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Legal Disclaimer and User Agreement for Roommate Locator, Inc. and its
family of web sites - RoommateLocator.Com, RoomieMail.com, and RPS Relocation (partner site).
This agreement helps to keep RoommateLocator.com, and
MilitaryRoommates.com a safe place. Therefore, we strongly recommend
that you do a credit check as well as check the references on all
potential tenants.
This agreement may be amended at any time by posting the change on our
site. We may at any time add, delete, or change any of our services.
Eligibility of Participation - Use of RoommateLocator.com,
and MilitaryRoommates.com are available only to those
who can legally form a binding contract under law. Its use is not
available to minors.
We do not accept listing from commercial entities such as other roommate
services or real estate firms. Only individuals are eligible to list
their rooms for rent or list themselves as roommates. Any company
interested in exposure on our site should contact us at
roommate@roommatelocator.com for further information.
RoommateLocator.com and MilitaryRoommates.com are
venues. We do not screen or censor any listings on our web sites or in
any way control the postings on the sites.
Roommate Locator, Inc. and its family of web sites RoommateLocator.com
and MilitaryRoommates.com do not assume responsibility
for content and we will not alter or change any listings once they are
entered. Listings will be deleted automatically upon reaching our
expiration date for that listing. Submitted postings which are
offensive, unlawful, harassing, libelous, vulgar are subject to being
deleted before their expiration date.
Limitation of Postings - We only allow one posting per email address.
If you have circumstances that mandate that you must post multiple
listings, please contact us before posting. If you post more than one
listing per email address without contacting us first you risk the
possibility that all your listings will be deleted.
We do not endorse any potential tenant, landlord, management company, or
individual. As far as potential tenants or renters who list with us, we
do not make any representation as to their character, credit worthiness,
rental history or ability to pay their rent. No one is under
any obligation to use this service either as a tenant or a landlord.
Please use care with how you deal with other people on this site. We do
not screen potential tenants nor inspect rental units. We do not
guarantee the identity of the individuals, credit worthiness, character,
nor the content of listings posted on our site. We will not be held
responsible for adverse consequences arising out of contacting or making
associations with users of our web site. All information is submitted
voluntarily and this information will be made available to the public.
All risks for making this information available will be borne by you
the user.
Our websites provide links to other websites as well as links from other
websites to us. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of such
sites nor the content of these sites.
RoommateLocator, Inc. and its family of web sites are not responsible
for any inaccuracy in its listings. We do not confirm that each user is
who they say that they are and we do not become involved in user to user
relationships. If a dispute should arise between yourself and another
user you release Roommate Locator, Inc. and its family of web sites as
well as its agents from any claims or damages (actual or consequential)
of every kind, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed and
undisclosed arising from such a dispute. If you are a California
resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542 which says "A
general release does not
extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in
his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him
must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor." Use for
lawful purposes only. Posting of obscene, defamatory, fraudulent
information, offensive content, harassing language or libelous material
is prohibited on this site.
Such action could result in the deletion of your posting.
Breach of this agreement. Any of the information that is currently
listed on our site will be suspended temporarily or indefinitely if we
are unable to authenticate any information that you provide us.
Our Policy on Equal Opportunity in Housing - All real estate advertised
is subject to the federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to
advertise "any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of
race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national
origin, or intention to make such preference, limitation or
discrimination."
We will not knowingly accept or permit any advertisement for real estate
that is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that
all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.
The Law
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibits all racial discrimination in the
sale or rental of property. Moreover, the Fair Housing Act declares a
national policy of fair housing throughout the United States, making
illegal any discrimination in the sale, lease or rental of housing, or
making housing otherwise unavailable, because of race, color, religion,
sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
Other laws also impact the purchase, sale or lease of a home or renting
an apartment. Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits
discrimination against persons with disabilities in places of public
accommodations and commercial facilities. The Equal Credit Opportunity
Act makes discrimination unlawful with respect to any aspect of a credit
application on the
basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status,
age or because all or part of the applicant's income derives from any
public assistance program.
In addition, state and local laws often provide broader coverage and
prohibit discrimination based on additional classes not covered by
federal law. As a home seller or landlord you have a responsibility and
a requirement under the law not to discriminate in the sale, rental and
financing of property on the basis of race, color, religion, sex,
handicap, familial status, or
national origin. You cannot instruct the licensed broker or salesperson
acting as your agent to convey for you any limitations in the sale or
rental because the real estate professional is bound by law not to
discriminate. Agents in a real estate transaction also are prohibited by
law
from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex,
handicap, familial status, or national origin. They are prohibited from
complying with a request from the home
seller or landlord to act in a discriminatory manner in the sale, lease
or rental. Moreover, a home seller or landlordcannot establish
discriminatory terms or conditions in the purchase or rental, deny that
housing is available, or advertise that the property is available only
to persons of
a certain race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or
national original.
As someone seeking to purchase a home or rent an apartment, you have the
right to expect that housing will be available to you without
discrimination or other limitations based on race, color, religion, sex,
handicap, familial status, or national origin. This includes the right
to expect equal professional service, the opportunity to consider a
broad range of housing choices, no
discriminatory limitations on communities or locations of housing, no
discrimination in the financing, appraising, or insuring of housing,
reasonable accommodations in rules, practices and procedures for persons
with disabilities, and to be free from harassment or intimidation for
exercising your fair housing rights.
You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable,
sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise all copyright
and publicity rights, in any existing or future media, known or unknown,
over the material or User Data displayed in Your listings. For the
purpose of this Agreement, "User Data" shall mean all information (if
any) submitted by You, (the "User") to Roommate Locator, Inc. or its
sublicensees. "Individually Identifiable User Data" shall mean that
subset of "User Data" which can be reasonably used to identify a
specific individual such as their name, address, phone number, etc. The
User Data shall be deemed to be the property of Roommate Locator, Inc.
You shall take all reasonable efforts to ensure that it is accurate and
complete and not misleading in any way.
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