Terms & Conditions

Permission to use content


Plymouth Marine Laboratory’s and users responsibilities for materials held on the ASPACE website:

ASPACE (Assisted Spatial Planning Addressing Climate Effects) is a free, web-based Spatial Prioritisation software co-created by natural and social scientists, economists, policy practitioners, regulators, marine sectors and others at the science-policy interface, to support the design and exploration of alternative spatial management scenarios that meet climate, nature, social and economic targets.

This Website is operated and hosted by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), a registered UK charitable organisation. It is intended to not only provide 3rd parties access to ASPACE data and tools (Users) but also to allow the same to upload their own data for the same purpose.

For this reason, PML is responsible for ensuring that data is not uploaded to the ASPACE platform without the permission of the copyright holder (the legal owner) of any such data. This means that if data is uploaded by a User without the copyright owner’s permission, both the User and the platform could be held liable for IP infringement.

To avoid liability PML will always endeavour to act quickly take the appropriate action, such as removing the infringing material as soon as it is notified of its presence.

If you believe any content you upload may contain any copyrighted material then you should seek authorisation from the right-holders in respect of content and remove any content for which authorisation is refused or for which you do not get a response. Please note that complying with the above is part of ASPACE’s terms and conditions found below.

Potential Copyright Breaches (Take Down Notices)

If you believe that any materials uploaded on to this website breach your copyright (or any other intellectual property right) please contact legal@pml.ac.uk and PML shall temporarily remove the material as soon as possible, investigate the alleged infringement and then advise what permanent action shall be taken.

Please note that in taking the above action PML cannot be held liable for content uploaded by ASPACE Users external to PML Please also note that PML do not receive any financial benefit from any content uploaded on to the APACE website, or its use.

Terms and conditions

These terms and conditions are split into two areas; firstly the conditions governing your permission to use ASPACE data and tools: and secondly, our permission to hold and use any data you upload on the ASPACE website and any data created by using the ASPACE tools (‘Resultant Data’)

1. Your permission to use ASPACE content

ASPACE uses standard terms and conditions for the provision of all data and tools provided on its website, including all Users content, in the form of a licence created by a 3rd party found at:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

The licence enables users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes only, and only so long as proper credit / attribution is given to the creator.

Non-commercial purposes means that the user must not sell or distribute the materials for any kind of financial gain.

If you modify, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

2. Permission to use your content

This website is designed to let you upload your own data in order to use the ASPACE functionality in a user-bespoke manner.

You have no obligation to provide any data to use ASPACE but this will limit the functionality to areas where shared data have already been uploaded.

If you choose to upload or share content then it will be covered by the following licence, please make sure that you have all the necessary rights to do so.

Licence

Please also note that by uploading data and or any Resultant Data on to this website you are automatically agreeing to enter into a licence with us.

Your content remains yours, which means that you retain any intellectual property rights that you have in your content.

We need your permission if your intellectual property rights restrict our use of your content. You provide us with that permission through this licence.

What’s covered

This licence covers your content if that content is protected by intellectual property rights.

What’s not covered

This licence doesn’t affect your data protection rights – it’s only about your intellectual property rights.

This licence doesn’t cover publicly available, factual information that you provide. That information doesn’t require a licence because it’s considered common knowledge that everyone’s free to use.

Scope

This licence is:

  • Worldwide, which means that it’s valid anywhere in the world
  • Non-exclusive, which means that you can licence your content to others
  • Royalty-free, which means that there are no monetary fees for this licence
  • Non-commercial, which means PML do not have the right to sell or distribute your uploaded content for any kind of financial gain.
  • Solely for the Purpose stated below

Rights

  1. Host and save your data and Resultant Data on PML’s systems
  2. Modify your content, such as reformatting or translating it

This licence does NOT allow the host of the ASPACE website (PML) to:

  1. Allow other Users access to your data or Resultant Data
  2. Use your data or Resultant Data for commercial purposes

Purpose

This licence is for the limited purpose of:

The use of the ASPACE website and performance the ASPACE tools which means allowing the ASPACE to work as designed and creating new features and functionalities.

This may include using automated systems and algorithms to analyse your content: for spam, malware and illegal content.

Duration

This licence lasts for as long as your content is protected by intellectual property rights.