Terms of Use
Last updated: May 29, 2026
Acceptance of the Terms of Use
These terms of use are entered into by and between You and Bookmark My World LLC (“Company”, “we”, or “us”). The following terms and conditions, together with any documents they incorporate by reference (collectively, these “Terms of Use”), govern your access to and use of www.bookmarkmyworld.com, including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the website, such as browsing Experience descriptions, creating an account, and making bookings or payments, as well as any newsletters, email communications, or other digital platforms operated by or on behalf of the Company (collectively, the “Website”). Please read the Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Website.
By using the Website, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy, incorporated herein by reference. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
This Website is offered and available to users who are 13 years of age or older. By using this Website, you represent and warrant that you meet this age requirement. To book or participate in an Experience, you must be at least 18 years of age and of legal age to form a binding contract with the Company. If you do not meet the applicable eligibility requirements, you must not access or use the Website or book an Experience, as applicable.
Reliance on Information Posted
The information presented on or through the Website and any of the associated websites, social media pages, newsletters, or documents, including descriptions of Experiences, itineraries, pricing, images, and availability, is made available solely for general information purposes and is subject to change without notice. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of this information. Experience descriptions, including listed activities, venues, speakers, and schedules, are illustrative and may be modified as provided in your Participant Agreement. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by you or any other visitor, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. The Company is entitled to amend, change, or delete all or part of the Website at any time without notice.
This Website may include content provided by third parties, including materials provided by other users, bloggers, and third-party licensors, syndicators, aggregators, and/or reporting services. All statements and/or opinions expressed in these materials, and all articles and responses to questions and other content, other than the content provided by the Company, are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity providing those materials. These materials do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Company. We are not responsible, or liable to you or any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials provided by any third parties.
Bookings and Payments; Participant Agreement
The Website allows you to browse, book, and pay for literary tourism experiences offered by the Company (“Experiences”). All bookings made through the Website are subject to availability and our acceptance. Submission of a booking request and payment does not guarantee confirmation until you receive written confirmation from us.
By booking an Experience through the Website, you agree to be bound by the Participant Agreement [add hyperlink], which governs your participation in the Experience, including cancellation and refund policies, conduct requirements, assumption of risk, release of liability, and indemnification. In the event of a conflict between these Terms of Use and the Participant Agreement with respect to your participation in an Experience, the Participant Agreement shall control.
We use third-party payment processors to process payments made through the Website. We do not store your full payment card information on our servers. By submitting payment information, you represent that you are authorized to use the payment method provided. You are responsible for all charges incurred through your account, including applicable taxes and fees. All prices displayed on the Website are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated.
Accessing the Website
We reserve the right to withdraw or amend this Website, and any service or material that we provide on the Website, in our sole discretion and without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the Website, or the entire Website for any or no reason without notice. Without limiting the foregoing, we are not liable for any interruption or unavailability of the Website caused by events outside our reasonable control, including weather, natural disasters, pandemics, government actions, utility failures, cyberattacks, or other force majeure events.
You are responsible for:
- Making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website.
- Ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and comply with them.
To access the Website or some of the resources it offers, including booking an Experience or creating an account, you may be asked to provide certain registration details, payment information, or other information. It is a condition of your use of the Website that all of the information that you provide on the Website is correct, current, and complete. You agree that all information you provide to register with this Website or otherwise, including but not limited to through the use of any interactive features on the Website or during the booking and payment process, is governed by our Privacy Policy, and you consent to all actions we take with respect to your information consistent with our Privacy Policy.
Intellectual Property Rights
The Website and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, documents, materials, Experience descriptions, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof) are owned by the Company, its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. Copyright 2026 Bookmark My World LLC – All rights reserved.
These Terms of Use permit you to use the Website for your personal, non-commercial use only, including browsing Experience descriptions and making bookings. You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our Website, use any content from this site to train, fine-tune, or improve any machine learning or AI models, except as follows:
You must not:
You must not access or use for any commercial purposes any part of the Website or any services or materials available through the Website.
If you wish to make any use of material on the Website other than that set out in this section, please address your request to: hello@bookmarkmyworld.com.
If you print, copy, modify, download, or otherwise use or provide any other person with access to any part of the Website in breach of the Terms of Use, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. No right, title, or interest in or to the Website or any content on the Website is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Company. Any use of the Website not expressly permitted by these Terms of Use is a breach of these Terms of Use and may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws.
