Terms and Condition

You agree:

only to use the service for the purposes for which you were given access, for example as specified in your project award
not to disrupt the working of the service, for example by knowingly introducing malicious software into it, nor to try to breach its security or use resources which are not assigned to you
not to interfere with other users' work, corrupt their data or invade their privacy
not to infringe copyright or other intellectual property rights
not to take data from any database or dataset without the explicit or implied permission of its owner
not to use another person's account, nor to let other people use your accounts, except by agreement with us;
to keep your passwords confidential, and to inform us if someone else learns any of them or if you become aware that the security of our systems is compromised in any way
not to misuse the Internet, for example by sending spam or malicious software, by pretending to be someone else or by doing anything that might hinder or prevent someone else from using the Internet legitimately
not to use the service for illegal or immoral purposes, such as theft, fraud, drug-trafficking, money-laundering, terrorism, pornography, violence, cruelty, incitement to racial hatred, prostitution, paedophilia, or for offensive, obscene, abusive, menacing, defamatory or insulting behaviour
to comply with any special conditions that may apply to particular software packages

We agree:

as far as we reasonably can, to provide a 24-hour service as described on this website, it being understood that there will be times when the service is unavailable, for example as a result of unexpected failures, maintenance work or upgrades
to take reasonable steps to protect your data from being lost or corrupted.
to protect the security and privacy of the data we hold about you, as described in our Personal Data and Privacy Policy
that we will acquire no intellectual property rights over your software and data
to respond promptly to any complaints or suggestions you make about the service

You accept:

that the service is provided "as is" and we can't guarantee 100% perfection. In legal terms, this means that we are excluding all warranties and conditions applying to the service, including those implied by law.
that you are responsible for your use of any advice or information we may give you. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that it's true and useful, but we cannot guarantee this. In legal terms, this means that we expressly disclaim any and all liability for all representations, statements, conditions or warranties to that or any other effect except to the extent that such liability may not be lawfully excluded.
that we may make changes in the service
that we will use the personal details which you supply to us, together with records of your use of the service, as described in our Personal Data and Privacy Policy
that we may suspend your access to the service and discuss this with your project leader if it seems to us that you are breaking these Terms and Conditions; that if it is necessary to protect the service or other users' work or data, we can halt the execution of any program which you start; and that we have the right to close your accounts
that you alone are responsible for what you do when using the service. If you break the law you alone must answer for it, and if you cause damage to anyone else, you alone are liable, not us
that you will acquire no intellectual property rights over the software or any information we provide
that the use of the service by nationals of certain countries is controlled by special regulations laid down by many European Governments in connection with the Wassenaar Arrangement
that we may make reasonable changes to these Terms and Conditions at any time, and, once we have posted those changes on our website, the new version will then apply to you.

If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions, please contact the PRACE Helpdesk.

This policy applies to personal data about users of the PRACE Repository service:

We will store in the service's database the personal data you supply to us when you register as a user of the service and later.
We will also store in the database details of your use of all aspects of the service, including, for example, the amount of storage space you use and details of accesses to your repository.
We may use this information to help us manage and administer the service, to review, analyse and audit its performance and its patterns of use, and to plan for the future.
This information will be available to those members of the staff who are working on the PRACE project. They may also be available to the leader of your research project and to anyone whom the project leader designates as a manager of the project.
Information about the use made of the service by projects and the sub-groups within them may be made available periodically to PRACE management. Individual users will not be identified. This information may also be placed on the service's public web pages.
We reserve the right to monitor your use of the service, including anything you transmit over the Internet, and any data or software you store on our systems, in order to ensure that you and all the other users are complying with the Terms and Conditions of Access and not breaking the law. We must allow any court or other competent authority to inspect our records of your use of the system, or your data, and to take copies of it, if this is legally required; and we must report your activities to the competent authorities if we know or suspect that you are breaking the law. These are legal obligations for us.
We would not be able to administer the service properly, nor adequately account to our funding bodies for our conduct of this project, without processing your personal data in our database in this way. For this reason, we have to ask you to consent to this policy. This consent is included in the Terms and Conditions of Access.

If you have any questions about the treatment of your personal data, please contact The PRACE Helpdesk.