Terms of Use

Welcome to QuillFic Inc. ("QuillFic"), a platform owned and operated by PageWise Inc. ("PageWise", and together with QuillFic, "we", "us" or the "Company"). These terms of  use and services (which includes our Publishing Agreement, Content Guidelines, Privacy Policy and DMCA Policy) (collectively, with this Terms of Use, the "Terms of Service") are a contract between you and the Company. By clicking your consent (e.g. 'Continue', 'Sign-in,' or 'Sign-up,'), using quillfic.com (the "Site"), whether through mobile or web browser, creating your QuillFic account and using the Site or any of our mobile applications, including to post or share original content you create, posting comments and/or messages, or to access and view QuillFic's content or content from other users of the Site (together with the Site, the "Services"), you're agreeing to these Terms of Service. If you don't agree to any of these terms, you can't use the Services. 

For the purposes of the Terms of Service, any original content you create (including, without limitation, stories, essays, poems, comments or messages) is referred to as "Work" and your posting and/or sharing of such Work on the Site or through the Services is referred to as "Publishing".

If you have any questions about these Terms of Service or our Services, please contact us at hello@quillfic.com.

Your Account and Responsibilities 

You're responsible for your use of the Services and any Work you provide, including compliance with applicable laws. Content on the Services may be protected by others' intellectual property rights. Please don't copy, upload, download, or share Works or other content unless you have the right to do so.

Your use of the Services must comply with the rules and terms set out in the Terms of Service (including, without limitation, the rules and terms set out herein and the Publishing Agreement, Content Guidelines, Privacy Policy and DMCA Policy). 

You may need to register for an account to access some or all of our Services. Help us keep your account protected. Safeguard your password to the account, and keep your account information current. We recommend that you do not share your password with others.

If you're accepting these Terms and using the Services on behalf of someone else (such as another person or entity), you represent that you're authorized to do so, and in that case the words "you" or "your" in these Terms include that other person or entity.

For any information that you provide to us that can identify you ("Personal Information"), you represent and warrant that you have lawfully collected the Personal Information and that you or a third party has provided all required notices and collected all required consents before collecting the Personal Information. 

You further represent and warrant that QuillFic's use of such Personal Information in accordance with the purposes for which you provided us the Personal Information will not violate, misappropriate or infringe any rights of another (including intellectual property rights or privacy rights) and will not cause us to violate any applicable laws.

If you use the Services to access, collect, or use Personal Information about other Site users, you agree to do so in compliance with applicable laws. You further agree not to sell any Personal Information, where the term "sell" has the meaning given to it under applicable laws.


You Need to be 18

At this time, our Services are only for people 18 years old and over. If we learn someone under 18 is using the Services, we'll terminate their account.


You Need an Account

You can't browse very much on the Site or use the Services without registering for an account. To get the most out of QuillFic, you'll need to register, choose an account name, and set a password. If you wish to Publish your Work on QuillFic you will need to set-up your pseudonym in your account profile. 

You're responsible for all the activity on your account, and for keeping your password confidential. If you share your account information with anyone, that other person may be able to take control of the account, and we may not be able to determine who is the proper account holder. We will not have any liability to you (or anyone you share your account information with) as a result of your or their actions under those circumstances. If you find out that someone has used your account without your permission, you should report as soon as you discover such use at hello@quillfic.com.

In creating an account you agree that: 

  • You are not a citizen of the EU or the United Kingdom.
  • You are not under 18 years of age. 
  • Certain information you provide on your profile (such as username and anything else you may make public) will be visible to other members.
  • QuillFic will not use your Personal Information outside of the Services without your permission.
  • You are responsible for keeping copies of any Work or information that you submit to the Site. 
  • In interactions with other members you must act with kindness and thoughtfulness.
  • We reserve the right to warn or ban users who are deemed troublesome, divisive or disruptive.


Posting Content on QuillFic. 

Any Work Published by you belongs to you and is your responsibility. Before posting any content to QuillFic, it is important that you read our Content Guidelines and our Publishing Agreement. If your content does not comply with these guidelines it may be removed at any time.

You own all the rights to the content and Work you create and Publish on QuillFic.

Do not submit content you don't hold the copyright for. If you submit content that does not belong to you, QuillFic may remove such content at any time, and your user account may be suspended or removed. For further information, please review our Publishing Agreement. 

You're responsible for the content and Work that you Publish. This means you assume all risks related to its publication and display, including someone else's reliance on its accuracy and any claims relating to intellectual property or other legal rights.

Unless otherwise agreed in writing, by submitting, posting, or displaying Works on or through the Services, you grant QuillFic a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your content in all media formats and distribution methods now known or later developed on the Services.

