Terms and Conditions

PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. THIS DOCUMENT CONSTITUTES A LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU (THE “CLIENT,” “AUTHOR,” OR “USER”) AND JOURNAL PUBLISHING EXPERT (THE “COMPANY,” “WE,” “US,” OR “OUR”). BY ACCESSING OUR WEBSITE (HTTPS://JOURNALPUBLISHINGEXPERT.COM/), REGISTRATION OF AN ACCOUNT, SUBMITTING A MANUSCRIPT, REQUESTING A COST QUOTATION, OR ENGAGING OUR PROFESSIONAL EDITORIAL SERVICES, YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE UNCONDITIONALLY BOUND BY ALL CLAUSES, STIPULATIONS, AND AMENDMENTS CONTAINED HEREIN. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU ARE PROHIBITED FROM USING OUR PLATFORM, PORTAL, OR SERVICES.


1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

Within this Master Service Agreement, the following terms shall be defined as follows:

 

  • “Company”: Refers exclusively to Journal Publishing Expert, its parent corporate entities, subsidiaries, global branches, directors, executives, employees, and authorized independent contractors or editors.
  • “Client” or “User”: Refers to any individual researcher, academic, author, student, institutional representative, or corporate entity who accesses the website or submits material for professional evaluation, translation, processing, or editing.
  • “Manuscript” or “Client Material”: Refers to all text, data, charts, mathematical calculations, figures, graphics, digital source files, abstracts, and reference bibliographies provided by the Client for processing by the Company.
  • “Services”: Refers to the complete suite of academic support provisions, including English language editing, scientific proofreading, plagiarism scanning, translation, technical formatting, peer-review simulation, and graphical abstract curation.
  • “Delivery Date”: The deadline finalized and stated in writing on the specific transaction invoice by which the edited material must be uploaded or sent back to the Client.

2. MANDATORY ACADEMIC ETHICS & ETHICAL USE POLICY

Journal Publishing Expert strictly follows international academic criteria published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Consequently, the following strict boundaries apply to all services:

 

  • No Ghostwriting or Plagiarism Generation: The Company provides linguistic improvement, clarity checks, formatting, and stylistic corrections. We never write research papers from scratch, compile ghostwritten text, create fake peer reviews, or intentionally adjust or manipulate data to fit desired findings.
  • Academic Honesty: The responsibility for scientific truth, empirical validity, and ethical standards (such as securing Institutional Review Board or ethical approval) rests entirely with the Client.
  • No Guarantee of Publication: Academic journal acceptance is based heavily on variables out of our control, including methodology validity, scientific novelty, and current reviewer focus. The Company does not guarantee acceptance, indexing, or specific impact factor ratings.

3. CONFIDENTIALITY, NON-DISCLOSURE, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Because unpublished academic work is highly sensitive and commercially or intellectually valuable, the Company enforces the following operational protocols:


3.1 Client Ownership

The Company explicitly states that it claims no rights, copyright ownership, patent claims, or intellectual property rights over any Client Materials submitted to our platform. All edits, adjustments, and improvements provided during our workflows belong entirely to the Client immediately upon payment processing.


3.2 Editor Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)

Every internal manager, external subject-matter consultant, language expert, and translator engaged by the Company must execute an ironclad, legally binding, perpetual Non-Disclosure Agreement before receiving any Client files. Client data will never be distributed, uploaded to public AI training loops, or exposed to unauthorized parties.

4. ACCOUNT CREATION, SECURITY, AND REQUISITE COMMUNICATION

To use certain features of the platform or submit papers, clients may need to create an official service account.

 

  • You must provide accurate, up-to-date, and completely true biographical info, institutional affiliations, and contact records.
  • You are solely responsible for maintaining the password and security configuration of your user account. Any tasks or payments authorized through your user dashboard will be deemed authorized directly by you.
  • The Company reserves the absolute right to suspend, terminate, or remove user access profiles instantly without prior notice if fraudulent registration information or malicious code is discovered.

5. QUOTATIONS, PAYMENT STRUCTURE, AND TAXATION

5.1 Rates and Price Integrity

Official prices are calculated based on precise document word count, academic complexity, requested turnaround urgency, and specific service packages. Custom parameters or specialized engineering requests will be subject to manual evaluation by our operations desk.

5.2 Advance Payment Obligations

Unless an official institutional purchase order from a verified university or research body has been formally accepted by our billing office, full payment is mandatory before any manuscript is distributed to an editing team. The Company is under no obligation to begin editorial work until payment clearance is confirmed.

5.3 Currency and Financial Transactions

All transactional settlements are handled securely using encrypted, PCI-DSS compliant third-party payment gateways. The Client agrees to handle any local processing fees, conversion adjustments, or transactional surcharges levied by their bank. All tax obligations, including local VAT or withholding taxes, are calculated transparently during the final checkout stage.

