TERMS & CONDITIONS

1. ACCEPTANCE

”IK ENTERPRISES” with the name of “IK-Classified” provides a collection of online resources which include classified advertisements and forums (collectively, the "Service") on the website ik.com.pk and related sites and the mobile application of the platform (collectively, the "Website").
NOTE: When we use “IK” it means we are talking about “IK Enterprises” or “IK Classified”.
The Website and the Service are provided to you subject to these IK Terms of Use (these "Terms"). For the purpose of the Terms and wherever the context so requires, the terms 'you' and “your” shall mean any person who uses the Website or the Service in any manner whatsoever including persons browsing the Website and its content, posting comments or any content or responding to any advertisements or content on the Website. By accessing, browsing or using the Website or Service, you agree to comply with these Terms. Additionally, when using a portion of the Service, you agree to conform to any applicable posted guidelines for such Service, which may change or be updated from time to time at IK‘s sole discretion. You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for reviewing these Terms from time to time. Should you object to any term or condition of these Terms, any guideline, or any subsequent changes thereto or become unhappy with IK or the Service in any way, your only choice is to immediately discontinue use of IK. These Terms may be updated by IK at any time at its sole discretion. IK may send you notices of changes to the Website or the Terms pursuant to Section xxi (I) herein. IK may provide a translation of the English version of the Terms into other languages. You understand and agree that any translation of the Terms into other languages is for your convenience only and that the English version governs the terms of your relationship with IK. Furthermore, if there are any inconsistencies between the English version of the Terms and any translation, the English version of the Terms shall govern.

2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE AND CONTENT POLICY

IK is the next generation of free online classifieds. We act as an online marketplace platform to allow our users who comply with these Terms to offer, sell, and buy products and services listed on the Website. Although you may be able to conduct payment and other transactions through the Website, using third-party vendors such as Easypaisa & JazzCash, IK is not in any way involved in such transactions. As a result, and as discussed in more detail in these Terms, you hereby acknowledge and agree that IK is not a party to such transactions, has no control over any element of such transactions, and shall have no liability to any party in connection with such transactions. You use the Service and the Website at your own risk. You understand that IK does not control, and is not responsible for ads, directory information, business listings/information, messages between users, including without limitation e-mails sent from outside IK’s domain or other means of electronic communication, whether through the Website or another Third Party Website (defined below) or offerings, comments, user postings, files, images, photos, video, sounds, business listings/information and directory information or any other material made available through the Website and the Service ("Content"), and that by using the Website and the Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise objectionable. You acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for and must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and that under no circumstances will IK be liable in any way for the Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the browsing, using or reading any Content listed, e-mailed or otherwise made available via the Service. You acknowledge and agree that IK permits such goods and services to be displayed and offered on the Website that conform with the terms stated herein, however IK does not pre-screen or approve any Content, but that IK has the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to refuse, delete or move any Content that is or may be available through the Service, for violating these Terms and such violation being brought to IK’s knowledge or for any other reason or no reason at all. Furthermore, the Website and Content available through the Website may contain links to other third party websites ("Third Party Websites"), which are completely unrelated to IK. If you link to Third Party Websites, you may be subject to those Third Party Websites’ terms and conditions and other policies. IK makes no representation or guarantee as to the accuracy or authenticity of the information contained in any such Third Party Website, and your linking to any other websites is completely at your own risk and IK disclaims all liability thereto. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for your own Content posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Service and the consequences of posting, transmitting, linking or publishing it. More specifically, you are solely responsible for all Content that you upload, email or otherwise make available via the Service. In connection with such Content posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Service by you, you affirm, acknowledge, represent, warrant and covenant that:
i) you have developed the contents such as description and/or photographs in accordance with the instructions and guidance for placing an ad provided by IK on the website and that any copyrights therein belongs to IK and, to any extent, should you be deemed to own any copyright you hereby assign any such copyright to IK.
ii) you acknowledge that the information and/or photographs that you post on the Website is stored and compiled by IK in a proprietary database and that the uploaded information and/or photographs are modified by IK by applying a watermark of IK logo and in such derivate works also the copyright belongs to IK.
iii) you shall continue to, for such time the Content is available on the Website, have the necessary licenses, authorizations, consents, and permissions to use such Content on the Service and Website (including without limitation all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all such Content) and wherever required, in such cases where you have the right, hereby authorize and license IK to exclusively use such Content to enable inclusion and use of the Content in the manner contemplated by the Service, the Website and these Terms; and
iv) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person or business in the Content to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person or business to enable inclusion and use of the Content in the manner contemplated by the Service, the Website and these Terms. For clarity, by submitting any Content on the Website, as aforesaid, wherever you retain any ownership rights in the Content, you hereby grant to IK an irrevocable, non-cancellable, perpetual, worldwide, exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Website and IK's (and its successors') business, including without limitation for the purpose of promoting and redistributing part or all of the Website and Content therein (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels now or hereafter known. Furthermore, by you posting Content to any public area of the Service, to the extent you retain any ownership of any rights, you agree to and do hereby grant to IK all exclusive rights necessary to prohibit or allow any subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction, or exploitation of the Content on the Service or Website by any party for any purpose including the right to initiate legal action in accordance with the copyright and other laws of Pakistan. You also hereby grant each user of the Website a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Website. The foregoing license to each user granted by you terminates once you or IK remove or delete such Content from the Website. IK does not endorse any Content or any opinion, statement, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and IK expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with user Content. IK does not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property rights on the Website, and IK may, at its sole discretion, remove any infringing Content if properly notified in accordance with applicable law that such Content infringes on another's intellectual property rights. IK reserves the right to remove any Content without prior notice. IK may also terminate a user's access to the Website, if they are determined to be a repeat infringer or found to be indulging in any act contrary to these Terms. A repeat infringer is a user who has been notified of infringing activity more than twice and/or has had a user submission removed from the Website more than twice. Further, at its sole discretion, IK reserves the right to decide whether any Content is appropriate and complies with these Terms. IK may provide a video service to you if you upload photographs for your ad. By uploading your photographs, not covered by 2(3)(i) or (ii) above, you irrevocably license and consent to the exclusive use of your photographs for this service and represent and warrant that you have all right, title and interest necessary to upload and use the photographs on this service. Under this service, using a third party application or service, IK may, at its discretion, create a video of your photographs, upload the video via www.youtube.com or another third party service provider, as determined by IK at its discretion, and embed the video into your ad on IK.

