Terms & Conditions

Uphills Publishers LLC is founded with a mission to promote academic publication. Our aim is to hold up to the highest possible publishing standards that all our scholars, researchers, academic groups and institutions shall be proud of publishing content with us. The Terms and Conditions and the use of the Uphills Publishers LLC sites indicate that you have read and accepted these Terms and Conditions and agree to be legally bound by all such terms. If you do not accept these Terms in full, you should stop accessing and using the Uphills Publishers LLC Sites immediately. You are solely responsible for Your Content. You assume all risks associated with the use of Your Content, including any reliance on its accuracy, completeness, or usefulness by others, or any disclosure of Your Content that personally identifies you or any third party. You are solely responsible for creating and maintaining your own backup copies of your User Content if you desire.

Ownership

Unless otherwise stated, the website and affiliated online services are the property of Uphills Publishers LLC, and the copyright of the website belongs to Uphills Publishers LLC or its licensors. You may not copy, hack, or modify the website or online services, or falsely claim that some other site is associated with Uphills Publishers LLC .

Registration

You may register or otherwise create a user account to access certain parts of the Uphills Publishers LLC Sites, or to receive certain content and/or to utilize certain functions of our online services, including features in which you interact with other users or us. You are responsible for representing and warranting that your registration information is accurate. Unless otherwise indicated, your registration is for your use only, and you are responsible for the use of any password you create or other information you provide during the registration process as confidential. You are responsible for any loss or damage you or we may suffer if you fail to do so. Uphills Publishers LLC reserves the right to deny, terminate, or restrict your access to any content or feature reached via such registration process for any reason, at our sole discretion. Uphills Publishers LLC also reserves the right to block or to terminate the user’s access to the website at any time and without prior notice.

Third-Party Content

Uphills Publishers LLC's website and online services may provide links to other websites or external resources. You acknowledge and agree that Uphills Publishers LLC is not responsible for these sites and resources, and thus is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources. Uphills Publishers LLC is not liable for any content or operation of such external sites or resources. Your business dealings with any third parties, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other warranties, conditions, or terms associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such third party at your own risk.

Modifications

You acknowledge and agree that the Uphills Publishers LLC Sites may be suspended, withdrawn, discontinued, partly or fully changed at any time, without prior notice. Uphills Publishers LLC reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time by updating this page. You should check these Terms periodically to obtain timely notice of modifications we make. Your continued use of Uphills Publishers LLC Sites will mean that you have accepted and agreed to the changes. If any provisions of the Terms of Use should be found invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. In any such case, the contracting parties shall negotiate on the invalid clause to substitute by a valid arrangement as close as possible to the original provision.

 

Privacy Policy

Uphills Publishers LLC (our, us, we) is an international academic publisher for open access journals, where scholars contribute their research findings and exchange ideas in their respective scientific fields. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy as per applicable data protection and privacy laws. This policy describes what data we collect from you, how we process your personal data, and what control and information rights you may have. Below are the details:

  1. What Data We Collect: When you access our websites, our web servers will create records of your visits automatically. In general, these records include IP-address, access times, pages visited, the content viewed, browser type, operating system and other such information. If you register for our services, e.g. the submission and peer-review system, you will be asked to register your user account. Your personal information and contact data: names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and age will be collected for registration. If you are paying an Article Processing Charge, or pay for other paid-for services, you will also provide invoice payment details, which may include billing addresses and other contact details.
  2. Information We Receive from Third Parties:We also collect data about You from third parties such as those who operate the platform through which articles are submitted and reviewed; article authors, editors and peer reviewers who may recommend you as a potential author, reviewer or editor; publicly available sources to identify potential contributors, editors and peer reviewers.
  3. How We Process Your Data:For automatically collected data, we will only use such information to adapt our website to our user needs. For registered data, we will process your personal data for our legitimate interests, such as to administer your account, to manage your manuscript submission/peer-review/publication, to introduce our services and information for advertising purposes, to communicate with you for any questions or comments you have, to deal with inquiries or complaints about the Site and share your information with our website developer, IT support provider, payment services provider and marketing service provider, as necessary to provide customer support, and to prevent fraud and other misuses. Uphills Publishers LLC may send you emails to draw your attention to our services you might be interested in. You can choose to object to the use of your personal data at any time, and we will withdraw any processing to the extent it is related to such purposes.
  4. How We Protect Your Data:We value the security of your personal data. We use appropriate physical management and technical measures to safeguard all the data we collect from unauthorized access, disclosure, damage, or loss. Besides, Uphills Publishers LLC, as an international press, may transfer your personal data to our international servers, and we will make sure to maintain adequate protection of your data as well.
  5. What Rights You Have:Under the legislation applicable to you, you may have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to request we update your data as per your proper needs, to object or restrict to our use of your data, and to ask us to delete your personal information in our system. Uphills Publishers LLC is devoted to maintaining the accuracy and completeness of your personal information.
  6. Updates to This Policy:Uphills Publishers LLC reserves the right to update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Please visit our website regularly for any changes there might be for our policy. This policy was latest updated on 29/02/2024. Contact Should you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at our customer service: info@uphillspublishers.com.