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Welcome to YouWriteOn.com. YouWriteOn.com and its affiliates provides access to the YouWriteOn.com website (the "website") and provide our services to you subject to the conditions set out below.

Please read these conditions carefully before using the YouWriteOn.com website. By using the YouWriteOn.com website, you agree to be bound by these conditions.

Conditions Relating to Your Use of YouWriteOn.com

1. Your Creative Work Any book chapters, short stories, novels, novellas, story ideas, and other forms of creative writing or creative content which you choose to upload to the site remains your exclusive copyright. You are entitled to publish with whom you wish or enter into agreements with whom you wish with regard to your creative work and your creative writing ideas. You retain all rights to your work.

2. Your Registration Information The registration information we receive from members and customers helps us to personalise and continually improve your experience as a new writer or book customer at YouWriteOn.com. We use the information to assist new writer members with creative writing and offer creative writing services. We use customer information to handle orders, deliver products and services, process payments, communicate with you about orders, and services, and to recommend merchandise and services that might be of interest to you. We also use information we receive to improve our customer services, prevent or detect fraud or abuses on our website and enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions to enable the delivery of our site and services.

We comply with the Data Protection Act and treat your information in strict confidence.

3. Your Account If you choose to use the website, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer to prevent unauthorised access to your account. You agree to accept responsibility for all actions taken under that User ID and password and shall only use or access the website using your own User ID and password. You should take all necessary steps to ensure your password is kept confidential and secure and should not disclose it to any other person. You should inform us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has become known to anyone else, or if your account or password is being used or is likely to be used in an unauthorised manner.

Please ensure that the account details you provide are correct and complete and inform us immediately of any changes to your registration or other customer information. You can do this by updating your information on your My Page for writer members, or your Shopping Account page for customer members.

YouWriteOn.com reserves the right to refuse access to the website, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders at our discretion. If we cancel an order, it will be without charge to you.

4. Privacy
Please review our Privacy Policy, which also forms part of this agreement and imparts information about our privacy practices. YouWriteOn.com complies with the Data Protection Act.

5. Access to YouWriteOn.com We work very hard to ensure that availability of the website is uninterrupted and that transmissions will be error-free. However, due to the nature of the Internet, this cannot be guaranteed. Our website and our services are provided as and when available and your access to the website may be occasionally suspended or restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to limit the frequency and duration of any such suspension or restriction.

6. Your conduct
You must not use the website in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way.

The information you provide us with and your activities on our website must not:

  • be used for fraudulent or misleading purposes, or any other unlawful activity
  • infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trade mark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy
  • contain any computer viruses or anything else designed to interfere with, interrupt or disrupt the normal operating procedures of a computer or to surreptitiously intercept, access without authority or expropriate any system, data or personal information
  • cause the Site to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or impair the effectiveness or functionality of the Site is in any way
  • be used to send, use or reuse any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing; or be otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable; or which consists of or contains political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any form of "spam"
  • create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our Internet Service Providers or other suppliers
  • use a false e-mail address or impersonate any person or entity, or fabricate a false identity, or initiate a dual membership on the site, or otherwise mislead others as to the origin of any content. YouWriteOn.com reserves the right but not the obligation to remove or edit any content on the Site. We reserve the right to remove any membership and/or stories/reviews where we find that the member has more than one membership with the same identical IP address, even should different members be using the identical IP address within the same household or via an otherwise shared computer link. YouWriteOn also reserves the right to terminate any membership at our discretion if we believe the site terms and conditions may have been breached. 

    By using YouWriteOn, you accept that we reserve the right to remove any member who we believe:

  • is attempting to manipulate the site processes or ratings and/or otherwise attempting to gain unfair advantage or not acting in a constructive manner on the site
  • is otherwise not acting within a spirit of fair play in the context of the site's aims to help new writers develop
  • we reserve the right to remove members with or without reason

7. Your Information

Definition "Your Information" is defined as any information you provide to us or other users in relation to the YouWriteOn.com site and service including the registration, review process, listing of items for sale (including, without limitation, any description of items listed), your postings on the message boards and any other content that you post on the Site other than your Creative Work. You retain all copyright and all other rights to your Creative Work. You are solely responsible for Your Information, and Your Information must not infringe any of the rules of conduct behaviour on the Site.

To enable YouWriteOn.com to use Your Information on the site, you grant us a non-exclusive, world-wide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) license right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world on our website and in any media. This is a standard practice for website content to enable websites to function and display information on their websites, view the conditions of use of major websites such as Amazon. Conditions of use are usually viewable at the base of most websites or through their help menus. You grant YouWriteOn.com and its affiliates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. 

