Terms and Conditions

The IBERMIS website (the “website”) are owned by International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation (hereafter “IUCN-Med”). IUCN-Med is hereafter collectively referred to as “We” o “Us”.

The Terms and Conditions apply to all persons who access the website (hereafter referred to as “User” or “Users” or “you”).

We reserve the right to modify, update or correct the content of the website and these Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy at any time and without notice.

We may update these Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy from time to time, at any time without notice to you, by posting such changes on the website and the application. We encourage you to periodically review these Terms and Conditions to be informed of how we are protecting your information. Your continued use of these application and website following the posting of changes to the Terms and Conditions and/or Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes.

The general content from IBERMIS website is owned by IUCN-Med.
The e-IBERMIS website contains copyrighted material and/or other proprietary information and thus, data is protected by intellectual property agreements and copyright laws and regulations worldwide. IUCN-Med and/or their collaborators are the sole and exclusive owners of all rights, titles and interests, including trademarks, copyrights, trade names, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights, contained in the data and software IBERMIS.
You agree to not alter or remove any copyright symbol or other identification concerning authorship of any of the material contained on or otherwise made available to you from the website and application.

All photographs and illustrations contained and used in the website and in the application remain the property of the original copyright holder. Photographs and illustrations should not be reproduced or used in other contexts without written permission from the copyright holder. IUCN-Med is granted permission to publish all photographs attached to reports uploaded by IBERMIS collaborators exclusively within the context of the website.

Any other use of graphic material contributed by collaborators outside the aforementioned context must be agreed with the authors themselves.

Reproduction of the content of IBERMIS website for educational or other non-commercial purposes is authorized without prior written permission provided the source is fully acknowledged (IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation and Life INVASAQUA, download date dd/mm/yy) and under certain conditions:

• Free distribution;
• Respect for the integrity of the documents reproduced: no modifications or alterations of texts, tables, graphics, images from of any kind;
• Clear and visible citation of the information source as indicated.

Reproduction of this information for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without prior written permission. Neither (a) IBERMIS data nor (b) any work derived from or based upon IBERMIS data (i.e., “Derivative Works”) may be put to Commercial Use without the prior written permission of IUCN-Med and Life INVASAQUA. For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions, “Commercial Use” means a) any use by, on behalf of, or to inform or assist the activities of, a commercial entity (an entity that operates ‘for profit’) or b) use by any individual or non-profit entity for the purposes of revenue generation. If you wish to use the information obtained from IBERMIS for such commercial purposes, please contact IUCN-Med directly using the contact details in the “Contact Us” section of the website.

To the extent that copyright subsists in a third party it remains with the original owner and written permission shall be required to reuse the material.

• IBERMIS is of free use.
• Data (including all details), which have been submitted by a User, are owned by UICN-Med and the User/group of Users who submitted the data.
• Submitted data will be used by Us or our Partners only to conservation, educational or scientific and research purposes. In any case, you will be informed of the usage of the data submitted by you, and the source will be fully acknowledged.
• Other’s IBERMIS Users data can be used by a User or third party only with prior written permission from the owners of the data (Us and the submitting User).
• The use of data originating from IBERMIS must be quoted as follows: ‘Data obtained from IBERMIS + author (Name and surname)’.
• IUCN-Med is committed to protect the security of your personal information. Any personal information provided to us by you is handled with due care and security, and will not be used in ways other than as set forth in these Terms and Conditions , or in any site/area-specific policies, or in ways to which you have not explicitly consented.
• Administrators of IBERMIS however still have access to all details of these records. Submitted data can be viewed and revised by an IBERMIS Administrator at all times. The Administrator might contact you about a record, for example, for clarification or for conservation reasons.
• Users take the responsibility to not put themselves and others in danger, cause material damage to third parties, harm nature or compromise potential evidences when using IBERMIS.
• Large amounts of data should not be shown and/or made public in other websites or applications without permission of IBERMIS owners. For these cases, please contact us at .
• IUCN-Med assumes no liability for any actions resulting from the use of this application. By agreeing to these user terms, you waive Us of all liability, either in the event of injury or loss while using our application, or in the event that your account and user information is accessed by a third party. We are not responsible for information accessed unlawfully from our servers.

The designation of geographical entities on the IBERMIS website do not imply the expression of, or represent, any opinion by IUCN, or its Partners concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

Links to other websites on IBERMIS website are provided exclusively to give you the most complete information. If you use these links, you will leave IBERMIS. We checked the page pointed to by the active link but it does not control or is responsible for these sites or their contents.

For this reason, we decline any responsibility for these sites or information contained herein, the software or other material contained therein or for the consequences of their use. If you decide to access external sites linked to our site, you do so at your own risk.

It is to the user of IBERMIS to take all appropriate measures to protect its own data and/or software from contamination by viruses circulating on the Internet. We cannot be held responsible for direct or indirect damages resulting from the use of IBERMIS website and application or other sites linked to them.

IBERMIS website is hosted in IUCN-Med’s server and, therefore, ruled by European regulations.

It is expressly prohibited to record or transmit to and from the website and application, illegal communications, threatening, abusive, fraudulent, insulting, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or contrary to national, European or international laws, regardless of the medium used (e-mail or video file).

We seek feedback from our Users in order to improve the service offered. However, you agree not to use the website to transmit any material that is unlawful, harmful, defamatory, abusive, fraudulent, threatening, vulgar or obscene. We record the feedback in a database. The information received will only be used for the purpose for which it was requested and will not be distributed further, or disclosed, without your consent.

The applicable Privacy Policy is available here

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