Terms of Service
1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing and contributing to the Internet Book Project, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use our service.
2. Description of Service
The Internet Book Project is a collaborative writing platform where users can contribute to a collective narrative. Each contribution costs €/$2 and is limited to 20 words. The final work will be published as a book when it reaches 180,000 words.
3. User Contributions
By submitting a contribution, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, and distribute your contribution as part of the Internet Book Project.
You retain ownership of your contribution but acknowledge that it will become an permanent, immutable part of the collective work.
4. Content Guidelines
Contributors must not submit content that:
- Contains hate speech or discriminatory content
- Includes explicit sexual content or excessive violence
- Violates copyright or intellectual property rights
- Contains personal attacks or harassment
- Promotes illegal activities
- Consists of spam or automated submissions
5. Payment and Refunds
All contributions require a payment of €/$2. This fee is non-refundable once your contribution has been submitted and approved. Failed or rejected submissions will be refunded without any discussion, automatically.
6. Moderation
We reserve the right to review, edit, or reject any contribution that violates our content guidelines or terms of service. Our moderation decisions are final. In case you want to submit space, single character or single word, you are free to do so as part of the creative freedom of the project. This contribution will be moderated, reviewed and approved by the project team if it respects the content guidelines.
7. Publication Rights
Upon completion of the project, we reserve the right to publish the collective work in any format. Contributors will be credited according to their usernames unless they explicitly request anonymity.
8. Privacy
We collect and process personal information as outlined in our Privacy Policy. By using our service, you consent to our data practices.
9. Modifications to Terms
We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time. Continued use of the service after changes constitutes acceptance of the modified terms.
10. Contact
For questions about these terms, please contact us at together@internetbookproject.com