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This Website may contain forums, bulletin boards, review services or other channels in which you or third parties may post reviews of their vacation experiences or other content, messages, materials or other items on this Website (“Interactive Communicating Areas”). If Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), and its brands and affiliates provide such Interactive Communicating Areas, you are solely responsible for your use of such Interactive Communicating Areas and use them at your own risk. By using any Interactive Communicating Areas, you expressly agree not to post, distribute, create, upload to, or otherwise publish through this Website any of the following:

• Any content that would constitute a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national, or international law.
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• Any content that imitates any person or entity or otherwise distorts your connection with a person or entity, including Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), its brands, and affiliates;
• Unsolicited promotions, political campaigning, advertising, contests, raffles, or solicitations;
• Private information of any third party, including, without limitation, surname (family name) addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers;
• Viruses, corrupted data, or other harmful, disruptive, or destructive files;
• Content that may infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other intellectual or proprietary right of any party;
• Content that is unrelated to the topic of the Interactive Communicating Area(s) in which such Content is posted; or
• Content or links to content that, in the sole judgment of Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), its brands, and affiliates, (a) violates the previous subcategories herein, (b) is objectionable, (c) which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Interactive Areas or this Website, or (d) which may expose Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), its brands or its affiliates or its users to any harm or liability of any type.

Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), its brands, and affiliates take no responsibility and assume no liability for any material posted, stored, or uploaded by you or any third party, or for any loss or damage thereto, nor is Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), its brands, and affiliates, liable for any mistakes, defamation, libel, omissions, misrepresentations, obscenity, pornography or profanity you may encounter. As a provider of interactive services, Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), its brands, and affiliates are not liable for any statements, representations, or Content provided by its users in any public forum, personal home page, or other Interactive Communicating Area. Although Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), its brands, and affiliates have no responsibility to edit or monitor any of the Content posted to or distributed through any Interactive Communicating Area, Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), its brands, and affiliates reserve the right, and have complete freedom of choice, to remove, screen, translate or edit without notice any Content posted or stored on this Website at any time and for any reason, or to have such actions performed by third parties on its behalf, and you are solely responsible for creating backup copies of and replacing any Content you post or store on this Website at your sole cost and expense.

If it is determined that you retain rights (including rights of attribution or truth) in the Content, you declare that (a) you do not require that any personally classifying material be used in connection with the Content, or any imitative works of or upgrades or updates thereto; (b) you have no objection to the publication, use, alteration, removal, and manipulation of the Content by Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), its brands and affiliates or its licensees, successors and assigns; (c) you forever waive and agree not to claim or declare any title to any and all rights of an author in any of the Content; and (d) you forever release Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), its brands and affiliates, and its licensees, successors and assigns, from any claims that you could otherwise assert against Hotel Marketing Strategist (HMS), its brands and affiliates by virtue of any such rights.

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