Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you (“you,” “your”) and "ICSE", LLC (”Company,” “we,” “our” or “us”)  your use of Company’s services, including, websites, software,  and other products and services (collectively, the “Services”). By using any of the Services, you agree to these Terms and any policies referenced within (“Privacy policy”), including terms that limit our liability and require individual arbitration for any potential legal dispute. You should read all of our terms carefully.

1. Privacy

You consent to Company’s Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect the personal information you provide to us.

2. Registration

During registration on website we will ask you for information, which may include but is not limited to, your name and other personal information. You must provide accurate and complete information in response to our questions, and you must keep that information current. 

3. Revisions, Disclosures and Notices

We may amend the Terms at any time with notice that we deem to be reasonable under the circumstances, by posting the revised version on our website or communicating it to you through the Services (each a “Revised Version”). The Revised Version will be effective as of the time it is posted, but will not apply retroactively. Your continued use of the Services after the posting of a Revised Version constitutes your acceptance of such Revised Version. Any Dispute that arose before the changes will be governed by the Terms in place when the Dispute arose.

4. Compatible Mobile Devices and Third Party Carriers

We do not warrant that the Services will be compatible with your mobile device or carrier. Your use of the Services may be subject to the terms of your agreements with your mobile device manufacturer or your carrier. You may not use a modified device to use the Services if the modification is contrary to the manufacturer’s software or hardware guidelines, including disabling hardware or software controls—sometimes referred to as “jail broken.”

5. Your Content

The Services may include functionality for uploading or providing suggestions, recommendations, feedback, stories, photos, documents, logos, products, loyalty programs, promotions, advertisements and other materials or information (“Content”).

You grant us and our subsidiaries, affiliates, and successors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid, transferable, irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your Content throughout the world in any media for any reason, including to provide, promote, and/or incorporate into the Services. You retain all rights in your Content, subject to the rights you granted to us in these General Terms. You may modify or remove your Content via website, but your Content may persist in historical, archived or cached copies and versions thereof available on or through the Services.

You will not upload or provide Content or otherwise post, transmit, distribute, or disseminate through the Services any material that: (a) is false, misleading, unlawful, obscene, indecent, lewd, pornographic, defamatory, libelous, threatening, harassing, hateful, abusive, or inflammatory; (b) encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense or gives rise to civil liability; (c) breaches or infringes any duty toward or rights of any person or entity, including rights of publicity, privacy or intellectual property; (d) contains corrupted data or any other harmful, disruptive, or destructive files; (e) advertises products or services competitive with Square’s or its partners’ products and services, as determined by us in our sole discretion; or (f) in our sole judgment, is objectionable, restricts or inhibits any person or entity from using or enjoying any portion of the Services, or which may expose Square, its affiliates or its customers to harm or liability of any nature.

Although we have no obligation to monitor any Content, we have absolute discretion to remove Content at any time and for any reason without notice. Company may also monitor such Content to detect and prevent fraudulent activity or violations of Company’s Terms. You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, or objectionable. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any Content, including any loss or damage to any of your Content.

6. Intellectual Property Infringement

Company and its employees make no claims on any work submitted to us for proofreading or editing. Any documents ("Documents") submitted will remain your intellectual property. Editors have signed a confidentiality agreement to waive their claim to any intellectual property submitted through our service. You represent that you have obtained all necessary third party rights, including (without limitation) copyrights, for any Documents or portions thereof that belong to third parties. It is your responsibility to determine if it is necessary for you to obtain, and for obtaining, any licenses required to use third party content that is part of the Documents. You agree not to use the services for or provide documents with any infringing, illegal, sexually explicit, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable material, including (without limitation) any materials that could give rise to any liability to Company or that might adversely affect Company’s public image, reputation, or goodwill.

7. Security

We have implemented technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. You provide your personal information at your own risk.

You are responsible for safeguarding your password and for restricting access to the Services from your compatible mobile devices and computer(s). 

8. Communications

You consent to accept and receive communications from us, including e-mail, text messages, calls, and push notifications to the cellular telephone number you provide to us on our website or update the contact information associated with your account. Such communications may include, but are not limited to requests for secondary authentication, receipts, reminders, notifications regarding updates to your account or account support, and marketing or promotional communications. You acknowledge that you are not required to consent to receive promotional texts or calls as a condition of using the Services. Call and text message communications may be generated by automatic telephone dialing systems. Standard message and data rates applied by your cell phone carrier may apply to the text messages we send you.

