Terms of Service
Effective Date: October 4, 2026
Welcome to Flash Fiction. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Flash Fiction website at https://hasanstorywriting.blogspot.com/ (the “Website”).
By accessing or using the Website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use the Website.
1. About Flash Fiction
Flash Fiction is an independent creative-writing website operated by Mohammad Hasan. The Website publishes original short stories, fiction, and other creative written works.
These Terms apply to all visitors and users of the Website.
2. Use of the Website
You may use the Website for lawful personal and non-commercial purposes, including reading, sharing, and discovering stories published on Flash Fiction.
You agree not to:
- Use the Website for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website, its systems, or associated services.
- Interfere with or disrupt the Website or its operation.
- Upload, submit, or transmit malicious software, spam, or harmful material.
- Use automated systems to excessively scrape, copy, or reproduce Website content without permission.
- Misrepresent your identity or affiliation with Flash Fiction.
- Use the Website in a manner that violates applicable laws or regulations.
We reserve the right to restrict or terminate access to the Website where reasonably necessary to protect the Website, its users, or our rights.
3. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, the original stories, writing, text, images, graphics, logos, design elements, and other content published by Flash Fiction are owned by or licensed to Mohammad Hasan / Flash Fiction.
The content is protected by applicable copyright and intellectual-property laws.
You may:
- Read and access the content for personal use.
- Share links to publicly available Flash Fiction pages.
- Quote brief portions of a story for purposes such as commentary or review, provided appropriate attribution is given and applicable copyright law is followed.
You may not reproduce, republish, redistribute, modify, translate, commercially exploit, or create derivative works from Flash Fiction's original content without prior written permission, except where such use is permitted by applicable law.
A link to the original Flash Fiction page should be provided when referencing our content online.
4. User Comments and Submissions
Where the Website allows comments, contact messages, or other submissions, you are responsible for the material you submit.
You must not submit content that:
- Is unlawful, threatening, defamatory, abusive, hateful, or fraudulent.
- Infringes another person's copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights.
- Contains malicious code, spam, or unauthorized advertising.
- Contains personal or confidential information belonging to another person.
- Is otherwise inappropriate for the Website.
By submitting content to a publicly available area of the Website, you grant Flash Fiction a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, reproduce, display, and distribute that submission solely as reasonably necessary to operate and present the Website.
You retain ownership of your original submission.
We may remove or decline to publish any submission at our discretion where reasonably necessary to maintain the Website or comply with applicable law.
5. Third-Party Links and Services
The Website may contain links to third-party websites, services, or resources.
These links are provided for convenience and do not mean that Flash Fiction endorses, controls, or guarantees those third-party websites or services.
We are not responsible for the content, availability, security, privacy practices, or policies of third-party websites.
Your use of third-party services is governed by the applicable third party's own terms and policies.
6. Advertising
The Website may display advertisements provided by third-party advertising services, including Google AdSense, when advertising is enabled.
Advertisements are provided by independent third parties, and Flash Fiction does not control the content, availability, or accuracy of individual advertisements.
Your interactions with advertisers, including purchases, communications, or other transactions, are solely between you and the relevant advertiser.
Our use of advertising and related technologies is described in our Privacy Policy.
7. Website Availability
We make reasonable efforts to keep Flash Fiction available and functioning properly. However, we do not guarantee that the Website will always be:
- Available or uninterrupted.
- Free from errors or technical problems.
- Free from viruses or other harmful components.
- Completely accurate, current, or complete.
The Website may occasionally be unavailable because of maintenance, technical problems, hosting issues, updates, or circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
8. Content Accuracy and Availability
Flash Fiction is a creative-writing website. Stories and other creative works are published for entertainment and literary purposes.
We do not guarantee that every piece of information appearing on the Website will always be complete, accurate, or up to date.
We may edit, update, reorganize, remove, or discontinue stories, pages, features, or other Website content at any time.
9. Disclaimer
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Flash Fiction and its operator provide the Website and its content on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied.
We do not guarantee that the Website or its content will meet every user's expectations or requirements.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any consumer or other legal rights that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
10. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Flash Fiction and its operator will not be responsible for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or other losses arising from or related to your use of, or inability to use, the Website.
This includes losses arising from third-party websites, advertisements, services, links, technical interruptions, or unauthorized access beyond our reasonable control.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability where such limitation is prohibited by applicable law.
11. Privacy
Your use of the Website is also subject to our Privacy Policy, which explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared.
You can review the Privacy Policy here:
12. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes to the Website, our services, or applicable legal requirements.
When changes are made, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this page.
Your continued use of the Website after updated Terms are published constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
13. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision will be interpreted or limited to the extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will continue to apply.
14. Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any other policies or notices expressly referenced on the Website, constitute the terms governing your use of Flash Fiction.
15. Contact
If you have questions about these Terms or the Website, please contact us through the Flash Fiction Contact page:
https://hasanstorywriting.blogspot.com/p/contact-me.html
— Mohammad Hasan
Founder & Author, Flash Fiction
