Privacy Policy

Personal Data collected through this site is controlled by sky-tribe.com (a privately owned business) in compliance with The Data Protection Act 1998. This policy answers the following questions:

What data is collected from you?

sky-tribe.com collects data in several ways:

Newsletter: When you register for a newsletter, sky-tribe.com asks you for an email address. This address is stored by sky-tribe.com.

Submissions: When you submit a piece of work to sky-tribe.com via email, the email address from which that story was sent and any other email addresses volunteered in the body or attachments of the email are stored by sky-tribe.com. In addition, any other personal data volunteered in the body or attachments of the email may be stored by sky-tribe.com.

Web Logs: sky-tribe.com also records the user's IP address, operating system and type of web browser for each page accessed. This data may be used anonymously, in an aggregated form to provide statistical information on webpage usage.

Other: sky-tribe.com may ask you for personal data at other times including, but not limited to, competitions, surveys and correspondence with sky-tribe.com of which we may keep a record.

How are cookies used?

sky-tribe.com uses 'cookies' - a small piece of information stored by your web browser on your computer's hard drive - in order to provide a customizable, personalized experience on its websites. In addition, sky-tribe.com may use cookies to obtain information, in an anonymous form, about your use of our websites.

Currently, cookies are used to:

Track titles that you designate - using facilities available on the site -as 'read' or 'marked' and authors or titles that you designate as
'favorite'.

Monitor the contents of your electronic 'shopping basket' over your session at the site and record preferences associated with that 'basket' such as preferred currency.

Monitor whether or not you are logged on to the 'bookshelf' service on the site.

Monitor whether or not you are logged on to the forums as well as the state of certain other elements of your forum profile.

Where advertising appears on sky-tribe.com pages, the advertiser may choose to use their own cookies. Please note that most web browsers allow you to choose not to accept cookies. This will not prevent you from using the other facilities provided
by sky-tribe.com.

How is the security of the data protected?

sky-tribe.com is committed to maintaining the security of all data that it collects. Our security policies require that critical passwords allowing access to your personal data are changed on a regular basis and are only made available to trusted personnel.
Email Data may pass onto servers located outside of the E.E.A. While - with the exception the biographical data or any personal data in comments explicitly submitted for publication on the website - these are private, secure servers with security standards as outlined above, if you object to this, you should not send us any personal data.

How does sky-tribe.com use my personal data?

Anonymous, Aggregated Data:

sky-tribe.com may disclose anonymous, aggregate data about its services - for instance '100,000 unique users in May' - to prospective partners, advertisers and other third parties.

Author Data:

Where users submitting work to sky-tribe.com volunteer biographical data about themselves in emails relating to submissions, sky-tribe.com will make this data available to the users of its sites by publishing it on a relevant site page. Should the submitter request that this biographical data be removed or withheld, sky-tribe.com will make every reasonable attempt to comply with the submitter's wishes. Submitters should note that, although data published on the website can be removed from the website itself, sky-tribe.com has no control over data that has been downloaded and stored locally by users of the site.

Email Data:

Where users submit their email address to sky-tribe.com either through our newsletter request form or by submitting a story, sky-tribe.com will send the user, at the submitted address, our occasional newsletter. Users may stop receiving this newsletter at any time by using the online unsubscribe form or by emailing sky-tribe.com.

Other Data:

In addition, sky-tribe.com may make any of the data collected available to:

The sky-tribe.com business, any businesses belonging to sky-tribe.com and any future successors. Professional firms, persons or companies providing their services or advice to sky-tribe.com for legal, tax, e-commerce or financial matters where reasonably necessary. Other persons as required by law.

Where data is made available, an obligation will be placed on the parties to comply with The Data Protection Act 1998. We will not transfer your personal data to any other third parties.

Terms of Service

These terms below should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms of service.

Description of Services

This website provides access to a range of online content for personal, research or teaching use and allows users to submit material which may be published either on-line or in print. users can also create their own dynamic writer web base to post/promote and workshop their writing.

