LEGAL POLICIES
Copyright policy
The author retains the copyright of the article submitted. As such, the article can be published by SCRIPTed in two different ways:
- the author may grant SCRIPTed the non-exclusive right to publish the work online; or
- the author may choose to license the work by using the SCRIPTed Open Licence (SOL), which allows SCRIPTed to publish the work online following the open access philosophy and in compliance with the principles stated in the Open Access Law Program.
- the author may choose an open access licence of his/her choosing (such as a Creative Commons licence).
The preferred method of publication is through SOL. SCRIPTed is built on the principles of sharing academic works for the benefit of the wider community, and therefore we strongly encourage the use of non-proprietary licensing models. This is why we have drafted a licence that gives SCRIPTed readers the power to disseminate the original and unmodified (with the possible exception of translation) work, provided it is not done for commercial purposes.
Privacy policy
The SCRIPTed site collects no more data about you than most other websites.
This privacy policy will be reviewed, and may be revised, from time to time. You may wish to revisit it regularly. 'We' as used in this policy refers to the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the School of Law in the University of Edinburgh.
Browsing this site doesn't reveal your identity publicly. Your actions will be identified, however, by your IP address. These numbers could potentially be traceable to identifying information about you, whether it is your home ISP or the University or Work account where the IP address is registered. Your IP address could potentially be used in conjunction with other data to identify you.
If you are concerned about attempts to match your IP address to your identity, you may wish to use an anonymous browsing service or attempt some means to obfuscate your real IP address. The webservers that host this site maintain access logs with the information that you send. This information is used to provide site statistics and to get an idea of popular pages and what sites link here. We do not intend to use these logs to identify legitimate users. We will not sell your information, such as your email address, to third parties.
We do not intentionally reveal the raw logs to the public. The data logged may be used by us to solve technical problems with the site and, in cases of abuse of this site, to investigate the abuse.
Our policy is to only release the data we collect in the following circumstances:
- As required by law, such as in response to a valid request from law enforcement.
- When given permission by the user.
- When the information is related to spiders or bots, usually when investigating technical issues.
- If necessary to defend legal claims against us by third parties.
- When we deem it necessary to protect the property or rights of this website.
We make no guarantee that the information that you provide us will be secure or confidential.
Cookie policy
Some of the features in this website use cookies. Cookies are collected for the sole purpose of facilitating the transmission of a communication over the network and to provide the user with seamless navigation through our server.
HTTP cookies, sometimes known as web cookies or just cookies, are parcels of text sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences and the contents of their electronic shopping carts. (This definition is taken from Wikipedia).
You can find instructions on how to delete and control cookies for several browsers HERE. You can also learn more about cookies in this site.