Terms of Use

Effective December 8th, 2024

Purpose

The following Terms & Conditions of Use governs use by all Users of the Website. By using or accessing the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions of Use.

General Terms

Except as expressly permitted herein, you shall not:

Access or use of the Website for any illegal or unauthorized purpose
Disrupt, damage, disable, alter, tamper, delete or interfere with the Website
Share with any third party any access codes of account information, including without limitation your username and password that you may create or that we may provide you with in connection with use of the Website
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website or its related systems or networks, or otherwise override any security feature or exclusionary protocol
Reproduce, duplicate, copy, download, sell, resell, visit, or otherwise exploit the Website or its content for any commercial purpose without our express written consent
Access of use (including by using artificial intelligence technologies and tools) the Website in order to build competitive products or services, or copy any ideas, features, functions or graphics of the Website
Decompile, disassemble, create or attempt to recreate, by reverse engineering or otherwise, any software or the source code from any object code accessibly as part of the Website
Use any scrape, crawler, spider, robot or other automated means of any kind to access or copy this Website, content, data-therein, to deep-link to any feautre or content on this Website or its content, bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Website or its content
Use or enable artificial intelligence technologies and tools to ingest, train, test, analyze, process, copy, distribute, make publicly accessible, and/or generate output (including resulting from the use of artificial intelligence technologies and tools) based on this site, the Services, or Company Content, or any part thereof, or upload, copy, or host the Services and Company Content or any part thereof to or for use in artificial intelligence technologies and tools directly or indirectly (e.g., through the use of third-party plugins, extensions or decentralized custom chatbots associated with those artificial intelligence technologies and tools).
Except as expressly permitted by Us or by statutory rights under applicable legislation, text and data mine the site, the Services, Company Content or any part thereof. We reserves all rights to make reproductions and extractions for text and data mining.

User Content

You are solely responsible for Your Content. You assume all risks associated with the use of Your Content, including any reliance on its accuracy, completeness or usefulness by others, or any disclosure of Your Content that personally identifies you or any third party. This applies to any and all use of the Website and content you provide, post, upload, input or submit on or through the Website, including on blog pages, message boards, comment or discussion features, chat rooms and forums information, or elsewhere.

You shall not provide, post, input or submit on or through the Website, including any blog pages, message boards or forums, comment or discussion features, any of the foregoing, any content that:

Is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another’s privacy, discriminatory, sexually oriented or tortious
Infringed on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other proprietary right of any party
Constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, junk or bulk-email, or any form of lottery or gambling
Constitutes the selling or trading of any merchandise
Constitutes the soliciting for advertisers/sponsors, conducting raffles/contents, displaying advertising/sponsorship art, or promoting, soliciting or participating in chain letters or marketing/pyramid schemes
Contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs that are designed or intended to disrupt, damage, or limit the functioning of any software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment or to damage or obtain unauthorized access to any data or information of any third party
Contains links to sites that violate these Terms & Conditions of Use, such as pornographic sites, defamatory sites, and so on
Impersonates any person or identity
We generally do not pre-screen, monitor or edit the content posted by users of the Services. However, we have the right at our sole discretion to remove any content that, in our judgment, does not comply with the foregoing or is otherwise harmful, objectionable, or inaccurate. We are not responsible for any failure or delay in removing such content.

You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your Account and you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your access codes and Account information. You must notify us immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your access codes or account information. You acknowledge that use of the Services is for your personal use only.

Ownership

All rights (including without limitation, copyrights, trademarks, patents and trade secrets) in the Services and the content contained therein, other than Your Content, and all rights in the data concerning your use of the Services (“Company Content”) are and will remain the sole and exclusive property of Company and/or its licensors. No title to or ownership of any portion of the Services, the Company Content or any other products or services manufactured, sold and/or distributed or otherwise made available by Company, or any proprietary rights related to those products/services, is or will be transferred pursuant to or by virtue of these Terms of Use. Company hereby grants you a limited, non-exclusive, nonsublicensable, revocable license to display and reproduce the Company Content (other than software code) solely for your personal use in connection with using the Services and to use the Services for your personal use in accordance with these Terms of Use. Company and its licensors reserve all rights not granted in these Terms of Use. There is no implied license granted under these Terms of Use.

