Terms & Conditions

🔄 Changes to Terms

IJTIMES reserves the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms and Conditions at any time and without prior notice. Please check these Terms and Conditions periodically for any modifications. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of any changes will mean that you have accepted and agreed to the changes.

📄 Content and Limitations on Use

All content on the Site — including text, graphics, logos, images, and software — is owned by IJTIMES or its licensors and is protected by copyright and intellectual property laws. You may print or download content for personal, non-commercial, informational or scholarly use, provided you keep intact all copyright and proprietary notices. You may not copy, distribute, modify, publish, reproduce, sell or create derivative works from any content without express permission.

🚫 Prohibited Activities

• Reverse engineering, disassembling or decompiling any software content without prior written permission.
• Using robots, spiders, crawlers or other automated tools to systematically scrape, extract or index any content.
• Attempting to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Site or any connected network or server.
• Publishing or distributing illegal, defamatory, abusive, pornographic, threatening or harmful content.
• Using the Site for commercial solicitation without the approval of IJTIMES.

⚖️ Rights and Permissions

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 IJTIMES published works, images or other material should be directed to the IJTIMES Rights Department.

📤 Material Provided by Users

We do not claim ownership of any content or material that you provide to us or post on or through the Site. However, by posting a Submission you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to display, publish and otherwise use your Submission in any format in connection with the operation of our business. We reserve the right to remove any Submission at any time in our sole discretion.

🔗 Links to Third-Party Sites

The Site may contain links to third-party sites or resources. IJTIMES is not responsible for the availability of external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible for any content, advertising, products or other materials on such sites. Transactions between you and any third party are strictly between you and the third party.

⚠️ Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability

Neither IJTIMES nor its suppliers or licensors makes any warranty that the operation of the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free, or as to the accuracy, completeness, reliability or suitability of any content. THE SITE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND ITS CONTENT IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

🖥️ Systems Reliability

IJTIMES aims to keep the Site available 24 hours a day, 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. IJTIMES shall not be liable for lost information or non-availability of the services.

📇 Indexing and Abstracting

IJTIMES will upload PDFs to the indexing servers and some Indexing Companies use crawlers to retrieve manuscripts from our website. If there is any problem in the Index List, you should contact the corresponding indexing companies and not IJTIMES.