Red Ogre Review R O R

Terms of Service

Parties

Unless otherwise noted, the term “Red Ogre Review” as used below on this page refers soley to Matthew Bullen DBA Liquid Raven Media and his agents, assignees, successors, and similarly-situated persons and/or entities, as may be relevant.

Site Access

Your access to, and use of, this site and/or any other web properties or online services operated by Red Ogre Review is at your own sole risk. By accessing this site, and/or by sending electronic messages and/or content submissions of any kind to Red Ogre Review, you evidence your explicit agreement to these terms of service and waive any claims against Red Ogre Review as may be relevant.

Mature Content

This site contains mature content intended solely for consumption by adults of legal age in their relevant jurisdiction(s). If any part of this site’s content is subject to legal restrictions that prohibit your access of such material in your jurisdiction(s), or if you are not of legal age to access this site in your jurisdiction(s), you are prohibited from accessing this site and must immediately stop accessing this site in any manner. The actions of underage individuals who violate these terms of service are the sole responsibility and liability of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s).

No Site Traffic Cookies

To the best of Red Ogre Review’s knowledge, this site’s code does not generate site traffic tracking cookies and does not use any third-party code packages that may track or store user data or any other legally-protected user information.

No Artificial Intelligence Scraping

Red Ogre Review does not consent to the use of any part of this site or its content for artificial intelligence software model training or any other related purposes. To the best of Red Ogre Review’s knowledge, neither have any of the contributors published on this site. Red Ogre Review reserves the unrestricted right to enforce its intellectual property rights against any such attempts to the fullest extent permitted by law.

No Plagiarism

By submitting content of any kind to Red Ogre Review, you affirm, represent, and warrant that your content submission, in whole and in each indiviual part, is your own creative work alone; in other words, no part of the creative work is plagiarized, and the creative work does not contain any material with intellectual property rights to it held by anyone other than you, or otherwise legally protected or restricted material used without appropriate permission.

No Prior Contracts

By submitting content of any kind to Red Ogre Review, you affirm, represent, and warrant that your content submission, in whole and in each indiviual part, is free and unencumbered of any other contracts, claims, or binding agreements that may burden, conflict with, or restrict Red Ogre Review’s use of it; in other words, no other publishers have prior claims to, or hold rights over, the creative work that might conflict with Red Ogre Review’s use of it.

No Fee, No Pay

Red Ogre Review is a free press run by unpaid volunteers. Absent any different, explicit, mutual written agreement, our policy is not to charge a fee for submission of creative work for potential publication; correspondingly, our policy is also not to pay contributors for posting their creative work to our site.

Exceptions for specific projects, such as fundraisers, will be clearly indicated in the relevant call for submissions.

It’s fine to ask if we’d be willing to consider making a payment to post a specific creative work to our site; in all candor, absent truly extraordinary circumstances that have yet to ever arise, the request will not be acknowledged or replied to, and it’s quite close to a certainty that the creative work will be declined for publication. This policy is not directed to potential contributors acting in good faith, but rather intended to prevent a variety of, for lack of a better term, scammer inquiries.

Limited Scope of Publication

In short, the purpose of this site is to publish creative work by contributors on this site, along with a limited number of industry-standard, common practice uses of that creative work, but nothing else.

This section’s terms apply, in whole and/or individually, as relevant, in the absence of any different, explicit, mutual written agreement.

1.Submissions of creative work of any type to Red Ogre Review are conditioned on, and evidence of, your explicit agreement that in exchange for, and in consideration of, the labor required for Red Ogre Review to evaluate your creative work for potential publication with Red Ogre Review, you intentionally and unreservedly agree to the following terms and conditions.

2.For maximum clarity, before listing those terms and conditions below: you retain all intellectual property rights over your creative work, unchanged and unrestricted by Red Ogre Review, that are not clearly addressed, or obviously implied, by the following terms, to the extent that does not conflict with, or otherwise limit, the enforcement of these terms of service.

3.You intentionally, unconditionally, and unreservedly grant Red Ogre Review the permission, license, and right to publish your creative work, as may be most relevant to your legal jurisdiction(s); for simplicity, the term “permission” will be used going forward in these terms of service.

