Unambiguous Declarations: This website is to record details of criminals to enable victims and law enforcement authorities to trace them and make them undergo due legal process and conviction. Further, this site is to enable potential victims identify criminals in each country, know their names, view their photos, the companies used by them, their criminal associates, their method of committing crimes / frauds and to stay away from them. This site is also to enable the general public identify criminals living in their neighborhood and update this site so their records are available till the law enforcement officials take charge. Many times, these criminals bribe corrupt law enforcement officials and continue to enjoy their ill gotten wealth freely and without fear knowing that no action will be taken against them. So, only with public awareness of their criminal activities can the law enforcement officials be forced to take appropriate legal action. This creators of this website asks users of information provided herein to exercise abundant caution against any misuse for any illegal action and reiterate that due legal process for enforcement as per of laws of the country must be the only route to bring the criminals listed here to justice..
PRIVACY POLICY
We are a Hunt Criminals Network
We intend to publish details of Criminals who are either gone into hiding or are operating blatantly under protection of law enforcement agencies in their own countries, news, articles and discoveries by the world’s top experts. Our mission is to make knowledge open – so that reporters, journalists, victims, law enforcement authorities, deb collectors and the community can collaborate better and innovate faster to deliver the solutions that enable better lives on a healthy planet.
We publish Records of Criminals Across the Globe
Our community-led articles span across potential victims, law enforcement authorities, and are peer-reviewed by active researchers who drive this initiative. As a open access publisher, all articles published by Hunt Criminals are immediately and permanently accessible online free of charge.
We feed articles to Law Enforcement Agencies. When you interact with the websites or articles of our publishing partners, the owner of the relevant journal is responsible for any personal data processed in that context.
We welcome Investigative Journalists, Victim, Law Enforcement Agencies and Debt Collectors to our community
We keep an eye on the latest original articles, news, research and on the activities of both established and up-and-coming experts in their fields to hunt criminals. We compile publicly available information about the worldwide scientific and law enforcement communities. If we see an opportunity to cooperate with you in your areas of expertise, we may invite you to publish with us, or to act as a reviewer or editor for one of our articles.
Be part of the hunt criminals revolution
We place original writers and researchers at the centre of everything we do, and our platforms are designed with you in mind. Through our website, you can access all the articles we have published, submit your manuscripts for review and publication, or work with us as a reviewer or as an editor.
To provide you with our services we use personal information. In our privacy policy, we explain:
What personal data we collect and when we collect it
In a few words: we collect personal data about you when you use our services, in particular when you:
• browse our websites
• register with us and create your own account
• submit a manuscript for publication review and publication.
• work with us as a reviewer or editor
• communicate with us
• register for our events
• subscribe to our newsletters
• answer our surveys or participate in our user research programs
Our privacy policy also applies to the personal data of co-authors of articles submitted to us for publication, as well as to the personal data we collect from publicly available sources (such as subscription services, websites, social media, or conferences) regarding your publications and your other academic activities.
How we use this data and on what basis,
In a few words: we use personal data to:
• deliver and promote our articles and publishing services
• operate and secure our websites
• identify potential authors, reviewers, and editors, to manage our publishing processes
• ensure the quality and integrity of the articles we publish (in particular by identifying and preventing publication manipulations or other misconducts)
• organize our events
• communicate with you and answer your queries
• exercise our rights and protect our interests
• develop our knowledge of the latest science published and the activities of the global scientific publishing community
The legal grounds we rely on to process your personal data are mostly:
• the necessity to process your personal data to deliver the contract we have with you under our terms and conditions (and other terms you may agree to if you cooperate with us)
• our legitimate interests to provide, improve and secure our website and publishing services and to carry out and develop our business as a professional and scientific publisher
In certain situations, we will process your personal data based on your consent (that you can revoke at any time), or because we have a legal obligation to do so.
When we share your personal data
In a few words: we make certain personal data public when we publish articles online, especially the names and affiliation of the relevant authors, reviewers, and editors. To conduct our activities, we also share personal data with:
• Hunt Criminals affiliates
• our vendors and service providers
• our reviewers and editors
• our publishing partners when the personal data we process relates to their journal
• other organizations who partner with us to archive scientific articles, promote open science, or facilitate the payment of article processing fees
We may also share personal data when we are required to do so by law, or upon the request of an authority, as well as in case of dispute or corporate reorganization.
