Last updated: July 24, 2026
sfshaw.com is operated by Syed Fawad Hussain, who publishes under the pen name S. F. Shaw. Welcome to sfshaw.com. These Terms and Conditions explain the rules for using this website.
The website is operated by S. F. Shaw. In these Terms, the words we, us, and our refer to S. F. Shaw. The word Site refers to sfshaw.com and its public pages.
By visiting or using the Site, you agree to these Terms. Please stop using the Site if you do not agree with them.
You should also read our Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy, Disclaimer and DMCA Policy. These pages explain how we handle personal information, cookies, outside content, and copyright complaints.
About This Site
The Site shares information about S. F. Shaw, his books, fictional worlds, characters, short stories, articles, creative work, and future projects.
The Site may also provide free reading material, news, images, newsletter signup forms, contact forms, and links to outside websites.
Book titles, cover art, story details, release plans, and publication dates may change as each project develops.
Who May Use the Site
The Site is made for a general audience. It is not directed to children under 13 years old.
A child under 13 should not send a name, email address, message, or other personal information through the Site.
If you are under the legal age required to agree to online terms where you live, a parent or legal guardian should review these Terms with you.
A parent or guardian may contact us if they believe a child has shared personal information through the Site.
Using the Site
You may visit the Site, read its public pages, share links to those pages, and use any feature that is made available to visitors.
You may download a story, image, guide, or other file only when the Site clearly gives you permission to do so.
Any material offered for free remains protected by copyright. A free download does not transfer ownership of the work to you.
You may link to a public page on the Site as long as the link is honest and does not suggest that S. F. Shaw supports or approves your website, product, service, or opinion.
Uses That Are Not Allowed
You must not use the Site in a way that breaks the law, harms another person, damages the Site, or interferes with another visitor.
You must not copy, sell, publish, upload, or distribute a full story, article, image, book sample, design, or other protected work without written permission.
You must not claim that Site content belongs to you. You must not remove a copyright notice, credit, watermark, or author name from any material.
You must not send viruses, harmful code, spam, false messages, or material that is abusive, threatening, unlawful, or defamatory.
You must not try to enter a private part of the Site, bypass a security feature, collect login details, or test the Site for weaknesses without written permission.
You must not use automated tools to copy large amounts of text, images, files, or data from the Site. This rule does not prevent normal indexing by search engines that follow the Site rules.
Copyright and Ownership
Unless a page states otherwise, the original text, stories, fictional characters, fictional settings, artwork, images, logos, page designs, and other creative material on the Site belong to S. F. Shaw or are used with permission.
These works may be protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws.
You receive limited permission to view the Site for personal and lawful use. This permission does not give you ownership of any content.
Nothing in these Terms removes a right that the law gives you, including any lawful right to quotation, review, criticism, news reporting, or fair use.
Please contact us before using Site material in a book, video, course, advertisement, product, public event, or commercial project.
Reader Messages and Submissions
You may be able to send messages, comments, reviews, questions, or other material through the Site.
You are responsible for anything you submit. You must have the right to share it, and it must not violate another person’s privacy, copyright, trademark, or other legal rights.
A private message sent through the contact form will be used to read and answer your request. Sending a private message does not give us permission to publish it.
If you send a review, comment, testimonial, image, or other material for public display, you give us permission to store, edit for length or clarity, and display that material on the Site or on official S. F. Shaw pages. This permission is nonexclusive and does not transfer ownership of your work.
We may refuse, hide, or remove a submission when we believe it is unlawful, abusive, misleading, unrelated, promotional, or harmful.
Unrequested Story Ideas
Please do not send an unpublished manuscript, full story, plot, character idea, book concept, or other confidential creative work unless we have asked you to send it.
An unrequested idea will not be treated as private or confidential. We are not required to read it, return it, develop it, or pay for it.
Stories can contain similar themes, names, settings, or ideas by chance. Sending an idea does not create a partnership, employment relationship, or promise of payment.
Newsletter Emails
You may choose to join the S. F. Shaw newsletter.
