Welcome to BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS website. Please see the terms and conditions that you must follow if you use our site. Your use of our site indicates your acceptance of these terms and conditions.

Ownership of Our Site

This site is owned and operated by BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS (referred to as "the "company", "we," and "our"). All content included on our site, such as photographs, illustrations, images, text, audio clips, video clips, and software (referred to as "Content") is owned by BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS or our Content providers. All Content is protected by international copyright laws.

Your Use of the Content

You must be legally able to enter into contracts for the goods and services that you may request or sell or purchase on this site. Generally, this means that you must be at least 18 years old if you are an individual.

You may use the Content for your personal, non-commercial home use only. This means that you may view, browse through, and listen to the Content on your computer. You may not download or copy one, or any or part thereof the Content.

With respect to the functionality or e-mail and web links provided/available through the BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS site, the provisions of this paragraph apply. You may use this for your personal, non-commercial use. You agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations when using these facilities. You may not use these facilities to send any cards for chain letters, commercial solicitation, links to other sites, mass mailing, or any form of "spam" or other mass mailings. You are solely responsible for the content of any messages you send via the BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS site. You may not use the BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS site to send messages that are illegal, obscene, threatening, abusive, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, profane, defamatory, or that infringe upon or violate the rights of any third party. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents harmless against any and all claims asserted against BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents as a result of your use of the BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS site, including without limitation any claims relating to the content of any messages that you send using the BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS site.

Excepting these limited uses, you may not reproduce, distribute, transmit, or otherwise exploit the Content in any way. In particular, you may not include the Content in any other publication or product, or on any other Web site or computer network. In addition, you must abide by all other terms, conditions, and restrictions contained in any other agreement associated with the Content throughout our site.

Trademark Ownership

"BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS" and illustrated variants thereof are registered trademarks of BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS. You may not use our trademarks without our written permission.

Disclaimer

Our site and the content are provided to you on an "as is" basis. We make no warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to: the implied warranties of merchant ability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement to the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law.

Although we use our reasonable best efforts to ensure the accuracy of the Content on our site, we make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy, correctness, or reliability of the Content. Further, we make no representations or warranties that the functional aspects of our site will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that our site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. You acknowledge that your use of our site is at your own risk.

As a convenience, our site links to other sites that may be of interest to you but are not under our control. These links do not imply an endorsement by BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS and we are not responsible for the availability of or the content contained in any linked site. Companies or persons listed, and if you choose to offer them personal or other information either directly or indirectly through our web site, you do so willingly and at your own risk.

Limitation of Liability

BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS will not be responsible or liable to you for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages that result from your access to or use of the Content on our site.

Additional Terms

The publisher, BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS, reserve all rights in the BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS site.

All text & images published herein are for use in the public domain. Any commercial use or publication is strictly forbidden. Reproduction, redistribution or exploitation, for personal or corporate gain, is strictly forbidden.

BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS makes every effort to ensure that the information contained on this web site is accurate. We are not responsible for errors and omissions, and all information, images and their respective copyright, prices, packages and offers shown which are received and included in the directory, by those companies or individuals listed on the site are supplied by the respective author, and are accepted by BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS in good faith to be legal, decent and honest.

Logos, trade names; registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Anybody entering into legal, verbal and/or moral obligations as a result of the contents of any www page on or through our site should take the appropriate professional advice.

BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS shall not be liable for any failure to perform of its obligations under this Agreement caused by matters beyond its reasonable control.

BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS reserves the right to change this Agreement from time to time, and post the new version on the BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS website. The new version will take immediate effect, and will govern all services as well as other activity on or through the BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS site with immediate effect. If you do not wish to be governed by the new version of the Agreement, you may notify us, and from the date when the new version takes effect you must cease to participate in or use the BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS services.

Language

In the event of conflict or inconsistency between the terms of the English version of this Agreement and any translation provided by BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS, the English version shall prevail.

In the event that any term of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable by judicial decree or decision, the remainder of this Agreement shall remain valid and enforceable.

The Privacy Policy forms part of this Agreement, and by agreeing to these terms and conditions, you also give your consent to the way we may handle your personal data in that policy. BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS will not use this data for any other purpose or disclose it to any other person, unless you have given your consent to BLUE MARBLE EXPEDITIONS doing so, either during registration or at some other time. We may also disclose this data if we are either compelled to do so by law or in response to a valid, legally compliant request by a law enforcement or governmental authority.

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