Privacy

Lines`nRhymes.com respects your right to privacy. You may receive information from time to time through our secure website relating to promotions or products available. We will endeavor to responsibly store your private details and notify you of developments in this area which may be of interest to you.

Your username and email address will be available to other members of Lines`nRhymes.com for chat forum and poetry/short story interaction. You may wish to post further details such as hobbies/interests etc. for others to share.

Lines`nRhymes.com will take every reasonable precaution to protect against unauthorized access. However, given the nature of the internet, you must accept that there is always an inherent risk in providing information over the web.

User Activities and Information on the Lines`nRhymes.com

Lines`nRhymes.com will not solicit funds or goods from you.

We trust that our members will submit works which are genuinely of their own compilation and that no offensive or abusive material will be included. It is necessary however to outline our policy for the benefit of those who may deviate from this standard.

The aim of Lines`nRhymes.com is to promote a genuine interest by members in composing and submitting compositions of poetry and short stories. From time to time you may be offered marketing proposals by Lines`nRhymes.com with regard to your compositions. These proposals will be communicated directly to you and you may opt at any time to exclude your email address from receiving such correspondence.

You will use the Lines`nRhymes.com site and any content, material, or information found on the Lines`nRhymes.com solely for lawful, non-commercial purposes. You shall not upload to, distribute to, or otherwise disseminate through the Lines`nRhymes.com site any material or information of any kind that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise violates any law or infringes or violates any rights of any other person or entity, or contains a solicitation of funds, advertising, or a solicitation for goods or services.

You may communicate at any time through our discussion forum with other members of Lines`nRhymes.com. Lines`nRhymes.com cannot be held responsible for the content of such discussions. Members are encouraged however to notify Lines`nRhymes.com of any submissions posted containing material that may be offensive or indeed may be an infringement of any laws of any members particular domain.

You warrant that any material or information that you make available through Lines`nRhymes.com, including, for example, postings to chat areas and forums, is solely your original work, or that you have all necessary rights to make the material or information of any other person or entity available on the Lines`nRhymes.com. In the event that you post material from a third party, that person or organization will be identified as owner of the work and any that you have authority to so use. You will be solely responsible for the content of any material or information that you make available through Lines`nRhymes.com.

Lines`nRhymes.com reserves the right to delete, move, or edit any material or information that it deems, in its sole discretion, unacceptable, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise in violation of any law or that infringes or violates any rights of any other person or entity. Further, Lines`nRhymes.com reserves the right at all times to disclose any material or information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation, or governmental request.

Should you require clarification with regard to any of the above conditions of service, please submit your query to Lines`nRhymes.com.

Charities.

A policy of Lines'nRhymes.com is to make contributions to various charities from revenue accrued through the operation of this site. Although Lines'nRhymes.com is not a registered charity, we have nevertheless built a philanthropic project into our business model. Members of Lines'nRhymes.com are invited to nominate a charity to which we should donate.

The emphasis is on children's charities; however, members may nominate a charity of their choice. Each time the site is accessed, a user will be invited to partake in this exercise. Only one charity can be nominated by a user during each visit to Lines'nRhymes.com and then only once in any two-hour period.

The nominations are automatically collated with Lines'nRhymes.com and any contributions will be made on a pro-rata basis, depending on the amount of nominations a charity receives. Lines'nRhymes.com will make periodical publications outlining details of the the contributions made.

Members are not requested to make donations to charity through
lines'nRhymes.com.

Members will not receive unsolicited mail or other correspondence
from the charities by partaking in this exercise.

Copyright

Copyright protection subsists from the time a work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright.

Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of your country to the authors of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.

On receipt of your Short Story or Poem, the transaction is logged with Lines`nRhymes.com database and therefore a record is established of the content, time and date the entry was submitted. In the unlikely event that you would require verification for legal reasons of this transaction, the information can be provided by contacting Lines`nRhymes.com. This procedure does not prevent you in any way in freely withdrawing your works from Lines`nRhymes.com or using it for any other commercial or private use. Remember, and it's worth repeating, you are the owner of any original works you produce.

Cookies.

A cookie a file containing information about a user that is sent to the central computer each time a request is made. Lines`nRhymes.com may use a 'cookie' to facilitate the efficient processing of your data.