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By using our services, you agree with the following Terms and Conditions, and you become a Partner of Epistata LTD.
(1) The Partner takes full responsibility for obtaining ethical approval from the appropriate bodies and informed consent from the study participants for the research studies commissioned to Epistata.
(2) The Partner takes full responsibility for fulfilling privacy and ethical regulations and for managing personal identifiable information according to the Declaration of Helsinki, the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 or any other laws at national and international level. Epistata will not accept personal identifiable, re-identifiable, or unencrypted data.
(3) The Partner takes full responsibility for the accuracy of the data provided to Epistata.
(4) The Partner is fully responsible for paying the publication fees that a journal may charge.
(5) The Partner remains the owner of the original scientific information provided. Epistata will not use any of such information for any activity that has not been agreed with the Partner.
(6) Epistata does not guarantee that any commissioned articles will be accepted for publication in any journal.
(7) Epistata’s scientific support will be acknowledged in any published or unpublished article or report by the Partner.
(8) The published or unpublished articles or reports may be mentioned on the website epistata.org and on other media.
(9) The Partner’s name, affiliated institutions, and webpages may be mentioned on the website epistata.org and on other media.
(10) The partner takes full responsibility for conducting the research activities which have methodological priority over those commissioned to Epistata.
(11) Activities that are not strictly scientific are not included in Epistata’s services by default. For example, the Partner will remain responsible for the data consistency inspection procedures that are preparatory to the statistical analysis, for submitting articles to journals, for bibliographic formatting, for table/graph adornments, for table description in text format, or other ancillary activities, unless those activities have been expressly requested.
(12) If the Partner’s request is only for a statistical analysis, Epistata will provide the following deliverables: (a) result tables in excel format; (b) brief text describing the statistical methods used; and (c) brief text describing the main results.
(13) When a specific, pre-determined statistical analysis is expressly requested by the Partner, they will provide Epistata with an example taken from another study or with an empty result table to be completed, and the revisions requested by external reviewers will be costed additionally.
(14) Epistata will provide approximate completion times for the commissioned activities. For example, two weeks for a statistical analysis. However, these estimates represent approximate indications and do not constitute binding agreements.
(15) Epistata is a Limited company without VAT registration, according to the UK Value Added Tax Act 1994 and therefore Epistata’s invoices have 0% VAT. Epistata will not be responsible for the VAT charged by foreign countries.
LAST EDITED 11 April 2023