Terms of Service

TravelingHippo.com Terms of Service:

For Authors

By submitting your article(s) to us;

1. You declare that you are the sole owner and author of the article and own 100% of all copyrights pertaining to it.
   
   
2. Your submission to TravelingHippo.com gives unconditional permission for us to publish your article on the website and if featured, it may be distributed to our  RSS feed, and to our real-time email alerts members.
   
   
3. Your submission to TravelingHippo.com also gives unconditional permission for your articles to be reprinted in other ezines, websites and print publications. We ask publisher(s) to follow our reprint rules as stated below, but you acknowledge that the enforcement of our Terms of Service for publishers is at your risk and cost and not ours. In other words, if someone violates your copyright -- it will be 100% up to you to take legal action against those who abuse your copyright to protect your interests. If you do not agree to these terms, do not submit your articles.
   
   
4. It is the TravelingHippo.com Team's sole decision as to whether your article is published and for how long. There are no guarantees made that your article(s) will be published. Quality matters. We reserve the right to remove your article(s) and/or membership account at any time for any reason.
   
   
5. The TravelingHippo.com Editorial Team reserves the right to re-classify your article in a topic category that may be more suitable than originally submitted.
   
   
6. You acknowledge that we do not pay for submissions to our directory and we do not require publishers to pay you for their use of your article. The primary reason for submitting your article to our directory is for the chance to be picked up by publishers and or webmasters to be reprinted to their respective audiences. While our directory receives many tens of thousands of unique visitors monthly, there are no guarantees your article will be reprinted by anyone.
   
   
7. TravelingHippo.com is advertiser supported. We reserve the right to publish ads on the same pages as your articles.
   
   
8. If your article does not conform to the Traveling Hippo editorial guidelines, our editors may edit your article so that it does conform to the posted editorial guidelines. Please read our editorial guidelines before submitting your articles to save time and speed the article approval process.
   
   
9. You declare that you will not send in any articles with direct affiliate links in them. We reject articles with direct affiliate links. It is ok, however, forward/redirect to an affiliate link from the top-level of a domain name you own. For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:
   
   http://your-company-name.com/
   
   ...but it would not be permissable to forward to an affiliate link from:
   
   http://your-company-name.com/page.html
   http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/
   http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html
   
   This is one of our many article quality standards.

For Publishers

Attention Publishers & Webmasters; Our Reprint Policies:

1. If you wish to publish/reprint any article from our site in your ezine, website, blog, forum, RSS feed or print publication, you must:
   
   
   • Respect the copyrights of the authors by publishing the entire article as it is with no changes.
     
     
   • Agree to include the FULL Resource box or SIG line at the end of the article.
     
     
   • Agree not to change the title or content of the article in any way.
     
     
   • Agree to make all links so that they are Active/Linkable with no syntax changes.
     
     
   • Agree to include the article source credit below each article reprinted with the link active:
     
     
     Article Source: TravelingHippo.com
     
     
     
   • Agree to not put any of the articles found on this site to any web site that also contains warez, illegal mp3 or other files, instructions on how to make bombs or steal, or expressions that promote hatred or profanity or racism or bigotry, or contains pornography or exploits children or animals or any human, or any other unlawful activities.
     
     
   • Agree to never reprint any article from this site via any unsolicited email, spamming, or pop up ads.
     
     
   • Agree to never sell any article from the TravelingHippo.com directory.
     
     
   • Agree to never charge others to view any article you reprint from our directory.
     
     
   • Agree to limit the number of articles reprinted to no greater than taking 25 articles from our site per calendar year per unique domain that you own.
     
     
   • Agree to not include the rel=nofollow tag in your HREF statements.
     
     
   • Agree to not use any content from our site in audio or video derivatives whatsoever.
     
     
   • Agree to never translate any content from our site in any language. You may not create derivative works from any of our content.
     
     
   • Agree to not add any active links to any article you reprint from our site. This unethical behavior would lead someone to believe falsely that the author of the article endorses the active link when in fact there is no truth to that.
     
     
   • Agree to never reprint any author photo or images found on our site.
   
   
2. Your use of anything connected to TravelingHippo.com, our newsletter, our RSS feed or our website is completely at your own risk.
   
   
3. While Traveling Hippo does not generally own the copyright to the articles found within our site, we do have permission for publishing them.
   
   
4. No additional permission is required from the author of any article within our directory as long as you agree to every term listed above in section 1. a) thru 1. n).
   
   
5. It is common courtesy to let an author know when you reprint their article, but at this time we are not providing any authors email address beyond what they may include in an article (please find it from their website link if their email address is not provided in the article.)
   
   
6. You are not required to include the Google ads that are found on our site when you reprint any article from our site, but you must respect the 25 reprint limit per year.
   
   
7. If you violate any of the above terms of service and/or any author copyright when reprinting articles from our site, you agree to be held liable for all attorney fees and statutory damages awarded upon a copyright infringement lawsuit that may be brought against you. Please read Section 504(c)(2) (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#504). You agree that any legal proceedings against you will occur in Brown County in the State of Wisconsin, USA.
   
   
8. You acknowledge that TravelingHippo.com has the sole right to revoke these reprint rights at any given time for any reason provided you're given 48 hours written notice via email or via fax or via telephone or via postal mail. If you're unreachable, you also agree that we may contact your web hosting provider to reach you and serve this notice. Upon receiving notice from us, you will have 24 hours to immediately remove every article you received from TravelingHippo.com and must provide us with a written reply indicating that you have complied with our request in order to mitigate further action against you and your business to enforce this covenant.
   
   
9. You agree to never use article crawlers, rogue bots, site scrapers or any automated script/software or method that attempts to mine the article content on TravelingHippo.com. You acknowledge that we may block your access to our site and/or membership.

General Issues:

TravelingHippo.com reserves the right to modify these Terms & Conditions at any time without prior notice.

Disclaimer:

Liability: TravelingHippo.com and its parent company WK Enterprises does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information or product represented on this site.

No Implied Endorsement: TravelingHippo.com does not endorse or recommend anything. The views of the authors that have submitted their articles to this site are owned by them alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of TravelingHippo.com, its management team or owners. Further, TravelingHippo.com does not recommend any product or service found via any advertisement within this site.

No Warranty: When using this site, you may find many links to 3rd party Internet sites. TravelingHippo.com is not responsible for the content or availability of these 3rd party sites. TravelingHippo.com does not warrant or guarantee the products, services, or information found on external or 3rd party sites.

No Pop-Ups: There are no Pop-Ups anywhere within the TravelingHippo.com site. If you receive one as a result of clicking on any of the 3rd party links found within this site -- know that they did not originate from our site. If you are an author that is proud of your Pop-Ups, please don't submit your articles to our directory (java hover ads excepted).

The authors of the articles in this site do not dispense medical, legal or professional advice, nor do they prescribe any treatment or strategy that should be tested without the advice of a professional. Information presented on this site is for educational or entertainment purposes only. You are responsible for your own actions should you use any information found on this site.