Advertising Terms of Service

1. Agreement, authority, and scope

You must be at least 18 and authorized to represent and legally bind the Advertiser. You confirm that the owner or representative name, business identity, location, contact information, and billing details you provide are accurate and current. These terms cover paid campaigns, additional placements, and any complimentary or manually approved advertising, except where a provision applies only to a paid subscription.

The version you affirmatively accept applies prospectively as described in Section 23. The Website Terms of Use and Privacy Policy also apply. These advertising terms control a conflict specifically about advertising. A different commitment is binding on APR only if APR expressly agrees to it in a written agreement identifying that commitment; an informal conversation, example ad, automated message, or sales estimate is not a performance guarantee.

2. Physical St. Tammany Parish location required

The advertising program is available only to businesses genuinely operating from a physical street address inside St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Merely serving parish customers, having a local telephone number, or supplying a mailing address does not establish eligibility. Post-office boxes, virtual addresses, registered-agent addresses, customer addresses, and addresses where the business does not actually operate do not qualify.

APR may request proof of location, identity, business authority, licensing, or other eligibility and may verify details using records, mapping services, direct contact, or reasonable documentation. You must promptly report a relocation or other material change. Hiding an address from the public directory does not remove APR’s verification requirement.

If a supplied address is false or misleading, the business is not actually operating there, eligibility cannot be substantiated, or the business moves outside the parish, APR may reject the application, immediately remove the ad, terminate the campaign, and permanently ban the business or associated accounts. APR may prevent duplicate accounts or attempts to evade a restriction. The no-refund policy remains subject to applicable law.

3. Advertising service, rotation, and placements

The standard plan offers an eligible advertisement the opportunity to appear in APR’s advertising rotation across supported APR properties. These may include the website, iOS and Android apps, placements between or within news articles, event pages, live streams, the local business directory, sponsor listings, and other supported advertising surfaces. Placement availability depends on the platform, software version, screen size, content, live-stream activity, campaign eligibility, and available inventory.

Advertising is nonexclusive and shared with other advertisers. APR controls presentation, sizing, cropping, formatting, rotation, order, frequency, duration, scheduling, and placement. An ad will not necessarily appear every time a person opens a page or app, beside every article or event, or in every broadcast. No exclusive category, fixed position, share of voice, minimum display time, specific article adjacency, or guaranteed delivery quantity is included unless expressly agreed in writing.

Mockups and example ads illustrate possible presentation, not exact appearance or promised delivery. APR may adjust formats, platforms, or placements as the service develops, subject to applicable law and any express written commitment. Creating an account, uploading materials, payment, or previous publication does not waive APR’s review or eligibility requirements.

4. No guaranteed results, audience growth, or return on investment

Advertising purchases exposure opportunities, not a guaranteed outcome. APR makes no minimum, specific, or implied promise of impressions, views, unique viewers, reach, frequency, website visits, link clicks, phone calls, contact saves, inquiries, appointments, leads, conversions, customers, purchases, revenue, profit, search rankings, or return on investment (ROI). An ad may receive little engagement or no measurable business result. You accept the commercial risk that advertising costs may exceed any benefit.

APR St. Tammany is growing, and a larger audience may create opportunities for more advertising views and engagement. Neither continued growth nor any increase in an individual advertiser’s exposure or results is promised. Audience size, community interest, traffic, platform algorithms, competition, local events, viewer choices, and the quality of your offer can change. APR is not promising that its audience consists of prospective customers for your particular business.

Follower totals, previous campaign results, analytics screenshots, estimates, testimonials, examples, projections, and general descriptions of potential benefits are not guarantees of future results. Followers are not guaranteed impressions; impressions are not guaranteed clicks; clicks are not guaranteed customers. Advertising is not an investment product, revenue-sharing arrangement, or promise to recover your fee.

