Terms and Conditions

The terms "We" / "Us" / "Our"/"Company"/ “Publisher” individually and collectively refer to ShortStoryLovers which is a fully owned brand of legal entity called Lutiv Publishing Company and the terms "Visitor", "User", “Readers”, “Authors”, “Writers” refers to the users of our website.

This page states the Terms and Conditions under which you (Visitor) may visit this website ("Website"). Please read this page carefully. If you do not accept the Terms and Conditions stated here, we would request you to exit this site. The business, any of its business divisions and/or its subsidiaries, associate companies or subsidiaries to subsidiaries or such other investment companies (in India or abroad) reserve their respective rights to revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page periodically to re-appraise yourself of the Terms and Conditions because they are binding on all users of this Website.

USE OF CONTENT

All logos, brands, marks headings, labels, names, signatures, numerals, shapes or any combinations thereof, appearing on this site, except as otherwise noted, are properties either owned or used under license, by the business and/or it's associate entities who feature on this Website. The use of these properties or any other content on this site, except as provided in these terms and conditions or in the site content, is strictly prohibited.

You cannot sell, modify, reproduce, display, publicly perform or distribute the content of this Website and also cannot use the materials in any way for any public or commercial purpose without the respective organization's or entity's written permission.

ACCEPTABLE WEBSITE USE

(A) Security Rules

Visitors are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Website, including, without limitation, (1) accessing data not intended for such user or logging into a server or account which the user is not authorised to access, (2) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization, (3) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus or "Trojan horse" to the Website, overloading, "flooding", "mailbombing" or "crashing", or (4) sending unsolicited electronic mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. The business and/or its associate entities will have the right to investigate occurrences that they suspect as involving such violations and will have the right to involve and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.

(B) General Rules

Visitors may not use the Website in order to transmit, distribute, store or destroy material (a) that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offence or violate any applicable law or regulation, (b) in a manner that will infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others or violate the privacy or publicity or other personal rights of others, or (c) that is libellous, defamatory, pornographic, profane, obscene, threatening, abusive or hateful.

AUTHOR’S AGREEMENT

When any User publishes any of their work on our Website we mutually agree as follows:

1. User / Author work remains their own - we never claim any rights to it - and is visible only to other members.

2. You are free to add/ edit / delete your stories from your own account.

3. Grants of Rights: The Author grants to the Publisher during the term of copyright, including renewals and extensions thereof:

  a) Right to publish throughout the world online or offline and charge a subscription from its subscribers to access their Work

4. Delivery of Satisfactory Copy: The Publisher acknowledges receipt of an acceptable submission together with any necessary permissions and all photographs, illustrations, drawings, and indexes suitable for reproduction and necessary to the completion of the Work.

5. Permission for Copyrighted Material: If the Author submits as a whole or incorporates in the work copyrighted material, she shall procure, at her expense, written permission to publish it.

6. Author’s Warranties and Indemnities: The Author warrants that they are the sole author of the work; that they are the sole owner of all the rights granted to the Publisher; that they have not previously assigned, pledged, or otherwise encumbered the same; that they have full power to enter into this agreement; that except for the material obtained pursuant to Paragraph 3, the work is original, has not been published before in the form submitted by the Author, and is not in the public domain; that it does not violate any right of privacy; and that it does not infringe upon any statutory or common-law copyright.

7) Payments: The Author shall not be paid any amount at the time of publication of their work. All payments would be in the form of royalties, specified below.

8) Royalty Payments: The Publisher shall pay to the Author a royalty on the basis of the views of their stories receive from other Paid members of the website. We have developed a unique tool called Page Count Algorithm (PCAA) which gives author royalty on the basis of the number of pages read by other users.

  a) Royalty amount can differ from month to month. It is a specific percentage of the Revenues for that particular month. Generally, we give 50% or more royalties to our authors.

  b) Authors are paid when their total sum of Royalty exceeds $100. But their records are always kept and they never expire.

ARBITRATION

If any dispute or difference arises between the user and the publisher “PARTIES” hereto in connection with the validity, interpretation, termination, implementation or breach of any provision of the Terms or Agreement or regarding any question relating hereto the PARTIES hereto shall endeavor to settle such dispute or difference amicably. In the event that they are unable to agree to an amicable solution to the dispute or difference, the PARTIES hereto shall refer such dispute or difference for arbitration as per Clause detailed hereunder.

  A. Upon failure to amicably settle (as provided above) within a period of 7 days from rising of the dispute or difference, the dispute or difference shall be referred for arbitration before a sole arbitrator to be nominated by the User.

  B. The arbitration proceedings held in accordance with the rules of the Arbitration & Conciliation, 1996.

  C. The place of the arbitration shall be at Delhi.

  D. The proceedings of arbitration shall be in the English language.

  E. The arbitral award shall be substantiated in writing and the arbitral tribunal shall also have the right to decide on the costs of arbitration proceedings.

GOVERNING LAW

These Terms shall be a contract under the laws of India and for all purposes shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of India.

JURISDICTION

This Agreement and Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts at Delhi only and no other Court shall have jurisdiction.

INDEMNITY

The User unilaterally agree to indemnify and hold harmless, without objection, the company, its officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any claims, actions and/or demands and/or liabilities and/or losses and/or damages whatsoever arising from or resulting from their use of esac.in or their breach of the terms.

LIABILITY

User agrees that neither Company nor its group companies, directors, officers or employee shall be liable for any direct or/and indirect or/and incidental or/and special or/and consequential or/and exemplary damages, resulting from the use or/and the inability to use the service or/and for cost of procurement of substitute goods or/and services or resulting from any goods or/and data or/and information or/and services purchased or/and obtained or/and messages received or/and transactions entered into through or/and from the service or/and resulting from unauthorized access to or/and alteration of user's transmissions or/and data or/and arising from any other matter relating to the service, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits or/and use or/and data or other intangible, even if Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

User further agrees that Company shall not be liable for any damages arising from interruption, suspension or termination of service, including but not limited to direct or/and indirect or/and incidental or/and special consequential or/and exemplary damages, whether such interruption or/and suspension or/and termination was justified or not, negligent or intentional, inadvertent or advertent.

User agrees that Company shall not be responsible or liable to user, or anyone, for the statements or conduct of any third party of the service. In sum, in no event, shall Company's total liability to the User for all damages or/and losses or/and causes of action exceed the amount paid by the User to Company, if any, that is related to the cause of action.

DISCLAIMER OF CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES

In no event shall Company or any parties, organizations or entities associated with the corporate brand name us or otherwise, mentioned at this Website be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, incidental and consequential damages, lost profits, or damage to computer hardware or loss of data information or business interruption) resulting from the use or inability to use the Website and the Website material, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not, such organization or entities were advised of the possibility of such damages.

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