YouWriteOn is part of the British Library Archiving Project, which from time to time takes a snapshot of the YouWriteOn site. The project's aim is to select sites to represent aspects of UK documentary heritage and as a result, they will remain available to researchers in the future. Members grant us permission to display/copy their work as part of the archiving project's snapshots of the website over different periods of time.

YouWriteOn's aim is to help members develop their stories and creative skills, and by using the site you agree that we may utilise story reviews, including member and professional reviews, and other forms of feedback about your creative writing, to help members develop their own writing. You grant us the right to utilise and display feedback on the site, or via direct contact with members to help achieve this aim.

Due to the nature of the Internet and individuals differing creative and other opinions, YouWriteOn.com cannot govern the responses to content you provide – be it reviews to your creative work, or responses to your message board postings or any other responses. You agree to waive your right to object to derogatory treatment or responses about your content or material. You accept that responses from others to any content you may upload or otherwise make available on the website will come in different forms – some negative as well as others that are constructive and positive. You also accept that members will upload varying types of visual and written content, and that YouWriteOn cannot monitor the types of content that is uploaded because of the large amount of submissions we receive. While the majority of submissions to YouWriteOn are very mainstream, you accept that book chapters or other visual or written content may at times have content that some may find objectionable and that YouWriteOn is not responsible for such uploads. You can remove any reading assignment that you receive on the system, or simply not read it and it will be removed after 7 days automatically.  You agree to waive your right to object to derogatory material. By using this website, you agree to accept such risks as outlined here, and agree that YouWriteOn.com is not responsible for the acts or omissions of users on the website. YouWriteOn reserves the right to remove membership if, at our discretion, there is evidence of negative and unconstructive behaviour by a member towards other members.

8. YouWriteOn Message Board Usage Policies 

The public chat, discussion and help boards on YouWriteOn can be informative, helpful and entertaining. 

Before you start to post, please read and familiarise yourself with the following Message Board Usage Policies. By using the message board, you agree to abide by these rules of conduct.

Whilst you are a member of the messageboard, you agree NOT to post any material which is: 

  • Inaccurate and/or defamatory
  • Abusive, obscene, harassing, racist or generally offensive
  • Sexually explicit or inappropriate
  • Invasive of a person's privacy or private life
  • Illegal under copyright law

    We have the ability to ban any member from the message board forum. Members must NOT: 

  • Use inappropriate or offensive user names
  • Use multiple logins to cause confusion
  • Include another individual's contact information and/or email address in a post
  • Be under 18 years of age
  • Use the message board to advertise or sell goods or services 

    All  messages express the opinion of the author, and YouWriteOn and its affiliates are not responsible for the content of any message. YouWriteOn has the ability to move or delete any message that contravenes our board policy and all posts are the property of YouWriteOn. Although the administrators and moderators of YouWriteOn will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. YouWriteOn is not responsible for messages left by YouWriteOn members. Messages are the sole responsibility of the authors who post them.  By using the message board, you agree that the messages and content on the board are the sole responsibility of the authors that post the messages, and that YouWriteOn.com is not liable or responsible for the acts or omissions of users on the messageboard. 


    YouWriteOn reserves the right to suspend or remove members who contravene the policies above, and reserves the right to otherwise suspend or remove members or messages without reason. 

    The rules of conduct are in place to ensure that the messageboard is a positive and informative experience for all.


    9. Member Warranty
    You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you upload or post; and that, at the time that your content or material is submitted to YouWriteOn.com: (i) the content and material is accurate; (ii) use of the content and material you provide does not breach any applicable YouWriteOn.com policies or guidelines and will not cause injury to any person or entity (including that the content or material is not defamatory). You agree to indemnify YouWriteOn.com and its affiliates for all claims brought by a third party against YouWriteOn.com or its affiliates arising out of or in connection with a breach
    by you of others copyright or a breach of any of these warranties. You grant YouWriteOn.com the right to help publicise you and the site through your writing, and to display your writing on the site.