4.That permission includes publishing your creative work on this very same site.

5.Since this site is available to the entire Internet, which is available globally, that permission is likewise global in scope.

6.That permission does not have an expiration date and is not intended to be revoked absent a different, mutual, written agreeement; in other words, the creative work will remain published with Red Ogre Review without any arbitrary date set for depublishing the creative work, and without any arbitrary, undiscussed conditions that might lead to the depublication of your creative work.

7.That permission includes posting your work, in whole or in part, to our social media channels for the purpose of promoting your creative work, and thereby promoting you as the creator of the work.

8.That permission includes publishing your creative work, as relevant, in whole or in part, in the anthologies of magazine issues that we may provide, at our sole discretion, to you and other contributors as gifts, and/or make available for public sale as fundraising projects.

9.That permission includes submitting your creative work to another organization as part of a prize nomination, a contest, or similar purposes, should there be a mutual, written agreement in advance to do so.

10.If we were to move Red Ogre Review’s content to a new site at some point in the future, that permission includes moving your creative work to that new site, and similar scenarios.

11.If ownership of the site or the press were to change in the future, that permission includes allowing the new owner(s) to take Red Ogre Review’s place with as few changes or disruptions to the publication of your creative work as reasonably possible.

12.That permission in no way prevents or limits your discretion to publish a different version of your creative work with other publication outlets, should you and another publication outlet agree to do so.

Unanticipated Use Cases

Any other uses of contributor creative work not explicitly described, or clearly implied, by the preceding terms and explanatory descriptions must be agreed upon in writing ahead of time; for example, in the instance that an inquiry is made by a third-party organization to adapt a contributor’s creative work for inclusion in a new endeavor, such as quoting part of the creative work in a book chapter.

Moral or Natural Rights of Authors

In some jurisdictions, it may be possible for the creators to assert “moral rights” or “natural rights” over their creative works. To the extent allowed by the controlling law(s), you voluntarily agree to refrain from asserting any such claims, if doing so would conflict with, or otherwise limit, the enforcement of these terms of service.

This section is not directed to potential contributors acting in good faith, but rather intended to prevent meritless claims brought in bad faith.

For an illustrative example, consider the scenario in which a scammer is somehow successful in persuading Red Ogre Review to publish material that they provided. It later comes to light that the material was plagiarized. This section is intended to prevent frivolous, abusive, and dishonest claims, such as an individual saying words to the effect of “I think my country’s intellectual property rights system gives me the moral right, or the natural right, to require you to keep publishing the material that I plagiarized, even though your terms of service make it clear that you would never do so intentionally.”

Revocation of Publication

As a courtesy, published contributors may request that their creative work be removed from the Red Ogre Review site and/or any of Red Ogre Review’s social media platforms on written request made to Red Ogre Review’s editors via email sent to info@ogre.red. Assuming that the request is made in good faith and reasonable, and absent any other written agreement(s) or legal obligation(s) to the contrary, Red Ogre Review will, at Red Ogre Review’s sole discretion, make a good faith, diligent effort to depublish the creative work as requested in a timely manner.

Contributor creative work published online that is included in any of Red Ogre Review’s books, such as yearly anthologies of online magazine issues, will only be removed from any copies of said book(s) printed after the time of the request at Red Ogre Review’s sole discretion, or due to a compelling legal reason. Red Ogre Review will not to attempt to recall, or change the contents of, already-printed and distributed books. As a practical matter, doing so is impossible; one reason, among many, is that we have absolutely no way to know who purchases our books via our Amazon.com sales pages.

Red Ogre Review additionally reserves the unrestricted right to revoke publication of, and depublish, any material previously published by Red Ogre Review, on any platform and in any manner, at Red Ogre Review’s sole discretion and without prior notice or recompense of any kind to the creator(s) or rights holder(s) of any such material.

This site and its contents, as well as Red Ogre Review’s social media channels, are protected by Digital Millenium Copyright Act (17 US Code § 512) safe harbor provisions. Red Ogre Review will depublish any copyright-infringing material upon receipt of a credible, valid, and compliant written notice provided to Red Ogre Review by email at info@ogre.red.

