HTML Policy

To help ensure shoppingtown.info is a safe and accessible place to buy and sell online, rules apply to the use of HTML in ads.

Approved content

• HTML that is W3C compliant
• URL for image source must be fully qualified (e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com.) and may include http & https if the image is linked from outsite of shoppingtown.info.
• jpg, jpeg and gif image file sources
• Links to external site are only permitted when pointing to:
  • more images or information about the item for sale
  • third party content providers (BPay etc.)
    
    

Prohibited content

• Certain types of HTML and all scripting (eg JavaScript, XML, PHP, ASP, etc)
• Applets, forms, executable files or active content
• Video, sound and animations
• Direct links to downloadable files
• Inputs from Microsoft Word or PowerPoint
• Links to storefronts or websites that offer services or goods for sale
• Dynamic scripting languages (eg Flash, XML, CGI and PHP)

Breaches of the HTML Policy

Breaching this policy will result in the removal of the infringing ad from the shoppingtown.info website.

Other actions that the shoppingtown.info may take following the breach of the HTML policy include:

• issuance of a warning
• restriction of account privileges (limitations on account privileges limits may be placed on an account in advance of suspension)
• suspension of an account
• termination of an account
• foreiture of account or listing fees.
  
  

To the extent allowed at law, the shoppingtown.info is not liable for any loss caused by the withdrawal or removal from the shoppingtown.info website of any material with which you provide us which is in breach of this policy. The seller must not relist the ad on the shoppingtown.info website, unless permitted to do so by the shoppingtown.info.

Reporting breaches

Shoppingtown.info has a zero tolerance for any person undertaking malicious or fraudulent activities on shoppingtown.info site.

Shoppingtown.info will review and assess all cases of suspected malicious or inappropriate behaviour and, at our discretion, report any cases to the appropriate law enforcement authorities for investigation. Shoppingtown.info will fully cooperate in any investigation and prosecution of perpetrators of malicious or fraudulent activities.