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Copyrights and Limitations on Use

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You may print or download Content from the Site for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided that you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. You may not engage in systematic retrieval of Content from the Site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory without prior written permission from ScopeMed.

The Site may contain robot exclusion headers, and you agree that you will not use any robots, spiders, crawlers or other automated downloading programs or devices to access, search, index, monitor or copy any Content, including but not limited to harvesting other's postal or email addresses from the Site for purposes of sending unsolicited or unauthorized commercial material, is prohibited. Any questions about whether a particular use is authorized and any requests for permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, display or make derivative works from any Content should be directed to ScopeMed Global Rights.

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Links to Other Sites

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Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability

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Systems Reliability and DATA Protection

ScopeMed aims to keep the Site available twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week and to maintain saved information. However, due to technical failures, acts of God or routine maintenance, availability may be limited and/or information may be lost. ScopeMed shall not be liable for lost information or non-availability of the services.


ScopeMed aims to keep all of the data for the following type of articles of the current members: aritcles without decision, accepted articles; and ScopeMed also aims to keep some of the data for the following type of articles of the current members: rejected articles.

Data of old members would be kept for 1 month, and then deleted completely. So editors/owners should back up their data before they terminate their accounts.

Articles with DOI numbers provided by ScopeMed would be kept under another website which is controlled by ScopeMed, if they terminate their membership. ScopeMed may restrict to access to these kind of articles of old members.

Indemnification

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Refund Policy

If you are not 100% satisfied with your purchase, you may contact us for refund of your purchase. We will refund completely during the first 14 days of your payment.


Last revised: January 7, 2023