Terms of Use

This Agreement was last modified on November 4, 2026.

Please read these Terms of Use completely before using HudPost.com. This Agreement documents the legally binding terms and conditions attached to the use of HudPost.com, operated by HUDPOST LLC. By using or accessing the site in any way, you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. You must be at least 13 years of age to use this website, and 18 years of age to make purchases, submit content, or engage in financial transactions.

1. Privacy Policy Integration Your use of HudPost.com is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which outlines how we collect, use, and share your personal data. By agreeing to these Terms, you also consent to our data practices as described in our Privacy Policy.

2. Shop, E-Commerce Purchases, and Refund Policy HUDPOST LLC operates an online shop using WooCommerce. By purchasing products or services from us, you agree to provide accurate payment and shipping information.

  • Digital Services and Advertisements: All sales for digital products, missing pet flyers, advertising placements, sponsorships, and other digital services are final and non-refundable, except where legally required by law.
  • Physical Merchandise: We want you to be satisfied with your physical purchases. If you receive a physical item that is defective, damaged, or incorrect, you have a 30-day window from the date of delivery to contact us at info@hudpost.com for a replacement or refund. Please note that HUDPOST LLC is not responsible for standard transit delays caused by third-party shipping carriers once an item has been dispatched.

3. Missing Pet Flyer Service The following terms apply specifically to HudPost’s Missing Pet Flyer service:

  • Service Description: HudPost will create a custom missing pet flyer using the pet name, last seen location, contact number, and photo you submit. The flyer will be posted to the official HudPost Instagram Story and Facebook Story for a duration of 24 hours from the time of posting.
  • All Sales Final: Payment is non-refundable, except where required by law. Once you submit payment and the flyer has been posted to HudPost’s social channels, the transaction is final and complete.
  • Early Removal: If your pet is located before the 24-hour window ends, HudPost will remove the flyer from its stories at no additional cost upon request. Early removal does not entitle the customer to a refund, in full or in part.
  • Missing Pets Page: If you choose it on the form, your flyer, including the contact number on it, is also displayed publicly on HudPost’s Missing Pets page until you mark your pet as found. The link to do that is in your confirmation email. Once marked found, the listing shows FOUND and covers the contact details, and it is removed from the page about 30 days later. HudPost may remove any listing at its discretion, and you may ask us to remove yours at any time by writing to info@hudpost.com.
  • Accuracy of Information: The customer is solely responsible for the accuracy of all information submitted. HudPost is not responsible for errors resulting from inaccurate or incomplete submissions.
  • No Guarantee of Outcome: HudPost does not guarantee that posting a flyer will result in the recovery of the pet. The service provides visibility through our audience, but we are not responsible for the outcome of any search.
  • Editorial Discretion: HudPost reserves the right to decline or remove any submission that violates its editorial standards, contains inappropriate content, or is determined to be fraudulent. In cases of declined submissions, HudPost will issue a full refund.

3A. Lost or Stolen Item Posts The following terms apply specifically to HudPost’s Lost or Stolen service:

