Last Updated: May 12, 2026
This DMCA / Copyright Policy applies to HawaiisBestTravel.com, the Hawaii’s Best Travel podcast pages, newsletters, digital products, guides, downloads, social media-linked content, user-submitted content, and related materials operated by Shorebreak Media Group LLC, doing business as Hawaii’s Best.
For purposes of this policy, “Hawaii’s Best,” “Hawaii’s Best Travel,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Shorebreak Media Group LLC, d/b/a Hawaii’s Best. “You” and “your” refer to any visitor, reader, listener, subscriber, purchaser, client, contributor, copyright owner, or user of our website, content, products, services, or related materials.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect users, contributors, advertisers, partners, contractors, and visitors to do the same.
1. Ownership of Hawaii’s Best Content
Unless otherwise stated, the content published by Hawaii’s Best Travel is owned by Shorebreak Media Group LLC, d/b/a Hawaii’s Best, or used with permission, license, attribution, fair use, or another lawful basis.
Protected content may include, but is not limited to:
- Blog posts
- Podcast episode pages
- Written guides
- Downloadable PDFs
- Newsletters
- Itineraries
- Photos
- Graphics
- Logos
- Branding
- Audio
- Video
- Social media graphics
- Maps or custom planning resources
- Product descriptions
- Website copy
- Page layouts
- Digital products
- Consultation materials
- Email content
- Original research
- Editorial frameworks
- Headlines, captions, and creative assets
All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
2. Limited Personal Use
You may view, print, or download content from Hawaii’s Best Travel for your own personal, non-commercial, informational use only.
You may not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, sell, license, modify, distribute, scrape, train artificial intelligence systems on, or create derivative works from our content without prior written permission.
This restriction applies to both free and paid content.
3. Prohibited Uses
Unless you have written permission from Shorebreak Media Group LLC, you may not:
- Copy full articles, guides, or downloads
- Republish our content on another website
- Sell or redistribute our free or paid guides
- Use our podcast scripts, show notes, or written content as your own
- Use our images, graphics, branding, or logos without permission
- Remove copyright notices, watermarks, attribution, or branding
- Use our content for commercial training materials
- Use automated scraping tools to extract website content
- Upload our paid or free digital products to sharing sites
- Use our content to train, fine-tune, or populate artificial intelligence systems
- Misrepresent our content as your own
- Create confusingly similar content, branding, guides, or products based on our protected materials
4. User-Submitted Content
If you submit, upload, email, tag, message, post, or otherwise provide content to Hawaii’s Best Travel, you represent and warrant that you either own the content or have the necessary rights, licenses, permissions, and consents to provide it to us.
User-submitted content may include:
- Comments
- Reviews
- Testimonials
- Photos
- Videos
- Messages
- Questions
- Travel tips
- Itinerary details
- Social media tags
- Guest content
- Interview materials
- Feedback
- Other materials submitted to us
By submitting content to us, you grant Shorebreak Media Group LLC, d/b/a Hawaii’s Best, a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, publish, edit, display, distribute, excerpt, promote, and create derivative works from that content for business, editorial, marketing, social media, podcast, newsletter, and promotional purposes, unless otherwise agreed in writing.
You are responsible for ensuring that your submitted content does not infringe the rights of any third party.
5. Third-Party Content
Hawaii’s Best Travel may reference, quote, embed, link to, discuss, or display third-party content for purposes such as commentary, criticism, education, reporting, review, research, travel planning, attribution, or fair use.
Third-party content may include:
- Photos
- Logos
- Business names
- Trademarks
- Screenshots
- Maps
- Videos
- Social media posts
- Podcast embeds
- Government information
- News references
- Product images
- Hotel, airline, tour, or restaurant information
- Publicly available statements or materials
All third-party trademarks, logos, brand names, business names, product names, and copyrighted works remain the property of their respective owners.
Use of third-party names, logos, screenshots, or materials does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or approval unless explicitly stated.
6. Fair Use
Some third-party content may be used under principles of fair use, license, permission, embedding functionality, public availability, attribution, commentary, criticism, education, reporting, or another lawful basis.
We aim to use third-party content responsibly and in context.
If you believe your copyrighted work has been used improperly, please follow the DMCA notice process below.
7. DMCA Takedown Notices
If you are a copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of one, and you believe that content on HawaiisBestTravel.com infringes your copyright, you may submit a written DMCA takedown notice.
Your notice should include the following information:
- Your full legal name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
- A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
- The exact URL or location of the allegedly infringing material on our website.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent, or the law.
