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olgasverchkova.com is the author website of Olga Sverchkova.

The website contains books, book extracts, free chapters, articles, personal columns, photographs, illustrations and other material connected with Olga Sverchkova's literary and author projects.

Olga Sverchkova has been practising law in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. References to that work form part of her professional biography and writing background.

Consultations on Russian law are not provided through olgasverchkova.com. Legal work is presented separately on Olga Sverchkova's legal website.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, copyright and other applicable rights in original texts, books, chapters, book extracts, articles, columns and other literary material published on olgasverchkova.com belong to Olga Sverchkova.

Copyright protection does not depend on the presence of a © notice, registration or other formalities where the applicable law provides automatic protection upon creation.

Rights in individual photographs, illustrations, fonts, design elements or other material may belong to third-party authors or rights holders or may be used under licence. Their appearance on this website does not grant website visitors any licence to reuse them.

Unless otherwise stated:

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Uses not permitted without prior permission

Except where a particular use is expressly permitted by applicable law, prior written permission is required for:

  • copying or reproducing all or a substantial part of website material;
  • republishing texts or substantial extracts on another website, blog, social network, messaging channel, newsletter, print publication or digital publication;
  • creating or distributing copies of books, chapters or other works in PDF, EPUB, MOBI, DOCX, TXT or any other format;
  • uploading works or substantial extracts to electronic libraries, archives, file-sharing services, Telegram channels, groups, databases or similar resources;
  • translating a text, chapter or book and publishing or distributing that translation;
  • adapting, abridging, rewriting or otherwise modifying a work for subsequent publication or distribution;
  • using website material in commercial products, courses, presentations, newsletters, knowledge bases, applications or other projects;
  • selling, sublicensing or otherwise commercially exploiting copies of website material;
  • removing the author's name, copyright information, source attribution or other rights information;
  • publishing material under another person's name or otherwise creating a false impression as to authorship.

Quotation

Short quotations may be used where and to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Where a quotation is used, the author should be identified as:

Olga Sverchkova

and the source should be identified as:

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Where the quotation is published online, an active link to the original page should be included where technically possible.

Publishing a substantial part of an article or work does not become permissible merely because the author's name or a source link has been added.

Social media

Links to material published on this website may be shared on Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and other social platforms.

A short quotation may also be shared with the author's name and a reference to the original publication where permitted by law.

Copying an entire article, several substantial paragraphs or another substantial part of a work into a social media post, carousel, channel, mailing list or other publication requires permission unless the use is otherwise permitted by applicable law.

Using a platform's ordinary repost or sharing function is permitted where it preserves attribution to the original publication and does not create a separate unauthorised copy outside that function.

Books and free chapters

Making a prologue, chapter or other book extract available free of charge on this website gives visitors permission to read that material on the website. It does not mean that the work has entered the public domain or that copyright has been waived.

A free chapter remains protected by copyright in the same way as other parts of the book.

Purchasing a print or digital copy of a book does not transfer copyright or any other exclusive rights in the content.

Translations

Translation rights remain reserved to the rights holder.

An unofficial translation of an article, chapter or book may not be published, distributed or commercially exploited without permission where such permission is required by applicable law.

The existence of an official English or Russian edition does not authorise the creation or distribution of alternative translations.

Illustrations, covers and images

Book covers, original illustrations and other visual material created for the website or Olga Sverchkova's books may not be reused in advertisements, other books, websites, social media branding, commercial products or other projects without permission where the relevant rights belong to Olga Sverchkova.

Where rights in an image belong to another author or rights holder, the terms imposed by that rights holder or the relevant licence apply.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and datasets

No permission is granted for website material to be used for the training, fine-tuning, evaluation or improvement of generative artificial intelligence systems, large language models, machine-learning systems or comparable automated models where such use requires authorisation from the rights holder under applicable law.

Unless permitted by applicable law or separately authorised in writing, systematic extraction, copying or storage of website texts or other material for the creation of training datasets, text corpora, knowledge bases or comparable collections is not authorised.

Where applicable law allows a rights holder to reserve rights in relation to text and data mining, those rights are expressly reserved.

A statement on this page does not replace any machine-readable reservation or other technical mechanism that may be required or advisable under the law of a particular jurisdiction.

Automated collection and scraping

Systematic automated collection of website material through scraping, harvesting or similar technologies is not authorised where it is carried out for the purpose of creating unauthorised copies of the website, commercial databases, content aggregators, datasets or similar derivative resources and where the relevant use requires the rights holder's permission.

This does not prohibit ordinary indexing by general-purpose search engines for the purpose of displaying the website in search results, subject to the technical settings of the website.

The author's name, copyright notice, source information and other rights-management information must not be removed or altered where doing so would violate applicable law.

Permission to use material

If you wish to:

  • republish an article;
  • use a substantial extract;
  • translate material;
  • include a text in a book, magazine, website or educational publication;
  • use a book cover or illustration;
  • license material for a commercial project;
  • obtain another form of permission,

please contact the rights holder through the Contact page before using the material.

If unauthorised use is discovered, the rights holder may exercise any remedies available under the law applicable to the particular infringement, which may include seeking:

  • cessation of the infringement;
  • removal or blocking of unauthorised material;
  • correction of authorship or attribution;
  • restoration of the position that existed before the infringement;
  • damages, compensation or another monetary remedy where available;
  • any other remedy provided by applicable law.

Evidence of authorship and publication

Original manuscripts, drafts, revision history, source files, publication records, ISBN records, publishing-platform records, contracts, correspondence and archived versions of webpages may be retained as evidence of the creation, authorship and publication history of individual works.

Copyright may arise automatically without registration, but maintaining reliable records of creation and publication can be important if authorship or ownership later becomes disputed.

Information published on the website

Articles and other material may contain personal experience, observations, opinions and information that was current at the time of publication.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, website material does not constitute individual legal, tax, immigration, financial, medical or other professional advice.

Before making a decision that may have legal or financial consequences, readers should verify current requirements and, where appropriate, obtain advice from a suitably qualified professional.

Books and external platforms

Information about book availability, formats, prices and purchasing conditions may change.

Where a book is purchased or accessed through Amazon or another external platform, the relationship between the user and that platform is governed by the platform's own terms.

Olga Sverchkova is not responsible for the content, technical availability, privacy practices or other actions of third-party websites.

The website may contain references to social networks, booksellers, publishing platforms and other external resources.

The presence of such a reference does not mean that Olga Sverchkova controls the external resource or accepts responsibility for its content.

Limitation of liability

The website and its materials are provided for informational and literary purposes.

Reasonable efforts are made to keep information accurate and current, but no guarantee can be given that the website will always be free from errors, technical interruptions or later changes to information supplied by third parties.

Contact

For enquiries concerning copyright, permissions, licensing, books, publications or suspected unauthorised use of material, please use the Contact page.