  • Service Description: HudPost will create a flyer from the item description, last seen location, contact details, optional reward, and photo you submit. After our team approves it, the flyer is posted to the official HudPost Instagram Story and Facebook Story for 24 hours. The fee is $35 per post.
  • Review, Declines and Refunds: Every submission is reviewed before it is published. HudPost may edit for clarity, or decline any submission at its discretion. If we decline your submission, you receive a full refund. Once a post has been published to HudPost’s social channels, the sale is final and non-refundable, except where required by law.
  • Your Statements: By submitting, you confirm that the item belongs to you or that you are authorized to post about it, and that everything you submit is true. Do not name, describe, or accuse any person, and do not upload photos of people, of suspects, or of someone else’s license plate. The customer is solely responsible for the accuracy of all information submitted.
  • Stolen Items: A HudPost post is not a police report. If your item was stolen, file a report with your local police department. HudPost shares your post with its audience but does not investigate, verify claims, or recover property.
  • Rewards: Any reward shown on a post is offered and paid solely by you. HudPost is not a party to the reward, does not hold or guarantee any funds, and does not settle disputes about rewards.
  • Lost & Found Page: If you choose it on the form, your flyer, including the contact details on it, is also displayed publicly on HudPost’s Lost & Found page until you mark the item as recovered. The link to do that is in your confirmation email. Once marked, the listing shows RECOVERED and covers the contact details, and it is removed from the page about 30 days later. HudPost may remove any listing at its discretion, and you may ask us to remove yours at any time by writing to info@hudpost.com.
  • Staying Safe: When someone contacts you about your item, meet in a public place and use good judgment. HudPost is not responsible for communications or meetings between you and people who respond to a post.
  • No Guarantee of Outcome: HudPost does not guarantee that a post will lead to the recovery of any item. The service provides visibility through our audience, and we are not responsible for the outcome.
  • Service Description: HudPost publishes legal notices online under New Jersey P.L. 2025, c. 72 (N.J.S.A. 35:3-1 et seq.). A paid notice is reviewed and published within 24 hours of receipt, displayed with our current legal notices for at least seven days (or longer when more publications are purchased), and then kept in a free, publicly searchable archive for at least one year.
  • Scope: HudPost accepts notices whose required geographic target is one of the Hudson County municipalities listed on the submission form. HudPost does not accept notices that must be published on a county-wide or statewide basis.
  • Your Responsibility: You are solely responsible for the content and accuracy of your notice, for your authority to submit it, and for determining whether publication on HudPost satisfies the statute, rule, or order that applies to it, including any deadlines. HudPost does not provide legal advice and does not review notices for legal sufficiency.
  • Review and Right to Decline: Every notice is reviewed before publication. HudPost may decline any notice at its discretion, including notices that appear inaccurate, unlawful, defamatory, fraudulent, or outside the scope above. If HudPost declines a notice, you will receive a full refund.
  • Pricing: The line charge does not exceed the rate permitted by N.J.S.A. 35:2-1. Lines are calculated as described on the submission form. Proof of publication is charged separately at the price shown at checkout.
  • Proof of Publication: Proof is provided as a Certification of Publication, signed electronically by HudPost’s publisher under N.J. Court Rule 1:4-4(b) and delivered by email when the notice is published. A notarized Affidavit of Publication is available for an additional fee and is delivered within five business days of publication. You are responsible for confirming which form of proof your court, board, or agency accepts.
  • All Sales Final: Payment is non-refundable once a notice has been published, except where required by law. Removing or changing a published notice does not entitle you to a refund.
  • Errors: If HudPost publishes a notice differently from the text you submitted, HudPost will correct and republish it at no charge. That is your sole remedy, and HudPost’s liability for any claim relating to a legal notice is limited to the amount you paid for it. HudPost is not responsible for errors in the text you submitted.
  • Interruptions: HudPost is not liable for temporary outages, technical failures, or other circumstances outside its control. Under N.J.S.A. 35:3-4, such circumstances do not make a legal notice defective.
  • Public Record: A legal notice is a public document. By submitting one, you grant HudPost the right to publish, display, and archive it, and you understand that any names and contact details inside the notice will be publicly visible. The contact information you give us for billing is not published.
  • Service Description: HudPost sells job listings to employers hiring in Hudson County. You submit your jobs at hudpost.com/post-a-job and pay at checkout. A listing is $20 per job and runs for 60 days. You may put more than one job in a single checkout, and each job is $20. Every submission is read by a person before it goes live. An approved listing appears on the HudPost jobs page and on its own page on hudpost.com, and the 60 days start the day HudPost approves it, not the day you pay.
  • Hudson County Jobs Only: The job has to be in one of the twelve Hudson County municipalities listed on the form. That is the point of the page. If the job is somewhere else, HudPost will decline it and refund you.
  • Featured Posts: Featured is $75 per job and runs the same 60 days. A featured listing sits at the top of the jobs page with your logo, gets one Story on the official HudPost Instagram account, and gets one mention in the HudPost newsletter. Only three featured spots exist at a time, and they are filled in the order jobs are approved. Both the Story and the newsletter mention are posted by hand, and HudPost does not promise a posting date, an audience size, or any level of response. If all three spots are taken when HudPost approves your job, the job runs as a standard listing and you choose between a refund of the difference and the next featured spot that opens.
