Terms of Service

Terms of Service

These Terms of Service govern the use of the journal website, submission system, published content, and related editorial or publishing services. By accessing or using these services, users agree to comply with these terms and all applicable laws.

1. Permitted Use

Users may access the journal website and services for lawful scholarly, educational, research, editorial, and informational purposes. Users must not misuse the website, interfere with its operation, attempt unauthorized access, or use the services in a manner that may harm the journal, publisher, users, or third parties.

2. User Responsibilities

Users are responsible for ensuring that all information they provide is accurate, lawful, and not misleading. Authors, reviewers, editors, and readers must comply with the journal’s editorial policies, publication ethics requirements, peer-review rules, and applicable submission guidelines.

3. Intellectual Property

All website content, journal materials, logos, designs, databases, and published works are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws. Users may not copy, distribute, modify, reproduce, republish, or commercially exploit any content except as permitted by the applicable licence, copyright notice, or written permission.

Major publishers commonly state that website and publication content may be used only within the limits of applicable terms, licences, and copyright law.

4. Published Content and Licences

Use of published articles is governed by the licence attached to each article. Open-access content may be used in accordance with its stated Creative Commons or equivalent licence. Subscription, restricted, or third-party content may be subject to additional limitations.

Users must provide proper citation and attribution when using published material.

5. Manuscript Submission and Editorial Services

Submission of a manuscript does not guarantee review, acceptance, or publication. The journal may decline, reject, withdraw, correct, or retract content in accordance with its editorial policies and publication ethics standards.

Authors are responsible for the originality, accuracy, legality, and ethical compliance of submitted work.

6. Confidentiality

Manuscripts, peer-review reports, editorial correspondence, and reviewer identities, where applicable, must be treated as confidential. Users must not disclose, share, or misuse confidential editorial or review materials without authorization.

7. Prohibited Conduct

Users must not:

• • Submit false, unlawful, defamatory, plagiarized, or infringing material;
• • Manipulate peer review, citations, metrics, or editorial processes;
• • Upload viruses, malware, or harmful code;
• • Harvest data, scrape content, or use automated tools without permission;
• • Violate privacy, confidentiality, or intellectual-property rights;
• • Use journal content for unauthorized commercial purposes.

Publisher terms commonly restrict misuse of online services, unauthorized commercial exploitation, and large-scale automated use of content.

8. Privacy and Data Protection

Use of the journal services is subject to the journal’s Privacy Policy. Personal data may be processed for editorial, publishing, administrative, legal, communication, and website-operation purposes.

9. Third-Party Links and Services

The journal website may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, indexing services, repositories, or tools. The journal is not responsible for the content, availability, security, or practices of third-party services.

10. Availability and Accuracy

The journal aims to maintain accurate and accessible services but does not guarantee uninterrupted access, error-free operation, or complete accuracy of website content. Content may be updated, corrected, removed, or modified where necessary.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the journal and publisher are not liable for any loss, damage, interruption, data loss, or other consequence arising from use of, or inability to use, the website, services, or content.

12. Changes to Terms

The journal may update these Terms of Service from time to time. Continued use of the website or services after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

13. Contact

Questions about these Terms of Service should be directed to the journal’s editorial office or official administrative contact.