1. Agreement to Terms
These Terms of Use constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you”), and IJSTE (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), concerning your access to and use of our academic article submission and peer-review platform as well as any other media form, media channel, mobile website or mobile application related, linked, or otherwise connected thereto.
2. Prohibited Activities
As a user of the Site, you agree not to engage in any of the following professional or technical violations:
- Submit plagiarized, duplicate, or fraudulent research articles.
- Attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or bypass the security features of the platform.
- Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site.
- Attempt to compromise the anonymity of the peer-review process (unless open-peer review is specifically designated).
- Use the platform to advertise or offer to sell goods and services not directly related to academic publishing.
3. User Representations
By using the Site, you represent and warrant that: (1) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete; (2) you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary; (3) all submitted articles are your original work; and (4) your use of the Site will not violate any applicable law or regulation.
4. Intellectual Property Rights
The article metadata, peer-review comments, and editorial decisions are maintained by IJSTE. However, copyright for the submitted articles themselves remains with the authors until a formal copyright transfer agreement is signed upon the article's acceptance for publication in a specific journal.
5. Governing Law
These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the international academic publishing laws and regulations. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submissions comply with local, national, and international laws regarding human or animal research subjects and data handling.
6. Modifications to Terms
We may revise these Terms of Use at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current Terms of Use because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these Terms of Use may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Site.