All Users

siloz is a web application that allows individuals financially support causes that have a real impact in their community.

siloz is a for-profit technology provider and is not a professional fundraising organization, fundraising counsel, a fundraising advisor, a fundraising manager, a fundraising planner, a commercial co-venturer, or a fundraising solicitor.

siloz provides only tools for organizations to conduct their own fundraisers, and/or prepare soliciting materials.

siloz may house an ‘official’ silo, or indeterminate length, for an organization, and administrate such an effort, but even in this instance, functions as a ‘technology service provider’, and not a fundraising advisor.

We reserve the right to suspend, cancel and/or ban any silo, listing or member whose existence, message, or actions we deem inconsistent with our message of goodwill, inclusiveness, respect, and legality, with or without notice.

Users are prohibited from engaging in any unlawful act involving the site, and expected to acquire or already possess knowledge of local, state, and federal laws informing their activity on the site (as buyers, sellers, or silo administrators [fundraisers]).

Misrepresentation and fraud, as they relate either to a silo, or a listed item, are prohibited. All users are expected to police other user-generated content on the site, and to report abuses of the terms of service, either through flagging, or via email to support@siloz.com.

Users are prohibited from abusing, threatening, or harassing other users through the site, and from soliciting through the site (for the purpose other than that intended by the site, i.e. promoting the silo).
Donors (Sellers)

Shipping is strictly forbidden by any seller. Users are expected to buy, sell, and start silos locally, in their region, only. A user may join a silo from another region, and sell items locally, in his or her region.

siloz requests and expects all users to exercise caution and skeptical judgment, both when pledging items to a silo, and when coordinating a transaction with another party (buyer or seller). Please see our FAQ for information on safe meeting locations.

siloz will never provide anyone with any of your personal information, unless failure to do so would be in violation of the law (for example, if the police had a warrant and wanted account information). We don’t sell your information, and we don’t provide the person address of sellers to buyers, or vice versa.

siloz makes no representation as to, and offers no guarantee of, the legitimacy of any organization or cause, the veracity of information posted on our site, or the fitness of a silo administrator to collect funds on behalf of the organization or cause. Read our FAQ for more information.

By using siloz, members agree to hold siloz harmless and not liable for fraud, misrepresentation, tortious acts committed by a silo administrator, and crimes incidental to the sale of items.

siloz makes no representation or guarantee as to the success of a fund-raising effort, or silo.


silo Administrators

silo administrators are prohibited from impersonating another person or falsely representing an organization.

A silo administrator is prohibited from starting a silo for an organization in which he or she does not enjoy an executive management role within.

Authority to start a silo may be ceded from an authorized representative of an organization, to another member, permitting that person to start or manage a silo 'by proxy'. In such instances, however, our Familiarity Index may shut the silo down, if information linking the delegated leader and the organization is not available to the public or widely know by the silo’s members.

siloz prohibits public silos (fundraisers) for political, racial, heritage foundations or causes, or any other organization that other members (through flagging), or our site administrators, deem inconsistent with our values of goodwill, inclusiveness, respect, and legality. Basically, the IRS’s advisories on who gets to be a 501(c)3 apply here. The questions are: 1) does it benefit the public, and 2) is it open to the public.

silo administrators are prohibited from spending money raised by a silo, for any purpose other than is represented by a silo.

silo administrators are required to represent how the money from their silo was spent.

silo administrators are encouraged to provide proof of how money raised by a silo was spent.

silo administrators understand that silo participation is voluntary, and no silo member shall be punished or rewarded for participation or non-participation, in a silo.


Sellers

Sellers are voluntary members of the community of a silo, and free to exit the silo (and pledge/donate items for another silo, or not at all) at their discretion.

Sellers are prohibited from donating (pledging or listing) items they do not lawfully own, and prevented from donating (pledging or listing) items they do not both control and have the ability to deliver to a seller.

Sellers are required to disclose all reasonable material details about a listed item, as the buyer is paying for the item, 'sight unseen'. A failure to properly represent an item may result in a refund by the site.