Policies

Your privacy is very important to us. At London Independent Story Prize we have some fundamental principles:

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Please see our privacy policy below. If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact us via email.

London Independent Story Prize operates the website londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk. It is LondonIndependent Story Prize's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. London Independent Story Prize may from time to time, use cookies to help London Independent Story Prize identify and track visitors, their usage of London Independent Story Prize website, and their website access preferences. London Independent Story Prize visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using London Independent Story Prize's websites, with the drawback that certain features of London Independent Story Prize's website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights. We only share where you're applying from during the winning announcements and only for the winning writers. If you do not wish to publish your country please let us know, we'll not share it.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
1. Website Visitors Like most website operators, London Independent Story Prize collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. London Independent Story Prize’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how London Independent Story Prize's visitors use its website.
2. London Independent Story Prize, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that LondonIndependent Story Prize goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of London Independent Story Prize may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
3. Payments made by PayPal and organised through PayPal and London Independent Story Prize do not intend to collect data and nor are you responsible for any error/omission etc caused by the use of PayPal.
4. London Independent Story Prize might be sending a newsletter or writing competition-related information emails like running of new competitions.
5. You hold the right to request your content to be removed from our website if you wish to and we will do so.
6. International Transfers. In the event that a dispute arises with regards to the international transfer of data, we agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the matter.
7. Links to other sites. Our Website and Services may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every website you visit. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
8. Children’s Privacy (no usage of the website if under 18) Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18.
9. Access to information. The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a reasonable fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Terms and Conditions

Terms of website use:

London Independent Story Prize is a UK Proprietorship led by Ozge Gozturk. London Independent Story Prize is available at londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk.

Our business correspondence address is:

London Independent Story Prize LTD

239-241 Kennington Lane, London,

United Kingdom, SE11 5QU

Director: Ozge Gozturk

Terms of Service: The following terms and conditions govern all use of the londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk website and all content, services, and products available at or through the website. The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, London Independent Story Prize’s Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by London Independent Story Prize (collectively, the “Agreement”).

By using our site you accept these terms:

You confirm that you have read the terms of use, agree to them and agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference. Changes to the terms of conditions might occur and it is the responsibility of the applicant to check that they understand the terms that apply at that time. London Story Prize cannot guarantee site/content will always be available/uninterrupted.

Terms and Conditions:

Commencement:

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the website, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you must not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by London Independent Story Prize, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 18 years old.

Services, Platform Agreement and Content:

The responsibility of Contributors. If you send material for posting on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website or any authorised publishing or broadcasting (any such material, “Content”), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:

By submitting Content to London Independent Story Prize for inclusion on the Website, you grant London Independent Story Prize a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Content.

User’s Warranties, Content Usage Obligations, Responsibilities and Liabilities:

Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, London Independent Story Prize has the right (though not the obligation) to, in LondonIndependent Story Prize's sole discretion, (i) refuse or remove any content that, in LondonIndependent Story Prize's reasonable opinion, violates any LondonIndependent Story Prize policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in LondonIndependent Story Prize’s sole discretion. London Independent Story Prize will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.

Liability (disclaimer)

LondonIndependent Story Prize or its suppliers or licensors, will not be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability, any other damage or loss arising from or in connection with this competition other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement for substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to LondonIndependent Story Prize under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. London Independent Story Prize shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless London Independent Story Prize, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.

Eligibility, Format, Submitting, Payment, Refunds, Prize rules are as:

- the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party; indemnify against costs, expenses etc as a result of infringement
- the Content does not contain or install any malware, viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
- the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
- the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
- offensive content
- promotion of illegal activities
- privacy and public infringement
- Country – specific restrictions
- Legal Disclaimer on prohibited content
1. The responsibility of Website Visitors. London Independent Story Prize has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot, therefore, be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, London Independent Story Prize does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. London Independent Story Prize disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
2. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and web pages to which londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk link, and that link to londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk. London Independent Story Prize does not have any control over those non-LondonIndependent Story Prize websites and web pages and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-LondonIndependent Story Prize website or webpage, London Independent Story Prize does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself, your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. London Independent Story Prize disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-LondonIndependent Story Prize websites and web pages.
3. London Independent Story Prize reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. London Independent Story Prize may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Those type of new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
4. London Independent Story Prize may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement, you may discontinue using the Website. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
5. London Independent Story Prize and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither LondonIndependent Story Prize nor its suppliers and licensors make any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
6. General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the LondonIndependent Story Prize Rules, Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the copyright and intellectual property rights of any third party.
Entrants must be 18 years or over.
Entry is open to everyone, nationally and internationally.
All entries can only be made by the work's individual author.
Entries must have been unpublished in print or online, or not been broadcast.
Entries can be on any theme or subject but must be original and written in English. They must also be for adult or young adult readers who are over 13 years old.
Authors retain full worldwide copyright throughout.
Maximum length varies according to the categories, needs to be checked on the website.
Entries should be typed in a plain legible font, the 11pt font is suggested.
Entries will be read and judged anonymously. Please do not put your name, address, email, telephone number or any personally identifying information on any page.
If the piece has no title, then its first three words must be used as the title.
The acceptable file type is the doc.
The file name must be the title of your piece. If your piece does not have a title, then the file name must be its first three words.
Entry is online via email We do not accept postal entries.
No major corrections or alterations can be made after entries have been received.
Entry is open as seen on the calendar. The current closing date is at Midnight on our Calender.
There is no limit to the number of entries any single entrant may make.
Entries are acknowledged by your receiving of a PayPal receipt.
The standard fee is as seen on the Submit page of our website for one submission. Reductions are available for multiple entries and early submission.
Submissions must be paid for via the PayPal buttons on this site. Payment can be made using your PayPal account or via Credit/Debit card option on the PayPal page.
Full refunds are available up to the closing date of each round, please contact via email to us about it.
Once a round's closing date has passed, no refunds can be made.
The prize for the competition varies according to the categories, updated information needs to be checked on the website. A recommendation list will be also announced on our website.
The results of the competition will be announced on the London Independent Story Prize website.
Entrants retain copyright. First, second, third will be published on our site. Recommended entries only have their titles and author names published for announcement purposes.
All entrants will be considered for print and/or digital publication in our forthcoming London Independent Story Prize Anthology, which will be announced when there are enough stories to create the anthology.
Entry constitutes acceptance of all London Independent Story Prize Rules, Terms and Conditions, and Privacy Policies. Entries that fail to comply with rules, terms and conditions, privacy policies and requirements will be disqualified. No correspondence can be entered into, Judges’ decisions are final. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between LondonIndependent Story Prize and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of London Independent Story Prize or by the posting by LondonIndependent Story Prize of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms of use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid/unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; LondonIndependent Story Prize may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.