6. EXHAUSTIVE QUALITY ASSURANCE AND REVISION CONTRACT

We take pride in our rigorous language processing standards. Our Quality Guarantee is subject to the following detailed terms:

6.1 Standard Linguistic Warranty

We guarantee that the English language quality of any manuscript processed by our Elite or Premium packages will be of a standard acceptable to international peer-reviewed journals. If a paper is rejected by a journal solely and exclusively due to English language issues in the sections edited by us, the Company will re-edit those sections for free.

6.2 Strict Conditions for Complimentary Re-editing

To claim a free revision under our quality guarantee, the Client must comply with the following procedural steps:

 

  • The claim must be officially logged via email or dashboard panel within thirty (30) calendar days from the delivery date.
  • The Client must submit the official, unedited feedback or letter from the journal editor highlighting the exact language deficiencies.
  • The guarantee is immediately voided if the Client made text changes, introduced new paragraphs, or altered structural elements of our edited document prior to submitting it to the journal without our team verifying those additions first.

7. REFUND, CANCELLATION, AND ADJUSTMENT DISCLOSURES

Due to the customized nature of high-end academic editing, standard consumer return models do not apply to our operational environment.

 

  • Project Interruption / Cancellation: If a client officially requests cancellation after an order is paid and assigned to an editor, a full refund is not possible. The Client will be billed on a pro-rata basis for the exact volume of text already evaluated by the expert up to that hour, and the remaining balance will be returned as store credit or direct refund.
  • Completed Work: Once a manuscript has been fully edited, formatted, and delivered in accordance with invoice parameters, no refunds or chargebacks will be entertained under any circumstances, save for proven clerical billing errors.

8. PROHIBITED USAGE SCHEMES

Users and clients agree not to utilize the website, portal infrastructure, or operational services to:

 

  • Upload, store, or transmit text or files that violate copyright law, intellectual property regulations, or third-party trademark rights.
  • Deploy scraping tools, web crawlers, data mining algorithms, or security bypass routines to capture data from journalpublishingexpert.com.
  • Submit files that contain trojan horses, worms, ransomware, or any variant of destructive digital architecture.
  • Falsely represent institutional affiliation or pretend to be another academic or corporate entity to obtain preferential educational pricing scales.

9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN SECTION 6 OF THIS AGREEMENT, ALL SERVICES AND WEB UTILITIES ARE DELIVERED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASE COMPILATION WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY DESIGN, KIND, OR EXPRESSION. THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ALL STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR ACADEMIC SCHEME.

IN NO EVENT SHALL JOURNAL PUBLISHING EXPERT, ITS EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS, ASSOCIATES, OR CONTRACTED EDITORS BE LIABLY RESPONSIBLE FOR INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC REJECTIONS, TERMINATION OF UNIVERSITY TENURE, REVOCATION OF EDUCATIONAL FUNDING GRANTS, MISSED PUBLICATION DEADLINES, OR ANY INCIDENTAL, REQUISITE, OR PUNITIVE CONTEXTUAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER. THE MAXIMUM TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY OF THE COMPANY FOR ANY VALID LEGAL CLAIM LINKED TO AN ORDER SHALL NEVER EXCEED THE TOTAL EXACT AMOUNT ACTUALLY PAID BY THE CLIENT FOR THAT SPECIFIC SERVICE INVOICE.

10. INDEMNIFICATION CLAUSE

The Client agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Journal Publishing Expert, its executives, employees, and independent subject-matter contractors from and against any and all liabilities, losses, costs, claims, or financial demands (including reasonable legal expenses) resulting from: (i) any breach of copyright or data piracy present within the Client’s submitted material; (ii) any violation of academic integrity guidelines; or (iii) unauthorized access or use of our platform channels.

11. FORCE MAJEURE STRATAGEMS

The Company shall not be held liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in delivery of services, caused by events beyond our reasonable control (Force Majeure), including but not limited to acts of God, global data center outages, sweeping cyber warfare campaigns, severe network infrastructure degradation, changes in government regulatory policies, widespread civil disruption, or international shipping/telecommunications breakdowns. In such circumstances, our timelines will be extended proportionally to cover the recovery window.

12. SEVERABILITY AND ENTIRE CONTRACT INTEGRITY

If any single provision, sub-clause, or text portion of this Master Agreement is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or completely unenforceable, that specific element shall be severed, and the remaining sections, clauses, and stipulations shall continue to be valid and fully enforceable worldwide.

This document, paired with our active Privacy Policy, constitutes the entire legal contract between the Client and Journal Publishing Expert regarding service transactions, rendering all past verbal arrangements or informal communications void.

13. GOVERNING LAW AND RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES

This Agreement and all transactional actions linked to it shall be exclusively governed by and interpreted under international commercial regulations and the statutory framework of our primary operational corporate jurisdiction. Prior to initiating any formal legal or arbitration action, both parties agree to engage in mandatory, good-faith mediation for a minimum of forty-five (45) business days to find an amicable resolution.

14. SYSTEM ADVERTENCE AND INQUIRIES

All formal notices, legal updates, clarification requests, and account updates regarding these Master Terms should be funneled directly to our administrative team: