Overview
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Use of this website
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Users of the Website will not incur any charges for using the Website in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. However, the Website contains links to third-party websites which are operated and owned by independent service providers or retailers. Such third-parties may charge a fee for use of certain content or services provided on the website. Therefore, you should make whatever investigation you feel is necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any transaction with any third party to determine whether a charge will be incurred. The Luxury Cruise Review in no way guarantees that this information is correct nor is it in anyway responsible for content or services provided on such third party websites.
Prohibited activities
The content and information on this Website (including, but not limited to, messages, data, information, text, music, sound, photos, graphics, video, maps, icons, software, code or other material), as well as the infrastructure used to provide such content and information, is proprietary to The Luxury Cruise Review. You agree not to otherwise modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell or re-sell any information, software, products, or services obtained from or through this Website. Additionally, you agree not to:
(i) use this Website or its contents for any commercial purpose;
(ii) access, monitor or copy any content or information of this Website using any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or any manual process for any purpose without our express written permission;
(iii) violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers on this Website or bypass or circumvent other measures employed to prevent or limit access to this Website;
(iv) take any action that imposes, or may impose, in our discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
(v) deep-link to any portion of this Website for any purpose without our express written permission;
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(vii) attempt to modify, translate, adapt, edit, decompile or disassemble any software programs used by The Luxury Cruise Review in connection with the Website or the services.
Privacy Policy & discolsures
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Reviews, comments and use of other interactive features
We appreciate your reviews. Please be aware that by submitting your reviews to this Website by email, postings on this Website or otherwise, including any ship reviews, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or the like contained in any submissions (collectively, “Submissions”), you grant The Luxury Cruise Review and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sub-licensable right to (a) use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform such Submissions throughout the world in any media, now known or hereafter devised, for any purpose; and (b) use the name that you submit in connection with such Submission. You acknowledge that The Luxury Cruise Review may choose to provide attribution of your comments or reviews at our discretion. You further grant The Luxury Cruise Review the right to pursue at law any person or entity that violates your or The Luxury Cruise Review’s rights in the Submissions by a breach of this Agreement. You acknowledge and agree that Submissions are non-confidential and non-proprietary.
The Luxury Cruise Review does not edit or control the user messages posted to or distributed on this Website including through any chat rooms, bulletin boards or other communications forums (collectively, “User Messages”), and will not be in any way responsible or liable for such User Messages. The Luxury Cruise Review nevertheless reserves the right for any reason in its sole discretion to remove without notice any User Messages and/or Site Content.
This Website may contain discussion forums, bulletin boards, review services or other forums in which you or third parties may post reviews of travel experiences or other content, messages, materials or other items on this Website (“Interactive Areas”). If The Luxury Cruise Review provides such Interactive Areas, you are solely responsible for your use of such Interactive Areas and use them at your own risk. By using any Interactive Areas, you expressly agree not to post, upload to, transmit, distribute, store, create or otherwise publish through this Website any of the following:
Any message, data, information, text, music, sound, photos, graphics, code or any other material (“Content”) that is false, unlawful, misleading, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, or advocates harassment of another person, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent or otherwise objectionable;
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Content containing commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes;
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Any use of the Interactive Areas or other portions of this Website in violation of the foregoing violates the terms of this Agreement and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the Interactive Areas and/or this Website.
Liability disclaimer
Please read this section carefully. This section limits The Luxury Cruise Review ‘s liability to you for issues that may arise in connection with your use of this website. If you do not understand the terms in this section or elsewhere in the agreement, please consult a lawyer for clarification before accessing or using this website.
The information, software, products, and services published on this website may include inaccuracies or errors, including reservation availability and pricing errors. The Luxury Cruise Review do not guarantee the accuracy of, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law disclaim all liability for, any errors or other inaccuracies relating to the information and description of the ships, cruise, hotel, air, car and any other travel products displayed on this website (including, without limitation, the pricing, availability, photographs, list of hotel or vacation rental property amenities, general product descriptions, reviews and ratings, etc.). In addition, The Luxury Cruise Review expressly reserves the right to correct any availability and pricing errors on our website and/or, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, on pending reservations made under an incorrect price.