Trademarks
The Company’s name, its logo, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans are trademarks of the Company or its affiliates or licensors. You must not use such marks without the prior written permission of the Company. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans on this Website are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Prohibited Uses
You may use the Website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You agree not to use the Website or its content:
Additionally, you agree not to:
SUBMISSIONS
Any and all profile submissions, comments, reviews, testimonials, suggestions, data, photos, preferences, survey responses, and any other information that you transmit to us through the Website or in response to our communications, including feedback about an Experience (“Submission”), may be used by us anywhere, anytime and for any reason whatsoever.
You shall remain the sole and exclusive owner of your Submission, and you shall be solely responsible for your Submission and the consequences of posting or publishing them. By submitting your Submissions to us, you hereby grant us a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) and transferable license (with a right to create derivative works) to use, copy, distribute, perform, publicly perform and display your Submissions for any legal purposes whatsoever now known or hereinafter become known, including for our marketing and promotional purposes, at no additional cost. This license includes, without limitation, the right to use any testimonials, reviews, photos, videos, or audio that you submit through the Website. If you prefer not to have your Submission used for marketing or promotional purposes, please notify us in writing at hello@bookmarkmyworld.com, and we will use reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.
Any Submission you provide to us will be deemed public information and not subject to any confidentiality obligation and we shall have no obligation to maintain its confidentiality except to the extent the Submission contains personal identifiable information, in which case, our Privacy Policy shall govern our disclosure of such information. You also consent to our contacting you about any of your Submissions. In addition, if you provide to us any ideas, proposals or suggestions (“Feedback”), we will deem such Feedback a Submission. You agree that Feedback is not confidential and that your provision of it is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and does not place us under any obligation in respect of such Feedback.
By making a Submission, you waive the right to make any claim against us or any of our respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, agents, directors, officers, and shareholders related to your Submission, including, but not limited to, unfair competition, invasion of privacy, negligence, breach of implied contract or breach of confidentiality, and you further waive all moral rights you may have in any materials uploaded or sent to us by you. You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant the licenses granted herein.
You represent and warrant that your Submissions: (a) shall be true, accurate, current, complete and not misleading, (b) shall not violate the rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, intellectual property and proprietary rights, (c) shall not be fraudulent or involve counterfeit or stolen information or items, (d) shall not violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation and/or any right of a third party, (e) shall not create any liability for us, and (f) shall not violate the Prohibited Uses. You also agree to maintain and promptly update your Submissions by means of the Website in order to keep that information true, accurate, current and complete. We will have no liability arising from your failure to provide accurate information.
Monitoring and Enforcement; Termination
We have the right to:
Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to cooperate fully with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Website. YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS THE COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSEES, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY ANY OF THE FOREGOING PARTIES DURING, OR TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF, INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER SUCH PARTIES OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
Copyright Infringement
Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have designated the person listed below as our agent (“IP Agent”) to receive notifications of alleged copyright or other intellectual property infringement on the Website. We respect the intellectual property of others, and ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide our IP Agent the following information (the “IP Notice”): (a) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest; (b) a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed; (c) a description of where the material that you claim has been infringed is located within the Website; (d) your address, telephone number and email address; (e) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the owner, its agent or the law; and (f) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your IP Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner’s behalf.
Our IP Agent for transmitting the IP Notice for claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be contacted at:
Copyright Agent
Bookmark My World LLC
hello@bookmarkmyworld.com
Information About You and Your Visits to the Website
All information we collect on this Website is subject to our Privacy Policy. By using the Website, you consent to all actions taken by us with respect to your information in compliance with the Privacy Policy. By providing your contact information through the Website, you consent to receive transactional and service-related communications from us electronically, including by email. You are responsible for monitoring such communications regularly. In the event of a conflict between these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy with respect to the collection, use, storage, or disclosure of your personal information, the Privacy Policy shall control.
Linking to the Website and Social Media Features
You may link to our Website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part without our express written consent.
This Website may provide certain social media features that enable you to:
You may use these features solely as they are provided by us and solely with respect to the content they are displayed with. Subject to the foregoing, you must not:
You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking immediately to stop. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
We may disable all or any social media features and any links at any time without notice in our sole discretion.
Links from the Website
If the Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, including advertisements, these links are provided for your convenience only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such websites.
Geographic Restrictions
The owner of the Website is based in the State of Maryland in the United States and the Website is not intended to subject the Company to any non-U.S. jurisdiction or law. We make no representation that the content provided through the Website is applicable, available or appropriate for use in jurisdictions other than the United States of America. If you access our Website from outside of the United States, please be aware you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. To the extent that any applicable local laws prohibit your viewing and use of the Website, you may not view or use the Website. Any use of the Website is at your own risk, and you must comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations in doing so. We may limit the availability of the Website at any time, in whole or in part, to any person or geographic area that we choose.
