sister-hood is an award-winning digital magazine spotlighting the diverse voices of women of Muslim heritage.

Terms of use

Welcome to sister-hood. Please read the following terms of use and disclaimers carefully before using our website. Your continuing use of this website will be considered as acceptance of these terms.

sister-hood is an online magazine, website and a series of live events produced by Fuuse. The sister-hood trademarks, copyright, logos, domain name(s) and other elements that make up our brand(s) are protected and belong to Fuuse. Use of this website does not grant you any rights to our intellectual property, whether for commercial or non-commercial use.

Please note: sister-hood and Fuuse may make changes to these terms, so we encourage users to review these terms regularly.

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1. Content submissions

Should you wish to contribute to sister-hood please be aware that by doing so:

1.1 Authors retain the copyright to any of their work that is posted on sister-hood.com. By contributing content, you grant sister-hood a royalty-free, non-exclusive worldwide licence to use, edit, translate and syndicate your content across all platforms and our channels. When you submit content, you accept that you are the authorized content owner to grant this usage. This licence also permits submitted content to be re-produced and licensed in any format via any of our other platforms either by or through; Fuuse, Fuuse AS, Fuuse Edu, Fuuse Films or Fuuse Mousiqi, Fuuse Forum, Fuuse Dialogue, Fuuse Voices.

1.2 Authors must make clear the copyright status of images being submitted. We are only able to accept images that are the author’s own creation, as well as those which are out of copyright, or which are designated for use under a Creative Commons license.

1.3 You warrant that the content you submit is true to your knowledge and is not offensive, abusive, racist, indecent and defamatory of any specific person(s) and their privacy.

1.4 The sister-hood editorial team may edit posts before posting.

1.5 In certain instances content may appear pseudonymously, for instance to protect an author.

1.6 We reserve the right to refuse any submission without giving a reason.

1.7 We do not accept work containing gratuitous violence, gore, explicit sex or anything that could be construed as being intended to offend.

1.8 Content on this website cannot be reprinted, or published in a book, magazine or other form of media without our explicit permission.

1.9 We may remove content from use at any time.

Any outstanding queries regarding copyright and your content should be directed in the first instance to info@sister-hood.com.

2. Third party content and links accessible via sister-hood.com 

2.1 sister-hood is not liable or responsible for third party content. This includes comments posted by readers. We do not tolerate abusive or threatening comments. sister-hood actively monitors comments and may remove anything that is deemed offensive at its sole discretion and without warning. If you see a comment that you find offensive, please contact us at info@sister-hood.com and provide details.

2.2 Where external links do appear, sister-hood takes no responsibility for the information contained on these pages. If you decide to access any third party websites and make use of the information contained on them, you do so at your own risk.If you come across links that you feel should not be featured on sister-hood, please e-mail: info@sister-hood.com.

2.3 We do not endorse any views or opinions expressed by users or authors.

2.4 We make every effort to attribute the correct source of the images or photos that appear on this website. In certain instances, attribution may not appear because it has been made clear by the author that this is not required. Should there be any issues regarding image content on this website please email info@sister-hood.com.

Liability

3. This website and the content provided is for information purposes only and does not constitute professional or legal advice.

We are not liable for:

(a)   any false, inaccurate or incomplete information presented on the website;

(b)   opinions expressed in comments or by bloggers, authors;

(c)    any action(s) taken as a result of information contained on this website or for any loss or damage suffered as a result of taking action;

(d)   any dealings you have with third parties (e.g. other users, authors) that may take place using or facilitated by the site

4. We are not responsible for any loss or damage suffered if the website should fail to function or be temporarily unavailable due to issues outside of our control, for example, caused due to poor internet connection, incompatible browser or bandwidth issues.

5. This website requires third party software in the form of plugins to work. Whilst we continually review the performance of the website, we cannot always guarantee that sister-hood.comwill be free from error and/or free from viruses. You must take your own precautions as we will accept no responsibility for any damages resulting from technology related issues or problems (hacking, spam, spyware).

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@sister-hood.com.

sister-hood is currently on hiatus whilst we work on our relaunch. The site will still be available for your reading pleasure.

We'd like to thank all of our readers and contributors for their support over the years and look forward to coming back bigger, better and stronger.

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