Terms of Use

Last updated: May 20, 2025

Welcome to the network of websites and services provided by Science Simplified (“Science Simplified,” “us,” or “we”). These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of our websites, applications, and other products or services that include an authorized link to these Terms (collectively, the “Services”).

Please review these Terms carefully before using the Services because they affect your rights. By using any of the Services, you accept these Terms and agree to be legally bound by them. If you do not agree with these Terms, your sole remedy is to not use our Services.

We may change these Terms in the future, so we encourage you to periodically review the Terms of Use applicable to each Service you use. The most current version of the applicable Terms of Use will be posted on each of the Services. Changes to these Terms will be effective immediately or, if required by law, 30 days after notice to you, which may be given by posting the updated Terms on our Services or by email. If you continue to use the Services after we change these Terms, you accept all changes.

1. User Accounts

As a user of our Services, you may be asked to register with us and provide private information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of this information, and you are responsible for maintaining the safety and security of your login information.

If you think there are any possible issues regarding the security of your account on our Services, contact us immediately so we may address them.

2. Intellectual Property

The text, photographs, graphics, logos, layouts, designs, interfaces, software, data and other content associated with the Services (“Content”) are protected by intellectual property and other laws in the U.S. and in other countries. You must comply with all such laws and applicable copyright, trademark, or other legal notices or restrictions. As between you and Science Simplified, Science Simplified will retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Services and the Content. No transfer of ownership to any portion of the Content shall be made as a result of any access you are granted. Except as specifically provided below, we reserve all rights in and to the Services and Content.

You are only permitted to access and view the Content for personal, non-commercial purposes in accordance with these Terms, and may not build a business or other enterprise utilizing any of the Content, whether for profit or not.

3. Copyright Claims

We respect intellectual property rights. If you are a copyright owner (or the owner’s authorized agent) and have a good-faith belief that material on the website infringes your copyrights, you may notify us using the following procedure.

In order for us to process your notice of copyright infringement, it must be sent to the Designated Agent identified below and must include the information specified below. Send your notice of infringement to our designated agent for receiving such notices as set forth below:

Science Simplified
Attn: Designated Agent
PO Box 20423, Stanford, CA 94309
Email Address: info@scisimplified.org

Your notice must include:

  • A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

  • Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;

  • Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;

  • A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

  • A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Upon receipt of a notice of claimed infringement that satisfies these requirements (or any statement in conformance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)), we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any content that is claimed to be infringing upon the copyright of any person under the laws of the United States.

4. User Submissions

Some of the Services may allow you to submit text or other materials (collectively, “User Submissions”) to or through the Services. When you provide User Submissions, you grant to Science Simplified a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, fully sublicenseable license to use, reproduce, archive, edit, translate, create derivative works of, make available, distribute, sell, display, transmit and in any other way exploit those User Submissions, and any names, likenesses, and other identifying information of persons that is part of those User Submissions, in any form, media, software, or technology of any kind now known or developed in the future. You hereby waive any moral rights you may have in your User Submissions.

We respect your ownership of User Submissions. If you owned a User Submission before providing it to us, you will continue owning it after providing it to us, subject to any rights granted in these Terms and any access granted to others. Please note that if you delete a User Submission from the Services:

  • The User Submission may still exist in our backup copies, which are not publicly available.

  • If your User Submission was shared with third parties, those third parties may have retained copies of your User Submissions, and we are not responsible for any uses of your User Submission that they might make.

  • We retain the license specified above. Thus, for example, if we or one of our sublicensees obtained your user Submission for use in creating a derivative work before you deleted it, we or our sublicensee would remain free to complete the creation of that derivative work and thereafter exploit that derivative work for all purposes and at all times.

  • We may refuse or remove a User Submission without notice to you. You also agree that we will not be liable for User Submissions or any loss or damage resulting from User Submissions.

  • We do not guarantee that User Submissions will be private, even if the User Submission is in a password-protected area. Accordingly, you should not provide User Submissions that you want protected from others.

  • You bear all responsibility for your User Submissions. You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant to Science Simplified the license above and that your User Submissions do not violate Section 6 [Acceptable Use].

5. Third Party Content

We may provide third party content (including advertisements) or link to third party websites on the Services. We do not necessarily endorse or evaluate third party content and websites, and we do not assume responsibility for third parties’ actions or omissions.

6. Acceptable Use

Without limiting any other provision in these Terms, you agree not to do the following, or assist others to do the following:

  • Access the Services using any interface other than ours.

  • Maintain any link to the Services that we ask you to remove, in our sole discretion.

  • Frame the Services or Content, make the Services or Content available via in-line links, otherwise display the Services or Content in connection with an unauthorized logo or mark, or do anything that could falsely suggest a relationship between Science Simplified and any third party.

  • Threaten, defame, stalk, abuse, or harass other persons or engage in illegal activities, or encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability.

  • Transmit any material that is inappropriate, profane, vulgar, offensive, false, defamatory, obscene, illegal, sexually explicit, racist, that promotes violence, racial hatred, or terrorism, or that we deem, in our sole discretion, to be otherwise objectionable.

