Terms & Conditions

Welcome to the MyJoVE web site (the “Web Site”) maintained by MyJoVE Corporation (“We” “Us” or “MyJoVE”). These terms of use (the “Terms of Use”), together with our PRIVACY POLICY, (which is incorporated herein by reference, and collectively, this “Agreement”) govern your use of the Services, both as a non-registered user and as a registered user.

BY USING THE SITE, DEFINED TO INCLUDE ALL PROPERTIES (MOBILE, WEB OR OTHERWISE) OWNED AND OPERATED BY US, RELATED DATA, AND/OR RELATED SERVICES (COLLECTIVELY, THE “SERVICES”), YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU WILL BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE, AS UPDATED FROM TIME TO TIME (THESE “TERMS OF USE”). THESE TERMS OF USE FORM A LEGAL CONTRACT AND ARE HERE TO ENSURE THE CONTINUAL ENJOYMENT OF ALL USERS OF THE SERVICES. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS OF USE, YOU CANNOT USE THE SERVICES.

1. PERMITTED USE

1.1 Portions of the Services are viewable without registering with us, but to actively participate or store your information, you must register as a member and authorize the use and disclosure of your information for purposes of allowing us to provide the Services and as otherwise disclosed in our Privacy Policy. “Content” means content, text, data, graphics, images, photographs, video, audio, information, suggestions, guidance, and other materials provided, made available or otherwise found through the Services and/or Site, including without limitation Content provided in direct response to your questions or postings.

1.2 Your Responsibilities Generally

(a) You are responsible for all use of the Services. You may only use the Web Site and the Services for lawful, non-commercial purposes. You may not use the Web Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair our servers or networks, or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Web Site or the Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any of the Services, user accounts, or computer systems or networks, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not accumulate or index, directly or indirectly, any Content or portion of the Web Site and/or Services for any purpose whatsoever.
(b) You agree not to use the Services in any unlawful, infringing, tortious or harmful manner; in any way that violates another party’s intellectual property, privacy or other rights; or in any way that otherwise interferes with the operation, use or enjoyment of any service, system or other property.

1.3 Acceptable Use

(a) The Services are not intended for children under 13. By using the Services, you are representing that you are at least 18, or that you are at least 13 years old and have your parents’ permission to use the Services. If you are 13 or are aware of use of this Site by persons under 13, please contact us at admin_it@jove.com so that we can remove from the Web Site all information associated with such persons under 13.
(b) MyJoVE may prohibit any user from using the Services or terminate the account in its sole discretion at any time.
1.4Without limiting any of the foregoing, you agree that you shall not (and you agree not to allow any third party to):
(a) copy, modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any Content or portion of the Web Site, its content or materials and/or the Services;
(b) remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights’ notices contained in or on the Web Site and/or the Services or in or on any Content;
(c) use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other automated device, process or means to access, retrieve or index any portion of the Web Site and/or the Services;
(d) reformat or frame any Content or portion of the web pages that are part of the Web Site and/or the Services;
(e) collect or store personal data about other users in connection with the prohibited activities described in this paragraph;
(f) use any means, including software means, to conduct web scraping of any portion of the Site, its content or materials and/or the Services;
(g) post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights; or
(h) submit any content or material that infringes, misappropriates or violates the intellectual property, publicity, privacy or other rights of any party.

2. USE OF CONTENT

2.1 Your use of the Services is limited to the express terms of these Terms of Use. All of the Content is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret laws, other proprietary rights, and international treaties. You acknowledge that the Services and any underlying technology or software used in connection with the Services contain MyJoVE’s proprietary information. We give you permission to use the aforementioned content for personal, non-commercial purposes only and do not transfer any intellectual property rights to you by virtue of permitting your use of the Services. You may print, download, and store information from the Web Site for your own convenience, but you may not copy, distribute, republish (except as permitted in this paragraph), sell, or exploit any of the content, or exploit the Web Site or Services in whole or in part, for any commercial gain or purpose whatsoever. Except as expressly and unambiguously provided herein, neither MyJoVE nor its suppliers grant you any express or implied rights, and all rights in the Web Site and the Services not expressly granted by MyJoVE to you are retained by MyJoVE.

3. YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

3.1 In order to register, you must provide certain basic information about yourself. Also, you may opt to voluntarily share additional information in order to benefit from all the Services we provide. Our Privacy Policy details how we may use, share and maintain your information, which may include, without limitation, your name, address, social security number and contact information; insurance information; billing information; and other information that is either requested by MyJoVE or voluntarily provided (“Personal Information”). By submitting such information, you authorize MyJoVE, its employees, agents, your institution, and others operating on its behalf to use and/or disclose such information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please review the Privacy Policy carefully, as your use of the Services constitutes your agreement to it.