How we protect your personal data
In a few words: we apply technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data in accordance with legal requirements. When we share your personal data with any authorized recipients, we use mechanisms to exercise any of these rights recognized by competent authorities (including the Standard Contractual Clauses) to ensure your data always benefits from an adequate level of protection. We only keep your personal data for the duration needed to provide our services, to protect ourselves against legal claims or to comply with our legal obligations.
How you can exercise your rights regarding your personal data
In a few words: you can contact us to ask us questions regarding the processing of your personal data or to exercise your rights under applicable laws:
• to request access to your personal data
• to ask us to rectify your data in case it is inaccurate or incomplete
• to ask us to erase your personal data
• to port your data
• to object to or to restrict the processing of personal data
How to contact us
In a few words: you can contact Hunt Criminals Data Protection Officer <dpr@hunt-criminals.com> for questions or query regarding the processing of your personal data pursuant to this policy. You also have the right to lodge a concern with a supervisory authority.
We have prepared this summary of our privacy policy to give you an overview of our practices with all important information regarding how we handle and protect your personal data and how to contact us. For more detailed information, we recommend that you read the full policy
Terms and Conditions for Users
These General Conditions create a contract between you and Hunt Criminals (Hunt Criminals ) which applies to your use of our websites, including those of Hosted Journals as defined below.
Who We Are
Hunt Criminals is an Open literary forum and a platform with leading Open Access scholarly publishers. Our mission is to make knowledge open through access to world’s largest and most cited open-access publishers.
Hunt Criminals publishes its own journals (referred to here as Hunt Criminals Journals) and journals owned by third parties (referred to here as Hosted Journals). When we refer to Journals, we include both Hunt Criminals Journals and Hosted Journals.
In these terms, Websites (with a capitalised W) refer to all Hunt Criminals websites, including those of Hosted Journals. An Owner means Hunt Criminals as owner of all Hunt Criminals Journals, or the respective owner of a Hosted Journal.
These conditions cover all interactions with Hunt Criminals and its websites
These Conditions will continue to apply to all Journals except, for a specific Hosted Journal, to the extent of any clear inconsistency or contradiction with the conditions published for that Journal, which will prevail to the extent of that inconsistency or contradiction, and only in connection with that Hosted Journal.
Hosted Journals may have additional conditions, which, if applicable, will appear on the Website of the Hosted Journal concerned. Hosted Journal Conditions apply only to the Hosted Journal on whose Website they appear.
These terms create a contract between you and Hunt Criminals whenever you interact with us, whether or not you are registered. If you interact with a Hosted Journal, your contract is also with the owner of that Hosted Journal.
Interactions can include visits to any Website; the submission, review, acceptance (or rejection) and publication of articles; and use of the Loop network for researchers. Other rules and procedures of Hunt Criminals , including the Author Guidelines, Privacy Policy and Copyright Statement, also apply in respect of all Hunt Criminals Journals, and also in respect of Hosted Journals, except, in the case of a Hosted Journal, to the extent inconsistent with or contradicted by guidelines, rules, procedures or conditions appearing on the Website of that Hosted Journal.
Other specific terms, such as the applicable conditions for editors, will also apply if you are or become an editor with any Journal.
Our contract with you is personal to you and may not be assigned or transferred by you to any other person.
Your right to use any Website and any related functionality is conditional on your complying with these conditions and all other applicable rules and conditions specified by Hunt Criminals . Hunt Criminals will also comply with its rules and conditions.
Registering with Hunt Criminals
One registration suffices for both Hunt Criminals Journals and Hosted Journals. To register you must provide at least the minimum information required. You can manage your privacy settings. You can find information on how to do this in our Help Centre.
You should check to ensure that you have only one profile with Hunt Criminals and Loop, to avoid confusion.
Who may register? Natural persons aged 18 or over may register, and you must register in your own name. You may not create more than one profile. By registering with us you promise Hunt Criminals , and all other relevant Owners, that the information you provide is accurate and not misleading.