    10. Professional Critiques and The Book of The Year Award
    Each month, the five highest rated authors will each receive one free critique from either a professional author or a literary agent. YouWriteOn will decide which author will receive the critique from which literary professional at our discretion and YouWriteOn at its discretion may post the professional critique in the reviews section for members' chapters so that all members may view and benefit from literary professional opinion. Professional critiques will be awarded for opening chapters of books between the word length requirements listed on the site. Only one professional critique will be awarded for a set of opening chapters, including revisions of that set of chapters. Professional critiques will not be awarded for follow up chapters e.g. later chapters of a book, this is because literary agents and publishers consider opening chapters as submissions and YouWriteOn conforms to this standard. Follow-up chapters for this reason cannot feature in The Top Ten and members whose follow up chapters enter the Top Ten will be asked to make sure their word length is outside the Top Ten requirements to feature. YouWriteOn will ensure this requirment is met if the author is unable to comply. 'Follow-up chapters' are qualified as text from a story which does not begin at the very beginning of a story. It is very useful to get feedback for follow-up chapters, however, so in our next development stage before December 2006 there will be a function where members can indicate if there chapters are follow-up chapters so that writers can still get feedback for their chapters but not feature in The Top Ten. The author with the best opening chapters at the end of the year, judged by the youwriteon literary professionals from Best Seller Chart entries for 2006, will win the site's Book of the Year Publishing Award 2006. The Book of The Year Award is awarded solely on the decision of YouWriteOn's literary professionals. You accept that no correspondence will be entered into on the result. The winner's book is intended to be available to order from booksellers such as W.H.Smith, Waterstones, Barnes and Noble and Amazon either through their websites or through their instore ordering services. From October 1st 2006, Best Seller Chart members will be asked to do 3 assignment reviews per month until the Award decision is announced if they wish to be considered for the Book of the Year Award. The aim is to help all members benefit from the knowledge and experience of highly rated members, as well as reviewers benefiting through the process of reviewing others. All Book of the Year Award winners and all members are free to be represented by who they wish and published by who they wish. Our publishing professionals who provide free critiques for highly rated writers each month include editors for Curtis Brown and leading publishers such as Bloomsbury. 

    11. Correspondence with YouWriteOn.com
    Visitors and members should not submit, post, or send any submissions of a creative nature other than the creative submissions currently allowed on the site – which are opening chapters, novels, novellas and short stories. The creative submissions allowed on the site may only be submitted to the site in the upload formats permitted on the site. If you send us any other unsolicited submissions in any other format – either by submitting them to any part of the site, posting them by mail, or forwarding them to us by any other means, we take no responsibility for, and have no liability in respect of the unsolicited submission in part or in whole, and reserve the right to remove unsolicited items. If you send us unsolicited submissions you release YouWriteOn.com from any claims that can be made in respect of your unsolicited submissions.

    12. Age Conditions
    If you are under 18, you may use YouWriteOn.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

    13. Licence for website access
    YouWriteOn.com grants you a limited licence to access and make personal use of this website, but not to copy, reproduce, modify, or otherwise adapt the site or any portion of it, nor to create derivative works from, distribute or publicly display any content which isn’t permitted, except with the express written consent of YouWriteOn.com and any applicable third party. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this website or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, creative content, descriptions, or prices; any derivative or otherwise negative use of this website or its contents; or any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another business or merchant. You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the website for any purpose without our express written permission. Additionally, you agree that you will not undertake any activities that results, or may result, in our sole discretion, to an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You agree not to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the website.

    You are given permission for a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the Welcome page of YouWriteOn.com as long as the link does not portray YouWriteOn.com, its affiliates, or their sites, products or services in a false, defamatory, misleading, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any YouWriteOn.com logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without our express written consent. All content on the website created by YouWriteOn.com or its affiliates, such as text, graphics, digital downloads, data compilations, software or any other content or material, is the property of YouWriteOn.com, its affiliates or its content suppliers and is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright and database right laws. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilising YouWriteOn.com or its affiliates' names or trademarks without the express written consent of YouWriteOn.com. You also may not create and make available your own database that features substantial parts of this website or its concept or intellectual copyright without YouWriteOn.com’s express written consent.

    Any unauthorised use of the Site terminates the permission or license granted by YouWriteOn.com and we reserve the right to refuse access to the website, terminate accounts or remove or edit content as we see fit and without reason.

    14. Site Copyright and Trademarks
    All content on the Site created by YouWriteOn.com or its affiliates, such as text, trademarks, graphics, digital downloads, data compilations, software or any other content or material, is the property of YouWriteOn.com, its affiliates or its content suppliers and is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright and database right laws. You may not use any meta tags or any other methods to utilise YouWriteOn.com or its affiliates' names or trademarks without the express written consent of YouWriteOn.com. YouWriteOn.com trademarks may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not YouWriteOn.com’s, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits YouWriteOn.com. All other trademarks not owned by YouWriteOn.com that appear on this website are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by YouWriteOn.com. You may not create or make available your own database that features substantial parts of this Site or its concept and intellectual copyright without YouWriteOn.com’s express written consent. You may not extract or re-utilise parts of the contents of the Site without YouWriteOn.com’s express written consent, including, but not limited to extraction or re-utilisation of data, or concept or intellectual copyright, by any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.

