Apartments.com Ratings and Reviews Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Apartments.com Ratings and Reviews service offered by Apartments, LLC (“Apartments.com”).

By submitting any content to Apartments.com, you represent, warrant and agree that:


  • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights thereto;
  • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
  • All content that you post is accurate;
  • You are at least 18 years old;
  • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.


You further agree and warrant that you shall not submit any content:


  • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
  • That infringes, violates or misuses any third party's intellectual property, including any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights, rights of publicity, or privacy rights;
  • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation, including, but not limited to, HUD, fair-housing, anti-discrimination, export control, consumer protection, unfair competition or false advertising;
  • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
  • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any third party;
  • That includes any information that references other websites, apartment communities, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
  • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.


Please note the following guidelines for Community Reviews:


  • Keep the review focused on the apartment community and experience living or visiting there;
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as the first or last names of the apartment community staff, or any other information that would make an individual uniquely identifiable;
  • Do not use the review services as a tool to report maintenance issues, requests that need attention, etc. You should contact the apartment office staff directly.

You agree to indemnify and hold Apartments.com (and its officers, directors, members, affiliates, agents, parent and subsidiary companies, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

All content that you submit may be used at the sole discretion of Apartments.com. Apartments.com reserves the right to change, condense, delete, or not post any content that Apartments.com deems, in its sole discretion, to violate these Terms of Use or the Apartments.com Terms of Service. Apartments.com reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission for any reason. You acknowledge that you, not Apartments.com, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Apartments.com, its agents, parent and subsidiary companies, affiliates, partners or third party service providers and their respective directors, officers and employees.

By submitting your email address in connection with your rating and review, you agree that Apartments.com and its third party service providers may use your email address to contact you about the status of your review and for other administrative purposes.

In addition to these Terms of Use, all submitted reviews are subject to the terms set forth in the Apartments.com Privacy Statement and Terms of Service and, in the event of any conflict, these Terms of Use shall control as to your use of, or submission of content to, the Apartments.com Community Ratings and Reviews service.

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Last updated: February __, 2016