Terms of service
Note
The Terms of service are German only. You are reading the English courtesy translation.
§ 1 Scope
The scope of these terms of use is all data concerning registration and change requests of IGSN, which are entered by the user or on behalf of the user via the IGSN service of the computer centre of the Kiel University. These data include in particular the metadata describing a sample and not the actual samples as such. Users are persons who have applied for access to the IGSN service: Researchers at Kiel University.
§ 3 Granting of rights
The user irrevocably grants the Computer Centre of the Kiel University the non-exclusive (simple) right to reproduce the data on the university’s own servers, to store it and to make it accessible in electronic form via international data networks for an unlimited period of time. Furthermore, he/she instructs the computer centre to assign an IGSN for the research dataset. The user is free to dispose of this data in other ways as long as the rights granted to the Computing Centre of Kiel University are not restricted.
The user grants the Computing Centre of Kiel University the right to convert the data into other electronic formats or to have it converted and renamed if necessary (e.g. migration, accessibility, better indexing, ensuring future viability).
§ 4 Legal harmlessness, liability
The user assures that he/she possesses all rights of use necessary for the uploading of the data and that he/she has not previously made any dispositions contrary to these Terms of Use. In particular, he/she warrants that the data posted, including all components, do not infringe the rights of third parties (e.g. co-authors, third-party funders, trademark rights, etc.) or criminal law.
In particular, the user assures that the data he/she posts (with the exception of information about authors and contributors) does not contain any personal data. This can be ensured, for example, by anonymising the data beforehand.
The user shall indemnify the Computer Centre of Kiel University against any claims for damages for which he/she is responsible on the basis of copyright, personal rights or other rights of third parties. This shall not apply if the infringement is due to intentional or grossly negligent conduct on the part of the Computing Centre of Kiel University and the user is not equally guilty of intent or gross negligence.
The Computing Centre of Kiel University accepts no liability for disruptions in the provision of data or for any changes to the data during data transmission or storage.
The Computer Centre of Kiel University is entitled to block access to the posted data in whole or in part with immediate effect if there are concrete indications that legal regulations or the rights of third parties are being violated. In such a case, the Computing Centre of Kiel University will inform the user immediately of the blocking.
The posting of data is not associated with any legally binding claim to the IGSN allocation.
§ 5 Desired contents
Only samples that are related to the user’s research activities at Kiel University and have scientific relevance are eligible for IGSN registration.
The relevance and quality of the samples must in principle meet the requirements of publicationworthiness and citability that go hand in hand with the award of an IGSN.
Only registrations that meet the requirements for registration of IGSNs will be accepted. In particular, holding samples in accordance with the DFG Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice is a prerequisite for using the IGSN service.
The Computing Centre of Kiel University is not liable for damages caused by the posted data in systems of third parties.
As a member of the TIB DOI Consortium, Kiel University registers IGSN via the service offered by DataCite. Thus, the Terms of Use of TIB as well as the Terms of Use of DataCite additionally apply.
§ 6 Licensing for third parties
The user releases the registration data belonging to the registered IGSN for general use under the Creative Commons licence CC0.