    15. Defamation claims
    Because YouWriteOn.com lists a large amount products for sale on the website and hosts many members Creative Works and comments, it is not possible for us to be aware of or to review the contents of each product listed for sale; or the contents of Creative Work, comments, reviews, or any other information or content that is displayed on the website. Accordingly, YouWriteOn.com operates on a "notice and takedown" basis. If you believe that any content on, or advertised for sale on, the website contains a defamatory statement, please notify us immediately by following our Notice and Procedure for Notifying of Defamatory Content. Once this procedure has been followed, YouWriteOn.com will make all reasonable endeavours to remove the defamatory content complained about within a reasonable time. YouWriteOn.com reserves the right but not the obligation to remove or edit any content on the Site.

    16. Copyright claims
    YouWriteOn.com and its affiliates respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your Creative Work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please follow our Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement.


    Notice to YouWriteOn.com of Copyright Infringement

    If you believe that your copyright has been infringed, copy the Notice to YouWriteOn.com of Copyright Infringement below into your word processor programme, complete all the details required in the form, and send a printed, signed copy to: Copyright Claims, YouWriteOn.com, 56 Meath Road, Ilford, Essex IG1 1JB. Please provide your address, telephone number, and e-mail address.

    Important Warning: providing fraudulent, misleading or inaccurate information in the Notice to YouWriteOn.com of Copyright Infringement may result in civil or criminal liability.
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    1. I make this statement in support of giving YouWriteOn.com notice that an individual or other entity is causing or contributing to an infringement of copyright on the Site.

    2. The work in which copyright is claimed to have been infringed is [please clearly describe and state details of the copyright work(s) claimed to be infringed] ("Copyright Work").

    3. [I am] OR [I am authorised to act on behalf of] the owner of an exclusive right in the Copyright Work that is claimed to be infringed. [A person who is making the statement on behalf of the Complainant should complete the following:] The person or other entity claiming that its rights in the Copyright Work have been infringed is [please state name and address of the person or entity] ("Complainant"). I am [please explain your relationship to the Complainant].


    4. The Infringing Material (edit the following paragraphs as applicable):
    (a) [is part of a Creative Work) entitled (title and author or copyright holder)] available for purchase from YouWriteOn.com or viewable via the website as sample chapters or other creative work. The Infringing Material comprises [please describe where in the product the copyright work appears, eg give page details] of this product.
    OR
    (b) appears on the website at [please cut and paste the address of the relevant Web page or pages from the website where the Material infringing copyright appears].
    6. The use of the Infringing Material described infringes [my rights] OR [the rights of the Complainant whom I am acting on behalf of] in the Copyright Work and is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent(s) or publisher(s), or by law.

    7. I understand that this statement may be used in any court proceedings that may arise or result of the aforementioned claim of copyright infringement.

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    I declare the facts stated above to be accurate and true.

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    1. I make this statement in support of giving YouWriteOn.com notice that an individual or other entity is causing or contributing to the publication of a defamatory statement on the Site.

    2. The defamatory words (edit the following as applicable):
    (a) appear in a book being sold by YouWriteOn.com or other content on the website entitled [please state the book name and its author or decription/title of other content]. The defamatory words appear on page [please state the page number(s) where you consider the defamatory words appear].
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    (b) appear on the website at [please paste the address of the relevant Web page or pages from the Site where the defamatory words appear].
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    6. I understand that this statement may be used in any court proceedings that may arise out of or relating to the defamatory words which I have complained about.

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    I declare the facts stated above to be true.

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    Conditions Relating to the Sale of Products and Services to You
    This section deals with conditions relating to the sale of products by YouWriteOn.com to you.

    17. Product and Service Ordering
    When you place an order to purchase a product or service from YouWriteOn.com, we will send you an e-mail confirming receipt of your order and containing the details of your order. Your order represents an offer to us to purchase a product or service which is accepted by us when we send e-mail confirmation to you that we've dispatched that product to you (a Dispatch Confirmation E-mail). That acceptance will be complete at the time we send the Dispatch Confirmation E-mail to you about the book or other service or product that you have chosen to purchase.