5. Month-to-month subscription and automatic renewal

The standard paid plan is month-to-month, not an annual contract. It automatically renews each monthly billing period until future renewal is canceled. The currently advertised standard price is $89.99 per month in U.S. dollars, plus any applicable taxes. The recurring price, discounts, taxes, and billing information displayed at checkout govern your purchase. A calendar month, subscription billing period, and advertising rotation are not necessarily identical dates.

By authorizing a subscription, you authorize Stripe to charge the payment method you supply for the disclosed recurring amount and applicable taxes. Your subscription and Stripe confirmation identify the billing dates. Creating an APR account by itself is not a purchase. There is no free trial, introductory discount, or complimentary period unless expressly offered. A one-month referral discount does not make later months free or end automatic renewal.

You must maintain a valid payment method and review your invoices. A declined payment, an unused account, failure to open the app, or an incomplete creative does not by itself cancel a subscription. Pause ad requests immediate cancellation of the linked subscription as described in Section 7; check that cancellation is confirmed. APR’s admin Pause and Ban controls also request billing cancellation as described in Section 8. APR may stop serving ads when billing is overdue, declined, disputed, reversed, or otherwise ineligible. A billing dispute is not automatically a cancellation request.

APR may change future pricing or plan features with any notice and consent required by law. A price change does not retroactively change a completed charge. You may cancel future renewal rather than purchase a future period at a changed price. These terms do not authorize undisclosed charges.

6. Campaign readiness and complimentary placements

A paid campaign must have a confirmed eligible subscription, usable creative, required business information, and APR approval before it can rotate. The Advertiser is responsible for completing and maintaining its ad. Time spent preparing materials, awaiting information, correcting an ineligible submission, or choosing not to run an ad does not automatically extend the billing period or earn a refund.

APR may separately approve a complimentary, promotional, discounted, or manually activated placement. That approval is not a promise of free advertising forever, a paid-subscription receipt, or a guarantee of priority. APR may withdraw a complimentary placement at any time for any lawful reason. Manual activation does not create or cancel a Stripe subscription, erase a balance, or automatically qualify a business for a paid referral reward.

7. Pause now; activate again when you are ready

You may stop advertising and cancel future renewal for any reason, without having to justify your decision. There is no requirement to buy another month. Your saved business profile, ad materials, and reporting history remain available subject to these terms and ordinary retention policies.

1. Pause ads and stop automatic renewal: sign in at aprsttammany.com/mybusiness and select Pause ad. APR stops the campaign immediately in its active records, subject to ordinary propagation and caching delays, and requests immediate cancellation of its verified linked APR advertising subscription through Stripe. Once Stripe confirms cancellation, that subscription will not renew. This is cancellation of the subscription, not a hold that continues monthly charges or automatically restarts next month. APR does not request a refund, a prorated credit for unused time, or a new final invoice through this action.
2. Check the result: retain the confirmation shown in My Business or Stripe. If cancellation is pending or unconfirmed because the provider cannot be reached or billing cannot safely be verified, the ad stays stopped, but future charges may still occur until cancellation is resolved. Retry the Pause action, use Manage billing, or contact APR promptly, especially before a renewal. A pending request is not confirmed cancellation or a promise of an automatic background retry. A new paid activation is blocked while cancellation remains unresolved to help prevent duplicate subscriptions.
3. Return when you choose: select Activate in My Business. Unless APR has expressly authorized a complimentary placement, activation opens Stripe checkout for a new monthly subscription at the price and terms shown there. Complete and authorize that checkout; ads do not resume merely because you click Activate, open checkout, or return to My Business. A paid campaign can resume only after the required payment and subscription are confirmed and the campaign is otherwise eligible. The canceled subscription itself is not restarted. There is no automatic restart date or promise of an unused-time credit toward the new purchase. An APR pause, ban, or other restriction still requires APR approval and cannot be bypassed by paying again.
4. Manage payment details or cancel directly through Stripe: select Manage billing and complete any intended action in Stripe’s subscription controls. Check and retain the confirmation and its effective date. When you use Stripe’s portal directly, its confirmation controls whether cancellation takes effect immediately or after the current paid period; merely opening the portal is not cancellation.
5. Need assistance or cannot access billing? use Contact APR in My Business or email apr@aprsttammany.com with your business and account email, requesting cancellation. Do not send passwords or card numbers. Keep the request and ask for confirmation. Contact APR promptly if a renewal is imminent or a charge appears after the confirmed cancellation date.

