For your convenience, an English translation of the usage terms is provided here, which is legally not binding:
In registering, you declare that you agree to use your access exclusively in connection with your work at the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. The access data is assigned to you personally.
In order to avoid the transfer of data which reveals your identity, you can use a pseudonym and a function-related e-mail address. The registration data will be stored locally and transferred to the company iParadigms LLC for the provision of your access. The company iParadigms adheres to the Safe Harbor Principles and ensures that your data will only be used for the purpose of your software usage and not transferred to a third party; a data protection declaration can be found at http://www.ithenticate.com/privacy-pledge.
Use of the iThenticate software product includes the storage of texts and, if applicable, personal data, on the iParadigm company’s servers. In order to do this without violating copyright and/or data protection regulations, permission must be obtained from the originator or owner of the personal data.
This means that you may not use iThenticate to check works or other texts which you have not created yourself without the express permission of the author. Please clarify in advance whether, in the individual case, permission is already available or must be obtained, if applicable. Naturally, texts whose copyright you yourself own may be checked with the software [Template (docx|txt)].
You may only check texts that are freely available in the Internet if copying of the text is allowed or you have obtained permission to do so. You can find information about this either in the license details with the document or in the legal notice of the web site.
No document will be permanently stored by iThenticate – other than with the use of an institutional repository. Institutional repositories are currently not configured for the clients of the MPDL. Incidentally, long-term storage would not conform to the interest in checking a scientific work for originality.
If a text contains personal data such as addresses, declarations of originality, acknowledgements etc., these must be removed from the document or anonymized (this is naturally also recommended if they are your own) before the test. Otherwise you must obtain permission from the people affected here too, in order to avoid violating data protection regulations. It is, however, not necessary to obtain permission for names mentioned in quotations from works which have already been published.
If texts or text contents to be checked are subject to special confidentiality or confidentiality agreements, appropriate permission should be obtained in advance. Otherwise checking with iThenticate should not be performed.
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