Comment and submission guidelines

Posted by Elena del Valle on August 9, 2007

We welcome your participation. We encourage you to analyze, comment on and share your views on HispanicMPR articles and guest articles. We wish to serve as a forum for the exchange of useful and constructive ideas to enhance the knowledge and understanding of Latinos in the United States and how to reach them effectively with marketing and public relations tools. We invite community leaders and Hispanic market experts in particular to share their knowledge and expertise with our readers and listeners via comments, guest articles, podcast interviews and expert presentations.

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1. You agree that you are fully responsible for the content that you post. You will not knowingly post content that violates the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right of any third party and that you will remove the same should you discover that you have violated this provision. Insulting or overtly offensive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, or abusive content will not be accepted. Nor will content that violates a third party’s right to privacy, or violates any local, state, national or international law, or that is inappropriate. You will indemnify Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations/HispanicMPR.com/Poyeen Publishing, its employees, agents, and affiliates from any and all claims and/or damages (including but not limited to reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from any claim brought by any third party relating to content you have posted. You will refrain from posting content that degrades others on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference, disability or other classification. You may only submit content on your own behalf without using someone else’s name or likeness. Anonymous submissions will not be accepted.

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