Terms & Conditions

1. About Recerch

Recerch is a social networking platform designed for researchers, academics, students, institutions, and industry professionals. The platform helps users create researcher profiles, share research interests, find collaborators, connect with mentors, discover research groups, and explore academic and industry collaboration opportunities.

2. User Eligibility

By using Recerch, you confirm that the information you provide is accurate and that you are using the platform for academic, research, professional, or knowledge-sharing purposes.

Users may include researchers, students, PhD scholars, faculty members, independent researchers, industry researchers, institutions, and organizations.

3. Account Registration

To use certain features of Recerch, you may be required to create an account by providing information such as your name, email address, mobile number, country, institution, designation, research interests, and profile details.

You are responsible for keeping your login details secure. You must not share your password or allow unauthorized access to your account.

Recerch may use email or mobile verification, including OTP codes, to confirm user identity and reduce fake accounts.

4. User Profiles and Public Information

Users may create researcher profiles and add academic or professional information, including research interests, publications, profile links, collaboration preferences, and other relevant details.

Some profile information may be visible to other users depending on platform features and privacy settings. You are responsible for the information you choose to share publicly.

5. User Conduct

By using Recerch, you agree not to:

• Share false, misleading, offensive, abusive, or harmful content.
• Misrepresent your identity, qualifications, institution, or research work.
• Upload plagiarized, stolen, or unauthorized content.
• Harass, threaten, spam, or exploit other users.
• Use the platform for illegal, unethical, fraudulent, or non-academic purposes.
• Attempt to damage, hack, disrupt, or misuse the platform.
• Share other users' private information without their consent.

Recerch reserves the right to remove content, restrict access, suspend accounts, or take necessary action if users violate these terms.

6. Research Content and Intellectual Property

Users are responsible for the research content, publications, ideas, comments, profile links, and materials they share on Recerch.

By posting content on Recerch, you confirm that you have the right to share it and that it does not violate copyright, intellectual property rights, confidentiality agreements, institutional policies, or third-party rights.

Recerch does not claim ownership of your research work. However, by sharing content on the platform, you allow Recerch to display that content within the platform for networking, visibility, discovery, and collaboration purposes.

Users should not treat public sharing on Recerch as formal intellectual property protection. If your research idea, invention, dataset, method, or innovation requires protection, you should seek appropriate legal, institutional, or intellectual property guidance before sharing it publicly.

7. Collaboration and Communication

Recerch helps users discover and connect with potential collaborators, mentors, supervisors, research groups, and industry partners.

However, Recerch does not guarantee that collaborations, mentorships, research partnerships, funding, publications, supervision, employment, or commercialization opportunities will result from using the platform.

Users are responsible for conducting their own due diligence before entering into any research, academic, professional, or commercial collaboration.

8. Industry and Commercialization Opportunities

Recerch may help researchers and industry users discover relevant expertise, research groups, projects, and collaboration opportunities.

Any agreements, contracts, funding arrangements, intellectual property ownership, consulting work, or commercialization activity between users must be handled independently by the parties involved. Recerch is not responsible for disputes, losses, or claims arising from such arrangements.

9. Privacy and Data Use

Your use of Recerch is also governed by our Privacy Statement.

Recerch may collect and use your information to create your account, verify your identity, improve researcher matching, personalize your experience, send platform updates, and support collaboration features.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

10. Content Moderation

Recerch may review, remove, restrict, or moderate content that violates these terms, community standards, legal requirements, or platform safety guidelines.

We may also suspend or terminate user accounts that misuse the platform or harm the research community.

11. Third-Party Links

Users may share links to external platforms such as Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, institutional websites, journals, datasets, code repositories, or other resources.

Recerch is not responsible for the accuracy, safety, policies, or content of third-party websites.

12. Platform Availability

Recerch aims to provide a reliable and useful platform, but we do not guarantee that the service will always be available, error-free, secure, or uninterrupted.

The platform may be updated, modified, paused, or discontinued at any time for maintenance, improvement, technical reasons, or business decisions.

13. Limitation of Liability

Recerch is provided as a networking and collaboration platform. We are not responsible for academic decisions, research outcomes, collaboration disputes, data loss, intellectual property conflicts, missed opportunities, user misconduct, or third-party actions resulting from use of the platform.

Users use Recerch at their own discretion and responsibility.

14. Changes to Terms

Recerch may update these Terms & Conditions from time to time. Updated terms will be posted on the website. Continued use of the platform after changes means you accept the updated terms.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding these Terms & Conditions, you may contact the Recerch team.

Contact: contact@recerch.com