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LIPI Terms of Service

Last updated: 11/2/2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to LIPI. These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of LIPI's services, including our website, applications, and other content (collectively, the "Services"). By using our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms.

2. Definitions

"LIPI," "we," "us," and "our" refer to LIPI and its subsidiaries and affiliates.

"User," "you," and "your" refer to any individual or entity using our Services.

"Content" refers to any text, images, videos, software, or other materials submitted, posted, or displayed on our Services.

3. Account Registration

To access certain features of our Services, you may be required to register for an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during the registration process and to update such information to keep it accurate, current, and complete.

You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account.

4. User Conduct

You agree not to:

  • Use our Services in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect, or inhibit other users from fully enjoying our Services.
  • Use our Services in any way that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the functioning of our Services.
  • Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right.
  • Collect or store personal data about other users without their consent.
  • Impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.

5. Content

You retain all rights in, and are solely responsible for, the Content you post to our Services.

By submitting, posting, or displaying Content on or through our Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such Content in connection with providing our Services.

We reserve the right to remove any Content that violates these Terms or that we determine is harmful, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.

6. Intellectual Property

Our Services and their contents, features, and functionality, including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof, are owned by LIPI, its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

7. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy, available at our Privacy Policy page, describes how we collect, use, and share information about you when you use our Services. By using our Services, you consent to our collection, use, and sharing of information as described in our Privacy Policy.

8. Termination

We may terminate or suspend your access to all or part of our Services, with or without notice, for any conduct that we, in our sole discretion, believe is in violation of these Terms or is harmful to other users, us, or third parties, or for any other reason.

Questions or Concerns?

If you have any questions about these Terms of Service, please contact us at: