User Agreement for FictionDB.com

FictionDB.com is a database of book related information compiled by FictionDB. This Agreement describes the terms and conditions applicable to your use of our services available under the domain and sub-domains of www.fictiondb.com. If you do not agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this User Agreement, do not use or access our services.

This Agreement was last updated on July 4, 2023 We may update this Agreement at any time.

Copyright
All content on this site, unless otherwise indicated, is copyright 1995-2024; FictionDB. All rights reserved. Reproduction, distribution or transmission by any means without the prior permission of FictionDB is prohibited. FictionDB, RomanceDB, MysteryDB, SuspenseDB, SpeculativeDB and WesternDB are trademarks of FictionDB.

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Disclaimer
Although FictionDB tries to ensure the accuracy of the database, FictionDB gives no warranty as to the accuracy of the information contained in the database. FictionDB reserves the right to withdraw or delete information at any time.

The database and services provided by FictionDB are provided for the information of users only on an "as-is", "as available" basis. It is not provided with the intention that users rely on this information for any purposes. Accordingly, FictionDB shall under no circumstances be liable for any loss or damage, including but not limited to loss of profits, goodwill or indirect or consequential loss arising out of any use of or inaccuracies in the information. All warranties express or implied are excluded to the fullest extent permissible by law.

A. FREE SERVICES - Basic Browsing
Browsing the book catalog at FictionDB.com is free. Registered visitors, our Basic Members, can use FictionDB to keep track of book lists and notes. FictionDB displays ads to visitors who use our services for free.

B. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES
FictionDB.com paid subscribers, our Premium Members, are not shown display ads.

Fees and Payments
Current subscriber fees for FictionDB are posted on the FictionDB Compare Features page. To become a subscriber, you agree to pay the subscription fees and any other charges incurred in connection with your user name and password for FictionDB (including any applicable taxes) at the rates in effect when the charges were incurred. Subscription fees will be billed at the beginning of your subscription or at renewal. All fees and charges are nonrefundable. We may change the fees and charges then in effect, or add new fees or charges, at any time. You are responsible for any fees or charges incurred to access FictionDB through an Internet access provider or other third party service.

Subscriber Limitations
(a) Only one individual may access FictionDB at the same time using the same user name or password.

(b) We may refuse to grant you a user name that impersonates someone else, is protected by trademark or other proprietary right law, or is vulgar or otherwise offensive.

C. MATERIALS ON THE SITE, PROPRIETARY USE

You acknowledge that all materials on the site, including, but not limited to, design, graphics, text, pictures, software and other files and the selection and arrangement thereof (the "Materials"), are subject to and protected under copyright, trademark and/or other intellectual property laws and rights. All copyrighted and copyrightable Materials are owned by FictionDB and/or its suppliers or licensors, all rights reserved. FictionDB authorizes you to view and download the Materials only for personal, non-commercial use, provided that you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Materials.

Except as stated herein, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, republish, download, perform, display, post, transmit, frame, or otherwise use any of the Materials in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of FictionDB or the respective intellectual property owner. You may not modify or adapt the Materials in any way or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purposes. You may not interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the site, and you may not use any robot, spider, data miner, scraper, or other automated means to access the site for any purpose.

D. PRIVACY
Privacy and Personal Information
FictionDB protects the identity of visitors to FictionDB.com by limiting the collection of personal information. Only FictionDB subscribers are required to provide personal information. For certain promotions, we may request a voluntary submission of information such as name, e-mail address, city, state, and age. This personally identifiable information collected on FictionDB.com is used only by FictionDB staff for subscription payments, to track site usage patterns and statistics, for market research, or for prize or information request fulfillment unless otherwise indicated. Such information will not be posted, sold or published by us, nor will it be provided to third parties without your consent.

Anonymous aggregated data may be provided to other companies we do business with for statistical or market research purposes. We also share information with other organizations for payment processing, data analytics, marketing and advertising, website hosting and technical support.

Cookies
We employ cookie technology to help visitors and subscribers move faster through our site. When you register, subscribe or sign on to our Web site, we may pass cookies to your computer.

Cookies and Display Advertising
FictionDB works with ad partners so that we can display third party advertisements at our digital properties. The ad partners that we work with, including Google and Publisher First, Inc. DBA Freestar, use cookies to collect personal information when you visit FictionDB. To learn more about Freestar's data usage, visit the Freestar Privacy Policy.