The Luxury Cruise Review make no representations of any kind about the suitability of the information, software, products, and services contained on this website (site content) or any portion therof for any purpose, and the inclusion or offering of any products or services on this website does not constitute any endorsement or recommendation of such products or services by The Luxury Cruise Review. All such information, software, products, and services are provided “as is” and, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, The Luxury Cruise Review disclaim all warranties, conditions, or other terms of any kind that this website, its servers or any email sent from The Luxury Cruise Review, are free of viruses or other harmful components. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law The Luxury Cruise Review hereby disclaims all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products, and services, including all implied warranties and conditions or terms of any kind as to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet possession and noninfringement.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, The Luxury Cruise Review also expressly disclaims any warranty, representation, or other term of any kind as to the accuracy or proprietary character of the site content.
Nothing in this agreement shall exclue or limit The Luxury Cruise Review’s liability for (i) death or personal infury caused by negligence; (ii) fraud; (iii) fraudulent mistatement (iv) deliberate breach or gross negligence (v) any other liability which cannot be excluded under applicable law.
The third-party suppliers providing hotel or vacation rental property information, travel or other services on this website are independent contractors and not agents or employees of The Luxury Cruise Review. The Luxury Cruise Review is not liable for the acts, errors, omissions, representations, warranties, breaches or negligence of any such suppliers or for any personal injuries, death, property damage, or other damages or expenses resulting therefrom. The Luxury Cruise Review has no liability and will make no refund in the event of any delay, cancellation, overbooking, strike, force majeure or other causes beyond their direct control, and they have no responsibility for any additional expense, omissions, delays, re-routing or acts of any government or authority.
Subject to the foregoing, you use this website at your own risk and in no event shall The Luxury Cruise Review (or its officers, directors and affiliates) be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, or consequential lossses or damages or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or conntected in any way to business interruption of any type arising out of, or in any way connected with, your access to, display of or use of this website or with the delay or inability to access, display or use this website (including, but not limited to, your reliance upon reviews and opinions appearing on this website; any computer viruses, information, software, linked sites, products, and services obtained through this website; or otherwise arising out of the access to, display of or use of this website) whether based on a theory of negligence, contract, tort, strict liability, or otherwise, and even if The Luxury Cruise Review has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
These terms and conditions and foregoing liablity disclaimer do not affect mandatory legal rights that cannot be excluded under applicable law.
If The Luxury Cruise Review is found liable for any loss or damage that arises out of or is in any way connected with your use of our sites or services, then The Luxury Cruise Review’s liabilities will in no event exceed, in the aggregate, the greater of (a) the transaction fees paid to The Luxury Cruise Review for the transaction(s) on this Website giving rise to the claim, or (b) One-Hundred Dollars (US $100.00).
The limitation of liability reflects the allocation of risk between the parties. The limitations specified in this section will survive and apply even if any limited remedy specified in these terms is found to have failed of its essential purpose. The limitations of liability provided in these terms inure to the benefit of The Luxury Cruise Review.
Indemnification
You agree to defend and indemnify The Luxury Cruise Review and its affiliates and any of their officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any claims, causes of action, demands, recoveries, losses, damages, fines, penalties or other costs or expenses of any kind or nature including but not limited to reasonable legal and accounting fees, brought by third parties as a result of:
(i) your breach of this Agreement or the documents referenced herein;
(ii) your violation of any law or the rights of a third party; or
(iii) your use of this Website.
Links to third-party sites
This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than The Luxury Cruise Review. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. Further, it is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you select or software you download (whether from this Website or other websites) is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses, defects and other items of a destructive nature. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators. In some cases you may be asked by a third party site to link your profile on The Luxury Cruise Review to a profile on another third party site. Choosing to do so is purely optional, and the decision to allow this information to be linked can be disabled (with the third party site) at any time.
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All contents of this Website are: ©2015 The Luxury Cruise Review. All rights reserved. The Luxury Cruise Review is not responsible for content on websites operated by parties other than The Luxury Cruise Review. The Luxury Cruise Review, the shell logo, the ratings shells and all other product or service names or slogans displayed on this Website are registered and/or common law trademarks of The Luxury Cruise Review and/or its suppliers or licensors, and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of The Luxury Cruise Review or the applicable trademark holder. In addition, the look and feel of this Website, including all page headers, custom graphics, button icons and scripts, is the service mark, trademark and/or trade dress of The Luxury Cruise Review and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of The Luxury Cruise Review. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and company names or logos mentioned in this Website are the property of their respective owners. Reference to any products, services, processes or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof by The Luxury Cruise Review.