Hunt Criminals may refuse or cancel a registration, at its discretion, with or without notice.
What it means to register as a user of Hunt Criminals or Loop
By successfully registering with us, you have the following immediate benefits:
• you become a registered user of Hunt Criminals . One registration allows any user to interact with any Journal. By registering you automatically become a member of the Loop network.
• you may submit articles for peer review to any Journal. You may also submit other content, and you can apply to become an editor or reviewer of a Journal.
Registering with Hunt Criminals also means accepting the following:
• you have read, understood and agree with these Conditions, Hunt Criminals ’ Privacy Policy and the Copyright Statement
• you must comply with these terms and all other rules and conditions of Hunt Criminals . This obligation applies to all users, whether or not registered;
• you must comply with all generally-accepted academic and scientific norms and Hunt Criminals ’ own principles, as well as any additional principles of Hosted Journals;
• you understand that Hunt Criminals is not obliged to publish any content contributed by you, and that Hunt Criminals may at its discretion remove any content of any kind contributed by you, including retracting peer-reviewed articles.
• Communications and emails: By registering with Hunt Criminals , you consent to receiving email and other communications from Hunt Criminals and from the Owners of relevant Hosted Journals.
You may opt out of certain types of messages, such as marketing messages, in your settings, but you may not opt out of messages on matters such as administrative and legal issues, changes in terms and conditions and other necessary communications. If you do not agree to receive such emails and communications, you may not register with Hunt Criminals and Hunt Criminals may cancel any existing registration.
• You must keep your email and other contact details up to date in your registration information.
If you wish to close your account with Hunt Criminals , please contact support@hunt-criminals.com. Hosted Journals may provide a dedicated support address on their respective websites, but an email can also be addressed to Hunt Criminals for support on any Journal.
Privacy, Personal Data and Cookies
Hunt Criminals strives to comply, as a minimum, with Swiss and EU laws on privacy and data protection and to apply the principles of recognised cross-border data protection procedures. Our privacy policy provides detailed information on what personal data we collect, how we use it and your rights concerning our processing of your data.
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your password. Do not share your password with any other person. If there is any reason to believe your password security may have been breached, change it immediately. Choose strong passwords and avoid obvious passwords. You must notify Hunt Criminals immediately if you believe that unauthorised access has been gained to your account. Hunt Criminals is not responsible for any damage suffered by you due to insufficient attention to security on your part.
It is important to keep your personal information up to date. Please check it regularly.
Be aware that your public profile may be viewed by anyone visiting your profile on the Hunt Criminals website, in any country.
To change your Loop privacy settings, please log in to your account.
Ownership of Website, Software and Content; Trademarks
Hunt Criminals is the owner of the Hunt Criminals in.org website, the software constituting that website and of all copyright and other intellectual property rights in those assets.
The owner of each Hosted Journal is the owner of the combination of content of the Website for any Hosted Journal(s) owned by it. Hunt Criminals is the owner of the combination of all content on Hunt Criminals Websites, and of the look and feel of its Websites.
Neither Hunt Criminals nor, unless otherwise specifically stated for a Journal, the owner of Hosted Journals owns, or claims ownership of, the copyright in articles you submit to any Journal – you (or your employer or funder) continue(s) to own the copyright in your articles. See below and the copyright statement for more information.
“Hunt Criminals Net” are registered trademarks of Hunt Criminals . The names of Hosted Journals may constitute trade marks belonging to the owners of those Hosted Journals.
Licences (Permissions) You Grant as an Author
When you submit an article (which includes the article abstract, but excludes article metadata, as defined below) to any Journal, you grant to Hunt Criminals and/or to the Hosted Journal owner and to the world at large a permanent, non-cancellable, free-of-charge (unless marked as Paid Article), worldwide licence (permission) to publish, display, store, copy, adapt and re-use that article – including any third-party materials – and to create derivative works from it. You can not terminate that licence. You must ensure that you have all necessary permissions from the owner of the copyright in your article, which may be your employer or funder, and from all other third parties who own the copyright in any aspect of your article. Ownership by the third party of the copyright can still be notified on the relevant materials, and attribution must be made in accordance with usual scholarly practices.
