How to subscribe or renew
If you'd like to subscribe to Burghound.com (or renew your subscription), we offer two methods of payment. The easiest and most immediate way is by our secure credit card billing system. The second is by personal check, which is slower and less convenient.
The annual cost for four quarterly electronic issues is $125. A two-year subscription is $225, offering a discount; and an additional discount is available for a three-year term at $325. Two and three-year subscriptions include the complimentary electronic Travel Guide.
Postal Upgrade: For those who prefer to receive a professionally printed version of each Issue, there is an additional cost over the on-line subscription price to cover the costs of printing, binding, postage and handling. For US subscribers there is an added $85 per year fee. Issues are mailed Media Rate and can take anywhere from 3-8 weeks to arrive. For International subscribers there is an added $125 fee per year. This covers Global Priority mail and all related customs document handling. This option still includes the benefits of immediate on-line access via personal password so that you can access the journal while waiting for your printed issue to arrive. We strongly encourage subscribers to select the electronic on-line access as you will have access to the issue the day it is released, and, if having a printed issue is important, can transfer it to a flash drive and have it professionally printed at a local photocopy store without paying for postage and handling.
Once You Have Subscribed – What Next? Once your on-line order has been submitted and approved, our system will immediately send you an automated e-mail response - which often goes into a subscriber's spam folder. New subscribers, or renewals from a new e-mail address, will receive instructions in the automated e-mail and a link to select a personal password. The e-mail address you used to subscribe will always be your user name, and once you select a password, you can log in to the Burghound Members' Page and/or Database. This will give you online access to the current Issue and the complimentary back issue, and unlimited use of the Burghound Search Engine. You can read the material on-line or print it out on your personal printer. Or, as mentioned above, you may choose to download the issue onto a flash drive and have it printed at a local photocopy store. For those interested in ordering copies of back Issues of Burghound , please see the Purchase a Single Copy information below.
A Word on Timing: Please note we are a quarterly journal and for each year's subscription you are entitled to 4 issues which are released approximately the middle of January, April, June and October - dates are subject to change without notice. For first time subscribers, if you subscribe late in a quarter, you will still get all four issues, as well as a complimentary back Issue, but note that the database access is timed to the term of your subscription. So if you subscribe on February 15, you will have approximately 11 months of database access - for your first year only. As soon as you renew on a timely basis, you will be set to a full year of access. With a quarterly publication it's impossible to have everyone's subscription expired exactly 12 months after their initial subscription date. Since we are aware that some people subscribe mid-way in a quarter, we make up for that by providing a 5th Issue at no charge. Any questions on anything, please write Erica Meadows at MrsBurghound@aol.com.
HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE? As soon as you hit "submit", assuming credit card approval, our system will immediately send you an e-mail response acknowledging your subscription. (A declined order is usually due to using an invalid credit card, a typo while inputting the number or expiration date, or a fraud prevention placed on a card, in which case you need to contact your credit card company.) New subscribers and those renewing from a new e-mail address will both receive an AUTOMATED e-mail with instructions and a link you may use to select a personal password and log in to the Burghound Members' areas. Often this automated e-mail reply containing your password information is diverted by a "spam filtering" system, so we strongly recommend that you keep a close eye on your e-mail, including "junk" folders, after placing your subscription order. Also, take care to enter your e-mail address exactly. Even a minor typo may make it impossible for us to contact you. COPYRIGHT AND USAGE: Copyright © 2009-2010 by Burghound.com All rights are reserved and unauthorized reproduction, redistribution, retransmission, sharing of subscriptions or commercial exploitation of Burghound.com content, including the database, is strictly prohibited without the express written consent of Burghound.com. Integration or access to content using computer integration (Web Crawlers, Spiders, Robots, etc.) designed to automatically integrate/download the information in the database is strictly prohibited. Upon determination of violation of any of these conditions, subscription will be immediately terminated without any refund of the subscription fee. All who infringe, including non-subscribers, will be pursued using all legal remedies. Subscribers in the news media and wine trade may use limited wine reviews provided that Burghound.com is properly credited. To clarify, "sharing" of subscriptions is expressly prohibited. Burghound.com retains the right at any time, without notice, to change the current electronic delivery system to be in a "read" only format so issues cannot be forwarded to others, with no partial or full refund of subscription fees. Readers are reminded that the flow of revenues is the life blood of any business, from the biggest to the very modest but this is particularly true for start ups and the very small. It has come to our attention that there is a troubling amount of unauthorized sharing of Burghound.com content and there is evidence to suggest that the problem continues to worsen. While we are sincerely flattered that some people feel that Burghound.com material is worthy of being shared with friends and associates, doing so ultimately compromises our ability to bring the best that Burgundy offers to you as no business survives in the long run without just compensation for value provided. Thus we are reminding readers of pertinent copyright laws and to not share issues of Burghound.com - or user names/passwords. We understand that it is a fine line between the well-intentioned, one-time distribution of copyright protected material such as one issue with a friend and the willful, and unlawful, distribution of it to third parties to avoid the payment of monies rightfully due the author. As stated on the cover of each issue, subscribers in the media and wine trade sources may use limited portions of this material provided that Burghound.com is properly credited. We very much appreciate your consideration and understanding in this regard and thank you in advance for your continued support. |