, artifacts, etc. or any information, description of any such item that is likely to affect the religious sentiments of any person or group.
- Mature Audiences Policy includes films which do not have a certificate for public exhibition issued by the Central Board of Film Certification and/or described and depict or otherwise deal with matters which are revolting or repulsive and/or tend to deprave a person's mind in such a way that they tend to offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults.
- Obscene Items including items which contain an indecent representation of women within the meaning of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986; any publication or film or item that describes or depicts a minor who is, or who appears to be, under 18 (whether the minor is engaged in sexual activity or not) and any computer games not suitable for minors.
- Offensive Material intended for use in a sexual setting (including 'bondage' and 'fetish' items), displaying sexual activity or portraying human genitalia in a 'life-like' or realistic fashion.
- 'Antiquities' and 'Art Treasures' in violation of the provisions of the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972.
- Information or items that are defamatory, libelous, threatening or abusive in nature.
- Information that is fraudulent, misrepresenting as to the nature and use of the goods or the services.
- Counterfeit, Pirated and stolen goods or unauthorized illegal services (services for which you are not licensed or permitted to do or do not have the authority to undertake).
- Items, goods and services that infringe or attempt to pass off any third parties' intellectual property or rights of publicity or moral rights and/or purports to breach any person's right to privacy.
- Electronically transmitting through any medium computer viruses of any type or any computer program that facilitates hacking of a computer system with the intent to damage a computer or computer network or intercept any personal data.
- Hate content that is derogatory or slanderous in nature that may be directed to any individual or group or advocate violence against any users, individuals and/or animals.
- Hazardous chemicals and pesticides and/or items in violation of Hazardous Chemicals Act, 1985.
- Fireworks, Destructive Devices and Explosives including any material that enables the making of fireworks, explosive triggers and explosive devices.
- Identity Documents, Personal Financial Records & Personal Information (in any form, including mailing lists).
- Lottery Tickets, Sweepstakes Entries and Slot Machines.
- Items in violation of the Food Adulteration Act, 1954.
- Military or Police Badges, Uniforms, coats-of-arms and/or any Government emblems, insignia, and/or items in violation of Emblems and names (Prevention of improper use) Act, 1950 and/or Flag Codes of India Act, 2002.
- Weapons and related items (such as firearms, firearm parts and magazines, ammunition, tear gas, stun guns, switchblade knives or any other item which is prohibited under the Indian Arms Act, 1959).
- 'Pyramid schemes' and 'Multilevel Marketing' and/or similar scams which are solely listed for the purpose of defrauding users.
- Spam, abusive, duplicate listing, fraud schemes (e.g. 'Get rich quick', 'work from home' scams which are solely listed for the purpose of duping users).
- Inappropriate, wrong category (e.g. dining table listed as office furniture).
- Incorrect city/location of listing (listing allowed only in the city you are based in).
- Items that belong to another person and to which the user does not have any right.
- Anything that is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, invasive of another's privacy, insulting or harassing on the basis of gender, libellous, racially or ethnically objectionable, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling.
- Anything that is harmful to children.
- Anything that infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights, or violates any law in force.
- Anything that deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of the message or knowingly communicates information which is patently false or misleading.
- Anything that impersonates another person.
- Anything that threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign States, or public order.
- Anything that contains software virus or any other computer code, file or program designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource.
- Anything that is patently false and untrue, and is written or published with the intent to mislead or harass a person, entity or agency for financial gain or to cause injury.
B. Without prejudice to the generality of the above, Adzzie does not permit posting or listing of classifieds in relation to the following:
- 'Securities' within the meaning of the Securities Contract Regulation Act, 1956, including shares, bonds, debentures, etc. and/or any other financial instruments/assets of any description.
- Living, dead creatures and/or the whole or any part of any animal which has been kept or preserved by any means whether artificial or natural including rugs, skins, specimens of animals, antlers, horns, hair, feathers, nails, teeth, musk, eggs, nests, other animal products of any description the sale and purchase of which is prevented or restricted in any manner by applicable laws (including those prohibited under The Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and/or The Environment Protection Act, 1986).
C. Your listing, information, advertisement:
- Shall not be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing. Shall not be fraudulent, misrepresenting, misleading or pertain to the sale of any illegal, counterfeit, stolen goods and/or services which do not belong to you or which you have no authority to sell. Shall not infringe any intellectual property, trade secret, or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy of any third party.
- Shall not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
- 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, individuals or groups.
2. Additional listing rules
- Restricted Item Policy: In addition to the prohibited items policy above, users shall also adhere to and comply with the restricted items policy while listing, posting or providing information in relation to any goods or services.
- Duplicate Ad listings are not allowed. Any ad posted more than once with the same content or title in the same city and category will be considered a duplicate. Please post multiple ads only if you have different items or services for sale. All duplicate ads will be deleted and posters penalized if the problem persists.
- Mature Audience / Sexually oriented material: Classifieds relating to items intended for use in sexual activity will not be permitted. Titles with graphic adult language are inappropriate, regardless of the item.
3. Details to be provided by the Seller
- Contractual information pertaining to the goods, if any.
- Total price of any good or service, with the breakup price showing all compulsory and voluntary charges and applicable tax.
- All mandatory notices and information provided by applicable laws, and the expiry date of the good being offered for sale, where applicable.
- All relevant details about the goods and services offered including country of origin.
- The name and contact numbers, and designation of the grievance officer of the Seller.
- Name and details of importer in case of imported goods, and guarantees related to the authenticity or genuineness of imported products.
- Terms of exchange, returns, and refund including information related to costs of return shipping.
- Relevant details related to delivery and shipment of such goods or services.
- Any relevant guarantees or warranties applicable to such goods or services.
- Whether registered entity, physical address, rating / aggregated feedback.
- Content consistent with the actual characteristics and features of goods and services.
4. Consequences of Breach of Listing Policy
Users who violate the prohibited or restricted items policy may be subject to the following actions:
- Suspension or termination of membership.
- Permanent blocking of access to the site.
- Reporting to law enforcement or appropriate authorities.
- Action in accordance with the Terms of Use.