NLP from the Heart Guidelines

ANLP are embarking on a project to publish a book, entitled NLP from the Heart. These are the writing guidelines for your contribution:

ANLP are embarking on a project to publish a book, entitled NLP from the Heart. 

These are the writing guidelines for your contribution:

The intention is for these stories to be inspirational examples of how you have used NLP in your life and work to make a positive difference to yourself, clients and those around you…told from the heart.  We want these stories to be emotional, showing how you and those involved were affected by what happened in the story.  We want you to enjoy writing it so we can share your story as widely as possible.

Ground Rules:

  1. It is NOT an advert, essay, or formal article.
  2. It can be inspirational, humorous, stimulating and awakening, etc.
  3. 1,200 words max.
  4. It must be your story in the first person.
  5. It must be true and verifiable.
  6. It must be something that has NOT previously been published.
  7. Please avoid politics or religious topics in your story.
  8. Provide your story in a Microsoft Word document (or MS Word equivalent)
  9. Provide any diagrams or tables as separate files

This is the legal bit, please read it carefully:

(1)          By submitting your story to The Association for NLP (ANLP International CIC Apsley Mills Cottage, Stationers Place, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9RH, a Community Interest Company, Registered in England, Company Number 5383959 hereafter referred to as “ANLP”), you hereby grant ANLP a worldwide, non-exclusive, fully paid-up, royalty-free, transferable license, with the right to grant and authorise sublicenses, to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise utilise your submission(s) (User Content) in connection with ANLP’s (and its successor’s, transferees’, sublicensees’ and their respective affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the User Content (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels or through merchandising. You grant ANLP, transferees and sublicensees (and their respective affiliates) the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such User Content if they choose. You also agree to irrevocably waive (and cause to be waived) any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to your User Content. 

The above licenses granted by you in User Content you submit to ANLP shall be perpetual and irrevocable. 

(2)          Your Representations and Warranties Regarding User Content.

You shall be solely responsible for your own User Content and the consequences of submitting such User Content. In connection with User Content, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that:

(i) your User Content is not confidential or secret,

(ii) you own, or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorise ANLP to use, all patent, trademark, copyright, or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Content to enable inclusion and use of User Content in the manner contemplated by ANLP and these Terms, and to grant the rights and license set forth in this Section, and

(iii) your User Content, ANLP’s use of such User Content pursuant to these Terms, and ANLP’s exercise of the license rights set forth in this Section, do not and will not:

(A) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right;

(B) slander, defame, libel, or invade the right of privacy, publicity or other property rights of any other person;

or (C) violate any applicable law or regulation,

(iv) you have no expectation of compensation or confidentiality of any nature with respect to your User Content and we, our affiliates, our licensors and/or their affiliates may already have projects under consideration or are independently developing projects that are similar to your User Content;

and (v) you shall indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any and all claims, actions and damages (including, without limitation, court costs, legal fees, accounting fees and amounts paid in settlement) that are related to or result from your User Content or its posting on, or submission to ANLP, and/or your violation of these Terms or your representations and warranties hereunder. You will cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defence of any such claim or action; however, we reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any mater subject to indemnification by you.

(3)          Prohibited Uses of User Content. Except as otherwise permitted by these Terms, in connection with your User Content, you further agree that you will not publish, post, submit, transmit through or otherwise make available to the ANLP: (i) any falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage ANLP or any third party; (ii) any material which is unlawful, defamatory, libellous, slanderous, pornographic, obscene, abusive, profane, vulgar, sexually explicit, threatening, harassing, harmful, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive or otherwise objectionable, creates a risk of harm, loss, physical or mental injury, emotional distress, death, disability, disfigurement, or physical or mental illness to yourself, to any other person, or to any animal or which encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law or any right of privacy or publicity, or is otherwise inappropriate; (iii) advertisements or solicitations of business, products, or services; or (v) any material that would be harmful to minors in any manner.