QuillFic needs this license because you own your content and QuillFic therefore can't display it across its various surfaces and platforms (i.e., mobile, web) without your permission. 

This type of license also is needed to distribute your content across our Services. For example, you post a story on QuillFic. It is reproduced as versions on both our website and on a mobile app, and distributed to multiple places within QuillFic, such as the homepage, recommendations or reading lists. A modification might be that we show a snippet of your Work (and not the full post) in a preview, with attribution to you. A derivative work might be a list of top authors or quotes on QuillFic that uses portions of your content, again with full attribution. This license applies to our Services only, and does not grant us any permissions outside of our Services.

So long as you comply with these Terms of Service, QuillFic gives you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, and non-assignable license to access and use our Services.

The Services are protected by copyright and other Canadian and foreign laws. These Terms of Service don't grant you any right, title or interest in the Services, other users' content or Work on the Services, or QuillFic's trademarks, logos or other brand features.

Separate and apart from the content you submit, post or display on our Services, we welcome feedback, including any comments, ideas and suggestions you have about our Services. We may use this feedback for any purpose, in our sole discretion, without any obligation to you. We may treat feedback as nonconfidential.

We may stop providing the Services or any of its features within our sole discretion. We also retain the right to create limits on use and storage and may remove or limit content distribution on the Services.

In your use of the Services you may enter into additional terms and conditions and other agreements that alter or override these Terms of Service. In case of any conflict or inconsistency, the terms and conditions of those additional terms and agreements would override these Terms of Service.


Our Rights in the Services

We reserve all rights in the Sites' and the Services look and feel, and in our content. You may not copy or adapt any portion of our code or visual design elements (including logos) without express written permission from us or as set out in this clause. Please do not use our logo or trademarks in any way that might suggest we endorse a particular product or service, or you have a business relationship with us.

We may change, terminate, or restrict access to any aspect of the Services, at any time, without notice. We can remove any content you post or submit for any reason. We may access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (ii) enforce the Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations, (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, (iv) respond to user support requests, or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of the Services, its users and the public.


How We Deal with Copyright Issues

We have adopted a policy toward copyright infringement on the Services in accordance with the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA"). While our policy is based on the law in the United States of America we apply this same policy globally to all jurisdictions in which our Services are available. If you'd like to submit a claim of copyright infringement, please contact us at hello@quillfic.com. We reserve the right to remove content alleged to be infringing without prior notice, at our sole discretion, and without liability to you or anyone else. In appropriate circumstances, we will also terminate a user's account if the user is determined to be a repeat infringer.

When we find websites that have illegally scraped content from QuillFic we do our best to have them shutdown. In order to act on behalf of our users we need to have your legal permission to do that so we ask for it here when you sign up. 

You authorize us to act as your agent to issue take down notices under the DMCA and/or any other similar legislation that allows for the submission of requests to Internet service providers and any other person involved in the illegal posting for the removal of infringing or allegedly infringing copyright materials that are contained in or displayed on such service providers platforms and/or services.

In addition to the foregoing, please review our DMCA Policy for further information. 


Copying/Downloading Works on QuillFic 

Any reproduction, copying or downloading of any Works from QuillFic whether directly or indirectly (through a third-party or otherwise) is strictly prohibited and in violation of our Terms of Services. 


Things You Should and Shouldn't Do

We expect all of our users to behave responsibly, respectfully and to help keep this a nice place. Please review our Content Guidelines, Publishing Agreements, Privacy Policy and DMCA Policy (which are part of these Terms of Service), which is designed to ensure that everyone understands what our community is all about and the values we treasure, to create a safe, fun and caring environment for story lovers. Without restricting what's in the Content Guidelines, Publishing Agreements, Privacy Policy and DMCA Policy, don't do any of these things on the Services:

  • ●  Don't break the law. Don't take any action that infringes or violates other people's rights, violates the law, or breaches any contract or legal duty you have toward anyone.
  • ●  Don't harm anyone's computer. Don't distribute software viruses, or anything else (code, films, programs) designed to interfere with the proper function of any software, hardware, or equipment on the Site (whether it belongs to us or anyone else).
  • ●  Don't try and damage or disrupt QuillFic. Don't try to interfere with the proper workings of the Services. Don't bypass any measures we've put in place to secure the Services. Don't try to damage or get unauthorized access to any system, data, password, or other information. Don't take any action that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure, or on our third-party providers. (We determine what's reasonable.)
  • ●  Don't scrape QuillFic. Don't use any kind of software, device or method (whether it's manual or automated) to "crawl", "spider" or otherwise remove any content from any part of the Site or Services. Don't make any use of the Site, content or Services that may have the effect of competing with or displacing the market for QuillFic, the Site, or the Services.
  • ●  Don't take any content from us without permission (i.e., don't steal). Don't change, translate, reproduce, distribute or otherwise create derivative works of any content unless you get explicit consent from the author of that content.
  • ●  Don't steal our valuable intellectual property. Don't take apart or reverse engineer any aspect of the Site or Services in an effort to access things like source code, underlying ideas, or algorithms.
  • ●  Don't make any commercial use of QuillFic other than getting paid through your membership. QuillFic is for your personal and non-commercial use only. Don't sell access to the Site or Services in any way. Don't use the Site or Services for the purpose of advertising any goods or services. The only exception is that you may link to your personal or professional site which may contain paid content without advertising the sale of your content form on third-party platforms.


