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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.

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 international socio-economic and travel writer Keith Archibald Forbes (pictured, left, with his wife). 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, writing, updating and constantly adding to this unique, accurate, impartial and comprehensive collection of web files on Bermuda.

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 kaforbes@logic.bm. Please do not send any photographs or any other attachments to this email address. (If you do so anyway, they cannot be answered and will be deleted automatically as a potential security risk, without being read by an email facility that cannot accept unsolicited and unwanted attachments). Please ask first you wish to send Bermuda-related photos or attachments and give your reasons for wanting to do so. If relevant to BOL and approved, you'll be given a different email address.

About the owner

Bermuda Online (BOL), published independently as mentioned above, was acquired by The Royal Gazette Ltd (RG) the only daily newspaper of Bermuda, 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. 

What Bermuda Online (BOL) does

• Bermuda Online files try to present Bermuda accurately, fairly, fully and well. They were written to give all its readers an accurate, honest, impartial and completely truthful portrayal of Bermuda, 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.
• 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, it 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.
• It is a private sector, not public sector, website. Most other Bermuda websites operate on a 5-day week but it operates 7 days a week including public holidays.
• 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. 
• It is strictly informational, to ensure impartiality, unlike most Bermuda 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, there are no "kickbacks" or commissions of any type.
• It does not require fancy or specialized software to access. Anyone with any PC or Mac computer can do so, via any web browser.
• All our files are original and exclusive to us and internationally copyrighted. 
• More than 85 percent of all its 125 separate and comprehensive web files are deservedly positive about Bermuda. 
• 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.

Advertising on Bermuda Online (BOL)

• BOL welcomes and appreciates your interest in buying advertising on BOL. 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. 

• 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 already link to us here at Bermuda Online, or would like to, 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. If you already have a link to us, your request can be dealt with immediately. If you or your entity are not Bermudian or Bermuda--based or Bermuda-focused, or don't wish to link, sorry we can't give you a free mention. Instead, you are welcome to buy advertising as shown above.

What Bermuda Online does not do

• It cannot answer enquiries from persons who don't give their own email and physical addresses and telephone numbers as reasonable bona fide confirmation their messages are genuine.
• It 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 not already shown in its own published files, or any information on any organization that has not created an active electronic link to Bermuda Online.
• It cannot undertake or provide any genealogical or family history or similar research on any military information not already on this website. There is a link to a website that does.
• Beyond what may be shown in a particular file or files, it 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 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. 
• It is not publicly funded. The author is not paid or subsidized in any way by the Bermuda Government or its Ministry of Tourism, or by any accommodation property or any other service.
• It does not represent any particular hotel other place to stay or employer. Instead, it gives impartial advice on those places shown. 
• It 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.
• Please don't ask it to provide any information not already on this website.

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).