By providing, posting, uploading, inputting or submitting (“Providing”) Your Content to the Services, you hereby grant Company a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, sublicensable and transferable license to use, distribute, reproduce, prepare derivative works of, perform, display, publish, post, reformat, index, archive, make available, link to, and otherwise use Your Content in all forms and media (whether now known or later developed) in connection with the Services.

By Providing Your Content, you warrant and represent that: you own or otherwise control all of the rights to Your Content, including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for granting the permission specified above; your Content does not contain any unlawful statements, infringe upon the rights of others, breach any confidentiality obligation, violate a contract, or contain any material or instructions that might cause harm or injury; and you own or otherwise control all of the rights to Your Content, including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for granting the permission specified above.

Third Party Links & Ads, Other Users

A) Third-Party Links & Ads. Our websites may contain links to third-party websites and services, and/or display advertisements for third parties (collectively, “Third-Party Links & Ads”). Such Third-Party Links & Ads are not under the control of Company, and Company is not responsible for any Third-Party Links & Ads. Company provides access to these Third-Party Links & Ads only as a convenience to you, and does not review, approve, monitor, endorse, warrant, or make any representations with respect to Third-Party Links & Ads. You use all Third-Party Links & Ads at your own risk, and should apply a suitable level of caution and discretion in doing so. When you click on any of the Third-Party Links & Ads, the applicable third party’s terms and policies apply, including the third party’s privacy and data gathering practices. You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any transaction in connection with such Third-Party Links & Ads.

B) Other Users. Each user of our Services is solely responsible for any and all of its user content, which we do not control. We make no guarantees regarding the accuracy, currency, suitability, or quality of any such information, content or material. Your interactions with other users through our Services are solely between you and such users. You agree that Company will not be responsible for any loss or damage incurred as the result of any such interactions. If there is a dispute between you and any other user, we are under no obligation to become involved.

Terms and Termination

These Terms of Use remain in full force and effect while you use our Services. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to suspend or terminate your Account and/or access to all or part of the Services, with or without notice. You understand that any termination of your Account may involve deletion of Your Content associated with your Account from our live databases. Company will not have any liability whatsoever to you for any termination of your rights under these Terms of Use, including for termination of your Account or deletion of Your Content.

Upon termination, all rights granted to you in these Terms of Use will immediately cease. To the extent that you have a subscription that extends beyond termination of these Terms of Use, unless such termination is due to your breach, the subscription shall remain in force for the period set forth in the subscription terms or subscription order.

Any provision of these Terms of Use that expressly or by implication is intended to continue in force after termination or expiration of these Terms of Use will survive.

Indemnification

A) To the extent permitted by applicable law, you will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Company, its licensees, and their respective affiliates, parents and subsidiaries and their respective officers, directors, agents, representatives, successors and assigns (the “Company Indemnitees”) from and against all liability and expense, including without limitation reasonable counsel fees and costs, arising from any claim, suit or proceeding brought against a Company Indemnitee (i) claiming that Your Content infringes or misappropriates any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary right of any third party; (ii) in connection with your violation of these Terms of Use; or your violation of applicable laws or regulations.

B) In the event of a claim triggering your obligation to indemnify, you shall provide us with (i) prompt written notice of any such claim; (ii) sole control over the defense and settlement of such claim and (iii) proper and full information and assistance to settle or defend any such claim.

Injunctive Relief

You agree that any breach of your obligations with respect to Company’s proprietary or intellectual property rights will result in irreparable injury to Company for which money damages are inadequate, and you therefore agree that Company shall be entitled to seek injunctive relief, without the requirement of posting a bond, in addition to any other relief that a court may deem proper.

Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

If you believe that your copyright-protected work has been posted on a Wiley site without authorization, please see our DMCA Notification Policy.

To report incidents of online piracy or brand abuse (misuse of logos or wordmarks) of Wiley content, please see our Content Protection Notification process.

Changes to Our Terms & Conditions

We may change the Terms & Conditions from time to time. The most recent version of the Terms & Conditions will always be posted on the Website, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the Policy. We may revise and update these Terms & Conditions as our practices change.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Terms & Conditions, please Contact Us.