Bazaarist Terms of Use

Bazaarist is a travel information and services platform designed to help travelers discover destinations through firsthand local knowledge.

Bazaarist may provide:

• Destination guides
• Travel articles
• Local recommendations
• Contributor profiles
• Ask a Local questions and answers
• Personalized itinerary planning
• Travel resources
• Digital products
• Other travel-related services

Some content may be created by, based on input from, or developed with independent contributors who have firsthand familiarity with particular destinations.

Bazaarist may add, modify, suspend, or discontinue features over time.

You may use Bazaarist only if you are legally capable of entering into agreements applicable to your use of the Services.

Certain Services, accounts, purchases, or contributor opportunities may have additional eligibility or age requirements.

You agree to provide truthful and accurate information when required.

Travel information changes frequently.

Information concerning prices, operating hours, transportation, reservation requirements, visas, immigration, local laws, health requirements, safety, accessibility, business operations, events, weather, and similar matters may change after publication.

Although Bazaarist aims to provide useful and accurate information, we do not guarantee that every item will always be complete, accurate, current, or appropriate for your circumstances.

You are responsible for independently confirming information important to your trip.

For passports, visas, immigration, health requirements, laws, entry restrictions, and official safety information, consult appropriate government or authoritative sources.

Bazaarist provides travel-planning and general informational services.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, Bazaarist does not provide legal, medical, immigration, financial, insurance, security, or other regulated professional advice.

Contributor recommendations reflect personal experience, knowledge, or opinion.

Bazaarist contributors may be selected based on firsthand experience with particular destinations.

Terms such as “verified,” “verified local,” “local,” or “contributor” do not mean that Bazaarist guarantees every statement, recommendation, judgment, or opinion supplied by that person.

Travel recommendations are subjective, and experiences may differ.

Bazaarist may edit contributor information for formatting, grammar, clarity, length, consistency, editorial quality, or accuracy while seeking to preserve its substance.

Ask a Local enables eligible users to submit travel questions for responses informed by firsthand local knowledge.

Unless Bazaarist expressly states otherwise:

• A question does not guarantee a response from a particular contributor.
• Bazaarist may assign or reassign questions.
• Response times may vary.
• Bazaarist may request clarification.
• Bazaarist may reject questions that violate our policies.
• Bazaarist may moderate interactions.
• Bazaarist may restore credits or issue refunds where appropriate under applicable service rules.

Ask a Local is an on-platform travel information service.

It may not be used to:

• Arrange personal meetings between travelers and contributors
• Exchange private contact information in order to continue the relationship outside Bazaarist
• Solicit private services
• Make or arrange off-platform payments
• Pursue romantic or sexual relationships
• Send inappropriate or sexually suggestive communications
• Bypass Bazaarist's payment, credit, communication, moderation, or safety systems

Ask a Local should not be used for emergencies or as a substitute for professional or official assistance regarding health, safety, law enforcement, immigration, or other serious matters.

Bazaarist may offer personalized travel itineraries based on information you provide.

An itinerary is a suggested travel plan and does not guarantee the availability of any restaurant, business, hotel, attraction, event, transportation service, or activity.

Unless explicitly included in a purchased service, Bazaarist does not make reservations or bookings for you.

You remain responsible for confirming and purchasing individual trip components.

Some features may require a Bazaarist account.

You agree to:

• Provide accurate information
• Keep necessary information reasonably current
• Protect your login credentials
• Take reasonable precautions against unauthorized account access

You may not:

• Impersonate another person
• Create fraudulent or abusive accounts
• Circumvent account restrictions
• Allow another person to misuse your account
• Sell or transfer your account without authorization

Bazaarist communication features exist for legitimate travel-related interactions.

Users and contributors are expected to communicate respectfully, professionally, and within the intended purpose of the relevant Bazaarist Service.

Bazaarist may use automated detection, human moderation, or both to review communications when reasonably necessary for safety, fraud prevention, enforcement, dispute resolution, or operation of the Services.

Travelers and Bazaarist contributors may not use Bazaarist to arrange or solicit personal in-person meetings with one another.

This prohibition applies regardless of whether the proposed meeting is:

• Social
• Informal
• Unpaid
• Paid
• Described as a “tour”
• Described as “showing someone around”
• Related to dating or friendship
• Presented as being outside Bazaarist

Examples of prohibited conduct include:

• “I'll show you around when you arrive.”
• “Let’s meet for drinks.”
• “I can take you there myself.”
• “Message me when you’re in town and we’ll meet.”
• Offering private tours or personal guiding outside Bazaarist
• Asking a contributor or traveler to meet at a hotel, restaurant, home, attraction, airport, or other location

A public business or attraction may of course be recommended as part of travel advice. The prohibition concerns the traveler and contributor arranging to meet each other personally.

Bazaarist may introduce expressly authorized in-person services in the future. If it does, those services will be governed by separate eligibility, safety, booking, and payment rules.

