Terms and conditions

Welcome to miRNAtarget. miRNAtarget is a software tool under continuous development by Pharmahungary Group for the analysis of the targets of differentially expressed miRNAs, for more information see www.pharmahungary.com.

Pharmahungary Group provides their services to you subject to the following conditions. If you visit www.mirnatarget.com or use our innovative bioinformatics tool via this website, you accept these conditions. These conditions form a part of a binding contract between you and us regarding your access to and use of our web site or our services. Please read them carefully.

1. Privacy

Please review our Data Protection Policy on http://www.pharmahungary.com/terms-and-conditions/, which also governs your visit to our website, to understand our practices.

2. Electronic Communications

When you visit miRNAtarget or use our services, you agree to communicate with us only electronically. You also give consent to receive communications from us only electronically. The communication between you and us will be by means of e-mails or posting notices on this site.

3. Copyright

All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Pharmahungary Group or its content suppliers and protected by international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of Pharmahungary Group, with copyright authorship for this collection by Pharmahungary Group, and protected by international copyright laws.

miRNAtarget provides analysis for the targets of differentially expressed miRNAs using 3 databases:

1. microRNA target predictions: The microRNA.org resource: targets and expression. Betel D, Wilson M, Gabow A, Marks DS, Sander C., Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jan; 36(Database Issue): D149-53., see: http://www.microrna.org/microrna/home.do
2. The target prediction database, miRDB: Nathan Wong and Xiaowei Wang (2015) miRDB: an online resource for microRNA target prediction and functional annotations. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1):D146-152., see: http://mirdb.org/download.html
3. miRTarBase 2016: updates to the experimentally validated miRNA-target interactions database. Chou CH, Chang NW, Shrestha S, Hsu SD, Lin YL, Lee WH, Yang CD, Hong HC, Wei TY, Tu SJ, Tsai TR, Ho SY, Jian TY, Wu HY, Chen PR, Lin NC, Huang HT, Yang TL, Pai CY, Tai CS, Chen WL, Huang CY, Liu CC, Weng SL, Liao KW, Hsu WL, Huang HD. (2016) Nucleic acids research., see: http://mirtarbase.mbc.nctu.edu.tw/php/index.php

4. Trademarks

Pharmahungary Group trademarks shall not be used in connection with any product or service that does not belong to Pharmahungary Group, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Pharmahungary Group. All other trademarks not owned by Pharmahungary Group or its subsidiaries that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by Pharmahungary Group or its subsidiaries.

5. Registration

You are required to register with us to access our services. With respect to any registration, you agree not to use a username or e-mail address that is already being used by someone else; that may be construed as impersonating another person; that belongs to another person; that violates any other rights of any person; or that we reject for any other reason in our sole discretion.

Your registration information includes your name, e-mail address, password, your billing information (including tax number), and your title (e.g. Dr., PhD, etc.). You consent to the collection, use, processing, and storage of your personal information, as described in the Data Protection Policy. You acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for obtaining all necessary consents, and for complying with all applicable laws, related to personal information provided to us in connection with your use of our services.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any password you may use to access our site and services, and you agree not to transfer your password or username, or lend or otherwise transfer your use of or access to our site or services to any third party. You are fully responsible for all interaction with the services that occur in connection with your registration information (including, without limitation, all purchases). You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your registration information or any other breach of security related to your account. We are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with any of the foregoing obligations.

6. License and Site Access

Pharmahungary Group grants you a limited license to access and make use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it. This license does not include any resale of this site or its services; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express consent of Pharmahungary Group. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Pharmahungary Group and our associates without express consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing Pharmahungary Group’s name or trademarks without the express consent of Pharmahungary Group. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by Pharmahungary Group, in this case you shall not have the right to ask for any repayment or refunding regarding your payments. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of miRNAtarget so long as the link does not portray miRNAtarget, its associates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any Pharmahungary Group logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express permission.

7. Conditions of Use

Registration on miRNAtarget.com is free of charge. By registering you agree to the Terms & Conditions of www.mirnatarget.com. miRNAtarget analysis pricing depends if you wish to use miRNAtarget results for research or commercial purposes and on the number of analysis you would like to perform.

7.1. Research Use

For research purposes you may use miRNAtarget for free for up 20 (twenty) analysis. In case you wish to run more than 20 (twenty) miRNAtarget analysis, please contact us via e-mail at [email protected] to receive your individualized pricing information, also see section 7.2.

Following your registration, Pharmahungary Group sends you an e-mail requesting the following information from you:

• Affiliation (university, academic institute, company, etc.)
• Purpose for using miRNAtarget in a few sentences
• Estimated number of miRNAtarget analysis, e.g. 1-10, 10-20, over 20

Pharmahungary Group starts providing Services only when Pharmahungary Group bioinformatics team reviewed your feedback and your registration have been approved by Pharmahungary Group. Following approval you will receive an e-mail with the exact date and time from when and how long you are authorized to use our services. You agree that you are solely responsible to receive the aforementioned e-mail and we shall not have any responsibility or liability if you fail to receive our e-mail.