The licence (permission) you grant over your article (including the abstract any third-party materials included in your article) and can not terminate that licence. For some governmental or international governmental organisations, the licence may be another, similar, licence.
In summary, anyone may copy, re-publish, adapt and/or re-use your content, and create derivative works from it, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, without charge, but must clearly attribute the work to you and any co-authors, and they must cite Hunt Criminals as the original publisher of that content.
You agree that the licence terms granted by you are automatically updated to the terms and conditions of the Hunt Criminals Network.
Reproduction of all or part of an article is also subject to compliance with usual academic attribution practices.
Licence over certain article and journal metadata.
Article and journal metadata, as defined in this paragraph, are the property of Hunt Criminals or of the Owner of the relevant Hosted Journal. “Article and journal metadata” means the following elements, to the extent applicable, in relation to the journal or each article, as applicable: Publisher, journal name, journal abbreviation, ISSN, DOI, article ID, subject, article type, article title, article URL, author names, contributor group, author note, author affiliation, corresponding author’s email address, publication date, acceptance date, submission date, volume number, volume ID, issue number, issue ID, permissions, copyright statement, copyright year, copyright holder, license information, creative commons URL, conflict of interest statement, keyword group, figure count, table count, equation count, reference count, page count, word count, supplementary material count, funding statement, funder / contract / sponsor / grant and number, citation, product information, conference information. No elements other than those listed in this paragraph are included in article or journal metadata, unless confirmed by Hunt Criminals or Hosted Journal Owner.
You may not reproduce or publish any content in any forum (online or not) which advocates any political, religious, anti-religious, racist, extremist, violent or disrespectful viewpoints. If you post any Website content in such a forum, you must remove it immediately on request by Hunt Criminals .
You may also not reproduce any content from any Website in order to denigrate Hunt Criminals , any client of Hunt Criminals or any Journal.
The same licence also applies to any other content, such as reviews, opinions, conference abstracts and blog posts, which you may submit to Hunt Criminals .
You irrevocably grant us permission to use, and to permit others to use, any non-patented ideas set out in your content or in any message sent or submitted to Hunt Criminals , without any charge and without restriction, for any purpose in any part of the world.
It is your responsibility to comply with the conditions of any third-party website on which you may post content originally published on any Website. Hunt Criminals and the owners of Hosted Journals are not bound by the conditions of any third-party website.
Conditions for submission of articles for peer-reviewed publication
Submission of the article
If published, your article will in principle remain published permanently, with your personal details and those of your co-authors, as well as those of the reviewers and handling editors, on the Journal’s Website, and will be stored and made public in archives, in repositories and potentially in other places, unless the article has been published anonymously as provided on the Hunt Criminals Article Submission form. By submitting, reviewing or accepting editorial responsibilities for an article you consent to a limited amount of your personal data being thus published.
When you submit an article to any Journal, you promise that
• The article is not under consideration by any other journal; if it has been submitted for consideration elsewhere, it has been definitively rejected and is no longer being considered for publication;
• The article will not be submitted for publication elsewhere unless either published or rejected by Hunt Criminals ;
• If rejected by one Journal, your article may be automatically submitted to another Journal by Hunt Criminals ;
• You have the explicit consent of all co-authors to submit the article and to accept these conditions, including the granting of the CC-BY or other applicable licence, on behalf of all co-authors.
• You have the authorisation of all copyright owners (which may include your employer or funder, and any owners of third-party graphics) to submit the article and to grant the CC-BY or other applicable licence over the article;
• an article submitted to report original research is an original contribution, meaning it contains content that has not been previously published in its current form (except for manuscripts deposited as pre-prints in established community-validated pre-print services).
• the article does not contain any non-attributed content from any existing source, including the authors’ own existing material;
• all contributors have been adequately acknowledged;
• the article and all authors meet the authorship criteria as outlined in the author guidelines
• the article complies with all the rules on content set out below;
• all findings have been verified in accordance with the highest scientific standards in the relevant field;
• all research involving regulated animals (i.e. all live vertebrates and higher invertebrates) has been conducted in accordance with relevant institutional and national guidelines, all applicable legislation and guidelines and accepted best practices, and the approval body has been identified in the article;
• research involving human subjects has been conducted in accordance with the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki, you have identified the approval body in the article and the article states clearly that informed written consent was obtained from all participants;
• the article clearly declares any financial, commercial or other relationships which may be considered to represent a potential conflict of interest; and
• you have disclosed all relevant facts to Hunt Criminals concerning the author(s), the article, the underlying research, any relevant third-party rights and any actual or potential conflicts of interest.
