Terms and Conditions of Use
The following Terms and Conditions of Use dated as of October 2011, govern use by all Users of UKVet Website, an online service (or any successor thereto) and the electronic edition of the Products subscribed to by the User or the User's veterinary practice (the "Electronic Product(s)"). Please read the following carefully because by using UKVet Website, you are agreeing to abide by these Terms and Conditions of Use.
Copyright
The entire contents of the Electronic Products, and each article and abstract and other material available through UKVet Website, is protected by copyright (unless otherwise indicated on the title page of the article). As a User, you have certain rights specified below; all other rights are reserved.
Definitions
A. UKVet Website, The online service (or any successor thereto) available from Wiley or its affiliates on the Worldwide Web including all products, services and features offered via the service. Certain products and services under this License may be delivered from other platforms. The terms and conditions hereof are equally applicable to those products and services.
B. Licensee – Those persons who have made all necessary payments and have been granted access to the applicable Licensed Electronic Products.
C. Authorized Users - Those persons the Licensee has authorised to have access to UKVet Website Authorized Users must be current bona fide colleagues or employees of the Licensee.
D. Intellectual Property Rights – These rights include, without limitation, patents, trademarks, trade names, design rights, copyright (including rights in computer software), database rights, rights in know-how and other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered, which may subsist anywhere in the world. The Authorized Users acknowledge that the Electronic Products and UKVet Website, and the Intellectual Property Rights contained therein are protected by law. All rights not specifically licensed to the Licensee are expressly reserve by Wiley.
E. Electronic Products - All products, services and content available in UKVet Website shall be deemed included within the definition of Electronic Products.
F. Licensed Electronic Products – The electronic (online) editions of Wiley journals and other publication and the content therein.
Rules of Use
A. To make UKVet Website, the Electronic Product useful, the following rules apply:
1. Authorized Users including Walk-in Users, who may be from the general public, may browse all Tables of Content and for all Electronic Products on UKVet Website and search the entire database of Tables of Content and abstracts. For most publications, Authorized Users may browse the abstracts as well.
2. Authorized Users who have subscribed to Electronic Products will have access to the full text of such Licensed Electronic Products. Authorized Users may download, search, retrieve, display and view, copy and save to hard disk or diskette and store or print out single copies of individual articles or items for their own personal use, scholarly, educational or scientific research or internal business use. Authorized Users may also transmit such material to a third-party colleague in hard copy or electronically for personal use or scholarly, educational, or scientific research or professional use but in no case for re-sale, systematic redistribution or for any other use. In addition, Authorized Users have the right to use, with appropriate credit, figures, tables and brief excerpts from individual articles in the Electronic Product(s) in their own scientific, scholarly and educational works.
3. In order to access Electronic Products, the Authorized Users must register by providing an email address to the UKVet Publications subscription department after which a password will be issued. Authorized Users must keep their login details confidential and not disclose to or share this information with anyone else.
B. Except as provided above, Authorized Users may not copy, distribute, transmit or otherwise reproduce, sell or resell material from Electronic Products (s); store such material in any form or medium in a retrieval system; download and/or store an entire issue of a Electronic Product or its equivalent; or transmit such material, directly or indirectly, for use in any paid service such as document delivery or list serve, or for use by any information brokerage or for systematic distribution, whether or not for commercial or non-profit use or for a fee or free of charge.
C. Authorized Users agree not to remove, obscure or modify any copyright or proprietary notices, author attribution or any disclaimer as they appear on UKVet Website. Authorized Users may not integrate material from the Electronic Product(s) with other material or otherwise create derivative works in any medium. However, brief quotations for purposes of comment, criticism or similar scholarly purposes are not prohibited herein.
D. Authorized Users may not do anything to restrict or inhibit any other Authorized User's access to or use of UKVet Website and the Electronic Product(s).
E. If an Authorized User refuses or fails to abide by these Terms and Conditions or violates any other terms of this Agreement, Wiley reserves the right in its sole discretion to suspend or terminate their access to UKVet Website and the Electronic Products immediately without notice, in addition to any other available remedies.
F. Authorized Users shall not have the right to incorporate any material from the Licensed Electronic Products into any institutional or other repository under any circumstances without Wiley’s prior written approval.
Additional Terms
Wiley is not responsible for any charges associated with accessing UKVet Website and the Electronic Products, including, but not limited to, any computer equipment, telephone or Internet connections and access software.
Wiley may modify any of these terms and conditions at any time by providing notice on UKVet Website. An Authorized User’s continued use of UKVet Website shall be conclusively deemed acceptance of such modification.
UKVet Website may provide links to third-party websites. Where such links exist, Wiley disclaims all responsibility and liability for the content of such third-party websites. Authorized Users assume the sole responsibility for the accessing of third-party websites and the use of any content appearing on such websites.
Privacy and Data Protection Policy
Wiley recognizes the importance of protecting the information it collects in the operation of UKVet Website and will act in compliance with the Privacy Policy posted on the UKVet Website below.
