Academia Aeterna

Terms of Service
Effective Date: January 3, 2026
Last Updated: January 3, 2026

Academia Aeterna is a platform (“Platform”) that provides an online presence to current and retired scholars. The Platform is provided by BIOSKETCH, LLC. (“Company”).

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") apply to and govern your membership to, and use of, the Platform and any other websites, apps, communications or other services that link to these Terms. By creating an account, accessing or using our services, or becoming a member, you agree to these Terms and our Disclaimer, and represent that you are at least 18 years of age and have the legal right and authority to enter into these Terms. If you are accessing or using the Platform on behalf of another entity, then you represent and warrant that you are an authorized representative of the business or entity with the authority to bind the entity to these Terms, and you agree to these Terms on the entity’s behalf. If you do not agree to these Terms, then do not become a member of or otherwise use the Platform.

By interacting with the Platform, you acknowledge and agree that you have read our Privacy Policy, and that the collection, use, and sharing of your personal information is subject to our Privacy Policy and any other documents referenced or linked to therein.

1. Provided Platform

The Platform provides hosting of your CV, life story, publications, and other achievements in any language. To access our services on the Platform, you must create an account. On the Platform, you are provided with two web pages: one is your membership page (“My Page”) and the other is your public web page (“Public Page”). My Page contains your personal information (“Personal Information”) and is private. My Page can be accessed only by you and the Company. Your Public Page is open to the public and can be viewed by others (“Visitors”) without any restrictions. You control your Public Page from My Page. When you click the “publish” button on My Page, you create your Public Page and make it open to public. When you click the “delete” button on your My Page, you delete your Public Page, which can no longer be viewed publicly.

Once you become an Active Member, you will receive a unique URL that provides direct access to your Public Page. You can include your URL in your email, your other websites, or in any other social media postings.

You are solely responsible for any activities that occur on your Page and any content you post to the Platform, including your CV, publications, datasets, code, comments, messages, profile information, and any other information you upload, post, display, or otherwise make available (“User Content”). The Company is not responsible for any information you publish on the Platform. Your Public Page can be viewed by anonymous Visitors, as the Company does not track who accessed your Public Page for purposes of seeing who views your profile or for advertising purposes. Like any other public web page, the content of your Public Page may be searched, archived, copied, and used by Visitors.

All the information on your Public Page belongs to you, not the Company. By using the Platform, you do not transfer copyrights of the contents of any information on your Public Page to the Company. However, you grant the Company the right to host, reproduce, store, display, and otherwise use any information you upload to operate, improve, market, and provide the Platform without any royalties, right to prior inspection or approval, or other further compensation. This includes the right to edit, crop, touch up, or otherwise alter User Content at our sole discretion. You waive the right, and agree not to bring, any claims related to the Company’s use of any User Content uploaded to your profile. You acknowledge and agree that the Company may generate revenues, increase goodwill or otherwise increase our value from your use of the Services.

Furthermore, the Company retains the right to block public access to your Public Page or delete your Public Page, if, in the Company’s sole discretion, User Content on your Public Page is offensive, harmful, discriminatory, defamatory, violates the Company’s policies, or otherwise inappropriate for public viewing. The Company makes no representations, warranties, or guarantees that any User Content is accurate, complete, or up to date.

2. How the Platform and service are funded

In Academia Aeterna, you are either an “Active Member” or “Passive Member.” We collect a monthly or an annual fee from only Active Members. “Passive Members” are non-Active users who have been an Active Member for at least one year and who have selected passive membership. While you are an Active Member, you can set up your Public Page or update/change your Public Page without limit. While you are Passive Member, you cannot set up or update/change your Public Page; however, your Public Page, once set up as an Active Member, is maintained and can be viewed by Visitors. Regardless of the nature of your membership, you can delete your Public Page at any time.

You can start with a free one-month membership. You have all the privileges of an Active Member and can create and publish your Public Page. If you do not switch to Active Member within this one-month period, your Public Page will be deleted and can no longer be viewed by Visitors.

If you sign up for an Active Membership, you agree that you will honor your payment obligations and that the Company may store your payment information and continue billing your payment method, including on an automatic, monthly basis, even if it has expired, to avoid interruptions in your membership. You may update or change your payment method. To avoid future charges, cancel before your renewal date. Taxes and fees may be added to membership fees as applicable, and additional Terms may apply. We reserve the right to modify our prices effective prospectively upon reasonable notice to you to the extent allowed by applicable law.

The Company does not sell or share your Personal Information to third parties. There are no advertisements, forced connections with others, restrictions on viewing your public web page, or tracking of Visitors on your Public Page.

3. Availability and Limits

Although our intention is to keep the content you post available for as long as reasonably possible, we make no promises to store, show, or keep showing any content that you have posted to the Platform, including to your Public Page. We may change, suspend, or discontinue part or all of our Platform. We may also limit the availability of any features, content, or other information on the Platform so that it is not available to all Members or visitors to the Platform. You agree that we have no obligation to store, maintain or provide you a copy of any content or other information, except to the extent required by applicable law and as noted in our Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to limit your use of the Platform. We may restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if, in our sole discretion, you violate these Terms or otherwise misuse the Platform. We reserve the right to remove any content or other information shared by you, including on your Public Page, if we believe it violates these Terms.