Manage billing, requests for help, and pausing an ad do not require acceptance of a revised advertising agreement. A new paid activation requires any applicable renewed acceptance and a separate authorized checkout. Cancel before the next renewal is processed to avoid purchasing another period. Cancellation does not reverse a completed charge, erase a previously owed balance, or create a refund for unused time, except where required by law. If cancellation completed directly in Stripe takes effect after the paid period, an otherwise eligible ad may continue until that date unless you or APR pauses or removes it sooner.

8. APR’s right to reject, pause, remove, or terminate

To the fullest extent permitted by law, APR may reject, edit for format or compliance, limit, pause, remove, decline to renew, or terminate any ad, campaign, placement, referral participation, or advertiser relationship at any time, for any lawful reason or no stated reason, with or without advance notice or explanation, except where notice or an explanation is legally required. APR is not required to keep running an advertisement merely because a payment was made or it previously ran.

Reasons may include editorial or business judgment, eligibility, safety, law, complaints, misleading claims, rights disputes, reputation, content suitability, technical capacity, payment issues, suspected fraud, or changes to APR’s operations. This list is not exhaustive. APR need not disclose internal review criteria, reports, security methods, or confidential information. An advertiser cannot override an APR restriction by editing, resuming, paying again, or creating a new account.

When APR uses its admin Pause or Ban controls, the campaign is stopped and APR requests immediate cancellation of the linked APR advertising subscription in Stripe. Once Stripe confirms cancellation, that subscription will not renew. The cancellation request does not request a refund, a prorated credit for unused time, or a new final invoice. A complimentary campaign with no linked subscription can be stopped without a Stripe cancellation. APR may immediately remove an ad without keeping it visible for the remainder of a paid period; fees already paid remain subject to Section 9 and applicable law.

Stopping ad display is not proof that Stripe has completed cancellation. If a connection, verification, or payment-provider error prevents confirmation, the ad remains stopped and APR records the cancellation as pending or unconfirmed. APR must retry or resolve the cancellation and verify its outcome; a pending request is not a promise of an automatic background retry. The business portal distinguishes a confirmed cancellation from a pending or unconfirmed one. Until confirmation, future charges may still occur. Use Manage billing or contact APR promptly if confirmation is missing or a renewal is imminent. APR’s termination of a paid relationship is not authorization to keep charging for later periods APR will not provide.

Admin cancellation applies to the verified APR advertising subscription associated with the stopped campaign, not unrelated subscriptions or purchases. It does not erase a previously owed balance or reverse a completed charge. Lifting an APR restriction or manually activating an ad does not restart a canceled subscription or authorize a new charge. APR may expressly approve complimentary advertising without creating billing; otherwise, any new paid subscription requires a separate authorized checkout as explained in Section 7.

9. No refunds; no prorated credits

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, all advertising purchases are final and payments are nonrefundable. APR does not provide refunds, partial refunds, prorated refunds, cash replacements, make-good placements, or extensions for unused time, early cancellation by either party, pauses, removal, termination, a ban, dissatisfaction, low or zero engagement, failure to obtain sales or ROI, incomplete or rejected materials, a failure to log in, changed placements, reporting differences, or technical interruptions.

This policy does not override a refund, correction, remedy, or other right that applicable law requires. A genuinely unauthorized, duplicate, or incorrect charge may be reported for investigation and correction; this agreement does not make an unauthorized charge valid. Contact APR about a billing concern promptly so it can be investigated. Nothing here requires you to give up nonwaivable rights to contact your payment provider, dispute a charge, report wrongdoing, or obtain a legally required remedy. A refund or credit legally required or expressly agreed to by APR does not create a general refund policy or guarantee a similar adjustment later.

