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Bermuda Online Links to and Mentions of key local organizations and places

Hyperlinks are gladly extended to those organizations when they have reciprocated the courtesy by cross-linking

By Keith Archibald Forbes (see About Us) exclusively for Bermuda Online

To refer by e-mail to this file use "bermuda-online.org/links" as your Subject.

This organization is linked to and by the DAILY newspaper, The Royal Gazette of Bermuda. Shown are selective links to Web sites operated by other parties.

Links, Referrals and Mentions Policy

Subject to a key condition, Bermuda Online will gladly establish and maintain a free courtesy electronic link - hyperlink or weblink to and mention of -  Bermuda-based individuals and charitable or business corporate entities, and by doing so show them as a Bermuda resource. The key condition is that the website or organization or individual concerned must establish and maintain a similar free courtesy hyperlink/weblink to and mention of Bermuda Online as a Bermuda resource.

To be listed/linked to/mentioned in Bermuda Online, individuals and companies with websites and a Bermuda connection must first:

• Electronically text link to Bermuda Online (BOL) and by doing so also show us as a resource. Bermuda Online (BOL) has always been very pleased to reciprocate immediately all hyperlinks to all Bermuda websites and sub-websites (with their own URLs) that hyperlink to us, in a clearly-marked and easily accessible "Links" area (instead of a "hidden" area for links, one not visible to those accessing a site, therefore effectively not usable by persons who don't know it and can't see it) - and to keep them up for as they as they do the same. 
• Check your website first to see if we are or are not linked already. If you are not prepared to link to us in full reciprocation, please  do not ask for a link or mention, it cannot be given. Why not? Simply because it is not a practical proposition to incur bandwidth in linking to or making any mention of or referral to a site as a Bermuda resource that won't link back or mention us as a Bermuda resource on a full reciprocal basis.
• If you agree to mutually link,  we will also gladly include, if you wish, a brief description of your website. Just email what your website's brief description is to Keith A. Forbes, Editor and Webmaster, at kaforbes@ibl.bm. In return, please use our description which is "a portal with 125+ unique websites on Bermuda, constantly updated." 
• If you do not arrange links yourself, or don't own or administer your website yourself talk to your webmaster to arrange to link to us. Please put your link to us in your specific Links page, and we will do the same. Reciprocated links must be in clear public view, not hidden. Having a separate Links" page is the most practical way to ensure this. If we are shown in your "Links" page we will show you in ours. 
• All owners and website managers, including ourselves, have complete discretion in whom they will link to and will not, on principle. Bermuda Online does, too, with a policy very similar to many other portal websites. 
• The few exceptions to this links policy are entirely at the discretion of the site manager of Bermuda Online and include the airlines serving Bermuda - or which promote Bermuda from abroad.
• Have an acceptable standard of taste and decency.
• When links to us from any site to us are withdrawn without any prior notice, we will do the same, immediately.  
• If, instead of reciprocally linking (cross-linking) to us you prefer to pay for your advertising on Bermuda Online, you should first of all contact The Advertising Dept of The Royal Gazette. The right is reserved to discontinue without notice any mention of any organization or individual without either a reciprocal hyperlink to/from Bermuda Online or paid advertising on it. 

There is a standard disclaimer when you link to a site. It is that you do not necessarily endorse its content or even agree with some or all of it. But you electronically link to it for the comprehensive information it provides in ways supplementing and complementing your site that your own site either does not provide or does not do so in the same detail as ours.

You or your association or company or corporation are always entirely free, without any permission needed from us, to electronically hyperlink (link) to any of the 125+ webfiles of Bermuda Online.  But no permission, under any but the most exceptional circumstances, is given to reproduce any part - any information or text or graphics or photographs or images - of Bermuda Online in or for any personal or commercial or educational web pages. The only exceptional circumstance is when the individual or association or corporate entity (a) links to Bermuda Online and (b) will publicly acknowledge Bermuda Online as the owner/author of the image or images and/or text. These two provisos must always go together. 

Types of electronic links

• Two types -"text" or "banner" links. Of the two, text links, plus a brief description, are the ones we will accept and reciprocate. Be aware that Banner Links are sometimes such a nuisance to some people that they switch them off, often for good reason. We do the same. Site owners and webmasters don't always realize or appreciate the implications of of this. 

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