4. Your responsibilities

When you use the Platform, you agree you will adhere to the below limits on what you can and cannot do, unless otherwise explicitly permitted by the Company in writing:

• When you sign up for an account, you will set up a username and password. You can create only one account for one language. For example, you can create only one account in English (default) but can create the second account in another language (e.g., Spanish). We may suspend or terminate usernames or accounts at our discretion. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activities under your account.
• For each account, you must provide the same name that is shown in your credit card that you use when you become Active Member. This is important to prevent others from pretending to be you and to make your Public Page. We need to make sure that you, not others, are making your Public Page.
• Creating an account with false information, including creating a membership or Public Page on behalf of others, is a violation of these Terms. You may not have more than one Public Page, and you may not sell or transfer your account, membership, or Public Page to others.
• You must provide accurate, current, and complete information about yourself.
• You must keep the commonly accepted academic standard for the content of your Public Page, including refraining from plagiarism, academic misconduct, data fabrication/falsification, or misrepresentation of credentials. Your presentation of your achievements should be based on the facts and your behavior on the Platform must be professional.
• You must not violate these Terms, applicable law, or other terms and policies that apply to your use of the Platform.
• You must not conduct unlawful, misleading, discriminatory, or fraudulent activities on the Platform. You agree not to harass, intimidate, threaten, defame, or engage in hate speech, discrimination, or unlawful activities. You agree not to use the Platform to promote sexually explicit material.
• You are responsible for anything that happens through your account or on your Public Page unless you close it or report misuse.
• You agree not to use or attempt to use another person’s account, service, or system without the Company’s authorization, or to create a false identity on the Platform.
• You represent that you have all necessary rights, licenses, consents, and permissions to post and share content, and doing so does not infringe or violate someone else's rights, including their intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contract, trade secrets, or other rights. This includes obtaining consent, where required, before collecting, disclosing, or otherwise another individual’s personally identifiable information, including personal health information of human subjects.
• You must not use the Service to impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent you or your affiliation with any person or entity.
• You must not upload viruses, malware, or malicious code, perform security testing or scraping, use the services to send spam, phishing, or unsolicited promotions, use the Platform for any commercial or unauthorized purpose, including communicating or facilitating any commercial advertisement, or engage in any other conduct that could disable, overburden, interfere with, or impair the proper working, integrity, operation, or appearance of the Platform without the Company’s explicit consent.
• You must not misuse any reporting, flagging, dispute, or appeals channel, such as by making fraudulent, duplicative, or groundless reports or appeals.
• You must not develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (such as crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape or copy the Platform, or to reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Platform or any related technology that is not open source.
• Reuse of content that we host is welcome, though exceptions exist for content contributed under "fair use" or similar exemptions under applicable copyright law. Any reuse must comply with the underlying license(s). When you reuse or redistribute content developed by the Academia Aeterna community, you agree to attribute the authors through hyperlink, URL to a stable and freely accessible online copy, a list of all authors, or other commonly accepted attribution mechanism.
• You must not do or attempt to do anything to circumvent, bypass, or override any technological measures that Company uses to control or limit access to our Platform or data.
• You can include other website links (URL) on your Public Page. However, you must reveal the full address of the links. You cannot embed links. It is important for Visitors to know where the links direct Visitors before clicking the links. Visitors may avoid the suspicious link address, if they know it beforehand. Importantly, you are fully responsible for the links that you include on your Public Page. The Company does not have the responsibility for these links, any content hosted on linked pages, or the consequence of clicking the links.
• We reserve the right to monitor, moderate, remove, or restrict access to content, or suspend or disable your account, for any conduct that, in our sole discretion, is in violation of these provisions or otherwise presents a risk to users, the Service, or third parties, or as required by law.

If you identify content or other information that you believe violates your rights (including intellectual property rights), or otherwise violates these Terms or the law, please report it to us. To the extent we can under law, we may remove or restrict access to content, features, services, or information, including if we believe that it’s reasonably necessary to avoid harm to the Platform or others, violates the law or is reasonably necessary to prevent misuse of the Platform.

If you believe that any content available on our Platform or other activity taking place on our Platform constitutes infringement of a work protected by copyright (each, a "Work"), then please notify us by providing a written, signed notice of infringement (a "DMCA Notice") to our designated agent by postal mail to BIOSKETCH LLC, 2810 N Church St NUM 577680, Wilmington, DE 19802, USA or by email to Services@academia-aeterna.org.

Such DMCA Notice should be in writing (either electronic mail or paper letter) and must include the following information which is consistent with the form suggested by the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA"):

• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
• Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
• Include both of the following statements in the body of the Notice:
• “I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use).”
• “I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of, the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed.”

5. Sharing Information on the Platform

You are not required to post personally identifying information (PII) on your Public Page. However, to the extent you choose to do so, such PII may be seen by other Members or by others (on or off the Platform). If we make choices about who can see content on your Public Page available to you, we will honor the choices you make. To the extent allowed by law, we are not obligated to publish any content or other information on the Platform, including on your Public Page, and we can remove it with or without notice.

