Revision of Terms and Conditions from Mon, 2007-08-13 12:48

EDIT Scratchpads: Maintainer Terms and Conditions of Use

This document outlines EDIT’s responsibilities to you and your responsibilities to EDIT through the use of this site. YOU MUST SIGN AND RETURN A COPY OF THIS FORM FOR YOUR SITE REQUEST TO BE PROCESSED. You can sign the form digitally using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 8 or higher) and submit the form by e-mail. This should be sent to Dave Roberts, Natural Histoy Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K or to dmr_AT_nomencurator.org

A PDF copy of this document is available for download.

  1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
    This agreement is between the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy and its agents (collectively “EDIT”), and you and your agents (collectivly “you”) regarding the use of this website (the "Site"). By using the Site, you agree to the Terms and Conditions in this document.
  2. OWNERSHIP OF SITE
    The text, graphics, sound and software (collectively "Content") on this Site is owned by you and your agents and you bare sole and ultimate responsibility for this Content. EDIT supports the computer hardware infrastructure and software content management system that provides access to this Content
  3. ACCESS TO SERVICES AND TERMINATION OF ACCESS
    You are responsible for all activity logged through your user account and for the activity of other persons or entity you grant access to this Site. You agree to immediately notify EDIT in the event that you become aware of any unauthorized use and you agree that EDIT may terminate your access privileges and remove Content without notice if EDIT believe you have violated any provision of this Agreement. You agree that termination of your access to the Site shall not result in any liability or other obligation of EDIT to you or any third party in connection with such termination.
  4. CONTENT
    You agree to be bound by the Natural History Museum’s IT Conditions of Use document (attached), the terms and conditions of which are hereby incorporated by reference herein. In summary this document states that all Content placed on the Site must be legal, decent and truthful. Through you or your agent’s use of the Site, you represent and warrant that you have all the rights necessary to receive, use, transmit and disclose all data that you use in any way with the Site. You agree and acknowledge that you are solely responsible for any liabilities, fines, or penalties occasioned by any such violations or lack of rights and that you are solely responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of information and data furnished on the Site.
  5. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
    The use of the Site is solely at your own risk. The site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis and EDIT expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind with respect to the site, whether express or implied. EDIT makes no warranty that the access to the site and/or Content therein will be uninterrupted or secure. Your sole and exclusive remedy with respect to any defect in or dissatisfaction with the Site is to cease using the Site.
  6. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
    You understand and agree that EDIT shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages resulting from any matter related to your or other persons use of the site.
  7. DISCLAIMER OF CONTENT
    You understand and acknowledge that EDIT assumes no responsibility to screen or review Content and that EDIT shall have the right, but not the obligation, in its sole discretion to review, refuse, monitor, edit or remove any Content. EDIT expressly disclaims all responsibility or liability to you or any other person or entity for the Content and you acknowledge and agree that you assume all risk associated with the use of any and all Content.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by: Vince Smith, Simon Rycroft & Dave Roberts