Terms of use

These are the standard VIVO terms of use, extended with some specific AgriVIVO disclaimers (in green).

Disclaimers

This website contains material—text information, links, and images—provided by various third parties, both individuals and organizations, commercial and otherwise. To the extent copyrightable, the information presented on the AgriVIVO website and available as Resource Description Framework (RDF) data from the AgriVIVO VIVO store is intended for public use and is freely distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY 3.0 license which allows you to copy, distribute, display and make derivatives of this information provided you give credit to AgriVIVO. Any non-copyrightable information is available to you under a CC0 waiver. However, source documents, images or web pages attached to or linked from VIVO may contain copyrighted information and should only be used or distributed under terms included with each source or in accordance with the principles of fair use.

Disclaimer of Liability

The AgriVIVO managers make no warranty, expressed or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, currency or usefulness of any material displayed or distributed through the AgriVIVO website or represent that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. The AgriVIVO managers disclaim all warranties with regard to the information provided. Any reliance upon such information is at your own risk. In no event will the AgriVIVO managers be liable to you for any damages or losses whatsoever resulting from or caused by the AgriVIVO website or its contents.

Data are not synchronized in real time with the data sources, so information that has been updated in the source may not be up to date in AgriVIVO until the source is harvested again.
Data are imported from sources at regular intervals. These intervals may be different from source to source.

Disclaimer of Endorsement

Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement or recommendation by the AgriVIVO managers. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the AgriVIVO managers and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

Disclaimer of Privacy

AgriVIVO imports data from external sources that make these data accessible.

Email addresses are required for people's records to be imported in AgriVIVO, but they are never made public. People can only be contacted through a captcha-protected online form.

Important: people's photos and people's full profiles are hidden from Google.

Privacy issues are managed at the level of the source. AgriVIVO assumes that all the data exported by the data providers can be made public, with the exception of the email address.