Terms and Conditions

1. Agreement to Our Legal Terms

We are ScopeMed ("Company," "we," "us," "our"), a company registered in Belgium at Rue de Grand-Bigard 14, 1082 Brussels. Our VAT number is BE0798843795.

We operate the website https://www.scopemed.com (the "Site"), as well as any other related products and services that refer or link to these legal terms (the "Legal Terms") (collectively, the "Services").

ScopeMed provides online journal publishing tools for academic journals via www.ejport.com and www.ejmanager.com.

You can contact us by phone at +32 16 84 37 16, email at info@scopemed.com, or by mail to Rue de Grand-Bigard 14, 1082 Brussels, Belgium.

The Services are intended for users who are at least 18 years old. Persons under the age of 18 are not permitted to use or register for the Services.

We recommend that you print a copy of these Legal Terms for your records.

2. Our Services

The information provided when using the Services is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

The Services are not tailored to comply with industry-specific regulations (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), etc.), so if your interactions would be subjected to such laws, you may not use the Services.

3. Intellectual Property Rights

Our Intellectual Property

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Services, including all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics in the Services (collectively, the "Content"), as well as the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the "Marks").

Our Content and Marks are protected by copyright and trademark laws and treaties in the United States and around the world. The Content and Marks are provided in or through the Services "AS IS" for your personal, non-commercial use or internal business purpose only.

Your Use of Our Services

Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to:

• access the Services; and
• download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access.

solely for your personal, non-commercial use or internal business purpose.

Except as set out in this section, no part of the Services and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.

If you wish to make any use of the Services, Content, or Marks other than as set out in this section, please address your request to: info@scopemed.com.

Any breach of these Intellectual Property Rights will constitute a material breach of our Legal Terms and your right to use our Services will terminate immediately.

4. User Representations

By using the Services, you represent and warrant that:

• all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete;
• you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary;
• you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Legal Terms;
• you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside;
• you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script or otherwise;
• you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and
• your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Services.

5. User Registration

You may be required to register to use the Services. You agree to keep your password confidential and will be responsible for all use of your account and password. We reserve the right to remove, reclaim, or change a username you select if we determine, in our sole discretion, that such username is inappropriate, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.

6. Purchases and Payment

We accept the following forms of payment:

• PayPal
• Mastercard
• Visa

You agree to provide current, complete, and accurate purchase and account information for all purchases made via the Services. You further agree to promptly update account and payment information, including email address, payment method, and payment card expiration date, so that we can complete your transactions and contact you as needed.

All payments shall be in Euros. Sales tax will be added to the price of purchases as deemed required by us. We may change prices at any time.

We reserve the right to refuse any order placed through the Services. We may, in our sole discretion, limit or cancel quantities purchased per person, per household, or per order.

7. Prohibited Activities

You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the Services available. As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

• Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile a database without written permission.
• Trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information.
• Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services.
• Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm us and/or the Services.
• Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
• Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
• Use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.
• Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Services.
• Upload or transmit viruses, Trojan horses, or other malicious material.
• Engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages.
• Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content.
• Attempt to impersonate another user or person.
• Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Services.
• Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents.
• Attempt to bypass any measures of the Services designed to prevent or restrict access.
• Copy or adapt the Services' software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code.
• Decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising the Services.
• Use a buying agent or purchasing agent to make purchases on the Services.
• Make any unauthorized use of the Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses for the purpose of sending unsolicited email.
• Use the Services as part of any effort to compete with us or for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.

8. User Generated Contributions

The Services may invite you to chat, contribute to, or participate in blogs, message boards, online forums, and other functionality, and may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials to us or on the Services (collectively, "Contributions").

Contributions may be viewable by other users of the Services and through third-party websites. When you create or make available any Contributions, you represent and warrant that:

• The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance of your Contributions do not infringe the proprietary rights of any third party.
• You are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use your Contributions.
• You have the written consent of each identifiable individual person in your Contributions to use their name or likeness.
• Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading.
• Your Contributions are not unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, or other forms of solicitation.
• Your Contributions are not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable.
• Your Contributions do not ridicule, mock, disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone.
• Your Contributions are not used to harass or threaten any other person.
• Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule.
• Your Contributions do not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.
• Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law concerning child pornography.
• Your Contributions do not include any offensive comments connected to race, national origin, gender, sexual preference, or physical handicap.

Any use of the Services in violation of the foregoing violates these Legal Terms and may result in termination or suspension of your rights to use the Services.

9. Contribution License

By posting your Contributions to any part of the Services, you automatically grant us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right and license to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt, and distribute such Contributions for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise.

This license will apply to any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed. You waive all moral rights in your Contributions.

We do not assert any ownership over your Contributions. You retain full ownership of all of your Contributions and any intellectual property rights associated with them.

10. Services Management

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to:

• monitor the Services for violations of these Legal Terms;
• take appropriate legal action against anyone who violates the law or these Legal Terms;
• refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable any of your Contributions;
• remove from the Services all files and content that are excessive in size or burdensome to our systems; and
• manage the Services in a manner designed to protect our rights and property.

11. Privacy Policy

We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy. By using the Services, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Legal Terms.

Please be advised the Services are hosted in Belgium, Germany, and the United States. If you access the Services from any other region of the world with laws governing personal data collection, use, or disclosure that differ from applicable laws in these countries, then through your continued use of the Services, you are transferring your data to these countries, and you expressly consent to have your data transferred to and processed in these countries.

12. Term and Termination

These Legal Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. We reserve the right to deny access to and use of the Services to any person for any reason or for no reason, including without limitation for breach of any representation, warranty, or covenant contained in these Legal Terms.

If we terminate or suspend your account for any reason, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party.

13. Modifications and Interruptions

We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the Services at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services.

We cannot guarantee the Services will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other problems or need to perform maintenance, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors.

14. Governing Law

These Legal Terms are governed by and interpreted following the laws of Belgium. If your habitual residence is in the EU, and you are a consumer, you additionally possess the protection provided to you by obligatory provisions of the law in your country of residence.

15. Dispute Resolution

The European Commission provides an online dispute resolution platform, which you can access. If you would like to bring this subject to our attention, please contact us.

16. Corrections

There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update the information on the Services at any time, without prior notice.

17. Disclaimer

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, in connection with the Services and your use thereof, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

18. Limitations of Liability

19. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of:

• your Contributions;
• use of the Services;
• breach of these Legal Terms;
• any breach of your representations and warranties;
• your violation of the rights of a third party; or
• any overt harmful act toward any other user of the Services.

20. User Data

We will maintain certain data that you transmit to the Services for the purpose of managing the performance of the Services. Although we perform regular routine backups of data, you are solely responsible for all data that you transmit. We shall have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of any such data.

21. Electronic Communications, Transactions, and Signatures

Visiting the Services, sending us emails, and completing online forms constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing.

YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE USE OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, CONTRACTS, ORDERS, AND OTHER RECORDS.

22. California Users and Residents

If any complaint with us is not satisfactorily resolved, you can contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834 or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.

23. Miscellaneous

These Legal Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Legal Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. We may assign any or all of our rights and obligations to others at any time.

If any provision of these Legal Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

24. Contact Us

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Services or to receive further information regarding use of the Services, please contact us at: