Terms of Service & Privacy Policy

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Consent

By using Paradigmshift.com.pk (“Site”, “we”, “us”, “our”), you hereby consent to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy.

Permitted Use

Unless otherwise stated, all content, design, logos, text, sound, graphics, and the selection and arrangement thereof, and all other elements of Paradigmshift.com.pk are the sole and exclusive property of Paradigmshift.com.pk and are protected by copyright, intellectual property, trade dress and other applicable laws and therefore may not be copied, published, modified, distributed, transmitted or imitated in whole or in part without the prior written consent of Paradigmshift.com.pk. The images that we use on our website are either created by our own team, are acquired from websites that have copyright-free images, or are images from other websites that are licensed under a Creative Commons license.

Personally Provided Information

You do not have to submit your personal information to visit Paradigmshift.com.pk. If you share your your personal information such as your name, email address, and so on via a contact form, email message, comments etcetera, we might add you to our e-mailing list but we will not use or sell your information in any other way. You can unsubscribe from the mailing list at any time. 

The user agrees that if a submitted paper and/or article by them is accepted by us, the Site will publish your name (as you are the author). Furthermore, if your paper and/or article is accepted by us for publication, and you choose to provide us with your author bio (3-4 sentences that tell the reader your educational background, achievements, current affiliation etcetera), it is within the right of the Site to publish this information on the Site (unless you do not specify such information or inform us not to publish that information). 

Paradigmshift.com.pk does not willingly give, sell, or share any of your information to any third party. The Site, however, is liable to share your information with authorized law-enforcement agencies if such a need arises.

Limitation of Liability

Paradigmshift.com.pk is not responsible for any errors or factual inconsistencies on the Site – whether these appear on any page on the Site or any post/article/paper on the Site written by employees and/or visitors. Authors must ensure the veracity of their statements themselves. The views and opinions expressed in any article and paper are an author’s own and do not reflect the editorial policy or position of the Site. Paradigmshift.com.pk is not responsible for statements made by third parties.

Use of Cookies (Analytics, Security Software, Advertisements, etc)

We use different third-party software (analytics, advertising, and security software) that use cookies to serve you ads, protect the Site, collect traffic and usage information. Therefore, all users of the Site should note that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browsers, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad servings on the Site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may modify your browser settings to disable or reject cookies. If you set your web browser to decline cookies or if you delete your cookies, some features of the Sites may not work or may not work as designed.

Security software aids in scanning and fixing any malicious code or stopping hacking attempts by anyone. We have the right to blacklist any IP address if it is found to be causing problems such as but not limited to hacking, abusive language, harassment, infringement etcetera. We use Google Analytics and Facebook Analytics as our third-party traffic analysis software. Traffic analysis as well as log files are used to monitor visitors’ information including but not limited to browsers, regions, operating systems, IP addresses, etcetera. These are not linked to any personally identifiable information. Log files are provided by most if not all hosting providers and are a part of a hosting service’s analytics.

We use Google AdSense to serve ads on the Site. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following link: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads.

Google places cookies on your browser to facilitate serving particular ads – for instance, to help determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before, to tailor ads to you if you have visited our Site before, and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. Similarly, other advertising partners may use their respective cookies to track advertising stats. 

Subscription to the Mailing List

Visitors are free to subscribe to our mailing list. To do this they will have to, at the very least, enter their email address. By subscribing as per their volition, visitors agree that they might be sent emails from time to time regarding content on the website or other website-related content. Subscribers can unsubscribe from the mailing list whenever they want – there should be an unsubscribe button at the end of the email we send. We use Sender as our email marketing service. This means that when visitors enter their information to subscribe to our mailing list, Sender receives that information so that Paradigmshift.com.pk can subsequently use it to send subscribers emails. Please check Sender’s own privacy policy and terms of service if you require a better understanding.

External Links

The Site contains links to other sites. Paradigmshift.com.pk is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other sites. We encourage our visitors to be cognizant when they exit the Site to visit another website. Visitors should read the privacy policy and/or terms of service of each site that we and/or authors on the Site may link to. We are not responsible for these other websites collecting your information.

Governing Law

These terms and conditions are governed by the laws of Pakistan as Paradigmshift.com.pk is based in Islamabad, Pakistan.

 

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