Terms of service

Who provides Directories

Directories is operated by Driven Success LLC. In these terms, we and us mean Driven Success LLC, and you means the person or company that opens an account.

Directories is a platform for running link directories. You publish listings for other businesses, you tell us which reciprocal link each listing must carry, and we check that the link is still there on the schedule you choose. When a link goes missing, we apply the policy you configured. You can reach us at [email protected].

Your account

You need an account to use Directories. You can sign in with an email address and password, or with a Google account; either way we hold the email address the account is registered under.

An account can carry several people, up to the seat count your plan allows. The account owner controls billing and can delete the account; operators can run directories and listings but cannot change billing. You are responsible for what everybody on your account does, and for keeping sign-in details to yourself.

You can also give a listed business edit rights on its own listing. Those rights are deliberately narrow: an invited business owner can edit only the fields you marked as owner-editable, and can never change a listing's website address, its category, or whether it is published. The website address is the thing we verify, so it stays under your control.

Plans and limits

Directories is a monthly subscription. Your plan sets how many directories you can run, how many listings each one can hold, how often we check linkbacks, which enforcement actions you can use, and how many people can be on your account. The current plans and their limits are on the pricing page.

Limits are checked at the moment you act. If you are at your listing limit, creating the next listing fails and says so. We never delete, hide, or unpublish anything you have already created in order to enforce a limit, and no background process trims your content down to your plan. If you move to a smaller plan while you are over its limits, everything you have stays exactly where it is; you simply cannot create more until your usage fits.

Payment and renewal

Subscriptions are billed monthly and renew until you cancel. dodopayments is the merchant of record for every subscription: it runs the checkout, holds the card details, issues the invoice, and handles failed-payment retries. We never see or store your card number.

If a payment fails, your account moves to past due and you have seven days to put it right. Everything keeps running during those seven days. If the payment still has not gone through when they are up, we suspend the directory, and a custom domain answers with a branded unavailable page instead of your listings. Suspension does not touch your data, and a successful payment brings the directory straight back.

Your content

Everything you put into Directories stays yours: directory names and branding, categories, listings, the descriptions and property values you write, and the policies you configure. You give us permission to store that content, serve it on your directory's pages, and cache it at our edge provider, because that is what publishing a directory means. The permission ends when the content does.

You are responsible for what you list. That includes having the right to publish a business's name, description, and details, and it includes dealing directly with a listed business that objects. We do not review listings before they go live, and we are not the editor of your directory.

Acceptable use

Do not use Directories to publish unlawful content, or content you have no right to publish. Do not list a website in order to point the checker at it as a way of loading, probing, or disrupting it. Do not work around plan limits, resell access to the platform, or interfere with another account.

We can suspend an account that breaks these rules. Where we can, we will tell you what happened and give you a chance to put it right first. Where the breach is serious or still running, we may suspend first and explain afterwards.

Verification and enforcement

This is exactly what the platform does. On the schedule your directory settings and your plan allow, we fetch the listed business's website and look for the reciprocal link you told us to expect. We write down what we found, and stop. The job that fetches pages never changes a listing's state.

A separate step reads those records and applies your policy. Only a page that loaded and genuinely did not contain the link starts a grace period. If the site was unreachable, blocked the checker in its robots.txt, or returned a page with no links in it at all, we record that and do nothing else: a site being down, or drawing its links in the browser, is not a policy breach and will not cost anybody their listing.

The enforcement action is yours, not ours. Flagging a listing, switching its outbound link to nofollow, dropping it from collections, and unpublishing it are all things you configure per directory. Every change is recorded, so why a listing moved is always answerable.

What we do not promise

We do not control the websites you list. We cannot promise that a listed site will be reachable, that it will answer our checker rather than block it, or that its pages will be readable enough for us to find a link in them. A check result describes what one fetch saw at one moment; it is not a statement about anybody's website.

Directories is not an SEO tool. It verifies one specific link on one specific page. It does not track rankings, measure authority, or discover links you did not ask it to check.

We work to keep the service up, and public directory pages are cached at the edge so they keep serving even when our origin does not. We do not promise uninterrupted service.

Cancelling and deletion

You can cancel at any time. Your subscription runs to the end of the period you have already paid for.

After that, a custom domain keeps serving for seven days and then answers with a branded unavailable page. We remove the hostname from our edge provider thirty days later. We keep your account data for ninety days so you can reactivate and pick up where you left off, and we delete it once the ninety days are up.

If you want it gone sooner, write to [email protected] and we will purge your directories, listings, and check history within thirty days. Deletion is permanent.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. When we do, we update this page and move the date at the top of it, so you can always see when the wording last changed. If a change materially affects how you use Directories, we will tell you at the address on your account before it takes effect.

Using Directories after a change means you accept the new terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States. Any dispute arising out of them belongs in the courts of the State of Delaware, United States.

Contact

Driven Success LLC publishes these terms. Questions about them, and any notice you need to send us, go to the address below.

[email protected]