Advertising Terms of Service

These Terms form a binding agreement between the business or person purchasing advertising (“Advertiser,” “you,” or “your”) and APR St. Tammany (“APR,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By creating an account, submitting material, accepting these Terms, or purchasing advertising, you confirm that you are authorized to bind the Advertiser.

1. Advertising service; no guaranteed results

The plan provides eligibility for rotation across selected APR properties, which may include the APR website, iOS app, and Android app, including placements in articles, live streams, the business directory, and sponsor listings. Placements, formats, frequency, timing, technology, audience, and availability may change. Advertising is nonexclusive. APR does not guarantee any minimum or specific number of impressions, views, clicks, leads, calls, sales, customers, placement position, audience size, return on investment, revenue, or other result.

2. APR’s editorial and business discretion

To the fullest extent permitted by law, APR may reject, edit, pause, limit, remove, discontinue, or terminate any advertisement, campaign, placement, subscription, referral participation, or advertiser account at any time, for any reason or no stated reason, with or without advance notice, and without an obligation to provide an explanation. This includes editorial judgment, community standards, legal or safety concerns, complaints, reputation, technical needs, payment concerns, suspected fraud, or business priorities.

3. Advertiser responsibilities

You are solely responsible for the accuracy, legality, safety, substantiation, permissions, and compliance of every claim, image, logo, trademark, link, offer, product, service, and other material submitted. You represent that you control all necessary rights; the advertisement is truthful; required disclosures are clear; and your business, landing pages, and conduct comply with applicable laws and licensing rules.

4. Physical St. Tammany Parish location required

Advertising is available only to businesses with a genuine physical operating location inside St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Mailing addresses, post-office boxes, registered-agent addresses, virtual offices, temporary addresses, customer addresses, or addresses where the Advertiser does not actually operate do not qualify. You authorize APR to verify the supplied address using government or public records, mapping services, direct contact, documentation, or other reasonable means.

If APR determines or reasonably suspects that a business is not physically located at its submitted address, supplied false or misleading information, moved outside the parish, or cannot substantiate its location, APR may immediately reject or permanently ban it, remove every advertisement, terminate the campaign and account, and prevent future signup.

5. Referral program

An eligible advertiser may share the unique referral link shown in My Business. When an eligible new St. Tammany Parish business signs up through that link, its first subscription month receives a one-time 50% discount. The referring advertiser earns a matching Stripe account credit only after Stripe confirms the referred business’s first payment and the referred business completes an advertisement eligible for active rotation. Account creation alone does not earn a reward.

Referral status, including the referred business name and whether it is pending, activated, rewarded, rejected, or reversed, may be shown to the referring advertiser and APR administrators. By using a referral link, you consent to that limited status disclosure. Payment-card details, private address, phone number, email address, and owner name are not disclosed through the referral dashboard.

Referral discounts and credits have no cash value, are nontransferable, cannot be redeemed for cash or refunded, and apply only to APR advertising charges. They may be delayed by billing status and may accumulate in the Stripe account balance. Self-referrals, duplicate ownership, duplicate accounts, shared phone numbers or locations, circular referrals, misleading promotions, automated signups, chargebacks, reversals, and other abuse are prohibited. APR may verify eligibility and deny, withhold, reverse, offset, or remove benefits resulting from error, ineligibility, cancellation, a legally required refund, chargeback, or suspected abuse. APR may modify or end the program prospectively at any time.

6. Prohibited or restricted advertising

APR may prohibit or restrict illegality, deception, impersonation, unsafe products, malware, discrimination, hate, harassment, adult content, gambling, political campaigns, firearms sales, controlled substances, predatory lending, cryptocurrency, misleading claims, infringement, privacy violations, or anything APR considers harmful or inappropriate. This list is not exhaustive. Payment or prior publication is not approval.

7. License to advertising materials

You grant APR a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free license during the campaign and for reasonable archival, accounting, legal, promotional, and recordkeeping purposes to host, reproduce, resize, crop, format, adapt, display, distribute, transmit, and promote submitted materials and the Advertiser’s name, trademarks, and logos.

8. Subscription, renewal, cancellation, and pausing

The plan is billed at the price displayed at checkout, currently $89.99 per month, plus applicable taxes, and renews monthly until canceled. Stripe processes payments. You authorize recurring charges to the payment method supplied to Stripe. You may cancel future renewal through the Stripe billing portal in My Business. Cancellation normally takes effect at the end of the paid period. Pausing an advertisement does not pause, extend, credit, or cancel billing.

9. All sales final; no refunds

To the fullest extent permitted by law, all advertising charges are final and nonrefundable. APR does not issue refunds or prorated credits for unused time, pauses, cancellation, removal or termination, dissatisfaction, technical interruption, missed or changed placements, analytics differences, failure to provide usable materials, or failure to achieve any view count, engagement level, return on investment, sale, lead, or other result. The only exception is a refund APR is legally required to provide. APR may pause or remove advertising when payment is late, declined, reversed, disputed, or suspected of fraud. You agree to contact APR promptly about billing concerns before initiating a chargeback.

10. Analytics

Analytics are estimates provided for convenience. Counts may be delayed, incomplete, duplicated, blocked, reset, affected by privacy or security systems, or differ from other platforms. APR does not warrant that analytics are exact, uninterrupted, or suitable for accounting, tax, valuation, or legal purposes.

11. No warranty

To the fullest extent permitted by law, services are provided “as is” and “as available.” APR disclaims all express and implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement, uninterrupted availability, and accuracy.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, APR and its owners, personnel, contractors, and affiliates will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary, or consequential damages; lost profits, revenue, data, reputation, opportunity, or customers; or third-party conduct. APR’s total aggregate liability will not exceed advertising fees actually paid during the three months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.

13. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless APR and its owners, personnel, contractors, and affiliates from claims, investigations, losses, penalties, liabilities, costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees arising from your advertisement, business, products, services, materials, breach, violation of law, infringement, privacy violation, customer dispute, or acts or omissions.

14. Account security and communications

You are responsible for account credentials and activity. You must provide current information and consent to receive transactional, billing, security, legal, campaign, and referral communications electronically at the account email.

15. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by Louisiana law. To the extent permitted by law, exclusive venue will lie in a court of competent jurisdiction serving St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.

16. Changes, severability, and complete agreement

APR may revise these Terms prospectively and require renewed acceptance. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited only to the minimum necessary, and the remainder continues. These Terms and checkout terms are the complete agreement concerning the advertising service. A waiver must be in writing.

17. Contact

Questions may be sent to apr@aprsttammany.com.

By checking the acceptance box or continuing with a purchase, you acknowledge that you read, understood, and agreed to these Terms.