  • Violate any person’s or entity’s legal rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property, privacy, and publicity rights), transmit material that violates or circumvents such rights, or remove or alter intellectual property or other legal notices.

  • Transmit files that contain viruses, spyware, adware, or other harmful code.

  • Advertise or promote goods or services without our permission (including, without limitation, by sending unsolicited email).

  • Interfere with others using the Services or otherwise disrupt the Services.

  • Disassemble, decompile or otherwise reverse engineer any software or other technology included in the Content or used to provide the Services.

  • Engage in unauthorized spidering, “scraping,” data mining or harvesting of Content, or use any other unauthorized automated means to gather data from or about the Services.

  • Impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation or the origin of materials you transmit.

  • Remove, avoid, interfere with, or otherwise circumvent any access control measures for the Services or Content, including password-protected areas and geo-filtering mechanisms, or any digital rights management measures used in connection with Content.

  • Access any portion of the Services that we have not authorized you to access (including password-protected areas), link to password-protected areas, attempt to access or use another user’s account or information, or allow anyone else to use your account or access credentials.

  • If you violate this Section 6, we may terminate your access to the Services without notice, and take any other actions or seek any remedies permitted by law.

7. Access to Services and User Accounts

We may take any of the following actions in our sole discretion at any time, and without giving you prior notice:

  • Change or discontinue the Services.

  • Change how we offer and operate Services (e.g., to begin charging a fee to access features or Content that we previously made available without charge).

  • Remove Content from the Services.

  • Restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to one or more Services or features thereof.

  • Deactivate your accounts and delete all related information and files in your accounts.

We will not be liable to you or any third party for taking any of these actions and we will not be limited to the remedies above if you violate these Terms. If we terminate your access to any of the Services, you must immediately stop using such Service.

8. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Science Simplified, its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, vendors, partners, contractors, agents, licensors or other representatives and all of their successors and assigns (collectively, the “Science Simplified Parties”) with respect to all third party claims, costs (including attorney’s fees and costs), damages, liabilities, and expenses or obligations of any kind, arising out of or in connection with your use or misuse of the Services (including, without limitation use of your account, whether or not authorized by you, and claims arising from User Submissions). Science Simplified retains the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any claim subject to indemnification, and in such cases you agree to cooperate with us to defend such claim. You may not settle any claim covered by this Section 8 without Science Simplified’s prior written approval.

9. Disclaimers; Limitation of Liability

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE ALONG WITH CONTENT AND MATERIALS AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH OTHERS ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. SCIENCE SIMPLIFIED EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, COMPATIBILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. SCIENCE SIMPLIFIED SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR THE USE OF THE SERVICE.

SCIENCE SIMPLIFIED MAKES NO WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR: (i) CONTENT; (ii) USER SUBMISSIONS; (iii) ANY THIRD PARTY, OR THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE, THIRD-PARTY PRODUCT, OR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE ACCESSIBLE OR MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE; (iv) THE QUALITY OR CONDUCT OF ANY USER OR OTHER THIRD PARTY YOU ENCOUNTER IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ANY ACTIVITIES, EVENTS, ENGAGEMENT OR INTERACTIONS WITH OTHERS THAT MAY BE FACILITATED THROUGH USE OF THE SERVICE; OR (v) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE OR ALTERATION OF CONTENT OR USER SUBMISSIONS. FURTHER, SCIENCE SIMPLIFIED MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE (INCLUDING ANY CONTENT, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL YOU OBTAIN, ACCESS, OR VIEW THROUGH THE SERVICE) WILL: (I) MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (II) BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; (III) WITHOUT VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; (IV) BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; (V) BE OF SUFFICIENT QUALITY; AND (VI) BE CORRECTED OF ANY ERRORS. YOU USE MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED, ACCESSED, OR VIEWED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM SCIENCE SIMPLIFIED ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.

TO THE EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL SCIENCE SIMPLIFIED BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR PERSONAL INJURY OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS AND PROPERTY DAMAGE, EVEN IF WE WERE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE CONTENT OR THE SERVICE, HOWEVER CAUSED.

10. Governing Law, Venue, and Jurisdiction

These Terms and all claims arising from or related to your use of the Services will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, except California's conflict of law rules. These Terms will not be governed by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, if applicable.

With respect to any disputes or claims not subject to small claims court, you agree to exclusive jurisdiction in the state and federal courts in Santa Clara, California.

Regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, you must file any claim or action related to use of the Services or these Terms within one year after such claim or action accrued. Otherwise, you will waive the claim or action.

11. Miscellaneous

We may be required by state or federal law to notify you of certain events. You hereby acknowledge and agree that such notices will be effective upon our posting them in the relevant Service or delivering them to you via email. If you do not provide us with accurate information, we will not be responsible for failure to notify you. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision in these Terms will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us and supersede all prior agreements with respect to the subject matter hereof. Nothing in these Terms affects any non-waivable statutory rights that apply to you. If any part of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, that provision will be removed, and the remainder of the Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.