These terms are the agreement between you and us. By joining Writing Club, or by using it at all, you’re agreeing to them. If you don’t, please don’t use the club.
Joining is pay-what-you-want, and $0 is a real option that we mean. Whatever you contribute goes toward running costs: hosting, email, and the prizes when we run a contest. It isn’t buying a particular feature or a guaranteed length of membership.
From time to time a company may pay to support the club, or pay us to recommend something to members: a book, a tool, a publication. Two things hold whenever that happens. Anything sponsored says so, plainly, right where you see it. And a sponsor buys our attention, never access to you: sponsors get no member information, and nothing in our privacy policy bends for them. (The rule further down about advertising is about what members post; it doesn’t stop the club itself from carrying something sponsored.)
You own everything you write here. We don’t take a share of it and we don’t claim it.
What you give us is permission: to store your writing, to show it to other logged-in members, and to keep it in the club’s archive of the week you posted it, so that week still makes sense to read later. That permission is free, and it exists only so the club can function.
If we ever want to use your writing outside the club, in a public newsletter or something printed or anywhere a non-member can read it, we will ask you first, every time, and you can say no.
When you delete your account, your writing comes down and our permission ends. What we can’t do is reach into the memory of members who already read it, or into a copy somebody made against these rules.
Treat what you read here as told to you in confidence. Don’t republish another member’s work, not on a blog, not in a screenshot, not in a newsletter, without asking them. This is the rule the whole club rests on, and we enforce it.
Also: don’t scrape the club, don’t automate accounts, and don’t try to get at writing you’re not meant to see.
We can remove anything that breaks the rules above, and we can suspend or close an account. Usually we’ll say why, and usually a quiet word comes first. For anything serious, like threats, content involving minors, or an account that exists to cause harm, we act immediately.
If you think we got it wrong, email hey@writingclub.world. A person, not a system, will read it.
If something posted here infringes your copyright, email hey@writingclub.world with: what the work is, a link to where it appears in the club, your contact details, a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn’t authorised, a statement that the information is accurate and that you’re the owner or their agent, and your signature (typing your name is fine). We’ll remove it while we look into it.
If your work was removed and you believe that was a mistake, write to the same address and tell us why.
We run writing contests from time to time. Each one has its own rules on its own page, covering how long you have, how long the entry can be, and what the prize is. Those rules are part of this agreement while that contest runs.
Writing Club is a small thing run by a few people. Features come and go, and one day it might stop altogether. If we ever close it, we’ll give members reasonable notice and a way to take a copy of their writing with them.
The club is provided as it is. We can’t promise it will always be available, that nothing will ever break, or that you’ll never see something you dislike. Members write what they write; those words are theirs, not ours, and we don’t vouch for them.
If something here goes wrong and it costs you, what you can recover from us is limited to whatever you’ve paid us in the past twelve months, or $100, whichever is more. We’re not liable for indirect losses: lost profits, lost opportunities, lost data beyond what we can restore. Some places don’t allow limits like these, and where that’s true, they don’t apply to you.
Nothing here limits our responsibility for death or injury we cause, for fraud, or for anything the law of your country says can’t be limited. If you’re an EU or UK consumer, the refund rights your own law gives you apply on top of everything on this page, and nothing above is meant to replace or reduce them.
Email hey@writingclub.world first and give us 30 days to fix it. That comes before either of us starts a legal claim.
After that, Delaware law applies wherever you live, and claims belong in the Delaware courts, which we both accept as the right place for them. Small-claims court is always still open to you.
A claim has to be brought on its own rather than as part of a class action, filed within a year, and decided by a judge rather than a jury.
Where your own consumer law overrides any of this, it wins and the rest still stands. In the EU and the UK that includes your right to bring a case at home.
We post changes on this page and update the date at the top, so it always tells you which version you’re reading. Carrying on using the club after a change means you accept it.
Your agreement is with the limited liability company that operates Writing Club, a company registered in the United States, not with any individual person. Its registered name appears on your receipt if you contributed, and we’ll give it to anyone who asks at hey@writingclub.world. Our privacy policy explains what we collect and how to delete it, and it’s part of this agreement.