All contributors reserve the right to be identified as the owners of all works credited to them on this site. Disclaimer To the fullest extent permitted by law, your use of and access to the website and any material downloaded or otherwise obtained from the site is entirely at your own risk; the site's services are provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis. sky-tribe.com expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind whether express or implied including, but not limited to, warranties that:

The services will meet your requirements or expectations.

The services will be uninterrupted or error free.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither sky-tribe.com, nor any of its owners or employees will be liable for any damages resulting from or in connection with your use of the website. The website may provide links to external sites or resources to which the
above disclaimer also applies. You acknowledge that we have no control over the content or reliability of such sites or resources.

User Conduct By using the services, users agree not to:

Upload or otherwise send us content that you do not have the right to make available under any applicable national law or contractual agreement.

Upload or otherwise send us any software viruses or computer code intended to cause harm to computer hardware or software.

Break any applicable national law.

Collect, store or otherwise use any personal data from users of the site, in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998. You agree to indemnify sky-tribe.com against any liability incurred by sky-tribe.com as a result of a breach by you of any of these terms of service.

Submissions, Uploads & Copyright

Any writing members post on their own profile/upload pages is not published or endorsed by Sky-Tribe. Members may only post work they own the copyright to. Posting/Uploading your work on Sky-Tribe does not alter the original copyright in anyway. Users can delete their work at anytime. deleting work removes that content from the Sky-Tribe servers immediately.

By submitting (note: submitting is not the same as posting or uploading) a story or a comment to site publications and/or competitions of the site you agree to:

Grant sky-tribe.com a non-exclusive licence to publish the Work on the site. (First publication rights where stated.) You may terminate prior to acceptance / contract signing. In the case of email, this notice will be deemed to have been received on receipt of an electronic confirmation of delivery to you by sky-tribe.com.

In the case of post, this notice will be deemed to have been received five (5) business days after posting.

Copyright on the Work ALWAYS remains with the author of the Work. Warrant that:

The Work is original work, it has not been copied wholly or substantially from any other work or material and publication by sky-tribe.com of the Work on the site/publications will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party in anywhere in the world.

You are entitled to grant sky-tribe.com a non-exclusive licence to publish the Work on the site.

The Work contains nothing that is libelous, defamatory or indecent or which infringes the statutory or common law rights of any third parties in any part of the world.

Sky-Tribe will not publish, in any form, any content unless the author has signed an Sky-Tribe publishing contract outlining clearly the terms. If such a contract has not been signed, there is no bind between author and Sky-Tribe, or Sky-Tribe and author.

Who is Sky-Tribe and what is an Sky-Tribe publication?

Currently, the Sky-Tribe Editorial team consist of Alan Emmins, Chris Ramsden, Sean Merrigan, and Karina Kantas. If anybody with a different name approaches you for a submission on this site, they are not authorized to do so and you submit to them at your own risk.

Books published or being published by Sky-Tribe are easily found in the 'Sky-Tribe Publishing' section found in the main menu bar or in the 'Writing Competitions' area also found in the main menu bar. If it is not listed there it is not an Sky-Tribe Publication and you submit at your own risk.

Sky-Tribe are not responsible for work you submit to unofficial publications whether contact was originally made on sky-tribe.com or not. If you are unsure about a submission solicitation you have received on sky-tribe.com contact support.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These terms of service shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law.

Serviceability:

If any part or parts of these terms of service are held to be legally invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the terms of service shall continue to apply with the offending part or parts removed. Changes to These Terms of Service sky-tribe.com reserves the right to change these terms of service and by accessing or using the site after such changes have been made, users agree to abide by such changes.

Intellectual Property Content created by Sky-Tribe staff and all Sky-Tribe created intellectual property rights (including, without limitation, domain names, trade marks, copyright in the website design and copyright in the images and graphics.) associated with such content belong to and shall remain the property of sky-tribe.com and its licensors. You may use such content and intellectual property in accordance with these terms of service, only to the extent necessary to receive the Services.

Our Business Details & Address.

sky-tribe.com is owned Spoiled Ink I/S.
Dybbølsgade 14 st, th
1721 København V
Denmark