You may opt-out of receiving promotional email communications we send to you by following the unsubscribe options on such emails. You may opt out of any promotional phone calls by informing the caller that you would not like to receive future promotional calls. You may only opt-out of text messages from Company by replying STOP. You acknowledge that opting out of receiving communications may impact your use of the Services.

9. Modification and Termination

We may terminate these Terms or any Additional Terms. We may add or remove, suspend, stop, delete, discontinue or impose conditions on Services or any feature or aspect of a Service. 

10. Effect of Termination

If these Terms is terminated or suspended for any reason: (a) the license and any other rights granted under these Terms will end, (b) we may (but have no obligation to) delete your information and account data stored on our servers, and (c) we will not be liable to you or any third party for compensation, reimbursement, or damages for any termination or suspension of the Services, or for deletion of your information or account data. 

11. Ownership

We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in these Terms. We own all rights, title, interest, copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights (as defined below) in the Services and all copies of the Services. These General Terms do not grant you any rights to our trademarks or service marks.
For the purposes of these Terms, “Intellectual Property Rights” means all patent rights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights, and other intellectual property rights that may exist now or come into existence in the future, and all of their applications, registrations, renewals and extensions, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdiction.
You may submit comments or ideas about the Services (“Ideas”). By submitting any Idea, you agree that your disclosure is gratuitous, unsolicited, and without restriction, that it will not place us under any fiduciary, confidentiality or other obligation, and that we are free to use the Idea without any additional compensation to you, and/or to disclose the Idea on a non-confidential basis or otherwise to anyone.

12. Journal URL

The responsibility of providing a functional Journal guidelines URL for formatting lies with the client. We may or may not get back to you if the journal URL provided by you is inactive or in a language other than English. If the URL requires us to login, please provide the login details.

13. Quotation

It is deemed that once you have accepted our quotation over e-mail, it is a formal order. You are then liable to make payment for the order even if you disagree with the pricing at a later stage.

Auto responder from our website is not a confirmation that we have started editing your assignment. We reply to all requests with the exact quotations.

If there is a mismatch between the deadline you have given us and the priority selection, we will give preference to the priority and not the deadline when giving you the pricing details.

For direct TeX editing and for editing a TeX file in MS Word delivery format, we request you to always send us the PDF file along with the TeX file. In case you do not send us the PDF file, we e-mail you to send us the PDF file. However, if we do not receive the file, we will be unable to send you the quotation or start editing your assignment.

14. E-mail Address

By providing your email address and consent to us, you give us permission to send you regular updates about our services and company. If you ask us specifically not to send e-mails to you, we will stop sending you e-mails. For European Economic Area (EEA) members, promotional emails will be sent to you only if you give consent.

If your e-mail address is not functional and we encounter issues such as e-mail bouncing, we are not liable for delivery of your files. We will try and contact you once through the contacts provided by you over e-mail. You need to contact us to receive your edited files in such situations.

15. Delivery of Files

We always deliver edited documents within the deadline promised to you. In case you do not receive your document, please contact us immediately. In addition, check your junk e-mail folder.
For editing PDF file in PDF delivery format, we require single column documents with double spacing. This is because it is difficult to edit files in double column and single space format, as there is not sufficient room for writing and the final markup is often not legible. In case your documents do not meet the abovementioned criteria, we change the delivery file format to MS Word for maintaining the quality of the edited document. This will help you to clearly see the changes made with the help of track changes.

16.User Content

By uploading or sending any User Content, you give Company (and those it works with) a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable, and sublicensable, perpetual, and irrevocable license to copy, store, and use your User Content in connection with the provision of the services/software and to improve the algorithms underlying the services/software. This data is used in a not personally identifiable and is only used to improve the services/software and not used for any other purpose.

17. Advance Payment

We request an advance payment of the entire fee of the assignment for all requests to start working on your document. In case advance payment is not made before the delivery of the file or as informed by the customer service, we will not deliver the file. However, in certain special cases, Company reserves the right to waive off this clause and can also seek complete or partial payment after the delivery of the edited document.
If for any reasons you are unable to make the payment in advance please contact us in writing mentioning such reasons specifically. We consider genuine reasons and can try making alternative arrangements.

18. Destruction Of Documents

Company reserves the right to save documents on its systems according to its policy and Indian government regulations for conducting business. If you want us to delete your files specifically from our systems, you need to send us an e-mail stating your need.

19. Website

This website is owned and operated by Company and is protected by international copyright and trademark laws. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, or distribute in any way, any material from this site, including code and software. You may not download material from this site for your personal, non-commercial use.

