Terms and Conditions

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These terms and conditions set out the basis on which you may browse and use our website, available at https://www.hivereads.com. You accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.

The Site is owned and operated by hivereads, a company registered in South Africa and registered address at 16th, Union Avenue, Pinelands, CapeTown, South Africa 7405.

Intellectual Property Rights and Confidentiality

Unless otherwise stated, hivereads and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

• republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
• sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
• show any material from the website in public;
• reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
• edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
• redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

You may reproduce, duplicate, copy, edit, modify and redistribute content that is specifically made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License. However, you may not claim ownership or pretend to be the content owner by republishing without adequate citation and credit with links to the original source of the content.

Publication of Articles

You acknowledge and agree that, if and once editorially accepted for publication, your article shall be published by us under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0

We reserve the right to refuse to publish any article or other contribution for any reason.

By submitting or making an article (including without limitation all tables, abstracts, illustrations, data, diagrams and other materials accompanying the text of the article) for the purposes of publication by us you represent and warrant that:

• you are the sole author of the article, or, if not, you have been authorised by and have the full permission, licence and consent of all co-authors to submit the article and any personal data associated with the Contribution;
• you are legally able and entitled to submit the article and authorise us to publish the article in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
• the article is original, has not already been published in any other form or is not currently under consideration for publication by another journal;
• you have obtained all necessary permissions and licences for any third-party material, data or code contained in the article (including without limitation all illustrations, charts, photographs, maps or other material) and the article does not infringe any copyright, trade mark right or any other rights of any third party;
• you have disclosed to us in accordance with any policies all potential conflicts of interest, including without limitation, personal or political interests, commercial associations or financial interests held by you and any co-authors;
• any research conducted for the article has been conducted in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and codes of practice;
• you have adhered to the policies in your preparation and submission of the article; and
• due care, diligence and all other requisite investigations were carried out in the preparation of the article to ensure its accuracy and all statements contained in it purporting to be factual are true and correct.

Article Processing Charges

Publication of an article with us requires payment of a non-refundable publication fee in accordance with our Article Processing Charges listed in the hivereads website and also each journal in the “Journal Information” menu.

In the event an article is accepted for publication, the author originally submitting the article intended for publication (whether for himself/herself or on behalf of a group of authors or an institution) will be invoiced for the applicable APC. Payments of APCs must be made in the period stipulated on our invoice. Payments must be made in full via our third-party payment service provider and in accordance with such provider’s terms of service. Payment by any other means is permitted only in our sole discretion.

Acceptable use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

User content

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to hivereads a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or hivereads or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

hivereads reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website.

No warranties

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. hivereads makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, hivereads does not warrant that:

• this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
• the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.

Limitations of liability

Access to the site is permitted on a temporary and as-is basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of the Site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for regularly creating backup copies of your Contribution.

You are responsible for your access to the site including:

• ensuring that all persons who access the site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them;
• ensuring that all persons who access the site through your internet connection are aware of our Privacy Policy (Give Privacy Policy Link) which sets out how we will collect and use their personal information; and
• that your internet enabled device and telecommunications systems carry the appropriate anti-virus software necessary to minimise the risk of any harmful viruses infecting your internet enabled device.

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in these terms and conditions are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Other parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, hivereads has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against hivereads officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.

You agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect hivereads officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as hivereads.

Indemnity

You are hereby indemnify hivereads and undertake to keep hivereads indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by hivereads to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of hivereads legal advisers) incurred or suffered by hivereads arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.

Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to hivereads other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, hivereads may take such action as hivereads deems appropriate to deal with the breach.

hivereads may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.