6. Intellectual Property

We reserve all intellectual property rights in the Platform. Trademarks and logos used in connection with the Platform are the trademarks of their respective owners. The Platform, Company, and any Company logos and other trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos used for the Platform are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Company.

7. Deleting Your Content

You can delete your Public Page at any time, regardless of your membership status (Active Member or Passive Member). All content posted to your Public Page will be deleted if you delete your account. In each of these cases, these Terms will continue until the content has been fully removed.

8. Updating our Terms

We may need to amend or update these Terms from time to time. Unless otherwise required by law, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to notify you before making any material changes to these Terms and give you an opportunity to review them before they take effect. However, you should regularly check the Terms for such changes. We will also update the “Last Updated” date at the top of these Terms.

Once any updated Terms are in place, you will be bound by them if you continue to use the Platform. If you do not agree with our updated Terms or wish to terminate your agreement, you must stop using the Platform, and can delete your account at any time.

9. Limits to liability

Our Platform is provided "as-is" and we make no guarantees that the Platform will always be safe, secure, or error-free, nor do we guarantee that the Platform will function without disruptions, delays, or imperfections, or meet your particular requirements. To the extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, whether express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not control or direct what people and others do or say online or offline, nor are we responsible for their actions or conduct, or any content they share (including offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful, and other objectionable content).

We cannot predict when issues might arise with our Platform. Therefore, our liability shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and under no circumstances will we be liable to you for any lost profits, revenues, information, goodwill, life, health, data, or any other direct, consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive, or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms or the Platform (however caused and on any theory of liability, including negligence), even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Your sole and exclusive remedy for any problems associated with your use of (or inability to use) the Platform shall be for you to discontinue using the Platform. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IF YOU OR WE WANT TO ASSERT A DISPUTE, THEN YOU OR WE MUST COMMENCE IT (BY DELIVERY OF WRITTEN NOTICE AS DESCRIBED HEREIN) WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE DISPUTE ARISES OR IT WILL BE WAIVED AND TIME BARRED. Commencing means filing an action in state or federal court.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you, on your own behalf and that of any other who may claim by or through you, hereby release, and waive all claims against the Company and any Company personnel, from any and all liability for any and all claims, suits, damages, fines, penalties, costs, expenses (including costs and attorneys’ fees) or other losses of any kind or nature (“Loss”), arising out of or in any way connected to your or any third party’s access to or use or disclosure of the Platform, Public Page(s), or content posted thereon, whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such Loss. You waive all damages under any cause of action other than actual damage for out-of-pocket loss, which shall in no case exceed the amount you have paid us in the past twelve (12) months. For example, except with respect to these laws, you waive all special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages as well as the imposition of costs and attorney’s fees, with respect to use of the Platform or its contents.

10. Disputes

We strive to provide clear rules to help limit or avoid disputes between you and us. If a dispute does arise, however, it's helpful to know upfront where it can be resolved and which laws will apply.

Unless otherwise required by the relevant law of the jurisdiction in which you reside, you and Company agree that the law of the State of Delaware, USA, excluding its conflict of laws rules, shall exclusively govern any claim, cause of action, or dispute relating to the Platform or these Terms. You and Company both agree that all claims and disputes can be litigated only in the federal or state courts in the New Castle County, Delaware, USA, and you and Company each agree to personal jurisdiction of those courts.

11. Miscellaneous

11.1. Severability

If any portion of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, we will deem that provision amended to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and if it cannot be made enforceable, then it shall be severed from the remaining provisions, which will remain in full force and effect. Failure by us to enforce any term or condition of these Terms at any time shall not constitute a waiver of our right to do so. Any amendment to or waiver of these Terms must be made in writing and signed by us.

11.2. Legacy Contact

You may designate a person (referred to as your "Legacy Contact") to manage your account if it is memorialized upon your death or incapacity. If you enable this feature in your settings, only your Legacy Contact or an individual who has been identified in a valid will or similar legal document expressing clear consent to disclose your content upon death or incapacity will be able to request limited disclosure of information from your account after it is memorialized.

11.3. No Third-Party Beneficiaries

These Terms do not confer any third-party beneficiary rights. All our rights and obligations under these Terms are freely assignable by us in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise.

11.4. Feedback

We appreciate any feedback and other suggestions about our products and services that you choose to provide. However, we are under no obligation to keep such feedback confidential or to compensate you for providing it, nor do we guarantee that your ideas will be implemented.

11.5. Termination of the Platform

The Company reserves the right to terminate the Platform at any time without prior notice or compensation to you or any related parties. Upon termination, we may delete your My Page and Public Page without further obligation or liability. Our rights to use and disclose any feedback you share with us about the Platform, as well as your and our rights and obligations in Sections 4, 8, 9, and 10 shall survive termination. Any amounts owed by you prior to termination remain owed after termination.

11.6. Contact

For questions regarding these Terms, please contact services@academia-aeterna.org.