Acceptance and Rejection
Acceptance is at Hunt Criminals ’ (or the Hosted Journal owner’s) discretion in accordance with its rules and processes. Once accepted, an article will in principle be published; on rare occasions an issue causing rejection may arise or be discovered, in which case the article may be rejected prior to publication despite having been previously accepted.
Publication
There is no prior right to publication. Articles submitted will be subjected to ethical and technical checks and then to our rigorous and interactive peer-review process, which will require your cooperation.
Peer-review processes are designed to ensure scientific rigour. They do not include checks for the satisfaction of the other requirements (such as copyright permissions on images and graphics, for example).
Disclosure of inventions
You must ensure that all patent applications have been filed prior to submission of your article. Publication of an article is likely to reduce or cancel the patentability of any unpatented ideas in that article.
Time for publication
If Hunt Criminals unjustifiably, for reasons caused entirely by its own negligence, fails to publish an article in a Journal within a reasonable period, the Author may decided to remove the article from publication by applying to the Hunt Criminals .
The Published Article
Once published, an article can not be removed except by decision of the Owner of the Journal, in accordance with accepted retraction processes. The article is likely to be archived and referenced in a number of archives and repositories.
Articles published in Hunt Criminals Journals will be published with the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s) and the names of the reviewers who endorsed publication during the peer review, as well as that of the handling editor.
Hunt Criminals and Hosted Journals reserve the right to remove any content, and to retract peer-reviewed articles, which in its view breach any applicable conditions and/or which they or we consider to be inappropriate in any way. Such removal does not entitle the author to reimbursement of APCs to other publications.
Hunt Criminals and owners of Hosted Journals are not liable for the acts or statements of others.
Disputes
We have mediation processes for settling disputes related to articles, and we mutually promise to exhaust those possibilities prior to commencing any judicial dispute resolution mechanisms.
Your Rights as a User; Restrictions on Your Rights
As a user, registered or not, you may use all open functionalities of the Websites if you comply with all applicable conditions and rules. Some functionality may be restricted to registered users or to certain types of users (such as editors).
If you are a registered user, you may create links to Hunt Criminals Websites from other respectable websites, but not from any website which does not comply with the requirements of these conditions. Hunt Criminals , and/or any Journal owner, may remove any links and/or to require their removal, and you must comply with such a request. Hunt Criminals and Journal owners are not responsible for the content of third-party websites.
Uploading of videos and similar materials is subject to all related rules, including third-party and intellectual property rules. Be aware of the warranties you give concerning your right to upload any content.
Rules on Content
All content submitted to any Website, whether or not peer-reviewed, must comply with these rules. This is your responsibility when you submit any article or content.
All content must:
• be accurate or be genuinely believed to be accurate after duly rigorous investigation
• only state opinions which are genuinely held
• comply with all generally accepted scientific and academic norms and with all accepted citation rules and norms, and must give appropriate credit for contributions
• comply with all accepted ethical rules and norms, including any ethical guidelines of Hunt Criminals or of the Journal in question
• not infringe any intellectual property rights (including copyright, moral rights and database rights) of any person
• be the subject of any necessary consents and authorisations
• not breach any conditions of any website or other forum from which that content was copied or derived, or to which you provide a link, or from which you have provided a link to our website
• not be defamatory
• not be malicious, offensive, discriminatory, threatening, racist, extremist; not promote hatred or violence or denigrate any person, group of people or set of beliefs, or provide any link to any such material
• only be for the purpose of furthering scientific and academic discourse in good faith, and in particular not be for the purpose, or have the effect, of promoting any commercial offering, service, product or interest, without the prior explicit agreement of Hunt Criminals or the owner of the relevant Journal
• not give a false impression that it emanates from Hunt Criminals or any Journal or is approved by Hunt Criminals or the relevant Journal owner, or otherwise be misleading in any way
• not be pornographic or indecent
• remain polite and respectful, especially when disagreeing
• not ascribe any negative psychological or other labels or descriptions to any named or identifiable person or group of people, without the specific, informed consent of the person or people concerned to such label or description being ascribed to him/her/them
• not be for the purpose, or have the primary effect, of promoting any political, societal, religious or anti-religious views
• not disclose confidential information, including personal data of others, without the consent of the owner of that information or data
• comply with all applicable laws
• not advocate, refer to or provide a link to any website or content which would itself infringe any of these principles.