    18. Returns
    YouWriteOn.com cannot provide refunds for eBooks and printed books. This is because YouWriteOn.com enables authors to self-publish, and the company cannot accept responsibility for the quality of the content (including, but not limited to, grammatical format errors or spelling errors) in eBook or printed books, or in their design, story content, or overall appearance. The Site’s authors prepare, approve and are responsible for the visual presentation and content of each item they publish or sell through us. You can peruse sample chapters of ebooks, if available, and should be aware that sample chapters may not be an indicator of the overall quality of the complete ebook that you purchase. It is also the ebook customer's responsibility to check how many pages are in the ebook for sale - which is displayed on the ebook shopping basket and sales pages - to ensure that you are happy purchasing the completed length of the ebook for the price displayed. Our staff does not monitor and does not assume responsibility for checking individual content prior to publication through our web site as authors maintain responsibility for proofing their own manuscripts. By purchasing an ebook or printed book you are aware that these conditions apply and that new authors’ content may not be of a standard which is as satisfactory as books published by traditional publishers available in bookshops, and that refunds are not provided for reasons relating to book content. As Authors proof their own book content, YouWriteOn.com cannot govern and is not responsible for the content provided. Though we will of course remove objectionable material when brought to our attention, by using this website you agree that Authors and not YouWriteOn are responsible for Author content, and accept that YouWriteOn.com is not responsible for the acts or omissions of users on the website. 

    Any books you buy through third party bookseller sites, for example, Amazon, will be subject to their conditions of use and sale. Amazon offer a 30-day refund guarantee, however, you should view their site for the conditions of the guarantee. You should also contact or look at the help pages of any third-party seller to determine their policy on purchase issues.

    19. Pricing of Products and Services and availability
    We list availability information for products and publishing services sold by us on the website, this is included on product and services information pages. Beyond what we say on that page or otherwise on the Site, we cannot be more specific about availability and times of service. Please note that dispatch and publishing estimates are just that. They are not guaranteed dispatch or publishing times and should not be relied upon as such.

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    20. Children
    YouWriteOn.com does not sell products for purchase by children. We sell products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use YouWriteOn.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

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    Parties other than YouWriteOn.com and its subsidiaries may operate stores, provide services, sponsor sections, or sell product lines on this website. For example, booksellers and individuals offer products such as new books and eBooks written by new authors, or sponsors provide details of their services and products. We provide links to the websites of affiliated companies and certain other businesses. We also utilise advertising revenue sources such as Google Ads to help fund the site. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating the aforementioned businesses, and we do not warrant or endorse the offerings of any of these businesses or individuals, or the content of their Sites. YouWriteOn.com does not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, services or products or content of any of these businesses or individuals, or of any other third-parties. We may share customer information related to transactions with applicable third-parties. You should carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use. For example, if linking to buy a completed book on a third-party bookseller site such as Amazon.

    22. Disclaimer
    We will not be responsible for any business loss (including but not limited to loss of profits, revenue, contracts, data, goodwill or wasted expenditure) or any other indirect or consequential loss that is not reasonably foreseeable to both you and us when you commenced using the website or when a contract for the sale of goods by us to you was formed. We will not be liable for any loss of goodwill or reputation, or any special, indirect or consequential damages (however arising, including negligence) arising out of or in connection with these conditions of use. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of incidental or consequential damages, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

    Although using the latest encrypted security software used in different forms by market leaders such as Amazon and Paypal and provided and approved by the banking industry, the security of information and payments transmitted via the Internet cannot be guaranteed. Any losses incurred or sustained by users who transmit information by means of e-mail or other internet link shall be borne solely and exclusively by such user and in no event shall any such losses in whole or part by borne by YouWriteOn.com.

    YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY CONTENT, MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL AND/OR DATA. Our maximum liability to you under all circumstances will be equal to the purchase price you pay for any goods, services or information. 

    You understand and agree that YouWriteOn is not responsible for any content you upload to the site and that it is your responsibility to ensure you make copies of your content, including any content you edit on the site before uploading to the site or editing on the site. You agree that YouWriteOn is not responsible for any content or data loss of your content that may occur on the site of content you upload to the site.  

    We (including our affiliates, contractors, web designers, officers, directors, agents, literary professionals and employees) also have no liability of any sort (including liability for negligence) for the acts or omissions of other providers of telecommunications services or for faults in or failures of their networks and equipment. The information contained in this site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. All liability of YouWriteOn.com arising due to inaccuracies or errors is expressly excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. YouWriteOn.com and/or their respective suppliers make no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the information contained in the documents and related graphics published in this site; or any of the products of whatever nature details of which appear on this site. 

    Our liability to you or any third party, and the liability of our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees, in any circumstance is limited to the total fees you have paid to us in relation to the listing or other service offered giving rise to liability.

    23. Electronic communications
    When you visit YouWriteOn.com or send e-mails to us you are communicating with us electronically. We communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on the website. For contractual purposes, you consent to receive communications from us electronically and you agree that all agreements, notices or other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

    24. Legal Conditions
    If you breach these conditions of use and we choose to take no action, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation where you should breach these conditions. 

    25. Alteration of Service or Amendments to the Conditions
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