Plain-English Service Terms
These terms apply to Marketing By Kevin press release production, managed distribution, Authority Stack campaigns, and approved advertorial projects. They explain the transaction before payment. They do not replace a publisher’s current editorial rules or create a guarantee about independent media coverage, search-engine position, traffic, leads, or sales.
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Who Controls What?
The acceptance and refund terms below follow this division. MBK guarantees only the responsibilities expressly stated for the purchased service.
1. One Project, Not a Retainer
Each single-release purchase covers one eligible announcement and the package shown at checkout. An Authority Stack purchase covers the exact number of distinct releases, search plan, routes, and reporting stated in the approved package. There is no subscription, recurring fee, required call, or open-ended public-relations engagement.
2. Eligibility Comes Before Production
The customer must complete the eligibility process and provide accurate company, contact, announcement, category, and authorization information. MBK may move a high-scrutiny project to manual review, recommend a different verified route, or decline the placement before production when the submitted category, claims, evidence, or purpose does not fit the available publishers.
3. Customer-supplied Releases
For distribution-only orders, the customer supplies final publisher-ready copy and is responsible for the truthfulness, substantiation, quotations, identities, permissions, trademarks, images, and other rights in that copy. MBK performs a mechanical and route-fit preflight, formatting, submission management, and applicable status communication. Substantive rewriting is not included.
3A. Publisher Content Rules for Standard News Releases
ACCESS Newswire sets the editorial rules for releases submitted through its route; MBK does not make or waive those rules. A standard press release must be a factual company announcement, not an advertisement or a general-interest sales article. Before submission, the customer and MBK should confirm:
- The headline states a real, timely news event, and the company or organization behind it is identified near the top.
- The release has a valid media-contact email. Some routes or subjects may also require a contact name, phone number, executive authorization, or supporting documents.
- The copy uses an objective, news-style tone. Avoid first-person or direct-address sales language outside an approved quotation, inflated claims, exclamation marks, and all-caps emphasis.
- Facts, numbers, quotations, rights, and links are accurate, supportable, authorized, and current. The content is original and has not already been published as the same release.
- Search planning informs the angle and reader destination; it does not permit keyword stuffing, black-hat tactics, or claims written only to attract search traffic.
ACCESS may hold, request changes to, or refuse content, especially in restricted or high-scrutiny categories. Its editors make the final decision. Review the current ACCESS Newswire content guidelines before supplying final copy; they can change. A GlobeNewswire submission follows that publisher’s separate rules. The separately purchased Rare Find Advertorial is paid, labeled commercial content with its own confirmed route terms; it is not a way to place promotional copy as an ordinary news release. MBK’s refund commitments to its customers remain the ones stated on this page, not the publisher’s retail credit policy.
4. MBK-produced Releases
For release production orders, the customer supplies complete verified facts, authorized quotations, supporting sources, contact information, and media rights. MBK prepares the release for the purchased route and includes reasonable revisions to the same announcement during the active 30-day production window. A different event, product, central claim, company, or intended story is a new project.
5. Approval and Publisher Authority
The customer approves the exact copy before submission. The publisher retains final authority over acceptance, title, formatting, labeling, links, media, corrections, distribution, and presentation. If a publisher requests compliant changes, those changes may extend the timeline and may require renewed customer approval.
5A. Authority Stack Campaigns
An Authority Stack uses several genuinely distinct releases mapped to different primary search intents and business questions. It does not promise several rankings, permit duplicate stories to be represented as diversification, or guarantee that every planned angle will remain eligible after fact intake. If a planned angle lacks a real, supportable news event, MBK may replace it with another customer-authorized angle within the purchased count. Each exact release requires customer approval before submission.
6. Publisher Acceptance Guarantee
An eligible MBK-produced release includes the Publisher Acceptance Guarantee. MBK will make reasonable compliant editorial corrections and resubmit without another production charge. If MBK ultimately cannot obtain acceptance on the purchased route, MBK will refund the complete production-and-distribution amount paid for that release.