FictionDB may sell this personal information (using the definition of “sell” as defined in the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) of 2018) to other parties in order to serve ads tailored to your interests. You can choose to disable cookies in your browser settings to stop this personal information from being collected. However, disabling cookies can affect how you are able to interact with our site and other sites. Alternatively, you can opt out of some third party vendors' uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info or at NAI Consumer Opt-Out.

You also have the right to opt out of the sale of this personal information by clicking on the "CCPA: Do Not Sell My Data" or "GDPR: Do Not Sell My Data" links on our website. Opting out through these links may not mean you will stop seeing ads or be exempt from seeing interest-based ads.

In the event that you opt out fo the sale of your personal information for the purposes of CCPA but do not opt-out of interest-based advertising more generally, you may receive ads tailored to your interests based upon personal information i) not sold by FictionDB; ii) sold to ad partners (the downstream participants) at least ninety (90) prior to you opting-out at an industry opt-out link; or iii) sold by other data sources where you have not opted-out.

Additional Disclosures for California and European Economic Area (EEA) Residents
FictionDB will take reasonable steps to determine if you are a California resident so that we can adhere to CCPA requirements and will send applicable opt-out signals to downstream participants. We will also adhere to personal information deletion and access obligations under the CCPA, including the CCPA requirements for visitors who are less than 16 years old.

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have certain data protection rights per the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). FictionDB aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your personal information. If you wish to be informed about what personal information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

FictionDB uses the Quantcast Consent Management Platform (CMP) for advertising cookie management to address both CCPA and GDPR requirements. Quantcast participates in the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) and complies with its Specifications and Policies. Quantcast is registered with CMP ID 10 under the TCF.

E. LIMITATIONS ON USE.
(a) The content available through FictionDB is our property or the property of the respective book publishers and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. You may display or print the content available through FictionDB for your personal, non-commercial use only. You agree not to sell, publish, distribute, retransmit, or otherwise provide access to the content received through FictionDB to anyone, including your fellow employees, with the following exception. You may occasionally distribute pages from FictionDB in electronic or non-electronic form to a few individuals without charge, provided you include all copyright and other proprietary rights notices in the same form in which the notices appear in FictionDB and the phrase "Used with permission from FictionDB."

(b) You agree not to use FictionDB for any unlawful purpose. We reserve the right to terminate or restrict your access to FictionDB if, in our opinion, your use of FictionDB may violate any laws, infringe upon another person's rights or violate the terms of this Agreement.

F. REVIEWS, COMMENTS, OTHER CONTENT.
Visitors may post reviews, comments, and other content; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of your content. FictionDB reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted content.

Your License to FictionDB: If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant FictionDB a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant FictionDB and its sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this site's policies and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify FictionDB for all claims resulting from content you supply. FictionDB has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. FictionDB takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

G. OTHER SITES AND AFFILIATE PROGRAMS
We may link to other Web sites within FictionDB.com. You agree that we are not responsible for, and do not control, those Web sites or services.

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

We are a participant in several affiliate programs where we earn fees when you click on Buy links.

H. DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY
YOU AGREE THAT YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF FICTIONDB.COM AND THE CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH FICTIONDB.COM IS ON AN "AS-IS", "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS AND WE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. FICTIONDB, ITS AFFILIATES, SHAREHOLDERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND LICENSORS ("THE FICTIONDB PARTIES") WILL NOT BE LIABLE (JOINTLY OR SEVERALLY) TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON AS A RESULT OF YOUR ACCESS OR USE OF FICTIONDB.COM FOR INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, WHETHER OR NOT CHARACTERIZED IN NEGLIGENCE, TORT, CONTRACT, OR OTHER THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF ANY OF THE FICTIONDB PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF OR COULD HAVE FORESEEN ANY OF THE EXCLUDED DAMAGES, AND IRRESPECTIVE OF ANY FAILURE OF AN ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF A LIMITED REMEDY. IF ANY APPLICABLE AUTHORITY HOLDS ANY PORTION OF THIS SECTION TO BE UNENFORCEABLE, THEN THE FICTIONDB PARTIES' LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FULLEST POSSIBLE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

I. GENERAL
This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of California as such laws are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within California between California residents. We do not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to our services, and operation of our site may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. You agree that this User Agreement and all incorporated agreements may be automatically assigned by FictionDB, in our sole discretion, to a third party in the event of a merger or acquisition. Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof.

J. CONTACT INFORMATION
FictionDB
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Torrance, CA 90505
USA