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Please read the following Website Terms and Conditions, which relate to information regarding general use of our websites. By using our websites, you are agreeing to these Terms and Conditions whether as a guest or registered user. By using our sites you are indicating you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. From time to time we may change these Terms and Conditions, and will post revisions on this website. We recommend that you read these Terms and Conditions prior to using our sites and there after regularly review any changes and you are responsible for doing so. If you have purchased a license, subscription or otherwise entered into an agreement with us (for example as a delegate at a conference) you will also be governed by the terms of that agreement, which shall prevail in the event of a conflict. Online purchases have additional terms and conditions relating to the transaction as indicated on the relevant website.

Privacy

Use of the data that you provide us, or which is collected by use on our websites, is governed by our Privacy Policy. By using our site(s) you consent to such processing.

Access to EPCCO website

we try to ensure that website availability is uninterrupted and that transmissions will be error-free. However, we cannot, guarantee that your access will not be suspended or restricted from time to time, including to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new facilities or services. We of course try to limit the frequency and duration of any suspension or restriction.

Accounts and passwords

If you have registered or subscribed to a EPCCO website, any user identification code or password must be kept confidential and used only by you (unless agreed in writing with the EPCCO). We have the right to disable any user identification code or password whether chosen by you or allocated by us at any time if in our option you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

Intellectual property rights

The content, layout, design, data, databases and graphics on this website are protected by K.S.A and other international intellectual property laws and are owned by the EPCCO or its licensors. Unless expressly permitted in writing in a license agreement or referenced herein relating to EPCCO and EPCCO Journals “Open Access Articles” (below) and other than printing a small proportion of content or displaying this on your screen or both, (strictly for your personal non-commercial use), no part of the website may be reproduced, stored in any medium, including but not limited to a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, broadcasting) nor, shown in public other than a Epcco a revocable, non-transferable licence for personal, non-commercial use.

You may not create any derivative work or make any other adaptation, without our prior written consent. You must not modify the copies you have displayed or printed in any way and you may not use any illustrations, photographs, videos or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. Any permitted use of our material is subject to ensuring that our copyright notices and trademarks appear as they do on all copies online and customary bibliographical citations including author attribution, date article title (where applicable) and the URL to the relevant epcco website is included. If you print off or download any material from our website(s) in breach of these terms of use, any rights to use our site(s) will cease immediately and you must at our option return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. All rights not expressly granted in these terms or any express written license, are reserved.

The trademarks and logos which are displayed on the websites are the trademarks of the epcco Publishing Limited and its licensors. Any use including framing, meta-tags or other text utilizing the epcco Publishing  Limited's trademarks or other trademarks displayed, is strictly prohibited without our (or our licensor's) express written consent.

Any material you upload to our sites will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary (unless otherwise stated on the site or within our privacy policy) and for such content you grant us a transferable, royalty free, worldwide, irrevocable license to use, copy, distribute, edit, amend, disclose, sub license to third parties and create derivative works in whole or party of any such material for any purpose, in any media.. We may remove, edit or amend any such material at any time without notice to you. To the extent moral rights attach to any material to the fullest extent permitted by law these are waived in our favour. All material posted must adhere to the requirements of “Your conduct" below. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to any of our sites constitutes a violation of their rights, including without limitation, their intellectual property rights, and reputational rights or of their right to privacy.

Permission for use of our intellectual property

Any request for permission of our content or images, or other use of our intellectual property not authorised under a subscription, should be made using the contact us form. For epcco we recommend you first visit: www.epcco.com.sa    Please go to the web page of the article you are emailing about and select 'request permission' to request permission via Rights link. If your requests are not covered by this form, then you should contact our department.

Epcco Journals “Open Access articles”

Some epcco Journals articles have expressly marked on then that they are an “Open Access article”. Where this is so, certain extended rights of use are allowed without obtaining further permission from the epcco. The rights of use for such articles is as set out in the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- see a summary of rights and the full license:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial.

Where use is to be made of any epcco Journal marked “Open Access article”, you must attribute use as follows:

author name(s), date, article title, journal name, the URL for the original article on the relevant epcco website and include any copyright notice from the original article.

You must also check that where any third party rights within all images, diagrams, photographs or other illustrative material are indicated within such an article as not being owned by the authors or epcco( and its co-owners for any co-owned journal) that these are cleared independently and appropriately with the owner indicated.

We also require that all epcco (and any co-owners) trademarks are removed from any derivative works. For translations (other than where a prior translation agreement with epcco has been established) you must include a prominently statement which states as follows:

“This is an unofficial translation of an article that appeared in a epcco [and insert co-owner if applicable] publication. epcco [and insert        co-owner if applicable] has/have not endorsed this translation”.

Browsers:

Please note: If you are using one of the popular "offline browsers" that allow you to download content from a site and read it later, please be aware that subject to ensuring only a small proportion of content, strictly for your personal non-commercial use, or where this amounts to "fair dealing" we impose one restriction on their use.

