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About Bermuda Online

Who, on this Atlantic island, owns, writes, runs, updates and publishes this website

To refer to this web file, please use "bermuda-online.org/aboutus.htm" as your Subject.

By Keith Archibald Forbes (see About Us) at e-mail exclusively for Bermuda Online

About the author

All the 125+ web files of Bermuda Online (BOL) are written, updated, administered, web-mastered and presently published independently by Bermudian author and internationally accredited socio-economic and travel editor and writer Keith Archibald Forbes (pictured, left, with his wife). He is also this website's initiator, registrant, professional administrator and webmaster. As such, he is a Professional member of and subscribes fully to the high ethics, codes of conduct and methodologies of the American Society of Authors and Writers and International Webmasters Association. Keith is a former member of Bermuda's Broadcasting Commission, Consumer Affairs Board, Board of Education, Junior Chamber International, Reserve Constabulary, Bermuda Regiment, Kiwanis and, when it was operating in the 1990s, the Bermuda Macintosh Users Group. Keith spends more than 28 hours a week, 7 days a week including public holidays, editing, writing, updating and constantly adding to this unique, accurate, impartial and comprehensive collection of web files on Bermuda. This website is one of the very few major travel websites about Bermuda with all this done in-house under the careful overall administration of one person.

He began his association with the daily The Royal Gazette Ltd (RG) newspaper when he delivered it in Smith's Parish when 10 years old, until he was sent off to school in England two years later. He began Bermuda Online (BOL) in 1992, initially from the USA, now writes it from Bermuda and the UK. He is not an employee of the RG or the Bermuda Press Holdings Ltd (BPL), owners of this site. 

He, not the Royal Gazette Ltd or BPL, is legally accountable and responsible for all contents and other elements of BOL including web site registration, web site FTP 24 hours a day 7 days a week costs and renewals paid by his credit card (later reimbursed) and is therefore shown, as legally required, as the web site registrant and author. For all comments about BOL and recommendations for any changes or updates or deletions please email him directly at admin@bermuda-online.org. 

About the owner

Bermuda Online (BOL), published independently as mentioned above, was acquired by The Bermuda Press Holdings Ltd, owner of The Royal Gazette Ltd (RG) the only daily newspaper of Bermuda and other Bermudian media, see http://www.royalgazette.com/section/?template=6 - to provide on BOL's website via mutual (reciprocal) electronic web site linkage an entire series of files on Bermuda of the type not covered on the RG's website. The RG is  entirely independent of any political party and is the principal (more than 85%) independent and impartial source of all offline and online news about Bermuda.

Advertising on Bermuda Online (BOL)

• To link to and thereby get a mention on BOL with reciprocal linkage, if you are a Bermudian business or civic or corporate entity, or one dealing regularly with Bermuda and would like to create a non-exclusive courtesy link to Bermuda Online (BOL), we'll gladly and promptly create a similar free courtesy link to your website. In which case our Links describes how we will be glad to mention your Bermuda upcoming or continuing special civic or business or community event on our Calendar pages and on our Links pages. Reciprocal linkage in this way ensures that when you mention us as one of your linked-to Bermuda information resources and services we will show you similarly as one of our linked-to Bermuda information resources and services. 

• If you or your entity are not Bermudian or Bermuda--based or Bermuda-focused, or your Bermuda-based website does wish to link to us, sorry we can't give you a free mention. Instead, you are welcome to buy advertising. Please deal directly with the Advertising Department of the Royal Gazette (RG), Bermuda's only daily newspaper, at http://www.royalgazette.com. See under "Advertising" in http://www.royalgazette.com/static/contact.html. The RG alone handles all paid advertising on BOL, the editor of which not employed by the RG (he handles the editorial side including all updates, new material and unpaid reciprocal links). The RG, not BOL, has the employees, credit and debit card, Pay Pal and related facilities and will quote you the relevant advertising rates. Thereafter, BOL will gladly work with the RG to place your ad in the way, size and duration you want. When booking an advertisement with the RG please mention your client if not your own entity. You will be most welcome to advertise on any of the 125+individual sub-sites of BOL that best suits your or your client's advertising purpose. 