Hunt Criminals and/or another relevant Journal Owner may remove any content, or retract peer-reviewed articles, at their respective discretion. You may also request deletion of content, such requests will be considered in their context. A place-holder may be inserted to indicate that a comment has been deleted. Deleted comments may be retained for the record.
Hunt Criminals and other Journal Owners are not responsible for content posted by their users, including the content of peer-reviewed articles.
Content you post will by default be visible to others. You may alter your settings to reduce access to your content (but not to peer-reviewed articles) by editing the default settings for each post you make.
Any content posted by you may be commented on, copied, quoted and linked to by others.
If you believe any content on a Hunt Criminals Website breaches any of these requirements, please contact us at support@hunt-criminals.com . Where the suspected breach occurs on a Hosted Journal Website, please refer to that Journal’s Website for the relevant contact address.
Advertising, Commercial Promotion and Sponsorships
Sponsorship programmes: Hunt Criminals has sponsorship programmes for Hunt Criminals Research Topics and other areas. Sponsorships must comply with strict ethical rules. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact us at support@hunt-criminals.com .
Promotional Messages: Messages and other content promoting a commercial offering are not permitted without the explicit written agreement of the relevant Journal Owner.
Advertising: Hunt Criminals does not currently accept advertisements. Some Hosted Journals may accept advertisements; please go to the relevant Journal Website for information.
Availability; Viruses and Attacks; Bugs and Errors
Hunt Criminals endeavours, through active maintenance, to ensure that Websites remain available, bug-free and error-free, but the need for planned and emergency maintenance and the nature of software development mean that no absolute guarantee can be given. We will do what we can to give adequate warning of any planned downtime and to minimise unplanned downtime.
We may from time to time withdraw services. Withdrawn services may or may not be replaced with others.
You are strongly advised to keep back-ups of any content which you do not wish to lose.
Hunt Criminals adopts industry-standard measures to minimise the risk of attacks, viruses, other harmful code and hackers. Given that our platform exists to permit the contribution of content, and given the constant efforts of those with ill intent, we can not guarantee that any Website, or links posted by users, will be free from third-party viruses and other malicious third-party software or that we will always be successful in preventing attacks from succeeding. We will continue in our efforts both to prevent such occurrences and to minimise their impact on us and on our users.
Prohibited Activities
The following activities are prohibited on all Websites, and can result in your registration being suspended or terminated, which Hunt Criminals expressly reserves the right to do, and in your being liable for damages to Hunt Criminals , other Journal Owners and/or to other third parties.
• Gaining or attempting to gain access to another user’s account without that user’s explicit and informed permission
• Disguising your identity when interacting in any way on any Websites
• Any activity which is designed to, or is likely to, cause any harm or damage to Hunt Criminals , to other Journal Owners, to any of Hunt Criminals ’ suppliers or to any users of Hunt Criminals ’ facilities
• Any attempt to copy, hack or reverse-engineer the code forming any Website or any functionality offered by any Website
• Any act intended or likely to cause any damage to any Website, its availability on the internet, its underlying software or the reputation of Hunt Criminals or any other Journal Owner, including (but not limited to) denial of service attacks
• Uploading or placing on any Website, or on any website to which you provide links, of any virus or other harmful or undesirable code
• Any fraudulent, harmful or illegal activity
• Any attempt to gain unauthorised access to databases or other resources of Hunt Criminals or its suppliers
• Posting or linking to any content which does not comply in all respects with the content requirements set out in these conditions
• Posting of any personal information of any other person without that person’s explicit informed consent
• The posting of any commercial or promotional content, or any content which includes promotion of any commercial or business offering, without a specific agreement with Hunt Criminals in that respect
• The mounting or promotion of any pyramid scheme or other multi-level marketing scheme
• Reproduction, duplication, copying or re-selling any part of any Hunt Criminals website except for good-faith reliance on explicit licences or as otherwise specifically permitted by these Conditions or following the specific and explicit agreement of Hunt Criminals .
