CBSSports.com is currently using the following criteria in determining appropriate advertising. All advertising on CBSSports.com or CBSSports, including Strategic Partner sites linking directly from CBSSports.com, licensed to use any CBSSports.com Brand, or licensed to use CBSSports.com content, is subject to this policy.

A. Violence/Profanity (graphics or text):

• Advertisement contains no pictures or text exposing cruelty, physical, or emotional acts against any person or animal which are primarily intended to hurt or inflict pain.
• Advertisement contains no obscene words, phrases, and profanity.

B. Partial Nudity and Nudity:

• Advertisement contains no pictures exposing the female breast or full exposure of either male or female buttocks.
• The advertisement may include swimsuits.
• The advertisement will not contain pictures exposing any or all portions of the human genitalia.

C. Sexual Acts (graphics or text):

• The advertisement will not contain pictures or text exposing anyone or anything involved in explicit sexual acts and or lewd and lascivious behavior, including masturbation, copulation, pedophilia, intimacy involving nude or partially nude people in heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian or homosexual encounters.
• The advertisement excludes phone sex ads, dating services, and adult personals, CD-ROM's and videos.

D. Gross Depictions (graphic or text):

• The advertisement will not contain pictures or descriptive text of anyone or any thing which are crudely vulgar or grossly deficient in civility or behavior or which show scatological impropriety. Included such depictions as maiming, bloody figures, or indecent depiction of bodily functions.

E. Intolerance (graphics or text):

• The advertisement will not contain pictures or text advocating prejudice or discrimination against any race, color, national origin, religion, disability or handicap, gender, or sexual orientation.
• The advertisement will not contain any intolerant jokes or slurs.

F. Satanic/Cult:

• The advertisement will not contain or link to content, pictures, or text advocating devil worship, an affinity for evil, or wickedness. The advertisement contains no advocacy to join a cult.
• A cult is defined as a closed society that is headed by a single individual, or group of individuals, where loyalty is demanded and leaving is punishable.

G. Drugs/Drug Culture:

• The advertisement contains no pictures or text advocating the illegal use of drugs.
• The advertisement contains no substances used for other than their primary purpose to alter the individual's state of mind, such as glue sniffing.

H. Militant/Extremist:

• Advertisement contains no pictures or text advocating extremely aggressive and combative behaviors, or advocacy of unlawful political measures. Excluded topics include groups that advocate violence as a means to achieve their goals.
• Advertisement contain no "how to" information on weapons making, ammunition making or the making or use of pyrotechnics materials.
• Advertisement contains no use of weapons for unlawful reasons.

I. Questionable/Illegal & Gambling (graphics and text):

• Advertisement contains no pictures or text advocating materials or activities of a dubious nature which may be illegal in any or all jurisdictions, such as illegal business schemes, chain letters, copyright infringement, computer hacking, phreaking (using someone's phone lines without permission) and software piracy.
• Advertisement contains no text advocating gambling relating to casinos, betting, numbers games, on-line sports or financial betting, including non-monetary dares. Lottery ads are exempted.
• Advertisement contains no odds related info.

J. Competitive (graphics and text):

• Advertisement contains no pictures or text with promotions or other mentions for direct competitors of CBSSports.com or CBS Worldwide Inc.

NOTE:
Links from advertisement are subject to the same criteria as advertisement. Advertisement may not link to pictures or text which do not follow these criteria or is deemed inappropriate by CBSSports.com.