Terms of Use

Rules for using ResearchHub public pages, dashboards, messaging, partnership workflows, and administrator tools.

Last updated: June 2026

By using ResearchHub, you agree to use the platform responsibly, provide accurate information, respect role boundaries, and follow applicable laws, institutional policies, research ethics requirements, confidentiality obligations, and partnership agreements.

ResearchHub supports discovery and coordination. It does not replace formal legal, ethics, funding, procurement, intellectual property, institutional, or partnership review processes.

Permitted Use

You may use ResearchHub to discover research expertise, maintain professional profiles, submit partnership requests, review potential matches, communicate with approved users, and support regional research collaboration.

  • Public visitors may browse public pages and public researcher information.
  • Researchers may manage their profiles, invitations, opportunity suggestions, messages, and approved public visibility.
  • Partners and community users may submit requests, manage organization information, review their own submissions, and communicate through approved workflows.
  • Administrators may operate the platform, review data quality, manage users, approve matches, send communications, and maintain settings within their authorized scope.

Account Responsibilities

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for notifying ResearchHub support if you suspect unauthorized access.

  • Use accurate account and contact information.
  • Do not share passwords, invitation links, reset links, or administrative access.
  • Use only the roles, dashboards, and records you are authorized to access.
  • Tell ResearchHub staff if your role, institution, organization, or profile information changes.

Acceptable Use

Do not misuse ResearchHub, disrupt the service, or use platform information for purposes unrelated to legitimate research, partnership, community, or ecosystem-development work.

  • Do not upload unlawful, harmful, misleading, confidential, infringing, or malicious content.
  • Do not scrape, bulk export, or republish information except through approved platform workflows.
  • Do not use messaging, invitations, or outreach tools for spam, harassment, discrimination, or unauthorized solicitation.
  • Do not attempt to bypass role permissions, access another user's account, reverse engineer security controls, or interfere with platform operations.
  • Do not treat automatic match scores, AI-generated outputs, or imported records as final decisions without human review.

Content, Accuracy, And Review

ResearchHub contains user-submitted, administrator-entered, imported, and system-generated information. While the platform is designed for review and quality control, information may be incomplete, stale, duplicated, or incorrect.

  • Researchers are encouraged to review and keep their public profiles accurate.
  • Partners are responsible for submitting accurate request details and contact information.
  • Administrators should review matches, AI outputs, imported data, source URLs, and quality flags before using them operationally.
  • ResearchHub may correct, hide, reject, suspend, or remove content that is inaccurate, inappropriate, unsupported, or inconsistent with platform rules.

Partnerships, Introductions, And Funding

ResearchHub helps identify possible research connections, but it does not guarantee introductions, researcher availability, funding eligibility, grant success, commercial outcomes, or partnership agreements.

Any collaboration, funding application, confidentiality arrangement, data-sharing arrangement, intellectual property decision, ethics review, procurement decision, or contract should be handled through the appropriate institutional and legal processes.

Privacy, Confidentiality, And Public Information

Your use of ResearchHub is also governed by the Privacy Policy. Do not submit confidential, proprietary, personal, health, student, Indigenous knowledge, or sensitive community information unless you are authorized to do so and the workflow is appropriate for that information.

Only public-profile and public-page content should be treated as public. Internal notes, draft records, private messages, source-review notes, settings, and admin data are restricted information.

Suspension, Changes, And Availability

ResearchHub may limit, suspend, or remove access if an account appears compromised, violates these terms, no longer has an appropriate role, or creates operational, legal, privacy, or security risk.

Features, pages, templates, matching logic, AI tools, integrations, and data sources may change over time as the pilot develops. The service may be unavailable during maintenance, updates, incidents, or hosting interruptions.

Questions

For questions about these terms, contact ResearchHub support with your account email, role, organization or institution, and a short description of the issue.