Please read the following Article Submission Guidelines before submitting your article(s). These guidelines follow the usual rules for article submission online and are compulsory.  Any Author who does not abide by the following guidelines will either have their article edited or removed.

N.B. It is important to format your article in a reasonable manner - if you copy and paste from a wordprocessing program such as Micrsoft Word, your article will look very strange when added to the website, as you also copy the Microsoft program code into your article.  To avoid problems with formating when copying and pasting your article for publication, please first copy and paste your article into 'Notepad' which can be found on all Windows computers under Programs > Accessories > Notepad, doing this removes weird coding from your article which is incompatible with website page code.

1 -  Articles must be original material that is solely owned by you. If you have hired someone to write the material you are submitting, you agree that you have exclusive rights to that material.

2 - The content you submit must fall within the theme of this website, and must contain valid information, articles that are purely or mostly advertising will not be accepted. Articles which have a primary focus of promoting a person, product, or service are considered advertisements.

3 - Articles must not be related to, or link to, the following subjects:
    a.  Gambling
    b. Credit cards or loans.
    c. Pharmaceuticals / Prescription Drugs
    d. Sexual enhancement
    e. Matchmaking / Dating
    f. Questionable Search Engine` Optimization practices such as search ranking manipulation, artificial linking, etc.
       
4 - Hyperlinks (links to other websites) are allowed but must meet the following criteria:
    a. Articles may not contain self-serving hyperlinks, but you may add self-serving links within your author bio.
    b. Links to relevant sites should appear at the end of an article. 
    c. May not link to websites which may be detrimental to the search engine rankings of any pages within Clearmoon
    d. May not be affiliate links
    e. May not link directly to file downloads, such as MP3’s, executables, etc.
    f. Hyperlinks must link to a valid web page which does not return a 'page not found' error.
        
5 - Images are allowed in articles, but must meet the following criteria:
    a. Must be original material that is solely owned by you.
    b. If images are hosted externally there must be a clear indication that you are the rightful owner.  If ownership is not apparent, images will be removed.
    c. Externally hosted images must be available 24 hours a day, every day.  Articles with broken image links will be removed. 

6 - Articles must not contain content which could be considered any of the following, nor link to websites which contain:
    a. Pornography
    b. Mail order brides
    c. Hacking / cracking / freaking
    d. Hatred or violence
    e. Radicalism / fanaticism
    f. Racial or religious intolerance
    g. Insults / slander / libel / defamation
    h. Weapons attainment, creation or use
    i. Anything illegal, fraudulent or infringes on the legal rights of others
        
7 - Articles must be written in the English language and must not have excessive grammatical or punctuation errors. 

8 - There are no guarantees that your content will be published. It is at our sole discretion whether or not to publish your content. If we do publish your content, we reserve the right to remove your content at any time and edit it if necessary to comply with these guidelines.

9 - If we feel that the category you have chosen for your content is not suitable, we reserve the right to place your content in a more suitable category instead.

10 - When you submit your content to Clearmoon.co.uk/articles you agree to allow us to publish your article in RSS format (RSS syndication available on Clearmoon.co.uk/articles), which enables other websites to syndicate your content.

11 - We reserve the right to add advertising on the pages your content appears on.

12 - Your content is offered at no charge to our visitors. You will not be paid for submitting your content to our sites and you will not be paid if and when your articles are published.

13 - We reserve the right to change or add to these terms at any time.

14 - We encourage you to complete your Authors Bio, the Bio should include your name, website and/or email address, and a short description and you may upload a photo of yourself. Your bio should contain no more than two hyperlinks.

15 - You retain full copyright of your submitted material

16 - You agree to allow other websites, newsletters, ezines, or other online print publications to re-print the content you submit to Clearmoon.  Clearmoon is not responsible if anyone should violate your copyrights. It is up to you, the author, to take any necessary legal action against anyone who violates a copyright.

17 - Clearmoon reserves the right to remove or deny any article for any reason, at Clearmoon's sole discretion.

18 - You must be 18 years of age or older to be accepted as an Author

Publisher's Terms of Service

Clearmoon is a free content resource. This allows you, the publisher, to re-print the articles that you find on this website, as long as you adhere to the following Terms and Conditions listed below:

1. You MUST include the information in the Authors Bio along with the content of any article that you choose to reprint or publish on your website and you MUST include a link to http://www.clearrmoon.co.uk

2. For any information that you decide to re-print, you must respect and adhere to that Authors copyrights.

3. Under no circumstances are your permitted to add to, remove or reword any part of any information not owned by you.

4. You must agree to keep all links within the articles and information active so that they can be clicked on to reach their destination.

5. You are not permitted to use any information obtained from Clearmoon for use in any spam or unsolicited advertisements or mailings.

6. You are not permitted to publish any information obtained from Clearmoon on any websites, or other publications, that contain pornography, racism, hate, wares or any other illegal content.

7. You are not permitted to sell any articles or information obtained from Clearmoon.

Disclaimer:

All information and material on Clearmoon is provided on an as-is basis and under no circumstances shall Clearmoon be liable for any damage to your computer system, data, or any personal objects that may result from viewing, printing, or by any other means, any material and/or data from Clearmoon or any website it is linked to.

Clearmoon does not guarantee the accuracy of any information or products included on this site by Clearmoon or its contributing editors and advertisers.

Clearmoon does not endorse anything that may appear in the articles or information submitted by Authors. The views and endorsements that appear in any articles or information by authors, or in any advertisements, do not necessarily reflect the views of Clearmoon.

Throughout our website, you will see hyperlinks to other websites. If you click these links, they will take you to other websites off Clearmoon. Clearmoon is not responsible for any information found on these third party websites, nor does Clearmoon guarantee any of the services, information or products found on these third party websites.

All information submitted to Clearmoon is not intended to provide any legal, medical or other professional advice and should not be used or tested without first obtaining the advice of an appropriate professional. All information submitted to Clearmoon is provided as entertainment and educational purposes only. You agree to accept full responsibility for any information that you submit to or use from Clearmoon.

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