Terms of service
These terms are the agreement between you and SCOPT Inc. for using Manulyx. They are written to be short and in plain language.
Your account
An account belongs to one person. Give us an email address that reaches you — it is how we send invitations and how you recover access. Keep your password to yourself; anything done through your account is treated as done by you. Tell us at [email protected] if you think someone else has got in, and you can end every other session yourself from your account page.
If you take a student price, you need a current university email address. If you stop being a student, the plan renews at the ordinary price rather than quietly continuing.
Your work is yours
You keep every right in what you write. Nothing you upload becomes ours, and we claim no ownership of your manuscripts, figures or data.
You give us only the permission needed to run the service: to store your files, to compile them, to show them to you and to the collaborators you invite, and to keep backups. That permission ends when you delete the work, apart from backups already taken, which age out.
We do not train anything on your work. See the privacy notice for what we hold and where.
Using it reasonably
Do not use Manulyx to:
- break the law, or infringe someone else’s copyright
- upload malware, or try to reach projects that are not yours
- run workloads that are not about writing documents — the compile servers are for LaTeX, not for mining or general computation
- resell access, or share one account across a group. Groups should use the Research Group plan, which is designed and priced for shared use.
We may suspend an account that is doing one of these. Where there is any room for doubt we will ask first.
Plans and payment
The free plan is free, with no time limit and no card. Paid plans are billed in advance, monthly or yearly as you choose, and renew until you cancel. Cancel whenever you like: you keep the plan until the end of the period you have paid for, then move to the free plan.
Prices can change. If they change for a plan you are on, we will tell you before it takes effect and you can cancel instead.
Payments are not refunded for a period that has already started, except where the law gives you a right to a refund, such as a right to withdraw within 14 days of buying a plan. In that case, write to [email protected] and we will refund you, less the part of the period already used.
Extra PDF rebuilds, bought once a plan’s own are used, are a final sale. A rebuild is supplied as soon as you upload the PDF, and you ask for that when you buy. Once paid, a purchase cannot be cancelled or refunded, whether or not its rebuilds have been used, except where the law requires it. A rebuild that fails gives you the rebuild back, not the money. Bought rebuilds do not expire.
If you stop paying, nothing is deleted and nothing is locked. Your projects, your collaborators and the editor stay. What you lose is the workflow around the manuscript, longer compiles, and the collaborator allowance above the free limit.
Institutional agreements
Where an institution signs a separate written agreement with us, that agreement governs its use and prevails over these terms to the extent they differ.
What we do not promise
Manulyx is offered as it is. We work to keep it running and to keep your data safe, but we do not promise it will be available without interruption, that compiles will always succeed, or that it is free of defects. We do not guarantee that a document accepted here will be accepted by any journal — the requirement checks are a help, not a substitute for reading the instructions to authors.
Keep your own copies. You can export any project as a .zip at any time, on any plan, and we recommend that you keep copies of your own.
Liability
To the extent the law allows, SCOPT Inc. is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profits, or for lost data beyond what we can restore from our backups. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.
Ending it
You can close your account whenever you want, and ask us to delete it. We may end an account for a serious or repeated breach of these terms, or if we stop offering the service — in which case we will give you reasonable notice and time to export everything.
Changes
We will tell you before these terms change in a way that matters to you. If you do not accept a change, close your account and export your work.
Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its rules on conflicts of law. Any dispute about them or about Manulyx will be decided by the state or federal courts located in Boston, Massachusetts, and you and SCOPT Inc. agree to those courts’ jurisdiction.
If you use Manulyx as a consumer and the law of the country where you live gives you protections that cannot be waived by agreement, or the right to bring a claim in your own courts, nothing in these terms takes that away. Before going to court, please write to us at [email protected]: we will try to settle it with you within 30 days.
Contact
SCOPT Inc., One Boston Place, Suite 2600, Boston, MA 02108, United States — [email protected].