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--- Qiqqa Terms and Conditions
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--- Copyright © Quantisle 2010-2011. All rights reserved.
--- Updated 17 May 2011
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By using Qiqqa, you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not
agree to this, please stop using Qiqqa immediately.
Qiqqa is Copyright © Quantisle 2010-2011. All rights reserved.
Qiqqa, Qiqqa Premium and the Qiqqa Web Library (from now on “Qiqqa”) are offered as
Services to you by Quantisle Ltd.
These Terms and Conditions cover the Services currently provided by Qiqqa. However, as we
strive to improve our service to you, new features may be made available to you. In the
event of material change (as determined by Quantisle Ltd.) to our service to you, we will
update these Terms and Conditions and notify you of the changes when you upgrade and log
into Qiqqa. We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue any of the Services we
provide to you. Any changes to the Terms and Conditions come into immediate effect as
soon as we make them publically available.
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Your Content
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You use Qiqqa to manage your academic research, be it the management of your PDF
documents, the metadata for those documents (not limited to titles, authors, abstracts
and references), and any annotations that you may have added to those documents (not
limited to ratings and keywords) (collectively, “Content”).
By adding Content to Qiqqa and/or syncing your Content, you grant Quantisle Ltd. a
world-wide license to use this Content at our discretion for the provision of
PERSONALISED services to you (not limited to transmission and storage) and for the
provision of AGGREGATED services to other users of Qiqqa (not limited to crowd-sourced
metadata, searching, indexing and recommendation). The rights to the ownership of the
Content remain yours.
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Acceptable Content
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The following points must be followed in spirit as well as in letter to all forms of your
use of Qiqqa:
• Quantisle Ltd. is not responsible for the management of any Content provided
by you from other parties. If you believe that third-party Content has been,
or is being made available to you through Qiqqa in breach of their license or
rights please let us know immediately via the Qiqqa website.
• You will provide only Content,
(i) to which you are permitted;
(ii) which was produced within, and complies with applicable law in your
country and the United Kingdom.
• You will not provide Content,
(i) that encourages illegal activity;
(ii) that contains information whose publication (accidental or not) will
cause financial damages or violate applicable law;
(iii) that infringes third-party rights, or that breaches data protection
or privacy rights;
(iv) that will cause detriment to the health of any person.
• Quantisle Ltd. will not be liable for any losses, damages or claims that arise
because of your use of Qiqqa or the provision, storage, loss, transmission,
distribution or publication of your Content.
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Acceptable use
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You will not use Qiqqa,
(i) to bring Quantisle Ltd. into disrepute;
(ii) to knowingly reduce our capacity to provide our services,
(iii) to cause undue cost or damages to Quantisle Ltd.;
(iv) to reverse engineer our products.
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Your non-personal information
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Qiqqa continuously collects non-personal information about how you use our services. You
agree that we can use this information to improve our service to you and to others, and
that we may disclose some of this information if required to comply with applicable law.
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Services
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Qiqqa provides various for-pay Services (not limited to Unlimited Web Libraries and Qiqqa
Premium).
Use of these Services can be purchased, earned (not limited to various promotional
campaigns and social media incentive programmes) or awarded by an authorised Qiqqa
representative.
Unless otherwise provided by law, all charges resulting from purchases of Services are
earned by Quantisle Ltd. when received and are nonrefundable, and the costs of any
returns will be at your expense.
Quantisle Ltd. may cancel or suspend your purchased Services at our discretion. If we
cancel a Service in its entirety without cause, we'll refund to you on a pro-rata basis
any payments that you have made based on the portion of the Service that would otherwise
remain.
Unless otherwise provided by law, earned and awarded Services have zero monetary value
whatsoever, are not transferrable, and can be revoked by Quantisle Ltd. at our
discretion.
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Payments to Quantisle Ltd. for the provision of Services
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You must be authorized to use the payment method with which you pay Quantisle Ltd. You
authorise us to charge you up-front for the Service at the time of purchase or shortly
after purchase using your payment method.
When you make a payment to Quantisle Ltd. for a Service, you understand that Qiqqa
endeavours to provide the Service immediately. To this effect you will not be entitled
to a cancellation or "cooling off" period, except if the law requires a cooling off
period despite your waiver and even when a Service starts right away.
Services are provided on an account top-up basis by your instruction, and therefore
there is no basis nor need for you to cancel a Service.
The price stated for the Service includes all taxes and PayPal fees. You're responsible
for all other charges accrued to your payment method.
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Termination
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Quantisle Ltd. reserves the right to terminate at our discretion your use of Qiqqa and
delete from Qiqqa any Content you have stored with Qiqqa. At our discretion we will
endeavour to give you reasonable notice in this eventuality unless you are materially
in breach of these Terms and Conditions.
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Disclaimer of warranty
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Quantisle Ltd. provides Qiqqa
on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE,
NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely
responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing Qiqqa and
assume any risks associated with your exercise of permissions under these Terms and
Conditions.
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Limitation of Liability
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In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract,
or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent
acts) or agreed to in writing, shall Quantisle Ltd. be liable to you for damages,
including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any
character arising as a result of these Terms and Conditions or out of the use or
inability to use Qiqqa (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work
stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or
losses), even if you had been advised of the possibility of such damages.
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Trademarks
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These Terms and Conditions do not grant permission to use the trade names, trademarks,
service marks or product names of Quantisle Ltd, including the product name Qiqqa, except
as required for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of Qiqqa.