Social Media Communications

Red Ogre Review will not read, acknowledge, or respond to comments posted to any social media platform regarding these terms of service and/or Red Ogre Review’s staff, contributors, submission policies, decision to publish or not to publish any given creative work, business practices in general, or similar subjects, without prior written permission from Red Ogre Review. Red Ogre Review reserves the right to refuse service to, revoke publication of, and/or block on social media, without notice, any person who disregards this policy.

We have this policy based on prior experience with Internet trolls, and because we firmly believe in treating everyone in the writing and publishing community with civility, dignity, and respect. The legal purpose of this policy is to prevent social media “trolling” or “griefing” or “brigading” or “dog piling,” meaning the act of posting false, misleading, insulting, abusive, bigoted, harassing, and/or legally defamatory remarks intended to damage, or having the effect of damaging regardless of intent, Red Ogre Review’s social media accounts, business operations, professional relationships with business partners and contributors, and/or professional reputation. This policy applies with equal effect to any social media content directed at social media accounts operated by Red Ogre Review’s staff, contributors, business partners, and/or formally or informally affiliated persons, organizations, or legal entities.

Other Statements by Third Parties

Simply for clarity, Red Ogre Review has no ability whatsoever to exert any control over what third parties post to their own sites and/or social media accounts; any relevant inquiries must be directed to those persons or organizations alone without Red Ogre Review’s involvement in any way. A classic example would be of a third party publishing an online critical review of a creative work that the author disagrees with as a matter of personal opinion; in such scenarios, Red Ogre Review has no obligation, and explicitly disavows any obligation, of any kind to make any effort to request, or attempt to require, that the third party change or depublish the disputed material.

Donations

Any monetary, or otherwise valuable, gifts or donations of any kind made to Red Ogre Review by any method are the sole property of Red Ogre Review and, as voluntary gifts or donations made without any expectation recompense of any kind in return, are not refundable or returnable and will not be refunded or returned. Red Ogre Review makes no representations of any kind as to whether any such gifts and donations may or may not be tax-deductible or otherwise provide a beneficial tax outcome to the giver or donor. Any tax or other legal or contractual obligations related to gifts and donations are the sole responsibility of the individual or entity making the same. Red Ogre Review is unable to provide, and will not provide, tax or any other legal advice of any kind regarding any such gifts or donations (or regarding any other matter). If need be, consult with an appropriate professional.

Idemnification

By accessing this site, by submitting content of any kind to Red Ogre Review, and/or by publishing creative work with Red Ogre Review, you unequivocally and without reservation agree to defend, hold harmless, and indemnify Red Ogre Review of any claims that may be brought due to, or in relation to, the same to any degree and in any capacity, whenever any of the same may be asserted by any person or entity.

Reproduction of Intellectual Property

Red Ogre Review’s intellectual property is owned solely and in its entirety by Matthew Bullen DBA Liquid Raven Media and may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the prior written consent of the same.

Ongoing Relationships

Submitting creative work, publishing creative work, and/or simply communicating in any manner with Red Ogre Review does not create any type of ongoing business, attorney-client, or other professional relationship of any kind between you and Red Ogre Review that falls outside the scope of these terms of service, absent a different, explicit, mutual written agreement.

Only Matthew Bullen DBA Liquid Raven Media has the legal right and capacity to enter into legally binding agreements between Red Ogre Review and third parties. Unless otherwise explicitly agreed to in writing, Red Ogre Review’s editors, staff, volunteers, agents, assignees, and similarly-situated persons and/or entities, cannot do so. Any representations to the contrary by any person or entity are on their face null and void.

Reservation of Undiscussed Rights

Red Ogre Review reserves all rights in their entirety that have not been explicitly discussed by these terms of service.

Open Source Code

Thanks for the free and open source code from which this site was built are due to Henk Verlinde. Any other site code created by Red Ogre Review is the sole property of the same and may not be reproduced or used in any manner without Red Ogre Review’s prior written consent.

Questions?

We’re always happy to discuss any questions about our terms of service. Please address any questions to Red Ogre Review’s editors via email sent to info@ogre.red.

Revised Feb. 14, 2026.