Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Bath Flash Fiction Award we have a few fundamental principles:

• 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 don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals. If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact the Editor via the Contact Us link at the bottom of every page on this site.

Bath Flash Fiction Award operates the website bathflashfictionaward.com. It is Bath Flash Fiction Award’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

1. Cookies 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. Bath Flash Fiction Award uses cookies to help Bath Flash Fiction Award identify and track visitors, their usage of Bath Flash Fiction Award website, and their website access preferences. Bath Flash Fiction Award visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Bath Flash Fiction Award’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Bath Flash Fiction Award’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit AboutCookies. Or please read on to find out more about how and where we use cookies.
2. Website Visitors Like most website operators, Bath Flash Fiction Award 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. Bath Flash Fiction Award’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Bath Flash Fiction Award’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Bath Flash Fiction Award may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. Bath Flash Fiction Award also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users and for users submitting content. Bath Flash Fiction Award only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
3. Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information Certain visitors to Bath Flash Fiction Award’s website choose to interact with Bath Flash Fiction Award in ways that require Bath Flash Fiction Award to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Bath Flash Fiction Award gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. In each case, Bath Flash Fiction Award collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Bath Flash Fiction Award. Bath Flash Fiction Award does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
4. Aggregated Statistics Bath Flash Fiction Award may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, Bath Flash Fiction Award may monitor the number of visitors to a specific page. Bath Flash Fiction Award may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Bath Flash Fiction Award does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
5. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information Bath Flash Fiction Award discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Bath Flash Fiction Award’s behalf or to provide services available at Bath Flash Fiction Award’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Bath Flash Fiction Award’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Bath Flash Fiction Award will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Bath Flash Fiction Award discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Bath Flash Fiction Award believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Bath Flash Fiction Award third parties or the public at large. If you are a user of the Bath Flash Fiction Award website and have supplied your email address, Bath Flash Fiction Award may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Bath Flash Fiction Award and our products. We primarily use our various blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Bath Flash Fiction Award takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
6. Business Transfers If Bath Flash Fiction Award, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Bath Flash Fiction Award goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Bath Flash Fiction Award may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
7. Privacy Policy Changes Although most changes are likely to be minor, Bath Flash Fiction Award may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Bath Flash Fiction Award’s sole discretion. Bath Flash Fiction Award encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Terms and Conditions

Bath Flash Fiction Award is a UK Proprietorship led by Jude Higgins. Bath Flash Fiction Award is available at bathflashfictionaward.com and bathflashfictionaward.co.uk. The same Terms apply to both variants of web address. These Terms also apply to any Bath Flash Fiction Award project, specifically Ad Hoc Fiction, available at adhocfiction.com and adhocfiction.co.uk
Our business correspondence address is:

Bath Flash Fiction Award
6 Old Tarnwell
Stanton Drew
Bristol
BS39 4EA

Terms of Service: The following terms and conditions govern all use of the bathflashfictionaward.com 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, Bath Flash Fiction Award’s Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Bath Flash Fiction Award (collectively, the “Agreement”).

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, 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 Bath Flash Fiction Award, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 16 years old.

1. 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 (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:
   • 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;
   • the Content does not contain or install any 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;

   By submitting Content to Bath Flash Fiction Award for inclusion on the Website, you grant Bath Flash Fiction Award 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.
   Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Bath Flash Fiction Award has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Bath Flash Fiction Award’s sole discretion,  (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Bath Flash Fiction Award’s reasonable opinion, violates any Bath Flash Fiction Award 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 Bath Flash Fiction Award’s sole discretion. Bath Flash Fiction Award will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.

2. Responsibility of Website Visitors. Bath Flash Fiction Award 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, Bath Flash Fiction Award 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. Bath Flash Fiction Award 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.
3. Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which bathflashfictionaward.com links, and that link to bathflashfictionaward.com. Bath Flash Fiction Award does not have any control over those non-Bath Flash Fiction Award websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Bath Flash Fiction Award website or webpage, Bath Flash Fiction Award does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. 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. Bath Flash Fiction Award disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-Bath Flash Fiction Award websites and webpages.
4. Changes. Bath Flash Fiction Award reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically 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. Bath Flash Fiction Award may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
5. Termination. Bath Flash Fiction Award 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 simply 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.
6. Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website is provided “as is”. Bath Flash Fiction Award 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 Bath Flash Fiction Award nor its suppliers and licensors, makes 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.
7. Limitation of Liability. In no event will Bath Flash Fiction Award or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or 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 Bath Flash Fiction Award under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. Bath Flash Fiction Award 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.
8. General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Bath Flash Fiction Award 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.
9. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Bath Flash Fiction Award, 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.
10. Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Bath Flash Fiction Award and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Bath Flash Fiction Award or by the posting by Bath Flash Fiction Award 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 or 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; Bath Flash Fiction Award 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.

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