Text and Data Mining; Bulk Downloading
Text and data mining of public content are permitted for the legitimate purpose of enrichment of external collections of scientific literature. However, we may need to restrict this activity if it hinders the performance of one or more Websites. If you encounter problems, please feel free to contact our technical support: support@hunt-criminals.com
Text and data mined, and content downloaded in bulk or individually from any Website, remain subject to the relevant licence, and all attribution and other conditions of such licences must be complied with. To the extent that any such text or data constitutes or includes Personal Data, all applicable data protection laws must also be complied with.
Infringement of Your Rights
We believe in respecting the rights of all, including rights granted by law and those generally accepted in academia. If you believe your rights have been infringed, please contact us at this address: support@hunt-criminals.com
Breach of these Conditions
Breach of any of these conditions by Hunt Criminals , another Journal Owner or you would be a breach of our contract.
Exclusion of Users
We expressly reserve the right to refuse applications to register and/or to suspend or cancel the accounts of users, at our discretion.
Amendment of Conditions
These Conditions, and other conditions and rules of Hunt Criminals and/or of any Journal or collection of Journals, will be amended from time to time. Amendments will be communicated in the manner appearing most appropriate to Hunt Criminals .
his may include email and/or notification at login. For this reason you should log out and log back in frequently from and to your Hunt Criminals account to ensure you are aware of changes to Conditions. Amendments take effect upon that communication being made available to you, whether or not you actually log in to receive the information.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOUR USE OF HUNT CRIMINALS AND/OR HOSTED JOURNAL WEBSITES OR ANY WEBSITE TO WHICH THEY ARE LINKED IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. ALL WEBSITES AND THEIR CONTENT ARE PROVIDED FOR USE ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. HUNT CRIMINALS AND JOURNAL OWNERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO ANY WEBSITES, THEIR AVAILABILITY OR THEIR CONTENTS AND HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, RELATING TO THE HUNT CRIMINALS WEBSITES, HOSTED JOURNAL WEBSITES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE CONTENT, OR ANY WEBSITE TO WHICH THEY ARE LINKED. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM HUNT CRIMINALS OR THROUGH OR FROM ANY WEBSITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE CONDITIONS FOR WEBSITE USE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, HUNT CRIMINALS STRONGLY RECOMMENDS THAT YOU INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY ANY INFORMATION UPON WHICH YOU CHOOSE TO RELY.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT SHALL HUNT CRIMINALS , JOURNAL OWNERS, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE LICENSEES, 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 OF 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 ANY WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT OR ANY WEBSITE TO OR FROM WHICH ANY LINKS MAY BE ESTABLISHED.
Nothing in these Conditions for Website Use shall limit or exclude, or be interpreted as intending to limit or exclude, liability for gross negligence (as defined under Swiss law) or for deliberate wrongdoing, or for any other matter for which, under any applicable law, liability can not be limited or excluded.
Deadline for bringing claims
Any claim against Hunt Criminals or any Journal Owner must be brought within one month of your becoming aware of the existence of that claim.
Failure to enforce rights
Forbearance from enforcement of rights in the event of a breach of these Conditions does not prevent future enforcement of that right.
No Implied Third-Party Rights
Owners of Hosted Journals are third-party beneficiaries of your obligations under these Conditions. Except as stated in the preceding sentence, no third party (except your co-authors on submission of an article) obtains any rights from your contract with Hunt Criminals , which is personal to you.
Force Majeure
Neither you nor Hunt Criminals , nor any owner of a Hosted Journal, are / is liable for failure to fulfil obligations due to circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the affected party, but both you and Hunt Criminals undertake to take all reasonable measures to limit the duration and effect of those circumstances and to find other ways of fulfilling your or its obligations.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
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Copyright Statement updated with effect from 29 January 2025