General Terms and Conditions (GTC) of the Institute for Marketing and Customer Insight (IMC-HSG)
(A) GTC general
(B) GTC of the Marketing Review St.Gallen
(C) GTC Shop
(A) GTC (general)
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(B) GTC of the Marketing Review St.Gallen
Title Rights
Authors who publish in Marketing Review St. Gallen expressly acknowledge by submitting their contributions, including graphics and images, that Marketing Review St. Gallen holds the title rights to the published contributions and that Marketing Review St. Gallen is entitled to the exclusive use of the published contributions without any restrictions in terms of location or time. There shall be no entitlement to the publication of manuscripts sent to Marketing Review St. Gallen.
Scope of the transfer of rights
Authors who publish in Marketing Review St. Gallen grant Marketing Review St. Gallen a comprehensive right of use to all editorial content, unlimited in terms of space, time and content.
Print media rights
Marketing Review St. Gallen may use the work in whole or in part in physical form in Switzerland and abroad, in all print editions of Marketing Review St. Gallen and for print media of all kinds. The right of use shall include in particular the right of reproduction, the right of distribution, the right of rental, the right of lending and the right of archiving.
Right of edit, transform and translate
The work may be translated into other languages, edited (e.g. layout changes, final editing) and in particular also shortened.
Right to use for advertising purposes
Marketing Review St. Gallen is authorized to print the work for (its own) advertising purposes, to broadcast it on radio and television, to present it in online media and to reproduce it in any other way.
Right of electronic, digital use
Marketing Review St. Gallen may record the work in digital or non-digital form, combine it with other works and contributions in databases and store it on all known storage media. Furthermore, the work may be made usable in any form, also interactively by electronic means (ePaper, eBook, eJournal), reproduced on any data, image or sound carrier, for example CD-ROM, CD and DVD, and independently marketed or distributed. In particular, the use in online services (tele- and media services), internet, film, radio, video, in and from databases, telecommunication, mobile phone, broadband and data networks as well as for electronic press reviews is permitted, regardless of the technology used for the transfer to existing mobile or stationary end devices.
Database use
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After publication of the article in Marketing Review St. Gallen, the author shall be free to grant third-party exploitation rights as well.
(C) GTC Shop
The received goods can be returned without giving reasons within two weeks by sending them back. The period begins at the earliest with receipt of the goods and this notification. To meet the deadline, it is sufficient to send the goods or the return request in time. You are responsible for the direct costs of returning the goods, unless the Institute for Marketing and Customer Insight offers you a different solution.
The return shipment must be made to:
Institut für Marketing und Customer Insight
Universität St.Gallen
Dufourstrasse 40a
CH-9000 St.Gallen