READ TERMS OF USE BEFORE USING THIS SITE. BY USING THIS SITE TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN TRAVEL BLOG, YOU BECOME A 'MEMBER' AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, DO NOT USE THIS SITE, DO NOT BECOME A MEMBER, AND DO NOT CREATE A TRAVEL BLOG.

1. Basic ownership terms

This site is owned and operated by OFF EXPLORING LTD on behalf of STA TRAVEL LTD. STA TRAVEL LTD. has the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the site, including, without limitation, the content, hours of availability, terms and conditions, and equipment needed for access or use of the site.

2. Basic member blog website, password and security

STA Travel requires you to complete the registration process by providing current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the registration process. You then will choose a password and a user name, which you are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify STA Travel via the online email form immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. STA Travel will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by STA Travel, Off Exploring or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else's account at any time, without the permission of the account holder.

3. Member restrictions of use

A. You shall use the site for lawful purposes only. You shall not post or transmit through the site any material which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, harassing, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, gives rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law. Any conduct by you that in STA TRAVEL LTD's discretion restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the site will not be permitted.

B. You shall not engage in prohibited use of the site. As a condition of your use of the Travel Blog site, you will not use the site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the site in any manner, which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the OFF EXPLORING LTD or STA TRAVEL LTD sites or the networks connected to their sites. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the STA TRAVEL LTD or OFF EXPLORING LTD sites, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to those companies sites, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through those parties sites. You agree to not promote or distribute surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise).

C. You shall use the site for personal and non-commercial purposes only. Without STA TRAVEL LTD's express prior approval, you shall not post or transmit through the site any material which contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. You shall not use the site to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, including, without limitation, the solicitation of users to become subscribers of other on-line information services competitive with the site. You will specifically not create links within your Travel Blog that promote third parties, their products or services. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the STA TRAVEL Blogs site.

D. You shall abide by all copyright and ownership laws - Downloading. The site contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, including, without limitation, text, software, photos, video, graphics, music and sound, and the contents of the site are copyrighted under the United States and International copyright laws. You may not modify, publish, transmit, display, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part (this includes displaying this sites content within the context or frames of another web site).
Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation in any form will be permitted without the express written permission of STA TRAVEL LTD. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material.

E. You shall abide by all copyright and trademark laws - Uploading. You shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on the site any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with you. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission.

F. You agree to share the rights of the contents of your site with STA TRAVEL. By submitting material to any public or private area of the site, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such material has expressly granted STA TRAVEL LTD the royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, display, translate and distribute such material (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed. You grant STA TRAVEL LTD the right to edit, copy, display, publish and distribute any material made available on the site by you, and to publish your name in connection with your Submission. No compensation will be paid to members with respect to the use of their Submission, as provided herein.

G. You agree to share your site with the worldwide web audience. You also permit any other user of the worldwide web to access, view, store or reproduce the material for that user's personal use. That is, unless you have set up sections of your site with restricted access. This restricted access cannot be guaranteed by STA TRAVEL and they claim no responsibility for the activities of hackers or similar.

The foregoing provisions of Section 2 are for the benefit of OFF EXPLORING LTD, STA TRAVEL LTD., their subsidiaries, affiliates and third party content providers and licensors and each shall have the right to assert and enforce such provisions directly or on its own behalf.

4. Disclaimer of Warranty; Limitation of Liability

A. You expressly agree that use of the site is at your sole risk. Neither OFF EXPLORING LTD, STA TRAVEL, their affiliates nor any of their respective employees, agents, third party content providers or licensors warrant that the site will be uninterrupted or error free; nor do they make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from use of the site, or as to the accuracy or reliability of any information, service or merchandise provided through the site.

B. You acknowledge that the site and your personal blog's content and functionality are not guaranteed. The site is provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, other than those warranties which are implied by and incapable of exclusion, restriction or modification under applicable law. Additionally, there are no warranties as to the results obtained from the use of the site.

C. You acknowledge that neither OFF EXPORING nor STA TRAVEL are liable for any losses incurred as a result of you using the site. This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, inaccuracy, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to, alteration of, or use of this site, whether for breach of contract, tortious behaviour (including strict liability), negligence, or under any other cause of action. You specifically acknowledge that OFF EXPLORING LTD is not liable for the defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of other users or third-parties and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with you.

D. You agree to accept full liability for your own Travel Blog. In no event will STA TRAVEL LTD, or any person or entity involved in creating, producing or distributing the site or the content included therein, be liable in contract, in tort (including for its own negligence) or under any other legal theory (including strict liability) for any damages, including, without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential or similar damages, including, without limitation, lost profits or revenues, loss of use or similar economic loss, arising out of the use of or inability to use the site. You hereby acknowledge that the provisions of this section shall apply to all use of and content on the site. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall STA TRAVEL LTD's total liability to you for all damages, losses and causes of action whether in contract, tort (including its own negligence) or under any other legal theory (including strict liability) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.

5. Monitoring

OFF EXPLORING LTD and STA TRAVEL LTD shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of the site [including postcards and message boards], to determine compliance with these conditions of use and any operating rules established by OFF EXPLORING LTD and to satisfy any law, regulation or authorised government request. OFF EXPLORING LTD shall have the right (without notice) in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on the site. Without limiting the foregoing, OFF EXPLORING LTD and STA TRAVEL have the right to remove any material that they, in their sole discretion, find to be in violation of the provisions hereof or otherwise objectionable.

6. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless OFF EXPLORING LTD, STA TRAVEL LTD and their affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, actions, demands, damages, costs, liabilities, losses and expenses (including reasonable lawyers' fees) arising out of your use of the site.

7. Internet Links

STA TRAVEL LTD is not responsible for content on links from any member's Travel Blog site. Nor does it endorse products or services represented on links from this site. STA TRAVEL LTD is not responsible for commerce done with organisations, companies or individuals, which have appeared within this site. Any conflict, which may arise by engaging in such commerce, will be governed by the rules and terms of use of the organisation, company or individuals in which commerce was engaged (excluding OFF EXPLORING LTD).

8. Privacy Policy

It is necessary for OFF EXPLORING LTD. and STA TRAVEL LTD to collect personal information from those who register with the site and become members. This information is held and used in accordance with the Data Protection and Privacy Laws in your country of registration. Please see our Privacy Policy for more details.

9. Changed Terms

STA TRAVEL LTD has the right at any time to change or modify the terms and conditions applicable to use of the site, or any part thereof, or to impose new conditions, including, without limitation, adding fees and charges for use. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by any means including, without limitation, posting on the site, or by electronic or conventional mail, or by any other means. Any use of the site by you after such notice shall be deemed to constitute acceptance of such changes, modifications, additions or deletions.

10. Termination/ Access restriction

STA Travel LTD and OFF EXPLORING LTD reserves the right, at their sole discretion, to terminate member access to their personal Travel Blog site and the related service or any portion thereof at any time, without notice or compensation.