- A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
Send DMCA notices to:
DMCA Agent / Copyright Contact
Shorebreak Media Group LLC
d/b/a Hawaii’s Best
200 N Vineyard Blvd Ste A325 #1170
Honolulu, HI 96817
United States
Email: contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com
Subject Line: DMCA Takedown Notice
8. Important Notice About Misrepresentation
Please make sure your DMCA notice is accurate.
Under U.S. copyright law, knowingly making false claims or material misrepresentations in a DMCA notice or counter-notice may result in legal liability.
If you are unsure whether material is infringing, you may wish to consult an attorney before submitting a notice.
9. Our Response to DMCA Notices
When we receive a proper DMCA takedown notice, we may:
- Review the notice
- Remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material
- Contact the person who posted or provided the material, if applicable
- Request additional information if the notice is incomplete
- Decline to remove material if the notice is defective, abusive, unclear, or legally insufficient
- Preserve records related to the notice
- Take other action we believe is appropriate under applicable law
We may act quickly when appropriate, but submission of a notice does not guarantee removal of content.
10. Counter-Notices
If you believe material you posted or submitted was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice.
A counter-notice should include:
- Your full legal name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
- Identification of the material that was removed or disabled and the location where it appeared before removal.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
- A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside the United States, the federal district court for the district in which Shorebreak Media Group LLC may be found.
- A statement that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original DMCA notice or that person’s agent.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
Send counter-notices to:
DMCA Agent / Copyright Contact
Shorebreak Media Group LLC
d/b/a Hawaii’s Best
200 N Vineyard Blvd Ste A325 #1170
Honolulu, HI 96817
United States
Email: contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com
Subject Line: DMCA Counter-Notice
11. Repeat Infringers
We may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, remove content, block submissions, restrict access, or terminate users, contributors, or accounts that we determine to be repeat infringers.
We may also take action against users who submit infringing, unlawful, abusive, fraudulent, or misleading content.
12. No Obligation to Monitor
We are not obligated to monitor all user-submitted content, comments, links, social media tags, third-party embeds, or external materials.
However, we reserve the right to review, remove, disable, restrict, edit, or refuse content at any time if we believe it violates this policy, our Terms of Service, applicable law, third-party rights, or our editorial standards.
13. Permissions Requests
If you want to use, quote, reproduce, republish, license, or share Hawaii’s Best Travel content beyond personal use, contact us first.
Permission requests should include:
- Your name
- Your organization, if applicable
- The specific content you want to use
- How you want to use it
- Where it will appear
- Whether the use is commercial or non-commercial
- The time period of use
- Any requested edits, excerpts, or adaptations
Contact:
contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com
Subject line:
Content Permission Request
We may approve or deny permission requests at our discretion.
Permission must be granted in writing.
14. Linking to Our Content
You may link to publicly available Hawaii’s Best Travel pages, blog posts, podcast pages, or resources, provided that the link is lawful, not misleading, and does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation without permission.
You may not frame, mirror, scrape, or reproduce our content on another website without written permission.
15. Trademarks and Brand Use
“Hawaii’s Best,” “Hawaii’s Best Travel,” associated logos, graphics, names, page designs, slogans, show names, and brand elements may be trademarks, service marks, trade names, or protected brand assets of Shorebreak Media Group LLC.
You may not use our name, logo, branding, or confusingly similar marks in a way that suggests endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, partnership, or approval without prior written permission.
16. AI, Scraping, and Automated Use
You may not use bots, crawlers, scrapers, automated tools, artificial intelligence systems, data extraction tools, or similar technology to copy, download, reproduce, summarize at scale, republish, train on, or commercially exploit Hawaii’s Best Travel content without prior written permission.
This restriction applies to:
- Articles
- Podcast pages
- Show notes
- Guides
- PDFs
- Newsletters
- Images
- Graphics
- Social captions
- Itineraries
- Planning frameworks
- Product descriptions
- Paid and free digital products
- Any other original content
Standard search engine crawling for indexing public web pages is permitted unless otherwise restricted by technical measures or written notice.
17. Relationship to Other Policies
This DMCA / Copyright Policy should be read together with our:
- Privacy Policy
- Terms of Service
- Disclaimer
- Affiliate Disclosure
- Cookie Policy
- Editorial Policy
- Accessibility Statement
If there is a conflict between this policy and our Terms of Service, the Terms of Service will control to the extent permitted by law.
18. Updates to This Policy
We may update this DMCA / Copyright Policy from time to time.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
Your continued use of the website, content, products, services, or related materials after updates are posted means you accept the revised policy.
19. Contact Information
For copyright questions, permissions, takedown notices, or counter-notices, contact us at:
Shorebreak Media Group LLC
d/b/a Hawaii’s Best
200 N Vineyard Blvd Ste A325 #1170
Honolulu, HI 96817
United States
Email: contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com
Subject Line: Copyright / DMCA Request
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