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1. The material to be displayed on the listing within the directory is supplied by the advertiser, and must not be misleading in any way. Soft Furnishing Associates reserves the right to require changes if the material is considered inappropriate for the site (for example, containing derogatory statements about other businesses).
   
   
2. The directory page/area chosen must be the closest to the actual geographic location of the business's main office or outlet. Businesses with offices in two or more regions may be listed on each regional page corresponding to the location of any office or place of physical contact. Full-page listing subscribers, however, may only have one web page on this site.
   
   
3. The listing order within a regional page and listing group follows the following rules. All member listings are grouped together at the top of the page, followed by all non-member full listings, then all brief listings. Within each group, new listings are placed at the top. Every month the bottom listing within each group is moved to the top of the list and the others shuffled down one place - this way everyone gets a chance to be at the top and, averaged over time, no firm is arbitrarily listed higher than any other.
   
   
4. Full webpage listings may optionally include up to about 600 words of text, up to 3 photos, one business logo, and full contact details. The Soft Furnishing Associates webmaster will make all efforts to 'clean up' any grammar or spelling mistakes, but cannot guarantee this will be done comprehensively. The advertiser is ultimately responsible for the readability, quality and accuracy of the information provided on the page, including any errors in typography, spelling or fact.
   
   
5. As part of the page-creation process, each member detail page is optimised by the Soft Furnishing Associates webmaster to index well on major search engines, and is submitted for indexing on Google and MSN.
   
   
6. The Soft Furnishing Associates webmaster will provide every month a summary of visitor statistics for the advertiser's own page, for the page of the region listing that advertiser, and for the whole website. The goal is to help track the effectiveness of the listing. Advertisers may, within reason, request visitor statistics at other times and periods.
   
   
7. An advertiser may request changes to their listing to keep their details and their web page up to date (such as a new phone number of postal address). Reasonable changes of this nature are made free of charge. For advertisers with full webpage listings, similar small changes to the page content will be made free of charge, but any significant changes to text or photos will be made at market rates for website updates. For significant changes, the Soft Furnishing Associates webmaster will provide estimates of such extra work when changes are requested. All changes are to be communicated to the webmaster by email at david@techwriter.co.nz.
   
   
8. A new listing is posted on the directory within 24 hours of the application to list being received. An invoice is then sent by Soft Furnishing Associates. The new advertiser's own full web page is then posted within 48 hours after the first fee payment is made (whichever occurs later). The listing lapses (and is removed) if payment is not made within one month of the invoice being sent.
   
   
9. Listings are renewed annually upon delivery of an invoice from Soft Furnishing Associates. If payment is not received within one month of the issuing of the invoice, the listing may be removed (although reminders may be sent first).
   
   
10. SFA may change listing fees from time to time, but it is expected that these fees will be reduced if anything, not increased. Price changes are applied at the time of the advertiser's renewal, that is, at the end of each 12 months from when they first signed up.
    
    

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11. Soft Furnishing Associates reserves the right to remove any listing which is found to be inappropriate, misleading, malicious or in breach of copyright laws. In such cases, no fees will be refunded.
    
    
12. All prices quoted on this website and in subsequent correspondence are exclusive of GST.
    
    

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