The Clarivate Analytics Databases Terms of Agreement apply to your use of any Clarivate Analytics database on STN International. For review of these Terms see below.
Any other use of the data without the express written permission of Clarivate Analytics is strictly prohibited.
Clarivate Analytics also participates in the STN Information Keep & Share Program.
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TERMS OF USE
1. OWNERSHIP
(a) Intellectual Property. The Clarivate Analytics product you are accessing (the “Product”) contains proprietary technology and copyright material owned by Clarivate Analytics (“we”, “us”, “our” or “Clarivate”) and/or our third party licensors. All use of the Product and our materials accessible in the Product (“Content”) is restricted and subject to our prior written consent.
(b) Trademarks. 'Clarivate Analytics' and the Product name are trade or service marks of Clarivate or its affiliated companies. All other product and service names cited are trademarks of their respective owners.
2. YOUR RIGHTS OF USE
(a) Use Rights. If you, the end user (“you” or “your”), have been issued with a subscription key by us or your Administrator, you will generally be entitled to (i) search, access, download and print reasonable amounts of Content reasonably required for your own work use and for your employer’s internal business purposes; (ii) distribute copies of Content to other individuals who you know are users of the Product within your organization; (iii) include insubstantial portions of Content as incidental samples or for illustrative or demonstration purposes, including in reports prepared for internal business purposes and provided that you include the following acknowledgement: “Source: Clarivate Analytics.”
(b) Reasonable Amount. We determine a “reasonable amount” of Content to download by comparing your download activity against the average annual download rates for all Clarivate clients using the Product.
(c) Insubstantial Portion. We determine an “insubstantial portion” of downloaded Content to mean an amount of Content taken from the Product which (1) would not have significant commercial value of its own; and (2) would not act as a substitute for access to a Clarivate product for someone who does not have access to that product.
(d) License Agreement. If you would like to understand more about all of the rights that you or your employer have to use the Product or any of the Content, you should refer to the license agreement between you or your employer and Clarivate or authorized resellers (your “License Agreement”) or you should contact our Global Customer Support Center.
3. RESTRICTIONS ON USE
(a) Limited Access. If you have not been issued with a subscription key by us or your Administrator you should not use the Product or any of Content.
(b) License Agreement. You are not entitled to do anything that would cause a breach of the terms of your License Agreement, such as (i) allowing anyone else to use your username/password; (ii) downloading excessive amounts of Content; (iii) providing Content to anyone else, other than in licensed, source-acknowledged documents or reports created as part of your normal work; (iv) automatically downloading, text mining or indexing Content; (v) using the Product or Content to provide services to anyone outside your organization; or (vi) removing proprietary rights notices in the Product or Content.
(c) Prohibitions. Except as described in these Terms of Use or as otherwise permitted in your License Agreement, you may not use, copy, adapt, translate, modify, sell, distribute or otherwise create derivative databases, services or works of or based on the Product or the Content.
(d) Decompiliation. Unless provided for in the License Agreement, you may only reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any of the software or technology contained in the Product or the Content to the extent expressly permitted by law, where such rights cannot be modified by agreement.
(e) Storage. Except for Insubstantial Portions or unless you know that your employer has purchased an archive license to store the Content, you may not store Content that you print or download for longer than 3 months.
4. THIRD PARTY CONTENT
If the Product includes data and software from third parties, you must also comply with any additional terms we are required to pass through to you. Please refer to our third party terms available at http://clarivate.com/tob/.
5. LOGIN DETAILS
Your username and password are confidential to us and must not be disclosed to any third party (including other employees or contractors working for your employer).
6. UNLAWFUL CONDUCT
(a) Compliance. Use of the Product or other services provided by us or our affiliated companies for any purpose that is unlawful, or in any manner that could exceed your authorized access or otherwise damage, disable, overburden or impair the operation of the Product or other services provided by us or our affiliated companies, or any other person’s use or enjoyment of the Product or those other services, is strictly prohibited. Such prohibited actions include but are not limited to, (i) violating or attempting to violate security measures; (ii) accessing data that is not intended for your use or logging into a server or account which you are not authorized to access; (iii) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (iv) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network; (v) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting; and (vi) taking any action in order to obtain services to which you are not entitled.
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(b) Cooperation. Unlawful conduct may result in civil or criminal liability. We will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and co-operate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.
7. PRIVACY
By accessing and using the Product you are consenting to our gathering and using your personally identifiable information in accordance with our privacy policies. Please refer to our Privacy Statement available at http://clarivate.com/tob/.
8. DISCLAIMER
(a) NO WARRANTY. YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE PRODUCT AND CONTENT IS ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS, WE AND OUR THIRD PARTY SUPPLIERS MAKE NO WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION OR UNDERTAKING, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO PERFORMANCE, MECHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN LINKS TO INTERNET SITES OPERATED BY THIRD PARTIES. WHERE SUCH LINKS EXIST THEY ARE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE ONLY. WE DO NOT CONTROL SUCH INTERNET SITES, AND WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CONTENTS. OUR INCLUSION OF LINKS TO SUCH INTERNET SITES IN THE PRODUCT DOES NOT IMPLY ANY ENDORSEMENT OF THE MATERIAL ON SUCH INTERNET SITES OR ANY ASSOCIATION WITH THEIR OPERATORS AND WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR UNDERTAKINGS IN RESPECT OF SUCH INTERNET SITES.
(b) NO ADVICE. WE ARE AN INFORMATION PROVIDER AND DO NOT PROVIDE LEGAL, FINANCIAL OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. THE CONTENT IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY, IS NOT INTENDED TO CONSTITUTE PROFESSIONAL ADVICE, AND SHOULD NOT BE RELIED ON OR TREATED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE RELEVANT TO PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES. NEITHER WE NOR OUR AFFILIATES NOR ANY OF OUR THIRD PARTY SUPPLIERS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS THAT MAY ARISE FROM ANY RELIANCE BY YOU, YOUR EMPLOYER OR CLIENT, OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY, ON THE CONTENT.
(c) LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS, NEITHER WE NOR ANY OF OUR AFFILIATES OR THIRD PARTY SUPPLIERS WILL BE LIABLE IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE FOR (1) ANY CORRUPTION, ALTERATION, DAMAGE, LOSS OR MISTRANSMISSION (AS APPLICABLE) OF YOUR OR ANY THIRD PARTY’S DATA, SOFTWARE, HARDWARE OR SYSTEMS; (2) LOSS OR DAMAGE RESULTING FROM THE INADEQUACY OF SECURITY OF DATA DURING TRANSMISSION VIA PUBLIC ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS OR FACILITIES; OR (3) ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OF USE OR YOUR USE OF THE PRODUCT OR CONTENT, HOWEVER SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE MAY ARISE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OR COULD HAVE FORESEEN ANY SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE.
9. GOVERNING LAW
These Terms of Use are subject to the governing law and jurisdiction of the License Agreement.