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Our Terms of Service Between You and Us.

The following Terms and Conditions constitute an Agreement (hereinafter called "Agreement") between cruise-newswire.com, (www.cruise-newswire.com ) part of Cruise Traveler Magazine, a subsidiary of Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" , ("Travel Direct Corporation or Travel Direct the "Company")

1. Through your registration for service, submission of copy and/or other information to Travel Direct Corporation the "Company", and cruise-newswire.com, You are in agreement with the following Terms and Conditions of Service.

2. Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" reserves the right to deny our service to any company, entity or person.

3. You acknowledge and understand that Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com services are non-reversible under any circumstances. The moment your Press Release, Article or Copy is displayed on our web site, You will not be entitled to any changes or adjustments.

4. You understand and acknowledge and agree that Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com does not and will not accept press releases for pornographic materials, illegal activity, copy that promotes hatred, violence, prejudice, or anything else we deem inappropriate and unethical. We also will not accept material that is not relevant to cruise-related travel. Topics of interest to our readers include: cruise related information, cruise lines, cruise ships, cruise destinations, and cruising topics of interests to first-time and seasoned cruise travelers.

5. Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" will not be held liable for services that may not be completed due to complications or failure with third party affiliates equipment or services including transfer of data and information.

6. You acknowledge that a free press release may receive limited or no distribution. In the event that a free press release is required to be cancelled, deleted, or retracted, you understand that your press release can not be retracted from web sites that your press release appears, or journalists that have picked up your story. Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" , will disseminate, once approved by us, your information in full, promptly and as accurately as possible on our web sites. Any inadvertent errors by us will be corrected on our web sites promptly upon notification or discovery. This obligation to correct the error on our web sites only, shall constitute the sole liability of Travel Direct Corporation the "Company".

7. You are responsible for the content and accuracy of all news copy and other information submitted by You. Due to the volume of news, information and copy submitted to Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com, cannot and will not be responsible for verifying any facts contained therein. You represent and warrant to Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com that (1) you have the right to deliver to Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com all information and copy submitted to it, (2) you will comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including but not limited to laws relating to "spam", and (3) no information or copy submitted by You or on Your behalf will contain any content that is libelous, slanderous, obscene or otherwise defamatory, false or misleading or which violates any copyright, right of privacy or publicity or other right of any person. You shall indemnify and hold harmless Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" , cruise-newswire.com and owners, third party vendors, including distributors, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) arising out of or relating to any breach by Member of the foregoing representations and warranties or otherwise arising out of or relating to the contents or nature of copy and other information provided by You or anyone acting on You behalf.

8. Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com has the right to deny or edit copy or other information as it sees necessary. Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com at its sole discretion, has the right to delete any press release from its web site, stop or prevent any press release from being distributed or deny approval to any press release. Our decisions are final. In the event that Your press release is not accepted, Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com will not be held liable for any possible or potential missed business opportunities.

9. You recognize that Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com do promote travel and other service and/or product offers to consumers on our web sites, including the page or pages where your Press Release is displayed for public view.

10. For all news releases and other information transmitted by Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com it is mandatory to display contact name and phone number along with an identifiable source supplied by You. This information identifies who is responsible for the content. This information may not be the name of an agency acting on behalf of You.

11. Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com does not warrant or guarantee that the services provided by Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" , cruise-newswire.com will be error free, including delays, interruption in service, omissions, losses or defects, whether human or mechanical. Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com makes no warranties, expressed or implied, as to its services, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability or suitability for print or broadcast. The liability of Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com to You shall be limited to the refund of the fees paid, if any, by You if we fail to provide the services we provide and in no event will Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" or cruise-newswire.com or affiliates be liable for any indirect, consequential, special, exemplary or incidental damages.

12. Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com does not warrant or guarantee specific placement of any news release nor pick up on any news release by any wire or service, but only makes available a news release to the media through our web site and services through our web site where a reporter or editor may best be able to decide to pick it up and use it.

13. You consent to receive communications from Travel Direct and cruise-newswire.com concerning your use of the Products and Services ("Communications"). These communications may include those required, by law to send to you concerning Products and Services or ("Required Communications"). The Communications may also be those that Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com sends to you for other reasons. You consent to receive Communications electronically. Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com may provide these Communications to you by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address you provided in connection with your account. You also give consent to receive Communications by other methods including telephone and post office (snail) mail. The phone number and address we will use for contact will be that which was provided by you when setting up your account. You may change the e-mail or mailing address to which Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com sends Communications by notifying us by e-mail.

