Policies

AVCOSA Membership Policy; Guidelines; Privacy Policy

• Your voluntary membership in AVCOSA is a sign of your acceptance and support of these Policies and Guidelines.
• These Policies and Guidelines are subject to change at any time.
• Said changes will be announced on the site, not by email.

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Benefits of Membership in AVCOSA

• Your own member profile page with:
• Free promotion, pix and links to your website and/or sales listings
• Your own AVCOSA blog
• Discussions, Comments, and Group forums where you can tap into a large focused knowledge base, and interact with other online dealers.

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Who may Join AVCOSA

• We currently have an "Open Membership" policy (obvious spammers will be deleted).
• AVCOSA currently does not charge membership dues, nor does it have any revenue stream.
• You should be a seller of antiques, vintage items, or collectibles ONLINE, either through your own website, or on a group/shop site (examples include bonanzle, ecrater, etsy, ebay, rubylane, tias, etc.).
• - Or - you are in a mainly antiques-related profession, as a teacher, writer, speaker, restorer, or shop owner.
• Businesses seeking membership should do so only if they have a qualified spokesperson who will actively contribute to the group, and follow said Guidelines.

• You must post active/correct links to your sales venue(s) on your member profile page (not to the home page of a group site, for example, not to ebay.com or ecrater.com).
• You must upload an "avatar pic" within 30 days from joining -- either a photo of yourselfself or your business logo. The default is the AVCOSA logo.
• If after 30 days, you have not completed the required content on your profile page -- business name (if you use one), personal/real name, avatar pic, and links to sales venue(s), we will consider your account abandoned, and will delete it. You are welcome to join again when you have the time to spend on this.
• You should sign in at least once a month and do something that is considered "activity" - update your profile page, make a comment or a post, upload pix - it is the only way we can know that you are an active member. We realize you may be checking in and reading posts and comments, but that is not logged as "activity".
• Members should maintain their info and make updates in a timely manner, including manual submission of updates to your Directory Listing (which is optional, and not taken automatically from your profile page).

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Guidelines

• No inappropriate content will be allowed, which refers to your profile page content as well as your type of merchandise. No nudity, hate, foul language, flaming, etc.
• Members are to behave as PROFESSIONALS when on the site, or when referencing their membership, anywhere else, on-line or off-line.
• Members have no authority to act on behalf of or to speak for AVCOSA save insofar as expressly authorized by the Executive Director.
• Members shall not state or imply that membership is guarantee of authenticity of any article offered for sale.
• Members should seek to advance the professional reputation and standing of AVCOSA by acting, as dealers, in an honest manner.
• Members should promote the knowledge and understanding of "Antiques, Vintage & Collectibles" and ONLINE SELLING.

AVCOSA Privacy Policy

AVCOSA:

• keeps in touch with its members only through periodical newsletters, e-mails and web-site updatings
• is not responsible for any other activity pursued by its members.
• is not responsible for opinions, evaluation and images displayed, and in any form published or supplied for publication, by its members who, in any case, maintain the property of their works and assure the respect of national and international legislation about Intellectual Property.
• handles and protects with care its members' e-mail addresses, will not disclose these addresses to third parties and will use this information only to reply to personal requests received by members and for communications strictly related to its activity.
  

Google Ads and Cookies

• AVCOSA is not responsible for the content of the Goodle Ads on the site
• AVCOSA does NOT receive any income from the Google Ads - all revenues go directly to the NING site providers, who allow AVCOSA to reside on their site for free.
• NING uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit some pages of our AVCOSA Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, go to: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

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