For a prequalified supplement or regulated-wellness order with MBK evidence-led release production, this same remedy covers the complete production-and-distribution amount paid for the exact confirmed route if an eligible release cannot obtain acceptance after reasonable compliant corrections. No unsupported claim is guaranteed acceptance. A customer-supplied release follows Section 7.
7. Distribution-Only Refund
If customer-supplied copy is declined, the customer may revise and resubmit within the active project window or request a full refund of the distribution charge. Once the release is accepted and published through the purchased route, the distribution service has been performed and the distribution charge is not refundable.
8. Customer-Caused Delays or Ineligibility
Refund protection does not cover false or incomplete intake, undisclosed warnings or legal disputes, missing authorization, infringement, fabricated or unsupported facts, a change in the customer’s desired announcement after work begins, failure to approve or respond, or an attempt to add prohibited material after eligibility. If MBK has not submitted the release, any unearned distribution amount will be returned; completed release production or evidence work may remain chargeable in proportion to the agreed scope.
9. Timing
Service timing begins only after payment verification, complete intake, eligibility clearance, and receipt of every required source and permission. Requested dates are targets until MBK confirms the exact route and production window in writing. Customer changes and publisher revisions extend the timeline.
10. Results and Reporting
MBK publishes with ranking intentions and recommends distribution only when it believes the qualified announcement has a credible path to measurable visibility. The applicable record documents the accepted release, primary publication URL or URLs, completion date, available pickup links, and available route analytics. An Authority Stack also includes the agreed search-intent map and consolidated campaign record. Downstream pickup, permanence, indexing, search position, readership, clicks, journalist interest, leads, and sales vary and are not guaranteed.
10A. 12-Month Primary-URL Deletion Protection
If the primary publisher URL for an accepted release is removed within 12 months of its original publication date, MBK will resubmit the accepted release once through the same route or a comparable eligible route at no additional distribution-management charge. The customer must notify MBK during that 12-month period and provide the original order or publication reference. This protection covers deletion of the primary publisher page. It does not cover lost search rankings, deindexing while the page remains live, changes to third-party pickup pages, publisher or search-engine display changes, later ineligibility caused by the customer or subject matter, or a request to replace the original story with a new announcement.
11. Paid and Advertorial Content
An advertorial is paid commercial content and carries the publisher’s required advertising or sponsored-content disclosure. It is not independent reporting or an endorsement. MBK content production is included in the Rare Find Advertorial. Exact properties, word limit, media, link treatment, label, duration, and route terms are confirmed before an approved advertorial payment.
If an eligible MBK-produced Rare Find Advertorial cannot obtain acceptance on the purchased, confirmed paid-content route after reasonable compliant corrections, MBK refunds the complete advertorial content-production-and-placement fee paid for that order. The customer-caused exclusions in Section 8 apply. This remedy concerns acceptance on the confirmed placement route; it does not promise traffic, ranking, leads, sales, or independent coverage.
12. Restricted Material
The current offers do not accept sexually explicit promotion, sports-betting or sportsbook promotion, investment advice or recommendations, literal psychic prediction or supernatural guidance claims, deceptive or illegal material, impersonation, defamation, fabricated testimonials, fake scarcity, or unsupported medical and financial claims. A lawful adjacent business category may still require manual review of the exact construction.
13. Data and Communications
Eligibility and order forms collect the business contact and production information required to evaluate and fulfill the request. Do not submit payment-card data, passwords, private medical records, customer lists, or unnecessary sensitive personal information. Form records may be retained privately for up to 180 days for fulfillment, accounting, fraud prevention, and dispute handling, then deleted under the site’s retention process. Transactional order emails do not require marketing consent. Optional marketing consent may be withdrawn by replying to an MBK email.
14. Contact
Questions about an order should be sent to info@marketingbykevin.com with the eligibility or order reference. Also review the site’s Privacy Policy and the current package page.
Updated September 25, 2026. This version applies to orders placed after this update. If a checkout description and these terms conflict about the price or included package, the exact checkout selected and the written eligibility confirmation control for that order.