14. You acknowledge that after distribution of Your press release, You will not be able to retract, change, delete or alter information in your press release that has been distributed to any of the cruise-newswire.com web site partners or network including RSS feed and javascript partners that pull feeds from the cruise-newswire.com web site. If information is required to be changed on a press release, cruise-newswire.com will make efforts to change the information on the release that is stored in the databaseand or is displayed on the cruise-newswire.com website with no guarantees that this change will take effect of any of its partner sites. You also acknowledge that in the event a press release is distributed with information that was required to be changed after the release date, you will not hold cruise-newswire.com, Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" , or any of our distribution partners liable in the event a press release is distributed.

15. You agree that you have full written permission from any companies mentioned in Your press release other than your own. You also agree you have full written permission from anyone else's name mentioned in your press release other than your own.

16. You acknowledge and agree that You will not submit a press release that mentions a publicly traded company, or their ticker symbol.

17. You acknowledge that You will not submit a press release mentioning a lawsuit/litigation, or a potential lawsuit or litigation.

18. Nothing within any of the Products and Services shall be construed conferring any license under Travel Direct, cruise-newswire.com or any third party intellectual property rights, whether by implication, waiver, estoppels or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, You acknowledge and agree that certain content available through and used to operate the cruise-newswire.com.com website and Products and Services is protected by copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary rights of Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" , cruise-newswire.com and its affiliates, licensors and service providers. Unless expressly provided to the contrary, you are in agreement that you may not modify, deface, alter any of the trademarks, service marks or other intellectual property made available by Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com in connection with the Products and Services. You also agree not to display yourself or web site as being in any way affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com. You agree not to use any of the service marks, trademarks logos or other Content accessible through the Travel Direct and cruise-newswire.com network for any purpose other than the purpose for which such Content is made available to You by Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com. You are in agreement not to defame or disparage Travel Direct or its website, cruise-newswire.com, trademarks or service marks of Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" of any part of the Products and Services. Information, services, methods and processes made available to the You are the intellectual property of Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" and cruise-newswire.com You agree to use this service for its intended purpose and not for the sole purposes including, but not limited to, the reverse engineering of the site and / or its processes and the inclusion of such processes or services in a derivative service.

19. You acknowledge and agree that you and Travel Direct and cruise-newswire.com are independent contractors under these Terms and Conditions, and nothing herein shall be construed to create a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship. Neither party pursuant to these Terms and Conditions has authority to enter into agreements of any kind on behalf of the other and neither party shall be considered the agent of the other.

20. Should the Terms and Conditions be violated by you, or if you violate any other rights of Cruise Traveler Magazine, cruise-newswire.com and the Travel Direct Corporation "Company" network of sites, Travel Direct Corporation the "Company" reserves the right to pursue any and all legal and equitable remedies against you, including, without limitation, terminating any and all of Your accounts on any and all of the Cruise Traveler Magazine, Travel Direct Corporation and cruise-newswire.com web sites.

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Note: All submissions are subject to editorial review and must meet strict standards for content. They must be timely, newsworthy and of interest to our readers. Only cruise-related material is to be considered for publication. The decision to publish or not publish any Press Release, Story or Article is strictly up to us and all decisions are final.

cruise-newswire.com, is the Media Distribution Services center of Cruise Traveler Magazine. We are an online service for cruise related information, cruise lines, cruise ships, cruise destinations, cruising topics of interests to first-time and seasoned cruise travelers. At times one of our Editors may be the author of a Press release, Story or Article. Other times, the author may be a cruise line, travel agent, professional travel writer, cruise reviewer, story teller or a member of the general public. The information that is on or available through this site is for informational purposes only. Because of the timing of release dates, this information may be out-of-date by the time you read it. So, make sure to check the official company website for up-to-date, more accurate information about anything mentioned in the release, story or article. We do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of information on or available through this site, and we are not responsible for inaccuracies, errors or omissions in that information or for actions taken in reliance on that information.

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Consumers, Writers, Journalists, and Editors browse sites like Cruise Traveler Magazine, Cruise Direct Online, or Cruise Reviews Online to find the latest news. A featured article or news story will help you highlight your news on our web site(s) and we can add your company logo and web link(s) for more exposure. In addition to the possibly of a press release, story or article being picked up and read by news organizations, most of our press releases, stories or articles are posted directly on one or more of our company owned travel-related web sites. Collectively they reach millions of visitors.

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