ZForce915
10-25-2008, 03:05 PM
When a mod deletes my post, I think I should be told why. If a mod is trying to make things better by getting rid of the stuff that doesn't belong here but doesn't alert anyone to the violation then how am I supposed to know to stop?
I'm referring to my thread about offering to help people with carfax reports. I was volunteering to run reports for people while I still had time on my account. It was gone one day without a word mentioned to me. Pretty stupid in my book.
chakan
10-25-2008, 03:13 PM
I understand your frustration, but it kinda sounds like you know why it was deleted.
shrike4242
10-25-2008, 04:34 PM
I'm not the one who deleted the thread, though I agree why it was deleted.
CarFAX's TOS says you're not allowed to use their site to resell or making commercial use of their information. Offering it up to other people "for some MS points if you're feeling generous" seems like commercial use of the site to me, as well as other mods on here. Even if you're not getting anything for it, it says that it's for your own personal use, not for anyone else's use.
I'm sure you have access of the site from a YFG360 deal or something along those lines.
Reading the TOS for it would have shown what you're allowed to do and not allowed to do for the use of their site.
Link to the TOS for it:
http://www.carfax.com/cfm/legal_disclaimer.cfm
Specifically:
CARFAX offers you access to the Site and to the Content available on the Site solely for your own personal and non-commercial use. You may not resell or make any commercial use of the Site or the Content. You may not make use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices. You may not download or copy any account information for the benefit of any other merchant. You may not make use of any robots, spiders, or similar data mining, data gathering or extraction tools or manual processes to collect, gather or copy any of the Content in an unauthorized manner. You may not engage in the practices of "screen scraping," "database scraping," or any other practice or activity the purpose of which is to obtain lists of users, portions of a database, or other lists or information from this Site, in any manner or in any quantities not authorized by CARFAX. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of CARFAX or its affiliates without prior express written consent. You may not use meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing CARFAX name or trademarks without the express written consent of CARFAX.