Terms of service

These terms govern your use of Pagemark, a platform for publishing and discovering academic and creative work. By creating an account or using the site, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use Pagemark.

Eligibility and your account

You must be at least 13 years old to use Pagemark. You're responsible for your account: keep your password secure, keep your account information accurate, and don't impersonate another person or institution. You may delete your account at any time from Account settings.

Your work stays yours

You keep full ownership of everything you publish on Pagemark, your theses, papers, designs, documents, images, and writing. Posting your work does not transfer your copyright or any other ownership right to us. What is yours stays yours.

To run the service, you grant Pagemark a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, revocable license to host, store, reproduce, reformat for display, publicly display, and distribute the content you post, solely to operate and provide Pagemark. For example, this lets us store your files, make backups, convert work into the formats needed to show it across devices, display your project pages to the people you share them with, and list public work in search and discovery. You will not be paid for these rights, and this license does not let us sell your content or use it for any purpose beyond running the service. The license ends when you remove the content or delete your account. After that we stop displaying and distributing it within a reasonable period, though removed content may remain in routine backups for a short time before it is overwritten.

Your representations and warranties

Each time you post content, you represent and warrant that:

• You own the content, or you have all rights, licenses, and permissions needed to post it and to grant the license described above.
• Your content does not and will not infringe, misappropriate, or violate anyone else's copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights.
• Posting does not breach any agreement you are bound by. This includes a copyright-transfer or publishing agreement with a journal or publisher, an embargo, or any prior-publication, exclusivity, or confidentiality term that applies to the work.

You are solely responsible for confirming that you have the right to share your work, including any work that may be covered by a publisher or institutional agreement. If you are unsure whether you may post something, do not post it until you have confirmed your rights.

What you may publish

• Only work you have the right to share. When you post a project you certify that you authored it or have permission from all authors and rights-holders to publish it.
• Check your obligations first: some journals, conferences, advisors, or funding agreements restrict where work may be posted. That responsibility is yours.
• No plagiarism, no passing off others' work as your own, and no content that infringes copyright or violates the law.

Acceptable use

• Be civil in discussions, no harassment, hate, or personal attacks. Comments should be questions and constructive feedback.
• Don't misuse the platform: no spam, no scraping accounts or content at scale, no attempting to break or bypass security measures.
• Don't upload malicious files or content unrelated to academic and creative work.

Reports and removal

Anyone can report a project (for plagiarism, stolen work, or other violations) from its page. We review reports and may remove content or suspend accounts that violate these terms.

Copyright and DMCA takedown

Pagemark respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects the same from its users. We respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). To file a notice, email our designated agent at legal@pagemarkhq.com with the following, as required by 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3):

• Your physical or electronic signature, as a person authorized to act for the owner of the right that is allegedly infringed.
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed (or a representative list, if several works are covered by one notice).
• Identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with enough information to let us locate it, such as the project link.
• Your contact information, including an address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information is accurate, and under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act for the owner of the right.

When we receive a valid notice, we remove or disable access to the material within a reasonable period and, where appropriate, notify the person who posted it. If you believe your content was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the same address that meets the requirements of 17 U.S.C. 512(g); we may then restore the material in 10 to 14 business days unless the original complainant notifies us that they have filed a court action. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

For our designated copyright agent's contact details and the full notice and counter-notification procedure, see our Copyright and DMCA policy.

The service

Pagemark is provided as is, without warranties of any kind. We work to keep the service reliable and your content available, but we can't guarantee uninterrupted operation, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential damages, lost data, or lost opportunities arising from your use of the site, to the maximum extent permitted by law. Pagemark is a hosting and discovery platform, the content of each project is the responsibility of its author, and appearing on Pagemark is not an endorsement or a peer review.

Changes

We may update these terms as the product evolves. If changes are material, the effective date above will be updated and significant changes will be noted on the site. Continuing to use Pagemark after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms: legal@pagemarkhq.com.