  • Review, Declines and Refunds: Every submission is reviewed before it is published. HudPost may edit a listing for clarity, length, or formatting, and may decline any submission at its discretion. If HudPost declines your job, the order is cancelled and you receive a full refund for it. Refunds are issued by hand and can take a few days to appear on your card. Once a listing has been published, the sale is final and non-refundable, except where required by law. Filling the job early, or asking us to take the listing down early, does not entitle you to a refund. HudPost may also remove a live listing that breaks these terms, and that does not entitle you to a refund.
  • Your Statements: By submitting, you confirm that you are the employer or that the employer has authorized you to post on its behalf, that every job is real and currently open, that it is located in the Hudson County municipality you selected, and that the pay range, job type, and everything else you submit is true. Do not post another company’s job as your own. You are solely responsible for the content and accuracy of your listing.
  • Pay Range: HudPost requires a pay range on every job listing, whatever the size of your business, and the form will not accept a job without one. New Jersey law also requires many employers to include pay and benefit information in job advertisements. Meeting that law is your responsibility, not ours. The range is published the way you enter it, and it must be the range you are actually offering.
  • Equal Opportunity: Your listing must comply with the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 et seq.) and with federal employment law. Do not post anything that states or implies a preference, a limit, or a bar based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital or familial status, military service, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. New Jersey also bars job advertisements saying that unemployed applicants will not be considered, and job advertisements saying that applicants with a criminal record will not be considered. HudPost declines listings that break these rules.
  • What We Do Not List: HudPost does not run listings for multi level marketing, commission only sales presented as a salaried job, unpaid work presented as a paid job, or adult work. HudPost does not run pitches for a course, a franchise, an investment, or a business opportunity dressed up as a job. HudPost also declines listings that exist mainly to collect personal information, and any listing for a job that is not real and open.
  • Never Charge the Applicant: No HudPost listing may ask a job seeker for money at any stage. That includes application fees, training fees, certification fees, equipment, uniforms, starter kits, background check costs, and deposits, and it includes any request to buy something or send funds in order to be considered. A listing must not ask an applicant for bank account details, payment card details, or a Social Security number as part of applying. HudPost removes these listings with no refund.
  • Applications: The apply button on your listing goes straight to the link or email address you gave us, and that link or address is published on the listing. If you gave a link, it opens in a new tab, and HudPost adds utm_source=hudpost so you can see in your own reports which visits came from HudPost. If you gave an email address, the listing also shows a short box that helps the applicant write their email (their name, phone and a few words), then open it in their own email app or copy it. The applicant sends that email from their own account and attaches any resume themselves. HudPost does not collect, store, forward, or review resumes or applications, and what an applicant types into the box stays in their browser. HudPost does not screen, verify, or recommend anyone who applies. Everything after the click is between you and the applicant, including interviews, background checks, and hiring decisions, and you are responsible for handling whatever an applicant sends you under the privacy and employment laws that apply to your business.
  • HudPost Is Not an Employment Agency: HudPost sells advertising space on its own site. HudPost is not an employer, an employment agency, a staffing firm, a recruiter, or an agent for any employer or applicant, and it takes no part in hiring. A paid job post is advertising. Publishing one is not an endorsement of the employer or the job, and buying one does not buy news coverage or influence HudPost’s reporting in any way. HudPost never charges job seekers. Reading listings and applying through HudPost is free and always will be.
  • Your Logo and Job Text: By submitting, you grant HUDPOST LLC a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to display your listing, your company name, and any logo you upload on hudpost.com, in the HudPost newsletter, and on HudPost social accounts in order to run your post. You confirm you have the right to grant that license, including the right to use the logo you upload.
  • Changes, Removal and the End of the Run: Write to info@hudpost.com and HudPost will fix details on a live listing, such as a typo, a new apply link, or a corrected pay range. Putting a different job in place of the one you bought is a new post at the regular price. If you fill the job early, write to info@hudpost.com and HudPost will take it down. Days you do not use are not refunded. HudPost emails you about a week before the run ends. At the end of the 60 days the listing comes off the jobs page and off its own page on its own. Nothing renews and nothing charges you again. To keep hiring, post the job again. HudPost may also edit or remove any listing at any time at its discretion, including one that becomes inaccurate or that breaks these terms.
  • Google Job Results: HudPost adds the JobPosting structured data that search engines use for job results to every listing page. HudPost does not control Google or any other search engine and does not guarantee that a listing will be indexed, shown, or ranked, or for how long. Other sites may copy a listing once it is public, and HudPost cannot remove those copies.
  • For Job Seekers: HudPost reviews listings against the rules above, but it does not verify employers, job details, or pay, and it does not endorse any employer. If a listing takes applications by email, the apply box helps you write the email and open it in your own email app. You send it yourself, from your own account, and attach your resume there; HudPost never receives or keeps it. Use good judgment, never send money or sensitive personal information to an employer, and write to info@hudpost.com to report a listing.
  • Errors and Limit of Liability: If HudPost publishes a listing differently from the text you submitted, HudPost will correct it at no charge. That is your sole remedy, and HudPost’s liability for any claim relating to a job post is limited to the amount you paid for that post. HudPost is not responsible for errors in the text you submitted.
  • No Guarantee of Outcome: HudPost does not guarantee applicants, clicks, views, or a hire. The service provides visibility through our audience, and we are not responsible for the outcome of any hiring process or for anything that happens between an employer and an applicant.

