Terms of Service

GENERAL ISSUES:

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

Liability: TheHealthyVillage.com 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: TheHealthyVillage.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 TheHealthyVillage.com, its management team or owners. Further, TheHealthyVillage.com does not recommend any product or service found via any advertisement within this site.

No Warranty: You may find links to 3rd party Internet sites when using our website. TheHealthyVillage.com is not responsible for the content or availability of these 3rd party sites. TheHealthyVillage.com does not warrant or guarantee the products, services, or information found on external or 3rd party sites.

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.

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 TheHealthyVillage.com gives unconditional permission for us to publish your article on the website and may be distributed to our Newsletter and RSS Feeds.

   3. Your submission to TheHealthyVillage.com also gives unconditional permission for your articles to be reprinted in other ezines, websites and print publications. Publisher(s) are asked to follow our reprint rules, but you acknowledge that the enforcement of our terms of service for publishers is not our responsibility. If someone violates your copyright, it is your sole responsibility to take action against those who abuse your copyright if you so desire. If you do not agree to these terms, do not submit your articles.

   4. It is up to our editors to decide to whether your article is published and for how long. There are no guarantees made that your article(s) will be published. We reserve the right to remove your article(s) and/or membership account at any time for any reason.

   5. The editors at TheHealthyVillage.com reserve 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 other online publishers or webmasters to be reprinted to their respective audiences. There are also no guarantees your article will be reprinted by anyone.

   7. TheHealthyVillage.com reserves the right to publish ads on the same pages as your articles.

   8. If your article does not conform to our 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 affiliate links in them. We reject articles with direct affiliate links. It is ok, however, to include a domain name that you own that forwards to an affiliate link. This is one of our many article quality standards.

   10. General Editorial Guidelines:

• Articles must be at least 500 words in length. Articles less than 500 may be submitted to our blog.
• No more than two links in the resource box.
• Articles must be health related.
• No affiliate links.
• No links to 'websites under construction'.

TERMS OF SERVICE 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 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 TheHealthyVillage.com directory.
• Agree to never charge others to view any article you reprint from our directory.
• 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 TheHealthyVillage.com, our newsletter, our RSS feed or our website is completely at your own risk.

   3. While TheHealthyVillage.com 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.

   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. 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 Buncombe County in the State of North Carolina, USA.

   7. 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 TheHealthyVillage.com. You acknowledge that we may block your access to our site and/or membership.