10. Your content, claims, and business responsibilities

You are responsible for your business, products, services, landing pages, submitted information, and every advertising claim, image, logo, trademark, video, link, price, testimonial, and disclosure. You must have all necessary rights and permissions, hold required licenses, substantiate factual claims, and comply with advertising, consumer protection, privacy, intellectual-property, accessibility, and other applicable laws. Do not submit confidential customer information or material you have no right to publish.

You must review the saved ad and its previews, promptly correct errors, keep links and public contact details usable, and notify APR if a claim becomes inaccurate or your business or an offer changes. You choose which optional address, phone, email, and other fields are public in the business directory; you remain responsible for those choices. Public materials may be viewed, copied, indexed, or shared by others.

APR may decline content involving deception, impersonation, illegal activity, harmful or unsafe goods, malware, hate, harassment, adult content, infringement, discriminatory advertising, restricted products, unsupported health or financial claims, or other content APR considers unsuitable. Political, gambling, firearms, controlled-substance, cryptocurrency, or similar advertising may require direct review or be prohibited. The absence of a listed prohibition is not permission. APR review or acceptance does not verify a claim, supply a license, transfer your legal duties to APR, or create an endorsement.

11. Customer promotions, discount codes, and expiration

You may add an optional offer or code where supported. You are solely responsible for defining and honoring it, including the discount, eligible products or services, minimum purchase, first-time-customer restriction, exclusions, availability, redemption limits, and any other material condition. Conditions must be truthful, clear, and included with the offer. You may not rely on a shortened placement to cure a misleading headline or missing restriction.

Configure the code and conditions in your own point-of-sale or booking system before advertising them. Track redemptions in that system. APR does not automatically configure your POS, apply a checkout discount, process a customer purchase, or verify a sale or conversion. Copying a code or opening a business page is not proof that a customer redeemed it.

When an expiration date is selected, the offer is intended to remain valid through that date in America/Chicago (Central Time) and then stop appearing in current APR ad feeds and directory listings. Expiration text is included where supported so customers can see the stated deadline. If no date is set, the offer may remain until you disable, replace, or date it, or APR removes it. Removing or expiring an offer does not cancel the advertisement or subscription.

Apps, browser caches, third-party posts, recordings, shared images, and screenshots may retain an earlier offer after it changes or expires. APR cannot recall every copy or guarantee instant removal everywhere. You remain responsible for the published offer and legally required consumer remedies; an APR update is not permission to disregard an offer you are legally required to honor. Contact APR immediately about a materially incorrect promotion.

12. Advertiser referral program

An eligible advertiser may share the unique referral link shown in My Business. An eligible new St. Tammany Parish business that signs up through that link receives a one-time 50% discount on its first subscription month under the program rules. The referring advertiser earns the matching promotional Stripe account credit only after the referred business’s first required payment is successfully confirmed and it has a completed advertisement eligible for active rotation. Account creation, a free placement, manual activation, or an incomplete campaign alone does not earn a paid referral reward.

A credit applies toward eligible future APR advertising charges; it is not a cash payment or a refundable deposit. Credits and discounts have no cash value, are not transferable, cannot be redeemed for cash, and may be applied across upcoming invoices according to Stripe’s billing treatment. Taxes and other noneligible charges are not promised to be discounted. A referring advertiser’s credit may apply to a different month from the new business’s introductory discount. Later months renew at the otherwise applicable rate unless canceled.

The referring advertiser may see the referred business’s name and limited pending, active, rewarded, rejected, or other referral status. Private owner names, private addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, payment information, and credentials are not shared through the referral dashboard. APR administrators may inspect records to operate the program and investigate abuse.

Self-referrals, duplicate ownership or accounts, circular referrals, fabricated businesses, attempts to bypass location eligibility, misleading reward claims, automated signups, payment reversals, and other abuse are prohibited. APR may verify eligibility, review shared details, and deny, withhold, correct, or reverse rewards attributable to fraud, an error, an ineligible transaction, a chargeback, or other program abuse, subject to law. APR may change or end future referral offers prospectively without retrospectively canceling legitimately earned benefits merely because the program changes.