Unless Bazaarist expressly states otherwise, no in-person traveler-contributor interaction is authorized.

Users and contributors may not request, provide, or exchange personal contact details for the purpose of continuing a Bazaarist-originated interaction outside Bazaarist.

Prohibited information may include:

• Personal phone numbers
• Personal email addresses
• WhatsApp numbers
• Telegram usernames
• Signal information
• WeChat information
• Personal social-media handles
• Personal messaging-app usernames
• Personal websites used to solicit services
• QR codes or links intended to establish private contact
• Other methods of direct personal communication

Users may not disguise contact information or intentionally circumvent filters or moderation systems.

Examples include spelling out a phone number, inserting spaces or symbols into an email address, using an image to transmit contact information, or directing someone to search for a personal social-media account.

This rule does not prohibit legitimate travel recommendations containing public business contact information, such as the public telephone number for a hotel, restaurant, tour company, airline, embassy, museum, or other third-party organization.

Services originating through Bazaarist must remain within Bazaarist unless we expressly authorize otherwise.

Users and contributors may not:

• Request payment outside Bazaarist
• Offer payment outside Bazaarist
• Accept payment outside Bazaarist for a Bazaarist-originated service
• Solicit cash payments
• Request bank transfers
• Request peer-to-peer payment transfers
• Request cryptocurrency
• Request gift cards
• Request tips outside Bazaarist
• Redirect users to another marketplace to complete the transaction
• Offer private travel-planning services to Bazaarist users
• Offer private guiding, consulting, itinerary, or question-answering services to Bazaarist users
• Circumvent Bazaarist's credits, fees, payment systems, or booking processes

Examples of prohibited conduct include:

• “PayPal me and I'll answer the rest.”
• “I’ll make you a cheaper itinerary privately.”
• “Message me on WhatsApp and I can plan this for you.”
• “Send me money directly and I’ll show you around.”
• “Book with me through my personal website instead.”

Bazaarist may suspend or terminate accounts that attempt to circumvent the platform.

Bazaarist is a travel information and services platform, not a dating, companionship, or sexual-services platform.

Users and contributors may not use Bazaarist to pursue romantic, sexual, intimate, or exploitative relationships.

Prohibited conduct includes:

• Romantic solicitation
• Sexual solicitation
• Sexual propositions
• Sexually explicit messages
• Unwanted flirting
• Requests for sexual photographs
• Sending sexual images
• Sexual comments about another user or contributor
• Requests for dates
• Solicitation of prostitution or sexual services
• Requests for companionship unrelated to the legitimate travel service
• Repeated unwanted personal attention
• Attempts to pressure someone into private communication or a personal relationship

Conduct can violate this rule even if the sender claims it was a joke.

Users and contributors must treat others respectfully.

Bazaarist prohibits:

• Harassment
• Threats
• Intimidation
• Bullying
• Stalking
• Hate speech
• Discriminatory abuse
• Sexual harassment
• Repeated unwanted communications
• Coercion
• Extortion
• Blackmail
• Fraud
• Exploitation
• Doxxing or disclosure of private information
• Attempts to obtain sensitive personal information without legitimate reason

Users should report inappropriate behavior through Bazaarist's available reporting or support channels.

Users and contributors should not pressure another person to disclose private or sensitive information.

You may not improperly request:

• Home addresses
• Personal telephone numbers
• Personal email addresses
• Identification documents
• Banking information
• Payment credentials
• Passwords
• Precise private locations
• Other sensitive information unrelated to the Service

Bazaarist will never require a traveler and contributor to privately exchange payment information with each other for an ordinary Bazaarist transaction.

If another user or contributor:

• Requests an off-platform payment
• Asks to meet you personally
• Requests private contact information
• Sends inappropriate or sexual communications
• Threatens or harasses you
• Attempts to scam you
• Pressures you to continue communication outside Bazaarist
• Otherwise makes you uncomfortable in connection with Bazaarist

you may report the interaction to:

info@bazaarist.com

Bazaarist may investigate reports and take appropriate action.

Bazaarist may take action when it reasonably believes a user or contributor has violated these Terms.

Depending on the circumstances, action may include:

• Warning the user
• Removing content
• Blocking communications
• Cancelling a question or transaction
• Returning or withholding credits where appropriate
• Restricting account functionality
• Temporarily suspending an account
• Permanently terminating an account
• Removing a contributor from Bazaarist
• Ending contributor eligibility
• Cancelling future assignments
• Preserving records relating to misconduct
• Taking other measures reasonably necessary to protect the platform or its users

Serious or repeated violations may result in immediate termination without a prior warning.

Bazaarist may also take additional action where reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law or respond to a legitimate safety concern.

Bazaarist may use credits for services such as Ask a Local.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, credits:

• Have no cash value
• Are not currency
• Are not bank deposits or stored monetary value
• May only be used for eligible Bazaarist services
• May not be sold
• May not be transferred between users
• May not be exchanged for cash

Applicable credit, refund, expiration, or restoration rules will be provided through the relevant service.