5. Voluntary Donations HudPost may accept voluntary financial contributions from readers to support our journalism. Please note that HUDPOST LLC is a for-profit entity, and therefore, contributions or donations are not tax-deductible. All donations are final and non-refundable.

6. Advertisers and Sponsored Content All advertising, sponsorships, and fundraiser promotions on HudPost.com are subject to our approval. Advertisers are solely responsible for ensuring their advertisements comply with all applicable state and federal laws. HUDPOST LLC assumes no liability for the products, services, or claims made within third-party advertisements or GoFundMe/Crowdfunding campaigns posted on our platforms.

6A. Self-Serve Advertising The following terms apply specifically to advertising booked and paid for online through HudPost’s self-serve booking pages:

  • Service Description: Advertisers who receive HudPost’s rate sheet can book certain products online and pay at checkout: display ads on hudpost.com, booked by the day; a Business Spotlight in one issue of the Weekend Briefing newsletter; and social posts on HudPost’s Instagram, Facebook, TikTok or X accounts. The price is the one shown on the booking page at checkout. Display ads are priced per week and charged by the day. Products that are not offered for online booking, such as Spotlight videos, podcast placements, sponsorships and sponsored articles, are arranged directly with our team.
  • Review Before Anything Runs: A person reviews every booking before it runs, usually the same business day. Paying does not guarantee publication. HudPost may decline any booking at its discretion, including for content, quality, accuracy, or fit with our community standards and the rules in Section 6. If we decline a booking, the order is cancelled and you receive a full refund. Refunds are issued by hand and can take 5 to 10 business days to appear.
  • Dates: Bookings start at least two business days after checkout. Your dates are held for a short time while you pay and are confirmed when your booking is approved. If approval comes after your chosen first day, a display ad starts on the day it is approved and keeps the number of days you paid for; if those days are no longer free, we will contact you to pick new dates or refund you. Display ads switch on and off automatically during the day they start and end, and HudPost does not promise an exact hour. The Weekend Briefing goes out once a week on the day and time HudPost chooses.
  • Your Materials: You are responsible for the artwork, photos, videos, text and links you submit, and for the products, services and claims they promote. By submitting them, you confirm that you own them or have permission to use them, that they are truthful and lawful, and that they do not infringe anyone’s rights. You grant HudPost a non-exclusive license to use, resize, crop, format and publish them for your booking, and to keep copies in its records and archive. Display artwork must be one of the sizes listed on the booking page.
  • Social Posts: HudPost’s team builds and publishes social posts by hand from the files you submit, on or about the day you choose. Photo posts are presented in HudPost’s own headline style, and HudPost may edit captions for length, clarity and style. Stories disappear after 24 hours, as the platforms intend. HudPost does not accept influencer-type videos, meaning a creator or personality on camera promoting a business. We accept your own footage of your business, space, food, products or event. Every video is reviewed before it runs.
  • Labels: Paid placements may be labeled “Advertisement”, “Sponsored” or similar, as HudPost and the law require.
  • No Guaranteed Results: HudPost reports views and clicks for display ads as measured by its own systems, but does not guarantee any number of views, clicks, sales, followers or other results. If a booked placement does not run at all because of an error on HudPost’s side, we will run it on another date or refund that part. Outages or changes at a social platform that are outside our control are not grounds for a refund.
  • Cancellations: To cancel before your booking is approved, reply to your confirmation email and you receive a full refund. After approval, changes and cancellations are at HudPost’s discretion. Once an ad has started running, or a post or newsletter has been published, the sale is final and non-refundable, except where required by law.
  • No Endorsement: Running an advertisement is not an endorsement by HudPost or its journalists, and advertising does not influence our news coverage.