Deleting Your Account

You can permanently delete your QuillFic account. Once you have deleted your QuillFic account, you will not be able to retrieve your Works. 

We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the Services at any time and for any reason we deem appropriate. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you by the email address associated with your account or the next time you attempt to access your account.


People are restricted from making money on QuillFic

QuillFic's payments are processed through PayPal, which excludes certain types of businesses or entities from using their service. Please refer to PayPal's User Agreement and other legal documents for more information about restricted business categories and practices.


Disclaimers, Limitations of Liability and Indemnification

Each of the subsections below only applies up to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties or the limitation of liability in contracts, and as a result the contents of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in this section is intended to limit any rights you may have which may not be lawfully limited.

No warranty. Your use of our Services and any content is solely at your own risk and discretion. They are provided to you "as is" and "as available". That means they don't come with any warranty of any kind, express or implied. We specifically disclaim any implied warranty of merchantability, merchantable quality, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, security, title or non-infringement, and any warranties implied by any course of dealing or performance.

Responsibility for Content. All content, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person who originated such content. We may not monitor or control the content posted via the Services and we cannot take responsibility for such content. We do not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any content or communications posted via the Services or endorse any opinions expressed via the Services. You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. In addition to the foregoing, please review the full terms of the Content Guideline for further information. 

Release. When you use the Services, you release the Company and QuillFic from claims, damages, and demands of every kind — known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed — arising out of or in any way related to (a) disputes between users, or between users and any third party relating to the use of the Services and (b) the Services.

Our liability to you. We won't be liable to you for any damages that arise from your use of, or in connection with, the Services and any content. This exclusion includes: (a) where the Services are hacked or unavailable, (b) all types of damages (direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary), whatever the type of claim or loss (breach of contract, tort (including negligence), breach of warranty, or any other claim or loss), (c) any lost profits, data or revenues, or (d) any conduct or content of other users or third parties on the Site or the Services. In no event shall our liability for damages be in excess of (in the aggregate) one hundred Canadian dollars ($100.00).

Your liability to us. If you do something that gets us sued, or break any of the promises you make in these Terms of Service, you shall compensate us for any liabilities, losses, claims, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and costs) that arise from or relate to your use or misuse of the Services. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to this clause, in which case you agree that you'll cooperate and help us in asserting any defenses.

Third party websites. The Site and Services may contain links to other websites; for instance, stories, user profiles, and other posts may link to other sites. When you access third-party websites, you do so at your own risk. We don't control or endorse those sites.

Some of QuillFic's features use YouTube's API (specifically using Youtube's API to search for Youtube videos to embed in your story). By using these features, you agree to abide by YouTube's Terms of Service (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms).

You agree that your use of the Site and Services does not violate any terms of use or services of third-party websites. 


General Terms

Changes. Our Terms of Service may change from time to time. If they do, we'll let you know about any material changes, either by notifying you on the Site or by sending you an email. Please note that your continued use of the Services after any change means that you agree with, and consent to be bound by, the new Terms of Service. If you disagree with any changes in the Terms of Service and do not wish to be subject to the revised terms, you will need to close your account and/or stop using the Services.

Entire agreement. These Terms of Service (including any document incorporated by reference into them) are the whole agreement between the Company and you concerning the Services, and these Terms of Service supersede and replace any prior agreements between us and you regarding the Services.

No waiver and severability. If QuillFic doesn't exercise or enforce a particular right or provision under these Terms of Service, that doesn't mean we've waived that right or provision. If any provision of these Terms of Service is held to be invalid or unenforceable, then that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions of these Terms of Service will remain in full force and effect.

Choice of law and jurisdiction. We encourage you to contact us if you're having an issue, before resorting to the courts. In the unfortunate circumstance where legal action does arise, these Terms of Service shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada that apply in Ontario, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws. You agree that any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Service will take place in the courts of the Province of Ontario.

Assignment. These Terms of Service are personal to you. You can't assign them, transfer them, or sublicense them unless you get our prior written consent. We have the right to assign, transfer, or delegate any of its rights and obligations under these Terms of Service without notice and without your consent.


Date: January 2022.

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