International Journal of Sports and Health (IJSH)
Terms of Service
Published: 21 July 2025
Updated: 21 July 2025
The following Terms of Service represent a contract between you and IJSH. Your use of IJSH websites, codes, their functionalities, and any derivatives thereof means that you agree to the following terms. If you do not agree to these Terms of Service, do not use or visit the IJSH web sites or its contents.
1.0 Ownership
All proprietary and confidential information contained within IJSH sites is protected by all applicable laws pertaining to common property, proprietary rights, and intellectual property. By visiting or using any IJSH sites you agree that the entire content of the sites, including but not limited to their design, programming interfaces, or other functionalities, are owned by IJSH, may only be used for their intended uses, and may not be reproduced in part or in whole in any form without prior written consent of IJSH, except for personal non-commercial purposes. You accept that your use of this site, and any software used to access these sites, contains proprietary and confidential information that is protected under the law.
2.0 Submissions
By submitting an observation to IJSH, either for publication or posting on the IJSH web sites, you agree to these Terms of Use,
that your submission does NOT include any component of scientific misconduct (for definitions, see section 16 below)
that your submission does not contain any copyrighted material
that any submission involving human or protected animal subjects was performed under approval by appropriate administrative and legal authorities and conformed to the conditions of said approval,
that you will provide IJSH with any additional information, including all raw data, upon request by IJSH, and to application of the Creative Commons Application license to your submission. Submitting authors are personally responsible for all content submitted to IJSH.
3.0 License
The observations and associated materials published or posted by IJSH are licensed by the authors for use and distribution in accord with the Creative Commons Attribution license.
4.0 Responsibility
The observations and associated materials published or posted by IJSH are licensed by the authors for use and distribution in accord with the Creative Commons Attribution license.
5.0 General use
IJSH encourages use of its sites by all interested parties. However, IJSH reserves the right to limit, suspend or terminate your access to IJSH websites at any time without priori notice.
6.0 Privacy
IJSH believes that privacy matters, and is committed to protecting the personal information of everyone who visits or uses our sites. IJSH may however, from time to time, request personal information from you, such as your name, title, email address, affiliations, or telephone number. The only reason we will ask you for this information is to customize our websites or to facilitate one-on-one interactions with you. Accessing our sites will not divulge any of your personal information and we will not voluntarily share any of your personal information with any third party, unless specifically allowed by you or required by law. IJSH also automatically collects domain information to determine who visits our site and how it is used. We use this information to improve our web sites and our business.
We will not disclose your personal information to third parties without your express written permission or required by law.
Some of our pages use “cookies” that are placed on your drive and allow us to identify you. They cannot read data off your drives. Your browser may notify you when you receive a cookie and give you choice whether to accept it or not. If you do not accept our cookies you may not be able to access certain information on our sites.
IJSH may change its privacy policies with or without notice, and it is your responsibility to understand our policies be reviewing this page when you use this site. If you have any questions about our privacy policies please contact us.
7.0 Forbidden Acts
Your use of IJSH sites means that you agree to NOT:
- Submit any information or observation that contains any element of fabrication, falsification or plagiarism. These forbidden acts include all aspects of scientific misconduct (for definitions, see section 16 below).
- Impersonate any person or entity, make any false statement of professional or personal affiliations, or provide any deliberately misleading information.
- Submit any content that infringes on another’s rights, including copyrights or any other intellectual property rights.
- Modify IJSH websites or codes in any way; hack or in any way interfere with the operation of IJSH web sites; reproduce or use any reproduction of IJSH websites, codes, pages, or designs, except for personal non-commercial purposes; or falsely state, infer, or generate any real or perceived affiliation with IJSH or its web sites.
- Use the IJSH websites or contents to violate any laws or relevant administrative guidelines, either in Malaysia or in the jurisdiction in which you reside to use IJSH websites or materials.
- Upload or transmit in any way any form of solicitation, including junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or any other form of unsolicited or unauthorized advertising.
- Upload or transmit in any way any content that is illegal, discriminatory, abusive, threatening, obscene, or otherwise deemed inappropriate by IJSH.
- Use an excessive amount of IJSH bandwidth or burden IJSH servers, as determined solely at the discretion of IJSH.
