SDI4Apps Platform Data IPR Terms of Use

Users who publish data on the SDI4Apps Platform agree to the following Terms of Use.

SDI4Apps encourages open data sharing and the following GEOSS Data Sharing Principles (as defined at www.earthobservations.org/dswg.php):

• data, metadata and products will be shared as Open Data by default without charge or restrictions on reuse, subject to the conditions of registration and attribution when the data are reused;
• where international instruments, national policies or legislation preclude the sharing of data as Open Data, data should be made available with minimal restrictions on use and at no more than the cost of reproduction and distribution; and
• all shared data, products and metadata will be made available with minimum time delay

Users who publish data on the SDI4Apps Platform, agree to the following Terms of Use from their first use of the Platform:

1. You retain any and all rights you may possess to data you input and host on the SDI4Apps Platform or data collected from others by the SDI4Apps Platform, or Services running on it, on your behalf. As a policy, SDI4Apps does not examine any of your data or enforce any of its license conditions.
2. You will respect all existing licenses when you merge and store datasets on the SDI4Apps Platform. The SDI4Apps Platform will not monitor nor enforce your’s or any existing data licenses.
3. The preferred license for your published data on the SDI4Apps Platform is CC-BY V4.0 (as defined at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). You will clearly indicate in the metadata of your datasets if it is not so.
4. You undertakes to make all due allowance for generally recognized principles for data protection and data security and to comply with all obligations in connection with data protection. You will not include personally identifiable information in any data which is provided by you in connection with your use of the SDI4Apps Platform or Services that use it.
5. You will inform SDI4Apps immediately of any unauthorized use of your access data or of any failure on your part to comply with data protection regulations. You bear sole personal responsibility for the confidentiality of your login name and password, and vis-à-vis both SDI4Apps and all third parties for all activities occurring under your login name.
6. You accept that the SDI4Apps platform and the services that use it, are provided “as is” and on an “as available basis” “with all faults” and without warranty of any kind.
7. If a third party makes a claim against SDI4Apps or any of its Service Providers for infringement of its intellectual property rights based on your use of the platform or the Services that use it, in connection with your data or information, then you will indemnify and hold SDI4Apps and its Service Providers harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and other costs of defending and/or settling any action) that SDI4Apps or its service providers may have to pay as a result of the claim.
8. If you provide the results of your use of the SDI4Apps Platform or Services to third parties, then you (i) will be responsible, as between you and SDI4Apps, for such third parties’ use of those results in compliance with these Terms of Use and (ii) will defend, indemnify and hold SDI4Apps harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and other costs of defending and/or settling any action) that SDI4Apps may have to pay as a result of or arising from such third parties’ use of such results.