7.1.1. Referencing in Research Publications

Results generated by miRNAtarget can be used without the written permission of Pharmahungary Group. Upon using miRNAtarget results:

Please use the following sentence and at least one the two following references in the methods section of your publication:

• 'The miRNA-mRNA target interaction network was constructed and miRNA targets were predicted by miRNAtarget version 2.0 (Pharmahungary Group, Szeged, Hungary, www.mirnatarget.com, 06/04/2022).'
• Ágg B, Baranyai T, Makkos A, Vető B, Faragó N, Zvara Á, Giricz Z, Veres DV, Csermely P, Arányi T, Puskás LG, Varga ZV, Ferdinandy P. MicroRNA interactome analysis predicts post-transcriptional regulation of ADRB2 and PPP3R1 in the hypercholesterolemic myocardium. Sci Rep. 2018 Jul 4;8(1):10134.) (Pubmed ID: 29973623)
• Bencsik P, Kiss K, Ágg B, Baán JA, Ágoston G, Varga A, Gömöri K, Mendler L, Faragó N, Zvara Á, Sántha P, Puskás LG, Jancsó G, Ferdinandy P. Sensory Neuropathy Affects Cardiac miRNA Expression Network Targeting IGF-1, SLC2a-12, EIF-4e, and ULK-2 mRNAs. Int J Mol Sci. 2019 Feb 25;20(4):991. (Pubmed ID: 30823517)

7.2. Commercial Use

For commercial purposes or over 20 miRNAtarget analysis used for research purposes please contact us via e-mail at [email protected] to receive your individualized pricing information.

Pharmahungary Group sends proforma invoice after each purchase in Euro (EUR). All the invoices shall be issued by:
- Pharmahungary 2000 Ltd
- registered address: Hajnóczy str. 6., H-6722 Szeged, Hungary, European Union
- EU VAT number: HU13109202

Your payment is due immediately upon receiving the proforma invoice. Pharmahungary Group sends a final invoice to your registered e-mail address within 15 days as of full receipt of your payment for that proforma invoice.

In case you do not have registered place of business or offices in Hungary, furthermore do not possess registered Hungarian VAT number: VAT is 0% (due to R&D service export, according to Hungarian VAT law 37.§, indicated as "ÁKK" on the invoice).

In case you have registered place of business or offices in Hungary and registered Hungarian VAT number: VAT is 27%.

Pharmahungary Group starts providing Services only when your payment has been received in full. Pharmahungary Group will send you an e-mail with the exact date and time from when and how long you are authorized to use our services. You agree that you are solely responsible to receive the aforementioned e-mail and we shall not have any responsibility or liability if you fail to receive our e-mail.

7.2.1. Referencing in Commercial Documents

Results generated by miRNAtarget can be used without the written permission of Pharmahungary Group. Upon using miRNAtarget results:

• Please use the following sentence in any materials where miRNAtarget results are used including but not limited to e.g. business reports, flyers, website, social medica, etc.: 'The miRNA-mRNA target interaction network was constructed and miRNA targets were predicted by miRNAtarget version 2.0 (Pharmahungary Group, Szeged, Hungary, www.mirnatarget.com, 06/04/2022).'

8. Your Membership Account

If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. If you are under 18, you may use our website only with involvement of a parent or legal guardian. Pharmahungary Group and its associates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in their sole discretion.

In case our site and/or services are not working properly and hence you are not able to use your account and our services, we will try to immediately fix the errors. In this case the time period of your access to our services will automatically be extended by the period equivalent to the unavailability of our site and/or services. Other than this elongation period you shall not have the right to seek for any compensation, indemnification, restitution, repayment or refund. You expressly agree that we shall not have any responsibility or liability for our temporarily non-working site or services.

9. Product Descriptions

Pharmahungary Group and its associates attempt to be as accurate as possible. However, as we provide bioinformatics analysis of databases of third parties for you to use and search, miRNAtarget does not warrant that product descriptions or other content of this site is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY PHARMAHUNGARY GROUP ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. PHARMAHUNGARY GROUP MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. SINCE MIRNATARGET PREDICTIONS ARE BASED ON EXTERNAL DATABASE, YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, PHARMAHUNGARY GROUP DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. MIRNATARGET DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR E-MAIL SENT FROM MIRNATARGET ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. PHARMAHUNGARY GROUP WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE OR OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO AGREE THAT IN EVERY CASE YOU LAY A CLAIM AGAINST US, THE AMOUNT OF YOUR CLAIM CANNOT BE HIGHER THAN THE VALUE OF YOUR LAST PAYMENT.

PLEASE NOTE THAT MIRNATARGET-ANALYSIS PROVIDES PREDICTIONS THAT ARE NOT VALIDATED IN BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS. USE PREDICTED RESULTS ACCORDINGLY.

11. Applicable Law

By visiting miRNAtarget website, you agree that the laws of Hungary, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and Pharmahungary Group or its associates.

12. Disputes

Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to miRNAtarget or to products you purchase through miRNAtarget shall be submitted to the competent court in Hungary. Accordingly you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate Pharmahungary Group’s intellectual property rights, Pharmahungary Group may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any competent court in Hungary, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.

13. Site Policies, Modification, and Severability

Please review our other policies, such as our Data Protection policy, posted on this site. These policies also govern your visit to miRNAtarget.

We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time and for any reason in our sole discretion, including complying with applicable law. If we make any material changes to this Conditions of Use, we will provide notice to you in any way we deem reasonable including, for example, by posting a notice of the change on our web site.

If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

14. Questions

Questions regarding our Conditions of Use, Data Protection policy, or other policy related material can be directed to our support staff by using the "Contact Us" form. Or you can email us at: [email protected].