As a condition of use of Book-Swap, and as part of agreeing to our Terms of Use you agree to comply with these policies.

At Book-Swap, we want to make sure that the app is as clean, friendly, and usable as possible for everyone. Any published listing that fall outside the posting rules in this policy may be removed from the site in accordance with our Terms of Use.

You are solely responsible for all information that you submit to Book-Swap and any consequences that may result from your listing. We reserve the right at our discretion to refuse or delete content that we believe is inappropriate, or breaches our Terms of Use or breaches legislation. We also reserve the right at our discretion to restrict a user's use of the site either temporarily or permanently, or refuse a user's registration or cancel a user’s account. See our Terms of Use for more information on how you may and may not use the Platform.

If a listing fails to meet any of the criteria, or for any of the reasons set out below, Book-Swap may remove your listing in accordance with our Terms of Use – with or without notice to you.

General reasons for listings being deleted are:

1. Breaches of applicable laws. It is the responsibility of the user before listing a book on Book-Swap to ensure that content listed adheres to Book-Swap posting policies as well as Australian laws. As a condition of your use of Book-Swap specified under our Terms of Use, you agree that your listing does not violate any laws.

2. The listing is a duplicate of another listing previously published.

3. The listing is posted under the wrong category, or your listing cannot be allocated into a category we provide (you must choose the single most relevant category for your listing).

4. The listing is posted without book photo or reference. All the listing posted by you should be related to books only.

5. Listing posted in a language other than English. We only accept listing in English.

6. Listing posted from overseas or from behind a VPN, Book-Swap is for Australian based individuals and businesses only.

7. Listing contains external links: No external website links are allowed within your listing.

8. Listing which do not meet the Children’s Advertising Code as adopted by the Australian Association of National Advertisers, which includes not advertising sex related services and displaying proper safety standards.

9. Listing contains inappropriate language, including any language which contravenes the Australian Association of National Advertisers Code of Conduct.

10. Listing that contain any inappropriate photo or image, including any images which contravene the Australian Association of National Advertisers Code of Conduct.

11. Discriminatory on race / religion / nationality / gender / sexual orientation / political views etc.

12. Listing that report other fraudulent listings. Please report potentially fraudulent listings via the "report listing" option located within each listing.

13. Listing that contain misinformation, including but not limited to the misinformation of health related information.

14. Listing relating to the exploitation or potential endangerment of minors. Book-Swap reserves the right to remove any listing that we determine is in breach of, or may breach, our policies or legislation, is not relevant or in the correct category, or is not of value to the Book-Swap community, with or without notice to the poster.

15. Listing that is an add or can can be classified as an add or a service.

There are several ways that your listing may be found to be in breach of policy and removed from the site including:

Your listing has been reported to us.

When this happens your listing may be temporarily suspended until we review it.

We check reported listing as quickly as we can. If we conclude that the listing hasn't broken any Posting Policies or Terms of Use we will activate the listing again promptly. Check back after a few hours to see if this is the case.

Your listing has been removed by our moderation tools.

Listings identified by our automated tools that break our Posting Policies or Terms of Use will be removed from the site.

If you have checked out all of the possibilities covered under the posting policy and none of them apply to your listing then please let us know by clicking on "Contact Book-Swap" located in the footer of this website and we'll be happy to help you out.

Your listing falls into a restricted category

What is not allowed on Book-Swap?

You are restricted from swapping any other item than a reading book on the Book-Swap Platform.

You are restricted from selling, or seeking to buy any item even a reading book on the Book-Swap Platform.

For more information visit https://www.nationalretail.org.au/policy-advocacy/action-on-single-use- plastics/

It is the responsibility of the user before listing a book on Book-Swap that content listed adheres to Book-Swap Posting Policies as well as applicable laws.

As a condition of your use of Book-Swap specified under our Terms of Use, you agree that you will not violate any laws.