13. Permission to use advertising materials

You retain your ownership rights. You grant APR a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, copy, resize, crop, format, adapt for placement, display, transmit, distribute, and promote your submitted materials and business name, logos, and trademarks to provide the advertising service, including through supporting service providers and authorized social platforms. APR may use normal technical transformations and create grouped sponsor graphics or previews; this does not authorize APR to knowingly change the substance of your offer into a false claim.

After a campaign ends, APR may retain reasonable copies for records, accounting, legal, security, and archival purposes. Existing articles, social posts, recordings, screenshots, cached copies, and historical sponsor graphics may remain visible; termination does not require recalling every previously distributed copy. Continued archival availability is not a new paid-campaign entitlement or a promise to keep promoting you. APR’s branding, software, layouts, and other intellectual property remain APR’s or their respective owners’ property.

14. Social distribution and third-party services

Where offered, APR may distribute individual or grouped sponsor posts through connected third-party platforms. Eligibility, scheduling, business selection, grouping, tagging, cropping, frequency, and presentation may vary with available businesses, account connections, moderation, technical limits, and APR’s publishing choices. Unless expressly agreed in writing, no particular social network, tag, day, posting time, follower exposure, number of posts, or continuing third-party availability is guaranteed.

APR does not control Apple, Google, Stripe, social networks, hosting providers, internet services, device settings, ad blockers, or third-party algorithms. Such parties may delay, limit, reject, remove, or change content or access. Their terms also govern their services. APR does not promise that third-party material will remain online or that previously distributed posts and recordings can be removed immediately.

15. Analytics are estimates, not conversion guarantees

Analytics help explain activity measured by APR’s systems; they are not audited audience measurements or a guarantee of complete attribution. An impression or view does not necessarily represent a unique person or attentive viewing. A phone-link click does not establish a completed call. A website-link click does not establish a completed visit or sale. A contact-card action does not necessarily establish that a contact was saved. A code copy does not establish a redemption.

Counts may differ across platforms and date ranges and may be affected by repeated activity, automated traffic, caching, delayed delivery, offline devices, security filters, blocked tracking, privacy settings, software changes, time zones, and reporting corrections. APR may filter or correct activity believed to be invalid. No system can promise to identify every bot or measure every genuine action. Historical figures may be revised or unavailable. Exports and statements reflect the data available when generated, not guaranteed financial, tax, or sales records.

16. Editorial independence and no endorsement

Buying advertising does not purchase favorable reporting, silence, influence over editorial coverage, removal of accurate news, a government affiliation, or an endorsement of your business. APR retains independent editorial judgment, including the right to report on an advertiser or its industry. You may not represent a paid or complimentary placement as APR’s certification, partnership in your event, or guarantee of your products or services.

APR may identify placements as APR Local Sponsor or use other appropriate advertising disclosures. APR may run complimentary or promotional placements as well as paid placements. Sponsorship labeling does not promise a particular financial arrangement, event involvement, audience, or endorsement.

17. Account security, cooperation, and misuse

Keep your credentials secure, limit access to authorized representatives, and promptly report suspected unauthorized access. You are responsible for authorized instructions submitted through your account. Do not manipulate analytics, interfere with the service, upload unsafe files, scrape private records, impersonate others, or evade moderation, payment requirements, or a ban. APR may investigate and preserve records, restrict access, and cooperate with lawful requests, subject to the Privacy Policy and applicable law.

18. Availability and limited warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the service is provided as is and as available, without a warranty of uninterrupted or error-free operation, a fixed audience, universal device compatibility, a particular placement, or suitability for your marketing objectives. To that extent APR disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement. This does not exclude an express commitment APR has actually made or any protection that law does not permit to be excluded.

Maintenance, emergencies, power or network failures, cyber incidents, legal restrictions, platform changes, staffing constraints, and events outside reasonable control may interrupt or change service. An interruption does not automatically create a refund, additional run time, or other compensation, except where law or an express written commitment requires it. Nothing in this section excuses intentional or gross fault or other nonwaivable responsibility.