8.0 Violations
IJSH is not liable for violations of its Terms of Service. IJSH is not obligated to validate in any way your or any other party’s use of its sites, including any content you or any other users submit for publication or posting on IJSH sites. IJSH may, at its sole discretion, eliminate any content that violates these Terms of Service or that it otherwise deems inappropriate. IJSH will refer all suspected instances of scientific misconduct to the appropriate institutional and governmental authorities.
9.0 Modifications
IJSH reserves the right to temporarily or permanently alter or discontinue its sites with or without notice at any time. IJSH shall not be liable to any party for any alteration, interruption or elimination of its websites, their data or their services. IJSH reserves the right to change these Terms of Service by notification on this page of its websites. Each time you use IJSH websites you are bound by the Terms of Service posted on this page at the time you used IJSH sites.
10.0 Infringements
If you believe that any material that infringes on your intellectual property rights has been posted to IJSH, please notify us immediately.
11.0 Links and Advertisement
IJSH shall not be held responsible for the content or availability of any links to external sites, and neither endorses nor guarantees any of the content carried on any such websites, whether commercial or non-commercial in nature. IJSH will not be held responsible for any interactions you engage in with any third parties you interact with via IJSH sites. IJSH makes no express or implied warranty to the validity or utility of products or services offered by such third parties, and is not responsible for any damage or loss potentially caused by use of such content, goods or services available via IJSH web sites.
12.0 Disclaimer
YOUR USE OF IJSH WEBSITES, CONTENT, AND LINKS IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IJSH SITES AND THEIR CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. NO WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE SHALL BE CREATED BY ANY INFORMATION THAT YOU OBTAIN FROM IJSH WHETHER VERBALLY, IN WRITING OR THROUGH ITS WEBSITES OR THEIR CONTENT, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE. IJSH MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING THE IJSH SITES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT RELATING TO THE IJSH SITES, THEIR CONTENT, OR ANY WEB SITE TO WHICH THEY ARE LINKED.
13.0 Indemnification and Limitation of Liability
Use of IJSH websites and associated content means that you agree to indemnify and hold IJSH and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners and employees harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the IJSH websites, your violation of these Terms of Service, your violation of any rights of another, or any breach of the foregoing representations, warranties and covenants. You are solely responsible for your actions when using the IJSH sites, including, but not limited to, costs incurred for Internet access. IJSH reserves the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with our defense of these claims.
IN NO EVENT SHALL IJSH OR ITS EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, OR CONTRACTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY NATURE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF INCOME OR PROFIT, LOSS OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, LOSS OF GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, CLAIMS OF THIRD PARTIES, OR ANY OTHER LOSS, COST, CLAIM OR EXPENSE OF ANY KIND OR CHARACTER ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THE IJSH SITES, THEIR CONTENT OR ANY WEB SITE WITH WHICH THEY ARE LINKED.
14.0 International Use
Your use of IJSH commits you to comply with all local laws regarding online content, behavior, and the transmission of technical data from Malaysia or your country or residence or operation.
15.0 General Conditions
Your use of IJSH sites and content is governed by these Terms of Service, which supersede any prior agreements between you and IJSH, as well as any prior representations by IJSH. These Terms of Service shall be governed by the laws of Malaysia without regard to conflicts of law principles. Failure of IJSH to enforce or exercise any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. All claims against IJSH and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners and employees, arising out of or related to use of IJSH sites or Terms of Service must in all cases be filed in the courts of Malaysia and must be brought within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. Section titles in the Terms of Service are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
16.0 Definition of Scientific Misconduct
As stated by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Research Integrity (http://ori.hhs.gov/definition-misconduct), research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results:
Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them.
Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record.
Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.
Research misconduct does not include honest error or differences of opinion.
The Editorial Policies of IJSH applies.
17.0 Citation
The text of our Terms of Service’ is a direct reproduction of ‘Terms of Service’ (https://www.sciencematters.io/terms-of-service) of the ScienceMatters site, as available on 17 January 2018, which includes entire sentences, phrases, and paragraphs. We thank ScienceMatters for making this content available for public use under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license and we make this content public, too (CC BY).