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Registration to The Independent Traveler's Message Board Forums is free! We do ask that you abide by the rules and policies detailed at this link: Community Guidelines. This is a moderated Community. The Independent Traveler reserves the right to remove any content in its sole discretion. Additionally, if you violate our Community Guidelines you may lose your posting privileges -- permanently -- without warning. If you agree to the terms, please check the 'I agree' checkbox and press the 'Register' button below. If you would like to cancel the registration, click here to return to the forums index.

These are moderated message boards. What this means is that we do our best to remove all objectionable messages from the boards. It also means that you cannot say whatever you'd like on the forums. If you are looking for an "anything goes" setting, The Independent Traveler might not be the place for you.

Keep in mind that we do not prescreen posts so there may be a period of time when an inappropriate post is visible. Please use the Report A Post icon located in the UPPER right hand corner of each posting if you wish to report a violation of our Community Guidelines. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of Travel Message Board Forums - IndependentTraveler.com, nor Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. (developers of vBulletin) will be held responsible for the content of any message.

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-orientated, hateful, threatening, are in violation of our Community Guidelines or otherwise violative of any laws. Additionally, we will begin sending you our weekly eletters, which you agree to by continuing your registration.

The Independent Traveler reserves the right to republish content posted on our message boards. We will grant a byline to the original author.

The Independent Traveler reserves to right to remove, edit, move, publish or close any thread (discussion) for any reason from the forums without warning. or notification to the Community. Additionally, we also reserve the right to deny posting privileges to any member at our sole discretion.
< BR> Our mission is to provide a haven on the Internet free of harassment and advertising for our community members' enjoyment. Any company or person(s) that interfere with that mission risk losing their posting privileges.

If you have any questions about how our community is moderated, please address them to our Community Manager via e-mail at community@independenttraveler.com. Please do not post on the boards.

Thank you and once again, welcome!

Up4travel
Community Manager