Additional Services
In addition UKVet Website may offer additional services, including optional E-mail Alerting Services, which are opted into by registration and may be opted out of at any time. By choosing to take advantage of this and other services offered by UKVet Website, Authorized Users consent to the use of their information for the purposes of providing these services.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small bits of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are when you return. Cookies remember information about your activities on the site and enable the operator of the site to make your visits more enjoyable or customize your experience. We may use cookies in a variety of ways, such as to collect information to help us learn things like what kinds of customers our site attracts, which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. We don't use cookies to collect and store individually-identifiable information. You can program your computer to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies completely. (From BJOG website) In UKVet Website cookies are used in one way only, as a temporary Session Control cookie to validate access privileges.
Session Control Cookie:
Session Control Cookies are used on most Web sites today because they facilitate navigation. In order to use UKVet Website Authorized Users must have their browsers set to accept cookies.
Once an Authorized User is signed onto UKVet Website, Wiley’s Web server uses a temporary cookie to help Wiley manage the visit to the service. This Session Control Cookie is deleted when the Authorized User clicks on the Logout button in UKVet Website or when the Authorized User quits the browser. This cookie allows Wiley to quickly determine access control rights and personal preferences during the online session. The Session Control Cookie is set out of necessity and not out of convenience.
Warranty Limitations
UKVET WEBSITE AND THE ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS AND ALL MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE; THE USE OF THE ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS, UKVET WEBSITE AND ALL MATERIALS IS AT THE AUTHORIZED USER'S OWN RISK; ACCESS TO UKVET WEBSITE AND THE ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS MAY BE INTERRUPTED AND MAY NOT BE ERROR FREE; AND NEITHER WILEY NOR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DELIVERING THE ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS OR THE MATERIALS CONTAINED IN UKVET WEBSITE, SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE AUTHORIZED USER'S USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE UKVET WEBSITE, THE ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS AND ALL MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN.
Privacy and Data Protection Policy
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and its related companies (collectively, "Wiley") recognize the importance of protecting the information collected from Users in the operation of this website, and take reasonable steps to maintain the security, integrity and privacy of any information in accordance with this Privacy and Data Protection Policy. By submitting your information to Wiley you consent to the practices described herein.
Wiley will ensure that any identifiable personal information it collects through, for example, the registration and purchasing processes, will be adequate, relevant and not excessive for purposes of operating this website or any of the services operated hereunder, it will be kept accurate and up-to-date based on information provided and it will be deleted when no longer needed. Except where necessary in connection with services provided by appropriate intermediaries, who will be required to comply with the confidentiality provisions of this policy, Wiley will not disclose any personal information identifying Users to any third party, unless required by law or to enforce the UKVet Website Terms and Conditions of Use or otherwise needed in connection with legal proceedings or unless we have received your consent.
If use of an electronic product, feature or service offered by Wiley on this website requires a User to provide a name and password or other personally identifiable information, the User will have the option to opt in or out of providing such information and using the product, feature or service. Any private communications or information supplied to Wiley by a User may be used by Wiley for internal business and research purposes and to help enhance and develop our websites but will not be shared with third parties unless we receive your consent.
Wiley may disclose to carefully chosen third parties navigational and transactional information in the form of anonymous, aggregate usage statistics (including "page views" on this website and the products herein) and demographics but only in forms that do not reveal a User's identity or confidential information, except as required by law, as needed in connection with legal proceedings, or unless we have received your consent.
Cookies are small bits of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are when you return. Cookies remember information about your activities on the site and enable the operator of the site to make your visits more enjoyable or customize your experience. We may use cookies in a variety of ways, such as to collect information to help us learn things like what kinds of customers our site attracts, which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. We don't use cookies to collect and store individually-identifiable information. You can program your computer to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies completely. In UKVet Website cookies are used in one way only: as a temporary, Session Control cookie to validate access privileges.
Session Control Cookie:
Session Control cookies are used on most Web sites today because they facilitate navigation. In order to use Wiley Online Library Authorized Users must have their browsers set to accept cookies.
Once an Authorized User is signed onto the UKVet Website, Wiley’s Web server uses a temporary cookie to help Wiley manage the visit to the service. This Session Control Cookie is deleted when the Authorized User clicks on the Logout button in UKVet Website or when the Authorized User quits the browser. This cookie allows Wiley to quickly determine access control rights and personal preferences during the online session. The Session Control Cookie is set out of necessity and not out of convenience.
Links may be provided from this website to other third party websites. In using such links, Users should be aware that each third party website will vary in terms of its privacy and data protection policies, and Wiley does not take responsibility for the privacy policies of, and usage of, personal information collected by others including, without limitation, those of any partner or affiliate.
You should be aware that identifiable personal information – such as your name or e-mail address – that you voluntarily disclose that are accessible to other Users (e.g. on bulletin boards or in chat areas) could be collected and disclosed by others. Wiley cannot take any responsibility for such collection and disclosure.
UKVet Website may offer additional services, including optional E-mail Alerting Services, which are opted into by registration and may be opted out of at any time. By choosing to take advantage of this and other services offered by UKVet Website, you consent to the use of your information for the purposes of providing these services.
Please note that Wiley's Privacy and Data Protection Policy is reviewed periodically. Wiley reserves the right to modify its Privacy and Data Protection Policy at any time without notice. Any changes to the policy will be posted on this page. Your continued use of this website will be deemed conclusive acceptance of such modification. Any comments or questions concerning this policy should be addressed to UKVet Website Privacy Policy at privacy@wiley.com.