7. Reader Submissions and User-Generated Content We welcome news tips, photos, and videos from the community. This section governs anything you send us.

License you grant. By submitting any content to HudPost, including text, photographs, graphics, audio, and video, through our upload page, email, comment forms, social media, or any other channel (your “Submission”), you grant HUDPOST LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, and sublicensable license to host, store, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, translate, create derivative works from, publish, publicly display and perform, distribute, and otherwise exploit your Submission, in whole or in part, for any purpose, including news, editorial, promotional, advertising, and other commercial purposes, in any and all media and formats now known or later developed. This license includes the right to use any name, likeness, image, or voice appearing in the Submission in connection with its use. HudPost is under no obligation to use, publish, credit, or pay you for any Submission, and owes you nothing further for the uses licensed here.

Your representations. By submitting, you represent and warrant that: (a) you are at least 18 years old; (b) you created the Submission or otherwise hold all rights necessary to grant this license; (c) the Submission does not infringe or violate any third party’s copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights, and is not defamatory or otherwise unlawful; and (d) every identifiable person in the Submission (or their parent or guardian, if a minor) has consented to its capture and to the uses described here. You are solely responsible for your Submission.

No confidentiality; no obligation. Submissions are not confidential. We cannot guarantee that any Submission will be published, and we are not liable for using or not using a Submission.

Moral rights. To the extent permitted by law, you waive, and agree not to assert against HudPost or anyone acting under its license, any moral rights or similar rights you may have in your Submission.

8. Defamation and Editorial Liability Shield As a news and media platform, HudPost.com publishes information sourced from the community, public records, and third parties. While we strive for accuracy, we do not warrant or guarantee the absolute correctness, completeness, or timeliness of any published content. HUDPOST LLC explicitly disclaims liability for any claims of defamation, reputational damage, or negligent publication arising from third-party submissions, user-generated comments, or good-faith journalistic reporting.

9. Article Removal and Correction Requests Due to the nature of news publishing and the historical public record, articles generally will not be removed from HudPost.com or associated social media accounts. However, we may update, correct, or in limited cases remove content at our sole discretion or as required by law (such as a valid court order). If you believe we have incorrectly reported information, please contact us so we may investigate and post a correction if necessary.

10. DMCA Copyright Policy HudPost respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe your copyrighted work has been infringed upon on our site, please contact us at info@hudpost.com with a detailed description of the copyrighted work, its location on our site, and your contact information, so we can investigate and remove it in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

11. Intellectual Property HudPost.com, its original content, podcasts, logos, and branding are fully protected by appropriate United States and international copyright and intellectual property rights laws.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability HudPost.com and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HUDPOST LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. HUDPOST LLC DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. IN NO EVENT WILL HUDPOST LLC BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS OR REPUTATIONAL DAMAGE) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE HUDPOST.COM.

13. Indemnification You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless HUDPOST LLC, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claims, liabilities, damages, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of your use of the site, your user-generated submissions, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any third-party rights.

14. Dispute Resolution: Binding Arbitration and Class Action Waiver PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY AS IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use, the breach thereof, or your use of HudPost.com shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in accordance with its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The arbitration shall take place in Hudson County, New Jersey.

  • Class Action Waiver: YOU AND HUDPOST LLC AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.
  • Jury Trial Waiver: You waive any constitutional and statutory rights to go to court and have a trial in front of a judge or a jury.
  • Limitation on Time to File Claims: Any cause of action or claim you may have arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use or the website must be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues; otherwise, such cause of action or claim is permanently barred.

15. Governing Law, Venue, and Severability This Agreement is governed in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. For any matters not subject to arbitration, legal proceedings shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Hudson County, New Jersey. In any action to enforce these Terms, the prevailing party will be entitled to recover its reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

16. Changes to This Agreement HUDPOST LLC reserves the right to modify these Terms of Use at any time by posting the updated terms on the site. Your continued use of the site after such changes constitutes your formal acceptance of the new Terms.

Contact Us If you have any questions or concerns about this Agreement, our practices, or early removal of a pet flyer, please contact us.