Online Contributions, Postings and Submissions

You may submit your own material to waterstones.com, such as reviews, recommendations and comments , for use on any part of Waterstones.com, or any other website identified by Waterstones for any purpose, whether editorial, commercial or other. The material you submit may include photographs, text, video or audio.

Reviews must focus on the specific product and not on the Waterstones business, competitors, or your customer service experience. For any issues concerning customer service, please contact our Customer Support Team here. We will not publish reviews containing profanities, personal insults or personal information.

If you submit material, you must allow Waterstones to use that material as it sees fit, without any obligation to recompense you, on any media and in any territory.

Please note that Waterstones reserves the right to moderate, edit and /or remove any material submitted, and you grant Waterstones the right to do so as it sees fit to the extent that Waterstones deems, in its sole discretion, that any such material violates appropriate use guidelines or any other term of these provisions.

You confirm that any material you submit is your own work, does not infringe anyone else's rights and is not defamatory. You also confirm that any submission is made in a personal capacity, and not in furtherance of your business aims, unless it is clearly stated so to be.

You also confirm that you are over the age of 16, or if not, that you have the permission of your parent or guardian to submit materials to Waterstones. We will usually place your name alongside any materials you submit and you give us the right to do so.

You acknowledge that Waterstones is a commercial organisation, and you grant to Waterstones the right to use any material you submit for its commercial purposes.

Waterstones may share any material you submit with any third party. For the purposes of this paragraph, in respect of any materials you submit, you agree to grant a licence for all purposes, for 50 (fifty) years, to Waterstones.

Any copyright in your contribution will remain with you and unless we agree to the contrary, and subject to the licence referred to above, you can continue to use the material you submit to Waterstones.

We may allow or encourage you to share any material you submit on other websites, including social media sites. In so doing, you do so entirely at your own risk, and you agree to indemnify Waterstones for any loss it sustains as a result.

Any material submitted, and any personal information conveyed to us is also subject to our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

You must not submit any material if you do not agree with these provisions.