Members: Terms of Service

Please carefully read all terms and conditions below before becoming a member of Simple Fibers. Yes, it's the fine print, but understanding the Terms of Service helps all of our members and eliminates any unexpected surprises regarding your ads and our services.

Listings on this website are limited to web sites that specialize or promote fiber art and fiber supplies. Our Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts are focused on that market. If you are unsure if your web site qualifies for membership here, please feel free to browse the categories and/or contact us for more information. We are happy to help you.

All sites advertising on Simple Fibers must be family-friendly:

• we reserve the right to refuse inclusion of any site that does not meet these terms of service

• all information provided by you is subject to change/editing at our discretion

• Simple Fibers has the sole right and discretion to make changes/decisions or to deny a listing for reason of content. Any inappropriate content within your site, or links to inappropriate content from your site, will disqualify you from listing at Simple Fibers ('inappropriate content' is defined by Simple Fibers and not open for interpretation.)

• As a listed member, you must provide a link back (reciprocal link) to Simple Fibers:

  • a banner will be sent to you as soon as your links have been posted on Simple Fibers

  • save this banner to your computer, insert the banner into your web site, and then link to http://www.simplefibers.com. Please do not copy a link from our site and paste it into yours and do not link directly to a banner on the Simple Fibers web site.

  • Simple Fibers performs periodic checks to ensure that reciprocal links remain active; we will remove your listing if you fail to link back to Simple Fibers.

Simple Fibers:

• respects your privacy; any information you provide us will be shared only on the Simple Fibers web site for the purpose of your listing; your information will not be traded, sold, or used for any other purpose.

• provides you with the first available listing space in your chosen Category.

• is a resource market that lists web sites selling or promoting fibers and fiber art; this is not an e-commerce site in which to sell your art or goods. It is the SOLE RESPONSIBILITY of our visitors, and not the responsibility of Simple Fibers, to make decisions regarding purchasing from the web sites listed here.

All content of the Simple Fibers web site is protected by U.S. copyright.

All Simple Fibers members accept these terms of service by requesting membership. Please be sure you read and fully understand these terms.

RECIPROCAL LINKS

We require all members to place a reciprocal link for Simple Fibers on their website. This helps both Simple Fibers appear higher in web searches, and helps your site rank higher as well. These back links help improve rankings, which also helps increase traffic to this site and yours. The most beneficial reciprocal link to this site would be one that appears on your home page; we do not require a link on your home page, but we do encourage it for the most benefit to our respective sites. A text link is acceptable to link our site to your home page without using a banner ad on your home page. You will receive an e-mailed text link and banner link after we have placed your ad on this site.

IMPORTANT:  Do not use our bandwidth by linking directly to images on the Simple Fibers site. Our banner images MUST be saved to your computer and uploaded to your own server before linking to our site. If we see that you are linking to images from our web site, we will notify you once by e-mail and request that you remove it. Failure to do so will result in removal of your link from Simple Fibers.