Privacy Policy:

By using this Website and accessing its contents, you imply your acceptance of these Privacy Policies.

You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal Law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum.

Note that it is impossible for the staff or the owners of this forum to confirm the validity of posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained within. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. The posted messages express the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of this forum, its staff, its subsidiaries, or this forum's owner. Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify an administrator or moderator of this forum immediately. The staff and the owner of this forum reserve the right to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, please realize that they may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies to member profile information as well.

You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted messages. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this forum, any related Websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this forum.

You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another person except an administrator, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to NEVER use another person's account for any reason. We also HIGHLY recommend you use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft.

After you register and login to this forum, you will be able to fill out a detailed profile. It is your responsibility to present clean and accurate information. Any information the forum owner or staff determines to be inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, with or without prior notice. Appropriate sanctions may be applicable.

Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement.

Also note that the software places a cookie, a text file containing bits of information (such as your username and password), in your browser's cache. This is ONLY used to keep you logged in/out. The software does not collect or send any other form of information to your computer.

Third-party Partners/Advertisements/Links:

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this forum.

Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this Website and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the ads preference manager or aboutads.info (to opt out of some third-party vendor's use of cookies for interest-based advertising). Please note that you will still be served ads on the Website.

The Website may contain links to other websites. Sciemce.com is not responsible for the business or privacy practices of any third-party vendors or other websites. This Privacy Policy applies solely to sciemce.com.

Local Storage Objects (HTML5)

We and third-party vendors whom we partner with on our Website to display advertising based on your Web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML 5 to compile and store information.

Depending on your browser, it may contain its own tools for removing HTML5 LSOs.

Use of Information We Obtain on the Website:

We manage this information in order to:

  • Oversee your account
  • Answer any questions you may have
  • Better our Website and marketing endeavors
  • Conduct research and analysis
  • Present content based on your interests
  • Assist in your experience with other users

Information Security:

Sciemce.com takes reasonable precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. Please be prudent when sending email or communicating via instant messaging on the Website; these are not recognized as secure communications, so please do not transmit personal information via these methods.

When you enter sensitive information such as a credit card number on our order forms, that information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) to protect any communications between you and your payment providers.

We adhere to generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us. Your information security is important to us. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Uploading Content:

When you upload content, you acknowledge that:

  • You own the copyright to that content.
  • You have an understanding that the content is made public through sciemce.com
  • We comply with legal take-down requests. To the uploader, this means that:
  • Our staff has the full rights to remove infringing content without the uploader's consent.
  • You are able to appeal a take-down.
  • The content that is downloaded cannot be redistributed.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy (DMCA):

If you believe that material on or linked to by this site infringes one or more of your copyrights, please immediately notify us providing the information described below. If we take action in response to an infringement notice, we will make a good faith attempt to contact the party that made such content available by means of the most recent email address, if any, provided by such party to sciemce.com, and will provide a copy of the infringement notice to such party. Please be advised that you may be held liable for damages based on certain material misrepresentations contained in an infringement notice. Thus, if you are not sure content located on or linked-to by us infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney.

All infringement notices should include the following:

  • A signature, electronic or physical, of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;
  • An identification of the copyright claimed to have been infringed;
  • A description of the nature and location of the material that you claim to infringe your copyright, in sufficient detail to permit sciemce.com to find and positively identify that material;
  • Your name, address, telephone number and email address; and
  • A statement by you: (i) that you believe in good faith that the use of the material that you claim to infringe your copyright is not authorized by law, or by the copyright owner or such owner's agent; and, (ii) under penalty of perjury, that all of the information contained in your infringement notice is accurate, and that you are either the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.

Terms & Conditions

Introduction

Please note that your access to and use of this website are subject to the following terms and conditions. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part therein, you may not use this website or access any of its services in any way.

Protection of Content

Sciemce.com and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights of this website and materials/infrastructure used on sciemce.com. These intellectual property rights are reserved.

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

You understand and agree that you must not:

  • republish material from this website in neither print nor digital media or documents (including republication on another website);
  • sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
  • exhibit 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;
  • redistribute material from this website - except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution; or
  • republish or reproduce any part of this website through the use of iframes or screenscrapers.

Acceptable use

You agree that you must not use this website in any way that burdens the services of the website, causes damage to the website or impairs the availability or accessibility of sciemce.com 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.

You agree that you must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities on or in relation to this website.

This includes:

  • scraping
  • data extraction
  • data harvesting
  • data mining
  • 'framing' (iframes)
  • article rewriting/spinning

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without the express written consent of sciemce.com.

Restricted access

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. Sciemce.com reserves the right to restrict access to certain areas of this website, or at our discretion, this entire website. Sciemce.com may change or modify this policy without notice.

If sciemce.com provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential. You may not transfer your account to anyone else. See our Privacy Policy for more information.

Sciemce.com may disable your user ID and password at sciemce.com's sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User content

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

You grant to sciemce.com 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. You also grant to sciemce.com the right to sublicense these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

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 sciemce.com or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

Sciemce.com reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on the servers of sciemce.com, or hosted or published upon this website.

We are not responsible for editing, modifying, filtering, screening, monitoring, endorsing or guaranteeing any content.

Limitations of liability

Sciemce.com will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

  • to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
  • for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
  • for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if sciemce.com has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit the liability of sciemce.com in respect to any:

  • death or personal injury caused by the negligence of sciemce.com or its agents, employees or shareholders/owners;
  • fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of sciemce.com; or
  • matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for sciemce.com to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Other parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, sciemce.com has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against sciemce.com's officers or employees in respect to 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 sciemce.com's officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, and sub-contractors as well as sciemce.com.

Violation of these terms and conditions

If you violate these terms and conditions in any way, sciemce.com may take such action as sciemce.com deems appropriate to deal with the violation, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your ISP to request that they block your access to the website, and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Changing terms and conditions

These terms and conditions can change at any time, and we reserve the right to do so at our discretion. 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. If you don’t agree with the new terms, you will no longer be able to use the site or its services. If you use the site or its services in any way after a change to the terms is effective, then you agree to all of the changes.

Entire agreement

These terms and conditions and the information found in our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and sciemce.com in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.