Terms of Service

Terms of Service

Effective Date: 1 October 2026

These Terms of Service govern the access and use of academiatech.net and technical services provided by AcademiaTech, including Open Journal Systems (OJS) deployment, scholar portfolio development, Crossref DOI integration, and managed academic cloud hosting.

All institutional projects, software licensing, and managed service tiers are executed pursuant to these terms and any applicable written Statement of Work (SOW). Our team delivers documented, standards-compliant, and tested implementations.

Clients agree to:

- Provide accurate administrative and institutional contact information

- Ensure that any journal content, manuscripts, or data uploaded for migration do not infringe upon intellectual property rights or violate publication ethics

- Safeguard authorized account credentials and immediately notify AcademiaTech of any suspected security compromise

- Custom source code, themes, and specialized modules authored by AcademiaTech remain subject to the licensing agreed upon in the individual project SOW.

- Open-source components (including PKP OJS core) remain licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) or their respective open-source licenses.

- All journal articles, research findings, and branding assets remain the exclusive intellectual property of the respective publishing institution or author.

AcademiaTech implements rigorous security, isolated staging environments, and verification procedures. In no event shall AcademiaTech be held liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from upstream network disruptions, third-party API deprecations, or unauthorized client-side modifications.

All original content, architectural designs, and platform materials published on academiatech.net are © 2024–2026 AcademiaTech. All rights reserved.

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