4. COPYRIGHT DISPUTE POLICY

4.1 MyJoVE adopts the general policy toward copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf). The address of MyJoVE’s Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement (“Designated Agent”) is provided at the bottom of this section.

4.2 MyJoVE Policy

Our policy is to (a) block access to or remove material that it believes in good faith to be copyrighted material that has been illegally copied and distributed by any of our advertisers, affiliates, content providers, members or other users; and (b) remove and discontinue Service to repeat offenders.

4.3 Procedure for Reporting Copyright Infringements

If you believe that material or content residing on or accessible through the Web Site or the Services infringes a copyright, please send a notice of copyright infringement containing the following information to the Designated Agent listed below (“Proper Bona Fide Infringement Notification”):

(a) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that has been allegedly infringed;
(b) Identification of works or materials being infringed;
(c) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing including information regarding the location of the infringing materials that the copyright owner seeks to have removed, with sufficient detail so that MyJoVE is capable of finding and verifying its existence;
(d) Contact information about the notifier including address, telephone number and, if available, email address;
(e) A statement that the notifier has a good faith belief that the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(f) A statement made under penalty of perjury that the information provided is accurate and the notifying party is authorized to make the complaint on behalf of the copyright owner.

4.4 Upon Receipt of a Bona Fide Infringement Notification

Once a Proper Bona Fide Infringement Notification is received by the Designated Agent, it is MyJoVE’s policy:

(a) to remove or disable access to the infringing material;
(b) to notify the content provider, member or user that it has removed or disabled access to the material; and
(c)for repeat offenders, to terminate such content provider’s, member’s or user’s access to the Service.

4.5 Procedure to Supply a Counter-Notice to the Designated Agent

If the content provider, member or user believes that the material that was removed or to which access was disabled is either not infringing, or the content provider, member or user believes that it has the right to post and use such material from the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent, or pursuant to the law, the content provider, member or user must send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Designated Agent listed below:

(a) A physical or electronic signature of the content provider, member or user;
(b) Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled;
(c) A statement that the content provider, member or user has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the material; and
(d) The content provider’s, member’s or user’s name, address, telephone number, and, if available, email address and a statement that such person or entity consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal Court for the judicial district in which the content provider’s, member’s or user’s address is located, or if the content provider’s, member’s or user’s address is located outside the United States, for any judicial district in which MyJoVE is located, and that such person or entity will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.

4.6 Removal

If a counter-notice is received by the Designated Agent, MyJoVE may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that it may replace the removed material or cease disabling it in ten (10) business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the content provider, member or user, the removed material may be replaced or access to it restored in ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, at MyJoVE’s discretion.

4.7 Address for Designated Agency

Please contact MyJoVE’s Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement at the following address:

5. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

5.1 We have no special relationship with or fiduciary duty to you. You acknowledge that we have no control over, and no duty to take any action regarding: which users gain access to the Web Site and/or the Services; what content you access via the Web Site and/or the Services; what effects the content on the Web Site and/or the Services may have on you; how you may interpret or use the content on the Web Site and/or the Services; or what actions you may take as a result of having been exposed to the content on the Web Site and/or the Services. You release us from all liability for you having acquired or not acquired content through the Web Site and/or the Services. The Web Site and/or the Services may contain, or direct you to websites containing, information that some people may find offensive or inappropriate. We make no representations concerning any content contained in or accessed through the Web Site and/or the Services, and we will not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material contained in or accessed through the Web Site and/or the Services. We make no representations or warranties regarding suggestions or recommendations of services or products offered or purchased through the Web Site and/or the Services.

WE PROVIDE THE WEB SITE AND THE SERVICES “AS IS”, “WITH ALL FAULTS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” WE MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES ABOUT THE SERVICES. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL SUCH WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ALL STATUTORY WARRANTIES, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES AND THE SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTIES THAT THE SERVICES ARE MERCHANTABLE, OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, ACCURATE, FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NEED, OR NON-INFRINGING. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE EFFECTIVE, RELIABLE OR ACCURATE OR WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES (EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH THIRD-PARTY NETWORKS) AT TIMES OR LOCATIONS OF YOUR CHOOSING. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS OR COMPLETENESS OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY USERS OF THE SERVICES OR ANY OTHER DATA OR INFORMATION PROVIDED OR RECEIVED THROUGH THE SERVICES. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH HEREIN, MYJOVE MAKES NO WARRANTIES ABOUT THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, SOFTWARE AND FUNCTIONS MADE ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE SERVICES OR ANY OTHER SECURITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSMISSION OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION. MYJOVE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEB SITE OR THE SERVICES WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE, BUG-FREE OR FREE FROM DEFECTS, THAT LOSS OF DATA WILL NOT OCCUR, OR THAT THE SERVICES, SOFTWARE OR SITE ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES, CONTAMINANTS OR OTHER HARMFUL ITEMS.

