Terms of Service

These terms below should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms of service.


Description of Services

This website provides access to a range of online content for personal, research or teaching use and allows users to submit material which may be published on the website or distributed by email ('Services').


Disclaimer

To the fullest extent permitted by law, your use of and access to the website and any material downloaded or otherwise obtained from the site is entirely at your own risk; the site's services are provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis. Hyperfiction expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind whether express or implied including, but not limited to, warranties that:

• The services will meet your requirements or expectations.
• The services will be uninterrupted or error free.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither Hyperfiction, nor any of its owners or employees will be liable for any damages resulting from or in connection with your use of the website.

You understand that by using the services, you may encounter content that may be deemed offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable. You agree to use the services at your sole risk and that Hyperfiction shall have no liability to you for content that may be found to be offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable.

The website may provide links to external sites or resources to which the above disclaimer also applies. You acknowledge that we have no control over the content or reliability of such sites or resources.

For the avoidence of doubt this disclaimer applies to any comment, message or private message forwarding services, where content posted to the website is forwarded to an email address, provided by Hyperfiction.

With the exception of work labelled non-fiction, the characters featured in this site are completely fictional. Any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental. No similarity to any person either living or dead is intended or should be inferred.


User Conduct

By using the services, users agree not to:

• Upload or otherwise send us content that you do not have the right to make available under any applicable national law or contractual agreement.
• Upload or otherwise 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.

The services are available for individuals aged 13 years or older. If you are aged 13 years or older but under the age of 18 you should review these terms of service with your parent or guardian to make sure that you and your parent or guardian understand these terms of service.

You agree to indemnify Hyperfiction (and its employees) against any and all liability, costs, damages and losses (including legal fees incurred and any compensation paid by Hyperfiction) incurred by Hyperfiction as a result of any actual or alleged breach by you of any of these terms of service.


Submissions, Comments & Forum Posts

By submitting a story or a comment to the site or a post to a forum (the 'Work'), you:

• Agree to grant Hyperfiction a non-exclusive licence to publish the Work on the site. You may terminate this licence agreement with one (1) month's notice to Hyperfiction. Notice should be delivered by email or post. In the case of email, this notice will be deemed to have been received on receipt of an electronic confirmation of delivery to you by Hyperfiction. In the case of post, this notice will be deemed to have been received five (5) business days after posting. Copyright on the Work remains with the author of the Work.


• Warrant that:
  • The Work is original work, it has not been copied wholly or substantially from any other work or material and publication by Hyperfiction of the Work on the site will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party in any country of the world.
  • You are entitled to grant Hyperfiction a non-exclusive licence to publish the Work on the site.
  • The Work contains nothing that is libellous, defamatory, obscene, indecent or otherwise objectionable or which infringes the statutory or common law rights of any third parties in any part of the world.
  • The Work contains nothing that breaks any applicable national, local or international law.
  • In the case of all work not explicitly labelled as non-fiction, the characters in the Work are all fictitious and any resemblance to any person, living or dead is purely coincidental.
  • The work does not contain an advertisement, chain letter or pyramid scheme.


• Acknowledge that the Work will be subject to criticism both by Hyperfiction and by users of the Services and Hyperfiction reserves the right to publish any criticism of the Work at its discretion and cannot guarantee that such criticism will be constructive. If you are likely to take offence at certain criticism you should not submit the Work to Hyperfiction.

Hyperfiction reserves the right not to publish or to withdraw from publication (to the extent that this is under the control of Hyperfiction) any material submitted or published which in its absolute discretion Hyperfiction believes to be unsuitable for publication.

Intellectual Property

All contributors reserve the right to be identified as the owners of all works credited to them on this site. Content on this site and all intellectual property rights (including, without limitation, domain names, trade marks, copyright in the stories, copyright in the website design and copyright in the images and graphics.) associated with such content belong to and shall remain the propery of Hyperfiction and its licensors. You may use such content and intellectual property in accordance with these terms of service, only to the extent necessary to receive the Services.


Sale Of Electronic Items

Price information is subject to change without notice.

No contract will exist between you and Hyperfiction for the sale by Hyperfiction to you of any item on the site until Hyperfiction has sent you an email confirming acceptance of your order. This email will be deemed to have arrived at the time Hyperfiction sends it to you.


Delivery Of Electronic Items

Once an electronic item has been purchased, it will be made available for downloading at a page on the site (the 'Bookshelf' associated with the purchase). The item will remain available for downloading on this Bookshelf for a period of at least 28 days after its purchase (subject to the above disclaimer). Following this period, Hyperfiction may remove the item from the Bookshelf without notice.


Refunds Policy

Hyperfiction is currently unable to offer refunds on any electronic item once that item has been downloaded from the Bookshelf associated with the purchase of that item.


Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These terms of service shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law.


Severability

If any part or parts of these terms of service are held to be legally invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the terms of service shall continue to apply with the offending part or parts removed.


Changes to These Terms of Service

Hyperfiction reserves the right to change these terms of service and by accessing or using the site after such changes have been made, users agree to abide by such changes.


Our Business Details & Address

Hyperfiction, Alex Patterson
Elm Hill House
High Street
Hawkhurst
Kent
TN18 4XU