When you subscribe, you may receive book news, story updates, release information, website news, and other messages connected with S. F. Shaw and his work.
You may leave the newsletter at any time by using the unsubscribe link in an email.
We cannot promise that every email will reach your inbox. Email providers may delay, block, or place a message in a spam folder.
Information about newsletter data is provided in our Privacy Policy.
Books and Outside Stores
The Site may show current or planned books and may link to an outside bookstore, publisher, marketplace, payment provider, or other seller.
An outside store controls its own prices, payment methods, taxes, delivery, returns, refunds, and customer service. Its own terms and privacy policy apply when you use that store.
We are not responsible for an outside store’s website, stock, shipping time, payment system, account security, or business decisions.
A release date, preorder date, price, cover, description, or format shown on the Site may change. We will try to correct important errors when we find them.
If the Site begins selling products directly in the future, extra sales, shipping, return, and refund terms may apply.
Outside Websites and Services
The Site may link to or display content from social networks, video services, bookstores, news sources, and other websites.
A link does not mean that we own, control, or approve every part of the outside website.
Outside websites may change, remove content, collect information, place cookies, or apply their own rules. You use them at your own choice and risk.
Please read the terms and privacy policy of any outside service before giving it personal information or making a purchase.
Information on the Site
We try to keep Site information clear and accurate. Even so, a page may contain an error, old detail, broken link, or missing fact.
Articles may be changed when new information becomes available. Creative projects may also change during writing, editing, design, or publication.
We do not promise that every page will always be complete, current, or free from mistakes.
Please contact us if you find an error that should be corrected.
General Information Only
The Site is mainly provided for reading, creative interest, entertainment, and general information.
Nothing on the Site should be treated as legal, medical, financial, tax, safety, or other professional advice.
You should speak with a qualified professional when you need advice about an important personal, legal, health, or financial decision.
Site Availability
We may update, move, remove, or stop offering any page or feature.
We do not promise that the Site will always be available or work without delay. Maintenance, security work, internet problems, hosting problems, or events outside our control may affect access.
We may block or limit access when needed to protect the Site, its visitors, or its content.
Disclaimer of Warranties
The Site is provided as available and with any faults that may exist.
To the fullest extent allowed by law, we do not make promises about uninterrupted access, perfect accuracy, security, fitness for a certain purpose, or results from using the Site.
Some laws do not allow certain warranty limits. Any rights that cannot legally be excluded will continue to apply.
Limits on Liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, S. F. Shaw will not be responsible for indirect, special, unexpected, or resulting loss caused by the use of the Site or the inability to use it.
This may include lost data, lost income, lost business, or damage caused by an outside website.
Nothing in these Terms excludes responsibility that cannot legally be excluded.
Your Responsibility
You are responsible for your own use of the Site and for any material you submit.
To the extent allowed by law, you agree to cover reasonable losses or legal costs caused by your unlawful use of the Site, your violation of these Terms, or material you submit without the required rights or permission.
Copyright Complaints
We respect the rights of copyright owners.
If you believe that material on the Site infringes your copyright, please follow the steps in our DMCA Policy.
A copyright report should identify the protected work, the material in question, its location on the Site, and a way to contact you.
Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms when the Site, its features, or legal duties change.
The date at the top of this page will show when the Terms were last updated.
Important changes may also be announced on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after an update means that the new Terms apply to your later use.
Governing Law
These Terms should be governed by the laws of the place where the Site owner is legally established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute concerning these Terms or the Site will be handled by the courts that have lawful jurisdiction. Nothing in this section removes any consumer right that cannot legally be excluded.
Nothing in this section removes consumer rights that cannot lawfully be removed in the place where a visitor lives.
Severability
If a court finds that one part of these Terms cannot be enforced, the remaining parts will continue to apply.
A failure to enforce a rule at one time does not mean that we give up the right to enforce it later.
These Terms and the policies linked from them form the agreement about use of the Site.
Contact
Questions about these Terms may be sent to info@sfshaw.com.
You may also contact us through the Contact page on sfshaw.com.