6. GENERAL LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE TO YOU (OR TO ANY THIRD PARTY CLAIMING UNDER OR THROUGH YOU) FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE WEB SITE AND/OR THE SERVICES. THESE EXCLUSIONS APPLY TO ANY CLAIMS FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES, EVEN IF WE KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, IN SUCH STATES OR JURISDICTIONS, OUR LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED IN ACCORDANCE HEREIN TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

6.1 IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH SAYS “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH, IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.”

7. INDEMNIFICATION

7.1 Upon a request by us, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us, our employees, contractors, officers, directors, agents, parent, other affiliated companies, suppliers, successors, and assigns from all liabilities, claims, demands and expenses, including attorney’s fees, made by any third party that arise from or are related to (a) your access to the Site, (b) your use of the Services, or (c) the violation of this Agreement or the Privacy Policy or of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity, by you or any third party using your Credentials. The foregoing indemnification obligation does not apply to liabilities, claims and expenses arising as a result of our own gross negligence or intentional misconduct.

8. MISCELLANEOUS

8.1 Changes to These Terms of Use

We may change these Terms of Use and the other documents consisting of the Agreement at any time, as we reasonably deem appropriate. Upon any such change, we will post the amended terms on the Site; we may also attempt to notify you in some other way. Your continued use of the Web Site and/or the Services following such posting shall constitute your affirmative acknowledgement of these Terms of Use or other applicable Agreement document, the modification, and agreement to abide and be bound by these Terms of Use or other applicable Agreement document, as amended. We encourage you to periodically review these Terms of Use. IF AT ANY TIME YOU CHOOSE NOT TO ACCEPT THESE TERMS OF USE, INCLUDING FOLLOWING ANY SUCH MODIFICATIONS HERETO, THEN YOU MUST STOP USING THE WEB SITE AND THE SERVICES.

8.2 Limitation of Claims

No action arising under or in connection with this Agreement, regardless of the form, may be brought by you more than one (1) year after the cause of action arose; actions brought thereafter are forever barred.

8.3 Choice of Law; Arbitration Clause and Class Action Waiver — Important — Please Review as This Affects Your Legal Rights

This Agreement shall be deemed to have been entered into and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as applied to contracts made and to be performed entirely within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without giving effect to the state’s conflicts of law statute. YOU AGREE THAT ALL DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND US (WHETHER OR NOT SUCH DISPUTE INVOLVES A THIRD PARTY) WITH REGARD TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH US, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DISPUTES RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, AND/OR RIGHTS OF PRIVACY AND/OR PUBLICITY, WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION UNDER THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION’S RULES FOR ARBITRATION OF CONSUMER-RELATED DISPUTES AND YOU AND WE HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY. Neither you nor we will participate in a class action or class-wide arbitration for any claims covered by this Agreement to arbitrate. YOU ARE WAIVING THE ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE AS A CLASS REPRESENTATIVE OR CLASS MEMBER ON ANY CLASS CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE AGAINST US INCLUDING ANY RIGHT TO CLASS ARBITRATION OR ANY CONSOLIDATION OF INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATIONS. You also agree not to participate in claims brought in a private attorney general or representative capacity, or consolidated claims involving another person’s account, if we are a party to the proceeding. This dispute resolution provision will be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act and not by any state law concerning arbitration. Judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court having competent jurisdiction. Any provision of applicable law notwithstanding, the arbitrator will not have authority to award damages, remedies or awards that conflict with these Terms of Service.

8.4 Entire Agreement

8.5 This Agreement and any supplemental terms, policies, rules and guidelines posted through the Services, including the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us and supersede all previous written or oral agreements. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in a manner consistent with applicable law to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties, and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. The failure of MyJoVE to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The failure of either party to exercise in any respect any right provided for herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder.

8.6 Headings

The headings of the sections of this Agreement are for convenience only, do not form a part hereof, and in no way limit, define, describe, modify, interpret or construe the meaning, scope or intent of this Agreement or any terms or conditions therein.

8.6 Assignment

We may assign this contract at any time, including without limitation, to any parent, subsidiary, or any affiliated company, or as part of the sale to, merger with, or other transfer of our company to another entity. You may not assign, transfer or sublicense this Agreement to anyone else and any attempt to do so in violation of this section shall be null and void.

9. UPDATES AND CHANGES TO THESE TERMS OF USE

9.1 The effective date of these Terms of Use is set forth at the bottom of this webpage. We will notify you of any material change by posting notice at the bottom of this webpage and updating the effective date. Your continued use of the Services after the new effective date constitutes your acceptance of the amended Terms of Use. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on any of the Services. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO FUTURE CHANGES TO THESE TERMS, YOU MUST STOP USING THE SERVICES AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CHANGES.