3. FEATURED ADS

IK may offer a service known as "Featured Ads" where users may pay a non-refundable fee to have their ads posted in selected locations on the Website, thus potentially increasing an ads' visibility. In order to purchase a Featured Ad, you may be required to transmit certain information through a third party service provider, which may be governed by its own terms of use and other policies. IK makes no representation or guarantee as to the safety or security of the information transmitted to any Third Party service provider, and your linking to any Third Party service is completely at your own risk, and IK disclaims all liability related thereto.
Featured Ads are subject to the Terms listed herein, as well as additional terms of service.

4. CONDUCT

You agree not to post, email, host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information on the Site, or otherwise make available Content:
1.	that violates any law or regulation;
2.	that is copyrighted or patented, protected by trade secret or trademark, or otherwise subject to third party other intellectual property or proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission or a license from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant IK all of the license rights granted herein;
3.	that infringes any of the foregoing intellectual property rights of any party, or is Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law, regulation, contractual or fiduciary relationship(s);
4.	that is harmful, abusive, unlawful, threatening, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy or other rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or illegal gambling or harms or could harm minors in any way or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever;
5.	that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful towards any individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
6.	that violates any (local) equal employment laws, including but not limited to those prohibiting the stating, in any advertisement for employment, a preference or requirement based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability of the applicant.
7.	that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
8.	that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, an IK employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents an affiliation with a person or entity;
9.	deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;
10.	that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, or constitutes "bait and switch" offer;
11.	that constitutes or contains "network marketing", "multi-level marketing", "Ponzi and pyramid schemes," "affiliate marketing," "link referral code," "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," or unsolicited advertisements of a commercial nature;
12.	that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if (1) posted in areas or categories of the Website which are not designated for such purposes; or (2) e-mailed to IK users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests;
13.	that includes links to commercial services or Third Party Websites, except as specifically allowed by IK;
14.	that advertises any illegal services or the sale of any items the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by applicable law, including without limitation items the sale of which is prohibited or regulated by applicable law of local jurisdiction;
15.	that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or any other computer resource;
16.	that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to the Service, or that otherwise negatively affects other users' ability to use the Service; or
17.	that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Service.
Additionally, you agree not to:
1.	contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted, or make unsolicited contact with anyone for any commercial purpose, specifically, contact any user to post advertisement on a third party Website or post any advertisement on behalf of such user; or to "stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
2.	make any libelous or defamatory comments or postings to or against anyone;
3.	collect personal data about other users or entities for commercial or unlawful purposes;
4.	use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download or scrape data from the Service, except for internet search engines (e.g,. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file;
5.	post Content that is outside the local area or not relevant to the local area, repeatedly post the same or similar Content, or otherwise impose unreasonable or disproportionately large loads on our servers and other infrastructure;
6.	post the same item or service in multiple classified categories or forums, or in multiple metropolitan areas;
7.	attempt to gain unauthorized access to computer systems owned or controlled by IK or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, the Service or the Website.
8.	use any form of automated device or computer program (sometimes referred to as "flagging tools") that enables the use of IK's "flagging system" or other community control systems without each flag being manually entered by a human that initiates the flag (an "automated flagging device"), or use any such flagging tool to remove posts of competitors, other third parties or to remove posts without a reasonable good faith belief that the post being flagged violates these Terms or any applicable law or regulation.
9.	use any automated device or software that enables the submission of automatic postings on IK without human intervention or authorship (an "automated posting device"), including without limitation, the use of any such automated posting device in connection with bulk postings, or for automatic submission of postings at certain times or intervals; or
10.	Any Content uploaded by you shall be subject to relevant laws and may be disabled, and/or may be subject to investigation under appropriate laws. Furthermore, if you are found to be in non-compliance with the laws and regulations, these terms, or the privacy policy of the Site, we may terminate your account/block your access to the Site and we reserve the right to remove any non-compliant Content uploaded by you.

5. PAID POSTINGS

IK may charge a fee to post Content in some areas of the Service (“Paid Posting”). The Paid Posting permits certain Content to be posted in a designated area of the Website for a stipulated period of time. Each party posting Content to the Service is responsible for said Content and compliance with the Terms. Any Paid Posting is non-refundable in the event of non-utilization during the stipulated period or if any Content is removed from the Service for violating these Terms. The Paid Posting cannot be adjusted against another Paid Posting and cannot be transferred from one User to another.

6. POSTING AGENTS

As used herein, the term "Posting Agent" refers to a third-party agent, service or intermediary that offers to post Content to the Service on behalf of others. IK prohibits the use of Posting Agents, directly or indirectly, without the express written permission of IK. In addition, Posting Agents are not permitted to post Content on behalf of others, directly or indirectly, or otherwise access the Service in order to post Content on behalf of others, except with express written permission or license from IK. Any such authorization by IK to a Posting Agent is non-transferable and non-assignable.