19. Limitation of liability and nonwaivable rights

To the fullest extent permitted by law, APR and its owners, personnel, contractors, and affiliates are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary, or consequential losses, including lost profit, sales, revenue, data, reputation, opportunity, or anticipated customers, arising from the advertising service, a failure to achieve results, or third-party conduct. Subject to the exclusions below, aggregate liability concerning an affected campaign is limited to the advertising fees actually paid to APR for that campaign during the three months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

No disclaimer, no-refund term, liability cap, indemnity, or other provision in this agreement excludes or limits responsibility for intentional or gross fault, physical injury, fraud where nonwaivable, or any other liability or remedy that applicable law does not allow to be excluded or limited. No provision waives a nonwaivable statutory right. These limits apply only to the extent enforceable and do not convert unlawful conduct into permitted conduct.

20. Advertiser indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless APR and its owners, personnel, contractors, and affiliates against third-party claims, investigations, liabilities, losses, and reasonable legal costs arising from your materials, unsupported advertising claims, infringement, privacy violations, products or services, failure to honor a lawful offer, violation of law, or breach of this agreement. This applies to matters attributable to the Advertiser; it does not require you to indemnify APR for APR’s intentional or gross fault, physical injury caused by APR, or any other responsibility that law does not permit to be shifted.

APR will provide reasonable notice of a claim when practicable and reasonably cooperate. No settlement may impose an admission, nonmonetary obligation, or restriction on APR without APR’s written consent. This section is subject to Section 19 and all mandatory legal protections.

21. Contact information, notices, and records

Maintain a working account email and current representative details. APR may send service, billing, security, eligibility, legal, campaign, and referral communications to that address or display them in My Business. Marketing communications remain subject to applicable consent and opt-out rules. Electronic acceptance, account instructions, invoices, campaign history, and appropriate security records may be retained as evidence of the relationship. They are not conclusive proof of a disputed fact and do not remove legal rights to challenge an error.

22. Governing law and disputes

Louisiana law governs this agreement, subject to controlling federal law and other mandatory protections. To the extent legally enforceable, disputes will be brought in courts with appropriate jurisdiction located in or serving St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Nothing prevents a legally protected report to a regulator, a lawful payment dispute, or a remedy in a forum that applicable law requires to remain available. Contacting APR first may help resolve a concern, but these terms do not make that a barrier to a nonwaivable remedy.

23. Prospective updates, acceptance, and complete agreement

This version is dated October 19, 2026. It applies to new advertisers when they affirmatively accept it and to existing advertisers prospectively when renewed acceptance or another legally valid notice-and-consent process makes it applicable. Posting a revised page does not rewrite an earlier acceptance date or automatically impose new obligations retroactively. APR may give required notice and request renewed acceptance before new purchases, edits, or resumed advertising. You may review this page and access cancellation or support without accepting an update.

These terms, any applicable checkout disclosures, and an express written agreement with APR form the agreement concerning advertising. A specific expressly agreed written commitment controls an actual conflict about that commitment. If a provision is unenforceable, it is limited or severed only as necessary and the remainder continues to the extent lawful. A failure to enforce a term once is not a permanent waiver. Provisions that reasonably should survive termination, including payment obligations already incurred, permitted record retention, intellectual property, lawful liability limits, and dispute provisions, survive to that extent.

24. Questions, billing help, and cancellation assistance

Use Contact APR in My Business or email apr@aprsttammany.com. Identify your business and the email used for the advertising account. Do not send passwords or complete payment-card details. For cancellation, clearly state whether you want to stop ad display, future billing, or both, and retain the confirmation.

Before accepting, make sure you understand monthly renewal, how Pause ad cancels future renewal and Activate requires a new authorized checkout, the no-refund policy and its legally required exceptions, APR’s termination rights, and the absence of guaranteed advertising results. You may print or save this page using your browser.