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Article Submission Guidelines

Article submissions to Desire To Retire are free and new additions to our database are indexed once a day, roughly every 24 hours. This means that any article you submit will be searchable by, and available to, visitors the day after it is submitted. Before submitting an article, please search the Desire To Retire database by author name or article title to ensure your articles have not already been added by someone else.

We strongly recommend that you do not submit articles that are not your own unless the author has given you permission to do so.

You grant free publishing/reprinting authorization to Desire To Retire and anyone associated with Desire To Retire, as well as anyone who desires to download and publish an article, provided they adhere to these Terms of Service.

You certify that you have reviewed all links in the article and "About the Author" box, and none lead to websites with illegal, pornographic, warez, or hate content, websites that sell or promote the sale of pharmaceuticals on the internet, websites that allow or promote gambling on the internet or any website containing or associated with such things.

You may not submit any article that contains illegal, pornographic, warez or hate content, or links to any site containing such content.

Please submit each article to the most appropriate category possible. If there is no appropriate category, please use our contact form to suggest one.

Submit your article to one category only. Submissions to multiple categories are automatically removed on a daily basis.

Submissions that are commercial or advertorial in content will be removed from the Desire To Retire database. Desire To Retire is a free-content directory not a forum for advertising commercial products, services or programs.

Submissions that are less than 100 words will be removed from the Desire To Retire database. Longer articles may also be removed if they contain no useful content or are submitted for the sole purpose of obtaining back links or promoting a product or service.

Submissions that consist of a few lines of text with a link pointing to another site where the article supposedly resides will be removed.

Article submissions that are plagiarized or in violation of another author's copyright will be removed. Read the section below for more information on our copyright policy.

Note: Desire To Retire reserves the right to remove any article or articles for any reason with or without notice or explanation. In cases where the above or other guidelines are severely abused, so-called authors will be banned.

Article Criteria

Article submissions are subject to length restrictions. These are outlined below:

Article Title:  maximum 150 characters.

Article Body:  maximum of 15,000 characters or roughly 2,500 words.

Author Bio:  400 characters or roughly 60 words.

Article Formatting and Links

We strongly recommend that authors submitting to Desire To Retire copy and paste articles from a basic text editor like Notepad or NoteTab Light. Following this suggestion will ensure that paragraph breaks, line length and other basic formatting will be properly handled by our submission form. Copying and pasting content from applications like MS Word can and does result in a variety of formatting problems. The reason for this is that MS Word and similar applications use non-ASCII, sometimes invisible, characters that are copied with article content into our submission form, causing articles to appear very differently from the way they were submitted.

Keeping the above in mind, it is not necessary for authors to use html tags for specifying font size or to create paragraph and line breaks. Use of HTML should be minimal and we suggest html tags only be used for creating live links to sites, services or products. Our submission process does not automatically create activated links. You must do this.

Copyright and Violations

Desire To Retire's policy prohibits the use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates the copyright owner's rights. In general, this means that authors should only submit their own original written work to which they have natural copyright.

In cases where copyright is disputed (usually as a result of plagiarism or unauthorized copying), articles will be immediately removed without recourse or discussion, regardless of the arguments presented by the disputing parties.

Actions to Take in the Event of Copyright Violation

Desire To Retire is a free content article directory. We act as an intermediary between authors and publishers and post guidelines for both regarding copyright adherence. However, copyright resides with the authors who submit to our directory, not with us. As a consequence, Desire To Retire has no legal standing to enforce copyright on behalf of authors.

In the event of copyright violation, we advise authors to exercise their rights under the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 by taking the following steps:

1. Contact the offending party directly asking them to rectify the copyright violation.

2. If the above fails, contact the ISP that hosts the offending website and the domain registrar that holds the registration for the website domain.  Information for the domain registrar and hosting service can generally be obtained by doing a lookup using any WhoIs service such as:  http://www.whois.net  http://www.networksolutions.com

3. Most Domain Registrars and ISPs will respond to a copyright enforcement request by warning or suspending the offending party. If they fail to do so, have a lawyer make the same request in writing. This last action rarely fails to produce results.

Disclaimer

The articles on this Web site are provided for information purposes only and for redistribution as outlined in our guidelines. Desire To Retire.com does not accept any responsibility or liability for the use or misuse of the article content on this site or reliance by any person on the site's contents.