Terms of Service
Terms of Service
Terms of Service This is an agreement between you and the Hugs247.com. In using Hugs247.com, you agree to the following terms: 1. All information (such as abstracts, articles, or other kinds of text) to which you may have access on Hugs247.com is the responsibility of the copyright holder and is subject to their intellectual property rights. Users may not modify or sell these works unless given permission by the copyright holder. Users may not submit material in a manner that violates the intellectual property rights associated with that material. 2. Regarding texts (for example, full articles) submitted to the Hugs247.com: Hugs247.com acknowledges that it obtains no intellectual property rights to these texts. However, when submitting texts to our services, you give the Hugs247.com a worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to host and display these texts. Users have the right to request that texts they submitted be removed from Hugs247.com. 3. Regarding all content submitted residing within a private group or forum: when submitting such content, you give Hugs247.com a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, publish, display, and distribute this content only within the designated private group or forum residing on Hugs247.com Hugs247.com reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any information submitted to it. You agree to do your best to ensure the accuracy of all such content. We are committed to preserving your privacy. No personal information of a sensitive nature communicated to us will be made public without your explicit approval. 4. Regarding all content submitted not residing within a private group or forum: when submitting such content, you give Hugs247.com a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, display, and distribute this content. Hugs247.com reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any information submitted to it. You agree to do your best to ensure the accuracy of all such content. We are committed to preserving your privacy. No personal information of a sensitive nature communicated to us will be made public without your explicit approval. 5. Originators are responsible for protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights, and Hugs247.com or its partners have no obligation to do so on their behalf. We ask all users to secure the necessary permissions from their publishers before submitting published work for free distribution on Hugs247.com. 6. We will not share information originating from you with third parties, otherwise than as specified in clause 11 below, through the Services' public functions (e.g. paper listings, user listings, discussion forums), and through the sharing of simple usage patterns and statistics which cannot in practice be linked specifically to you. Configuration settings are available within user accounts and other services to control how information you provide is made publicly available. database contains inaccuracies due to the fallible nature of the automated process by which it is populated. Our software has bugs, both known and unknown, which could cause loss of information or other malfunctions. In using the Services you agree not to hold us, our editors, our partners, or users of the Services liable for any loss or damages you might incur as a result. 8. We reserve the right to deny access to individuals or organizations that abuse Hugs247.com. Mass-querying of the site using scripts is considered a form of abuse. We reserve the right to remove any user-submitted content (including submitted entries, forum contributions, and user profiles, among other things) that we deem inappropriate. You agree not to hold us liable for removal of information or its consequences. 9. Download or redistribution of substantive parts of hugs247.com citations or associated data (is not allowed unless specifically agreed in writing with the sites administrator of curator.) We reserve the right to withdraw permission to use any data obtained from Hugs247.com or another service. Redistribution of thousands of items from any list or set of lists available on Hugs247.com is considered substantive. 10. For-profit redistribution of data is prohibited unless permission has been granted explicitly by the administrator or curator. Any such grant of permission may also depend on the terms under which the data were supplied to us. 11. The Services use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. 12. It is our policy to address any notices of copyright infringement regarding material hosted by or linked to Hugs247.com in a timely manner. Such notices (and counter-notices) should be sent to our site administrator. It is our policy to do all that is legal and practical to prevent repeated copyright infringements from third parties. Note that Hugs247.com hosts no article texts, only citations. For the large majority of papers, Hugs247.com links to third party websites.