Craigslist Terms of Use

By simply visiting or using Craigslist, you are bound by its Terms of Use, which Craigslist can change at any time at its sole discretion. Any content you post gives Craigslist permanent, broad rights to use it, fees you pay are non-refundable even if Craigslist removes your post, and if anything goes wrong, Craigslist's financial liability to you is capped at $100 or what you paid in the past year. Any legal claim against Craigslist must be brought exclusively in San Francisco, California.

Craigslist's Terms of Use establish the conditions under which users may access and interact with CL, binding users upon access or interaction alone without requiring an affirmative acknowledgment. Craigslist grants users only a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-assignable license, and reserves sole discretion to block, filter, re-categorize, delete, delay, or terminate access, accounts, or licenses without stated justification. Users grant Craigslist a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, worldwide, fully paid, sublicensable license over all posted content, while Craigslist caps its own liability to CL Entities at $100 or the user's prior-year payments, whichever is greater, across all loss categories including direct and punitive losses. The document imposes structured liquidated damages of $3,000 per day for unauthorized exploitation of CL content and $500 per unauthorized communication sent using CL user information, requires user indemnification of CL Entities for third-party claims, establishes non-refundable fees even when Craigslist's own moderation prevents post performance, and fixes exclusive jurisdiction in San Francisco, California.

For an individual user, this document means that using Craigslist — even without signing up or clicking 'agree' — constitutes acceptance of all terms, including the right of Craigslist to terminate or moderate your access at its sole discretion with no obligation to explain. Fees paid for postings are non-refundable regardless of what happens to those posts, and if you suffer any loss, your maximum recovery from Craigslist is $100 or the total you paid in the preceding year. Any content you post is licensed to Craigslist permanently and irrevocably. If you have a dispute with Craigslist, you must pursue it exclusively in courts located in San Francisco, California.