20. Indemnity

You will indemnify, defend, and hold us and our processors (and our respective employees, directors, agents, affiliates and representatives) harmless from and against any and all claims, costs, losses, damages, judgments, tax assessments, penalties, interest, and expenses (including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of any claim, action, audit, investigation, inquiry, or other proceeding instituted by a person or entity that arises out of or relates to: (a) any actual or alleged breach of your representations, warranties, or obligations set forth in these Terms; (b) your wrongful or improper use of the Services; (c) your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any right of privacy, publicity rights or Intellectual Property Rights; (d) your violation of any law, rule or regulation of the United States or any other country; and (e) any other party’s access and/or use of the Services with your unique name, password or other appropriate security code.

21. Representations and Warranties

You represent and warrant to us that: (a) you are at least eighteen (18) years of age; (b) you are eligible to register and use the Services and have the right, power, and ability to enter into and perform under these Terms; (c) any information you provide in connection with the Services, including your business name, accurately and truthfully represents your business or personal identity under which you sell goods and services; (d) you and all transactions initiated by you will comply with all federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations applicable to you and/or your business, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”); (e) you will not use the Services, directly or indirectly, for any fraudulent undertaking or in any manner so as to interfere with the operation of the Services; and (f) your use of the Services will be in compliance with these Terms.

22. No Warranties

Company does not warrant, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for any product or service advertised or offered by a third party. Company does not have control of, or liability for, goods or services that are paid for using the Services.

23. Limitations of Liability and Damages

Under no circumstances shall Company be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever, whether in contract or otherwise, from the use of or reliance on, the materials on the website. Company shall not be liable for any loss howsoever arising or any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Company includes all its divisions, subsidiaries, successors, parent companies and their employees, partners, principals, agents, and representatives as well as any third-party providers or sources of material. While Company takes all necessary precautions to safeguard all submitted documents, it shall not be held liable for the loss of documents due to power failure, hardware/software failure, computer viruses, natural disasters, or any other unforeseen matters and factors beyond our control. You will be responsible for creating back-up and archival copies of your documents. In no event will Company be responsible to you or any other person for any loss, corruption, or alteration of documents.

Company is only responsible for editing manuscripts as per our service definitions. All views and thoughts expressed in the manuscripts are solely of the writer and members using the service.
For any reason whatsoever, the maximum liability that will be borne by Company that may be caused by any delay, defect or any other reason and the damages that may arise due to these incurred by the customer will be limited to and not exceed the invoiced amount for the assignment/project.

24. Disputes

“Disputes” are defined as any claim, controversy, or dispute between you and Company, its processors, suppliers or licensors (or their respective affiliates, agents, directors or employees), including any claims relating in any way to these Terms or the Services, or any other aspect of our relationship.

25. Governing Law

These Terms and any Dispute will be governed by Russian Fderation law and/or applicable federal law, without regard to its choice of law or conflicts of law principles.

26. Limitation on Time to Initiate a Dispute

Any action or proceeding by you relating to any Dispute must commence within one year after the cause of action accrues.

27. Assignment

These Terms, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you and any attempted transfer or assignment will be null and void.

28. Third Party Services and Links to Other Websites

You may be offered services, products and promotions provided by third parties and not by Square, including, but not limited to, third party developers who use Company’s services (“Third Party Services”). If you decide to use Third Party Services, you will be responsible for reviewing and understanding the terms and conditions for these services. We are not responsible or liable for the performance of any Third Party Services. Further, you agree to resolve any disagreement between you and a third party regarding the terms and conditions of any Third Party Services with that third party directly in accordance with the terms and conditions of that relationship, and not Company. The Services may contain links to third party websites. The inclusion of any website link does not imply an approval, endorsement, or recommendation by Company. Such third party websites are not governed by these Terms. You access any such website at your own risk. We expressly disclaim any liability for these websites. When you use a link to go from the Services to a third party website, our Privacy policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on a third party website, including those that have a link in the Services is subject to that website’s own terms, rules and policies.

29. Other Provisions

These Terms, and any applicable Additional Terms or Policies, are a complete statement of the agreement between you and Company regarding the Services. In the event of a conflict between these Terms and any other Company agreement or Policy, these Terms will prevail and control the subject matter of such conflict. If any provision of these Terms or any Additional Term is invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, then it will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. These Terms do not limit any rights that we may have under trade secret, copyright, patent, or other laws. No waiver of any term of these Terms will be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term.

Company may, in its sole and absolute discretion, immediately terminate service, should the client's conduct fail to conform to the terms and conditions of our service.

By using our service, the client agrees to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of Company’s service. Should the client object to any such terms and conditions or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with the site in any way, the client's sole recourse is to discontinue his/her use of the site.