Prices are displayed before purchase and may change for future purchases.

By making a purchase, you authorize Bazaarist and its payment providers to charge the payment method you provide for the amount displayed.

Bazaarist may cancel, refuse, reverse, or refund transactions when reasonably necessary because of fraud, payment errors, technical problems, service unavailability, or similar legitimate reasons.

Refund eligibility depends on the applicable product or service.

Service-specific refund, revision, cancellation, and credit-restoration rules presented during checkout or through the relevant service form part of these Terms.

Unless otherwise stated or required by law, completed digital services may be non-refundable after substantial performance or delivery.

Bazaarist may allow you to submit questions, reviews, photographs, profile information, messages, recommendations, comments, feedback, or other material (“User Content”).

You retain ownership of User Content you own.

By submitting User Content for publication or use through Bazaarist, you grant Bazaarist a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, format, display, distribute, and otherwise use the content as reasonably necessary to operate, provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make the content available in the manner you requested or authorized.

Contributor content may also be governed by a separate Contributor Agreement.

Unless otherwise indicated, Bazaarist's brand, website, logos, graphics, interface, databases, compilations, editorial materials, guides, and original content are owned by or licensed to Bazaarist LLC.

You may use Bazaarist content for ordinary personal, non-commercial travel planning.

You may not, without authorization:

• Commercially reproduce it
• Republish substantial portions
• Sell it
• Systematically scrape it
• Build competing databases from it
• Remove proprietary notices
• Present Bazaarist material as your own
• Commercially exploit Bazaarist intellectual property

In addition to the rules above, you may not:

• Commit fraud
• Misrepresent your identity
• Misrepresent your location, experience, or contributor qualifications
• Impersonate Bazaarist personnel
• Submit unlawful content
• Infringe intellectual-property rights
• Facilitate illegal activity
• Upload malware
• Attempt unauthorized access
• Interfere with the operation of Bazaarist
• Circumvent security or moderation systems
• Manipulate credits or payments
• Submit fraudulent contributor applications
• Create spam or automated accounts
• Evade account suspensions
• Scrape protected Bazaarist content without authorization
• Use Bazaarist for unlawful or exploitative purposes

Submitting a contributor application does not guarantee:

• Selection
• An interview
• Approval
• Payment
• An assignment
• Future work

Approved contributors are also not guaranteed a minimum number of assignments, questions, itineraries, content projects, or earnings.

Contributors must keep Bazaarist-originated traveler relationships and paid services within Bazaarist.

Contributors may not use access to Bazaarist travelers to solicit:

• Private clients
• Personal meetings
• Private tours
• Off-platform itinerary work
• Off-platform Q&A
• Direct payments
• Private communication
• Dating or personal relationships
• Other outside commercial or personal relationships

Contributor compensation, assignments, confidentiality, intellectual property, verification, conduct, and other obligations may also be governed by a separate Bazaarist Contributor Agreement.

Bazaarist may link to or recommend independent travel businesses and services.

Bazaarist does not control those third parties, and transactions with them may be governed by their own terms and policies.

Some Bazaarist content may contain affiliate links.

Bazaarist may receive compensation when users make eligible purchases through those links.

Where required, Bazaarist will provide appropriate disclosures.

Travel involves uncertainty and risk.

You are responsible for deciding whether a destination, activity, provider, or travel plan is appropriate for you.

Bazaarist is not responsible for acts or omissions of independent governments, airlines, hotels, restaurants, tour operators, attractions, transportation companies, contributors, travelers, or other third parties.

Bazaarist does not guarantee uninterrupted access.

Services may become unavailable due to maintenance, upgrades, third-party outages, security issues, technical failures, or circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Services are provided “as is” and “as available.”

Bazaarist does not guarantee that the Services will always be error-free, uninterrupted, completely accurate, current, secure, or suitable for every traveler.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Bazaarist LLC and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, agents, and affiliates will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages resulting from or relating to use of the Services.

For claims directly relating to a paid Bazaarist Service, Bazaarist's aggregate liability will, to the fullest extent permitted by law, not exceed the amount paid for the specific Service giving rise to the claim during the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Bazaarist LLC and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, agents, and affiliates from third-party claims arising from your unlawful use of Bazaarist, material violation of these Terms, violation of another person's rights, or prohibited User Content.

Bazaarist may restrict, suspend, or terminate access because of:

• Violations of these Terms
• Fraud
• Abuse
• Harassment
• Safety concerns
• Off-platform solicitation
• Prohibited meetups
• Prohibited payments
• Security concerns
• Nonpayment
• Legal requirements

You may stop using Bazaarist at any time.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

Nothing in these Terms eliminates mandatory consumer rights that cannot legally be waived.

Bazaarist may update these Terms as the Services evolve.

When we do, the Last Updated date will be revised.

Additional notice or consent will be provided when required by applicable law.

Email: info@bazaarist.com