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[4everkasey]

I recently took time and effort to create a website through weebly and was very happy with the result as was the people who visited it. There was no nudity of any kind and no sexual words used (outside of letters describing services offered). Today I received an email from them saying my site was shut down because it had sexual content (the closest of which was a quote say "I don't have a dirty mind, I have a sexy imagination"). I am thinking a few things regarding this ad would like some feed-back.......Can they legally do this? Is there anywhere else that I can create the same thing for little to no cost?
I replied in an email back to them that I would post my story in as many public forum as I could including site they have reviewed in as I feel this is very unfair........

Kasey
xo

 

[DELETDrileydaniels]

using free websites like weebly, wix, escortsite, escortdesign and etc you do not own anything you post on their platform, so yes weebly can and if they choose take down your page you create on their service. and if you read their terms and services they can do it and will if they get a report sent or feel your breaking their rules.

 

[4everkasey]

I am total understanding of that. My problem stems from 2 weeks for communnication back and forth regarding "my business" and website I was creating with no negative feed back from them. After creating what I was happy with and investing money in business cards, etc they suddenly changed their mind. I find their behavior unethical

 

[Kyra.Graves]

I am total understanding of that. My problem stems from 2 weeks for communnication back and forth regarding "my business" and website I was creating with no negative feed back from them. After creating what I was happy with and investing money in business cards, etc they suddenly changed their mind. I find their behavior unethical

It was a free website so hopefully you backed up your work and when you invest in a new site you'll be able to quickly upload the content and recreate it, then it's really just a bit of time that was lost.
As for the money lost on marketing materials, I'm not sure they can be held accountable for that, their policy states that they do not allow adult content and they have the right to terminate your site should they find someone be in violation of that. I don't know what your conversations with them were but I had you told them that you were creating a site for an escort service (which combined with your putting acronyms on the site would make it an illegal service in the US) they would have told you that they would not host it, that's where they are based and whether adult or not they do not allow escort services to be hosted on their site for that reason as well. You made the decision to purchase print materials, it was a risk and this time it didn't pan out, sometimes it will but sometimes you will take a loss on it. I can imagine it's frustrating but if there is one thing I'd take from it invest first in your website, it's the type of marketing that is integral to your business, the print materials are nice but they are icing on the cake in this industry and not a necessity. Once your website is up and running without any issues then by all means start investing in other areas of marketing but you definitely want to focus your funds towards your site first.

Good luck!