Disclaimer of Warranties
You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the internet or the Website will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to our site for any reconstruction of any lost data. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A DISTRIBUTED DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK, VIRUSES, OR OTHER TECHNOLOGICALLY HARMFUL MATERIAL THAT MAY INFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DATA, OR OTHER PROPRIETARY MATERIAL DUE TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR TO YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON IT, OR ON ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO IT.
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE WEBSITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY REPRESENTS OR WARRANTS THAT THE WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENT WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE, OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT OUR SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT THE WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENT WILL OTHERWISE MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, THE COMPANY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY WARRANTIES THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Limitation on Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY, ITS AFFILIATES, OR THEIR LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, OR DIRECTORS BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE WEBSITE, ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO IT, ANY CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE OR SUCH OTHER WEBSITES, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF DATA, AND WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORESEEABLE. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY DOES NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY ARISING FROM THE GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT OF THE COMPANY.
THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, licensors, and service providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, members, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors, and assigns (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to: (i) your violation of these Terms of Use; (ii) your use of the Website, including, but not limited to, any use of the Website’s content obtained from the Website; and (iii) your violation of any applicable law. This indemnification obligation does not apply to the extent a claim arises from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of a Released Party.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
All matters relating to the Website and these Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising therefrom or related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Maryland without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of Maryland or any other jurisdiction).
Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms of Use or the Website shall be instituted exclusively in the federal or state courts having jurisdiction over Montgomery County, Maryland. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.
Arbitration
Except for actions by the Company arising from non-payment of any monies due to the Company, and requests for injunctive or other extraordinary relief, each of which may be pursued in a court of law having competent jurisdiction, any dispute arising out of or in connection with the relationship of the parties and/or these Terms of Use shall first be submitted to good-faith mediation administered by JAMS. The parties shall share mediation fees equally. If mediation does not resolve the dispute within sixty (60) days of the initial mediation request, the dispute shall be resolved by binding arbitration conducted by an arbitrator. To commence arbitration, the party desiring arbitration shall notify the other party in writing of its desire to arbitrate, which shall include a brief description of the disputes and/or issues to be arbitrated (“Arbitration Notice”). If the parties are unable to mutually agree upon the selection of the arbitrator within thirty (30) days of the Arbitration Notice, then one shall be appointed and the arbitration shall be conducted pursuant to JAMS. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in Montgomery County, Maryland. The arbitrator shall not contravene or vary in any respect any of the terms and provisions of these Terms of Use. The award of the arbitrator shall be final and binding upon the parties hereto, their heirs, administrators, executors, successors and assigns, and a judgment upon such award shall be entered in any court having jurisdiction. In any proceeding, whether in court or in arbitration, the court or arbitrator may award to the prevailing party, as a recovery from the other party, all expenses, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees and/or the arbitrator’s fees incurred in instituting or defending such action.
YOU AGREE THAT ANY ARBITRATION UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL TAKE PLACE ON ANY INDIVIDUAL BASIS; CLASS ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTIONS ARE NOT PERMITTED AND YOU AGREE TO GIVE UP THE ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.
Limitation on Time to File Claims
ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OF USE OR THE WEBSITE MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES, OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM WILL BE PERMANENTLY BARRED.
Waiver and Severability
No waiver by the Company of any term or condition set out in these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or a waiver of any other term or condition, and any failure of the Company to assert a right or provision under these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
If any provision of these Terms of Use is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use will continue in full force and effect.
Entire Agreement
The Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and, if you book an Experience, the Participant Agreement, constitute the sole and entire agreement between you and Bookmark My World LLC regarding the Website and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written and oral, regarding the Website. You agree that these Terms of Use will not be construed against the Company as the drafter.
Changes to the Terms of Use
We may revise and update these Terms of Use from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them, and apply to all access to and use. Please look at the “LAST UPDATED” legend above to see when the Terms were last revised.
Your continued use of the Website following the posting of revised Terms of Use means that you accept and agree to the changes. You are expected to check this page from time to time so that you are aware of any changes because they are binding on you.
Your Comments and Concerns
All feedback, comments, requests for technical support, and other communications relating to the Website should be directed to:
Bookmark My World, LLC
hello@bookmarkmyworld.com
