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 Thewritersblock.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 Thewritersblock.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 Thewritersblock.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 Thewritersblock.com
website will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party.
Appropriateness of Material Submitted
Thewritersblock.com reserves the right to withdraw from the site any work if for any reason it is found to
have violated these Terms.
We will not publish any work that contains extreme levels of profanity, pornography, and racist material.
Quality Standards
Thewritersblock.com encourages submission of work from all writers including new or unpublished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editorial standards are high and we do not publish all the submissions we receive.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 Thewritersblock.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 site contains
useful information on copyright protection in various parts of the world:
-The U.S. Copyright Office - Copyright Information.
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
writersblock@unclestinkstradingpost.com


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