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These terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”)
apply to your use of this website, applications, services and products that
post a link to these Terms and Conditions and that are provided by our
journal group. By accessing or using any of the Services, you agree
to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions
expressly incorporate by reference and include the Service's Privacy Policy
and any guidelines, policies or additional terms or disclaimers that may be
posted and/or updated on the Service or on notices that are sent to you. If
you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions, please do not use the
Services. Using our services Unless otherwise set out herein, content comprised
within the Services, including text, graphics, user interfaces, visual
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for a Service, you may print or download Content from the Services for your
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you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. You may not copy, display, distribute, modify,
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Content, or products or services obtained from the Services, in any medium to
anyone, except as otherwise expressly permitted under these Terms and
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or translate any software in the Content, or otherwise attempt to derive the
source code of such software, except to the extent expressly permitted under
applicable law, without our prior written permission. You may not engage in
the systematic retrieval of Content from the Services to create or compile,
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without our prior written permission. You may not use any robots, spiders, crawlers or
other automated downloading programs, algorithms or devices, or any similar
or equivalent manual process, to: (i) continuously and automatically search,
scrape, extract, deep link or index any Content; (ii) harvest personal
information from the Services for purposes of sending unsolicited or
unauthorized material; or (iii) cause disruption to the working of the
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robot exclusion files or robot exclusion headers, you agree to honor them and
not use any device, software or routine to bypass them. You may not attempt
to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the Services, any
other systems or networks connected to the Services, or any of the products
or services provided on, accessed from or distributed through the Services.
You may not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Services or any
network connected to the Services or breach or attempt to breach the security
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material, or solicitation to other users of the Services to use any goods or
services. For example, you may not use the Services to conduct any business,
to solicit the performance of any activity that is prohibited by law, or to
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Similarly, you may not use the Services to download and redistribute public
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public domain information or shareware. Content provided to us or posted on or through the
service Some of our Services allow you to upload, submit,
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(including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit on or
through the Services, including our blog pages, message boards, comment or
discussion features, chat rooms and forums, for review by the general public,
registered users of the Services or by the members of any public or private
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to such Submission in all forms and media (whether now known or later
developed), in connection with the operation of our respective businesses
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You shall not make any Submission anonymously, and you warrant and represent
that any such Submission is original, and has been written by you. We are under
no obligation to display or otherwise use any Submission you may provide, and
we may remove any Submission at any time in our sole discretion. By Posting
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control all of the rights to your Submission including, without limitation,
all the rights necessary for granting the permission specified above. You may not use the Services to publish or
distribute any information (including software or other content) which is
illegal, which violates or infringes upon the rights of any other person,
which is defamatory, abusive, hateful, profane, pornographic, threatening or
vulgar, which contains errors, viruses or other harmful components, or which
is otherwise actionable at law. We shall have the right, but not the obligation, to
monitor Submissions to determine compliance with these Terms and Conditions
and any operating rules we establish and to satisfy any law, regulation or
authorized government request. We shall have the right in our sole discretion
to edit, refuse to post, or remove any Submission. Password use and security If you use a password to access a Service, you must
not reveal your password and must take reasonable steps to keep your password
confidential and secure. You agree to immediately notify us if you become
aware of or have reason to believe that there is any unauthorized use of your
password or account or any other breach of security. Last revised: 30 October 2017 |
