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. The Science Fiction Reviewexpressly 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 The Science Fiction Review, 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 The Science Fiction Review 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 The Science Fiction Review.

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 The Science Fiction Review (and its employees) against any and all liability, costs, damages and losses (including legal fees incurred and any compensation paid by The Science Fiction Review ) incurred by The Science Fiction Review 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 The Science Fiction Review a non-exclusive licence to publish the Work on the site. You may terminate this licence agreement with one (1) month's notice to The Science Fiction Review. 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 The Science Fiction Review. 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 The Science Fiction Review 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 The Science Fiction Review 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 The Science Fiction Review and by users of the Services and The Science Fiction Review 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 The Science Fiction Review.

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

Intellectual Property