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Please note that we are currently considering plans for the future of this website and therefore we are not accepting new stories at this time.

 

 

General

These Terms of Use should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer.
 

If you are aged under 18 you should review these Terms with your parent or guardian to make sure that you and your parent or guardian understand them.

 

By using the YouReadOnline.com website you agree not to:

  • Send us any software viruses or computer code intended to cause harm to computer hardware or software.

  • Break any applicable national, local or international law.

  • Collect, store or otherwise use any personal data from users of the site, in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998.

No payment will be given for publishing your submission on the YouReadOnline.com website.

 

In submitting your work you should be aware that users of the site may comment on your work and such comments may be shown on the website. 


Ownership of the Work

All work submitted to YouReadOnline.com must be the property/work of the person submitting the work.  By sending us your work you are stating that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the work including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the work.

 

By submitting work to the site you are stating that the work is original, it has not been copied wholly or substantially from any other work or material and publication of the work on the YouReadOnline.com website will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party.

 

Appropriateness of Material Submitted

YouReadOnline.com reserves the right to withdraw from the site any work if for any reason it is found to have violated these Terms.

 

From time to time we may have to remove submissions from the site in order to give other authors an opportunity to display their work.

 

We will not publish any work that contains extreme levels of profanity, pornography, and racist material.

 

Quality Standards

YouReadOnline.com encourages submission of work from all writers including new or unpublished writers. We will read all the submissions we receive and judge them on the quality of the writing, regardless of the author's commercial experience. However, the standard of submissions and our editorial standards are high and we do not publish all the submissions we receive.  Submission is not a guarantee of publication.

Copyrights

You maintain ownership and copyright to your stories, or other original work you submit to our site, including the right to publish it elsewhere.  You retain all rights to your work, granting us only the rights necessary to publish your work on the YouReadOnline.com website.

 

You may ask for your work to be deleted from the site at any time and we will comply with your request.

 

As with any work that is being publicly displayed, our advice is that, you should take adequate steps to ensure that you can be identified as the holder of the copyright on your work. The following sites contain useful information on copyright protection in various parts of the world:

Please note we are unable to provide advice on copyright protection.  If you are concerned about copyright you should seek independent legal advice.

 

Further Questions

 If you have any questions having read these Terms, we can be contacted by emailing us at stories@youreadonline.com