What Bermuda Online (BOL) does

• Bermuda Online (BOL) files, as a private sector not public sector website tries very hard to present the numerous aspects of Bermuda mentioned in our files accurately, with up-to-date information, fairly and well. It is the most comprehensive of all portal websites on Bermuda, with more than 125 in-depth separate but inter-linked websites in many different headings and topics. They were written to give all its readers an accurate, honest, impartial and completely truthful portrayal, not solely for tourists and visitors - more than 85% of whom come from the USA - but for consumers, educators, retirees and working professional newcomers who need to know key salient facts important to the majority of local and international readers. They measure up fully to the USA's and UK's high ethical standards in responsibility and accountability and comply with its truth-in-advertising and other consumer laws. The consumer-type information files are to help visitors to budget adequately for their visit, with information most other web files don't carry. Bermuda is an expensive destination and visitors deserve to know this and why. The files give them accurate information in advance before they come to help them come prepared. BOL is strictly informational, to ensure impartiality, unlike most other sites which focus on a specific service or product - or a variety of places only when they pay to be advertised. In the few cases where recommendations are made by BOL for good reason, there are no "kickbacks" or commissions of any type.
• BOL files are available via reliable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (24/7/365) via our website-provided File Transfer Protocol (FTP). For anyone not familiar with these terms it means they can be accessed at any time from anywhere in the world. Most other Bermuda websites operate on a 5-day week but BOL operates 7 days a week including public holidays.
• The files provide information but do not sell any services. They comply 100% with Bermudian, American, Canadian, European and other international e-commerce laws, rules, regulations and etiquette. Collectively, they comprise the only completely impartial travel website about Bermuda. It is a deliberate policy to have website jurisdiction in the USA, not Bermuda, but with multinational registered copyright protection, to comply with multinational  consumer law requirements and publishing standards. 
• For those who have not yet been to Bermuda and wish to research it in advance, this is a uniquely useful What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) guide. It saves having to go from site to site to hunt for specific information of interest to most visitors - an important attribute.
• BOL files not require fancy or specialized software to access. Anyone with any PC or Mac computer can do so, via any web browser.
• All BOL files are original and exclusive to us and internationally copyrighted. 
• It is linked to and by the independent The Royal Gazette daily newspaper, Bermuda's ONLY daily, which publishes more than 75% of all Bermuda's business, community, financial, international, real estate and tourism news. 

• Updated in part at least once daily and in operation since 1991, Bermuda Online provides comprehensive information about Bermuda not found on The Royal Gazette's own website or official Bermuda Government's Tourism website run by the Department of Tourism since 1996.

• We cordially invite all websites in Bermuda to exchange free courtesy hyperlinks with us. When they do so, we will refer to and show them as additional and relevant Bermuda artistic resources when requested by readers.  

What Bermuda Online (BOL) does not do

• It will try to when appropriate but cannot guarantee to answer any questions or comments about any aspects of Bermuda not contained in any of our files, therefore not part of our remit and for which we are not funded. We reserve the right to limit our writing or comment to what is in Bermuda Online, not what isn't. We will try to refer you to entities that according to their remit would or should know. But we can't guarantee they will respond. 
• It cannot answer enquiries from persons who don't give their own email and physical addresses as reasonable bona fide confirmation their messages are genuine.
• It cannot supply, sorry, as it does not have or retain them, any high-resolution photographs of items it shows or describes on any of its sub-websites. All we have available is what is shown on our website or sub-site concerned. We operate on a WYSIWYG basis.
• When other websites in Bermuda don't accept the standing invitation to exchange free courtesy hyperlinks with us we regret we are unable to refer to and/or show/mention them as additional and relevant Bermuda artistic resources when requested by readers.  
• BOL is not funded to take or respond to any telephone calls. Please enquire by email only.
• It cannot supply information on places or people or businesses bnot already shown in their own online-published files, or any information on any organization that has not created an active electronic link to Bermuda Online.
• It cannot answer any information about Bermuda that is not shown or linked to by Bermuda Online. 
• It cannot undertake or provide any genealogical or family history or similar research on any military information that is not already shown on this website. We don't have the funding or staff for it. But we try to help point you in the right direction. In our Links/Mentions there is a link to a website that handles Bermuda-related genealogical or family history. 
• We cannot supply names and home or business e-mail addresses or telephone numbers of anyone, or refer or forward any e-mail, or send any messages on your behalf, or act as an intermediary in any other way. Professional ethics and data protection legislation require this author to uniformly protect privacy and avoid misunderstanding and potential contingent liability. Most people to whom you might wish to send e-mail will give you their e-mail address beforehand, or publish them separately. Please ask them directly, or try to telephone them. If you do not know their telephone number, use Directory Enquiries. (Sorry, but when the local telephone company does not publish its white pages numbers on the world wide web (as telephone companies in the USA, Canada, UK, etc. do), Bermuda Online cannot be expected to do what the telephone company does not. The same applies to email addresses. Bermuda Online has no way of knowing them. 
• We are not publicly funded. The author is not paid or subsidized in any way by the Bermuda Government or its Ministry of Tourism or Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, any Bermuda Government quango or by any accommodation, advisory or property or any other service and has no authority or remit or funding to answer for them. Please don't ask us to provide any information not already shown on this website. If you ask anyway, sorry we cannot reply.
• We do not represent any particular hotel other place to stay or employer.
• We cannot give interpretations or any advice on any aspect of Bermuda law or make any representations for any prospective employee. Always ask the Government Agency or employer or hotel or other guest property concerned, directly.

Conditions of use, with International copyright laws applying

Links and Mentions Policy

• Describes to which other business or civic or corporate or group we link to and mention and why.
• Shows our methodology for helping to promote on our site the business and activity or calendar event of a business when it links to us (not otherwise).