In order for us to provide reliable, continuous, and timely access to epcco Careers and Record for all readers, we ask that you configure your offline browser to not request more than one page per 60 seconds. Be aware that non-compliance with this rule will result in your access to epcco Careers.

Disclaimers and limitations of liability

Disclaimers

a) General disclaimers

Description or reference to a product or publication does not imply endorsement of that product or publication, unless it is owned by the epcco and in which case it is subject to the disclaimers limitations of liability herein and within any licence or other agreement with you the latter of which shall prevail in the event of a conflict. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the material and information displayed on our websites is provided “as is” without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to accuracy.

We try and ensure our websites are available for use 24 hours per day, 7 days per week other than for a small period for scheduled down time, however we do not warrant that at other time our websites will be available. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will be not be liable to you for damages or refunds should our sites become unavailable or access to a site becomes slow or incomplete due to system back-up procedures, internet traffic volume, upgrades, overload of requests to the servers, general network failures or delays, or any other cause which may from time to time make the any of our websites inaccessible to you.

Epcco Careers

We rely on our authors of articles, contractors and third party data providers to confirm the accuracy of information and advertisements presented and to describe generally accepted practices and therefore we as the publisher and editors cannot warrant its accuracy. Differences may occur also between the print and online text of articles and advertisements. Readers should be aware that professionals in the field may have different opinions. Because of this fact and also because of regular advances in a research we strongly recommend that readers independently verify any information that they chose to rely upon. Ultimately it is the reader’s responsibility to make their own professional judgements. Opinions posted on Rapid Responses, the Advice Zone, International Experience and any other parts of . Because of this fact and also because of regular advances in medical research we strongly recommend that readers independently the sites are those of the individuals posting them and not the views of the epcco.

Epcco Learning and epcco Quality Improvement

We do not warrant that the completion of any Modules or use of other material on the epcco Learning website or use of the epcco Quality Improvement tools and resources will be all the necessary continuing professional development you need nor that it is accurate. We rely on our authors of articles, contractors and third party data providers to confirm the accuracy of information presented and to describe generally accepted practices and therefore we as the publisher and editors cannot warrant its accuracy or that this meets all or any requirements for professional development. Readers should be aware that professionals in the field may have different opinions verify any information that they chose to rely upon. Ultimately it is the reader’s responsibility to make their own professional judgements. epcco 

Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE epcco EXPRESSLY EXCLUDES:

• i.  ALL CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES AND OTHER TERMS WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE BE IMPLED BY STATUTE, COMMON LAW OR THE LAW OF EQUITY;
• ii.  ANY LIABILITY CAUSED BY A FORCE MAJEURE EVENT;
• iii.  ANY OBLIGATION OF EFFECTIVENESS OR ACCURACY; AND
• iv.  OTHER THAN AS SET OUT BELOW, ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGE INCURRED BY YOU IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING BY YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE ANY INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE OR WITHIN ANY PUBLICATION SUBSCRIBED TO, VIA ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO OUR WEBSITE(S) AND ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON IT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY LIABILITY FOR LOSS OF INCOME OR REVENUE, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF PROFITS OR CONTRACTS ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, WASTED TIME AND FOR ANY OTHER LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND, HOWSEOEVER AND WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, BY BREACH OF CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORSEEABLE.
• NOTHING IN THIS PROVISION AFFECTS OUR LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY ARISING  FROM OUR NEGLIGENCE NOR FOR LIABILITY FOR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION OR MISREPRESENTATION AS TO A FUNDAMENTAL MATTER NOR ANY OTHER LIABILITY WHICH CANNOT BE EXLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER THE APPLIACABLE LAW. THESE PROVISIONS DO NOT AFFECT ANY APPLICABLE STATUTORY RIGHTS.

Your conduct

You must not use the website in any way that causes or is likely to cause the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way. You understand that you are solely responsible for all electronic communications and contents sent from your computer to us. You must use the website for lawful purposes only. You must not use the website for any of the following:

For fraudulent purposes or in connection with a criminal offence or otherwise carry out any unlawful activity

To send, use or re-use any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, harmful, defamatory, obscene or menacing racist, abusive, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, in breach of confidence, infringes any intellectual property rights, or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or objectionable; or which consists of or contains software viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any spam

To cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety

To impersonate any third party or otherwise mislead as to the origin of your content

To reproduce, duplicate, copy or resell any part of our site in contravention with these terms of use or any other agreement with the EPCCO

Governing law and jurisdiction

To the fullest extent permitted by law, these terms will be governed by the laws of Saudi Arabia and shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of K.S.A whose courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction, unless as at the date of formation of any agreement with you either i) the laws of K.S.A would not be upheld in the Courts in the  users  stated country location; ii) an Kingdom judgement could not be enforced in the user stated country location; or iii) it would take six months or more for the epcco to enforce an English judgment in the users stated country location, then it is hereby agreed that this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the subscriber’s stated country (or state if applicable) and their courts. Notwithstanding any of the above, this clause is governed by the laws of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.