Terms of Use

of the GGOS Website, Blog, Newsletter and Cloud

Important Note

By using the GGOS Website, Blog, Newsletter and Cloud, you consent this “Terms of Use” and agree to all its conditions.

GGOS Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS). This Privacy Policy explains what data we may collect from you and how we may use, store, and transfer your information. We may make changes to this Privacy Policy.

What information’s GGOS collects about you?

There are several possibilities to interact with GGOS. For instance by visiting the GGOS website, sending an email to GGOS, by signing up to the GGOS newsletter mailing list, by taking a role within GGOS, … . In these cases GGOS receives and collects personal information about you, which may include information, such as IP address, domain information, browser information, and any other information you may voluntarily share with us, such as first name, surname, title, role within IUGG, personal profile-photo, affiliation, physical (work) address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address.

How GGOS uses personal information?

GGOS uses this collected information in order to stay in contact with the GGOS community (Inform you about important announcements, events, and other relevant news; to provide you with information that you have requested; or to communicate relevant information about GGOS/IAG projects, data, services, and other updates). Depending on your role within GGOS, this personal information might be published on the GGOS website. We keep your information for no longer than is necessary for the purposes it was collected for. In addition you personal information (name, affiliation, country, …) can be used for informational purposes (for conference participation lists, …).

Protecting personally identifiable information

GGOS uses safeguards to ensure that your personal information is secure. Once we have received your information, we will use appropriate procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access. Our whole GGOS website, online forms and the GGOS Cloud are always encrypted to ensure security.

Updating or deleting your personal information

You have a right to your privacy. We would like to assure that we address your privacy concerns. If you identify any content you desire to be removed or you would like to modify your personal information incl. updating your subscription to the GGOS newsletter, please contact the website owner (Email Contact). Requests to unsubscribe may not take effect immediately.

User Statistic Tracking

This website is using the Matomo Analytics tracking tool, that protects your data and your customers’ privacy. It applies the rules of the GDPR (EU’s General Data Protection Regulation), HIPAA, CCPA, and PECR.

Opt-out complete; your visits to this website will not be recorded by the Web Analytics tool. Note that if you clear your cookies, delete the opt-out cookie, or if you change computers or Web browsers, you will need to perform the opt-out procedure again.

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

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© Copyright

The GGOS website includes information’s, texts, pictures, media, etc. which is made available by the website owner, and many contributors active in, or related to geodesy and GGOS. The information has been produced by the owner or supplied by many colleagues involved in relevant research and development activities in geodesy and neighboring sciences.

Text Content

Text content of the GGOS website is generally under the CC BY-SA license. So you are free to share (copy, redistribute) and modify (remix, transform and rebuild) website materials, but with the condition to give an appropriate credit (cite GGOS and place a link to the GGOS Website) and if you remix, transform, or rebuilt the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

Media Content (Photos, Graphics, Videos)

Non-text media content of the GGOS website is generally under the CC BY-ND license, but with the additional condition to ask the website owner before sharing. The CC BY-ND license means that you are free to share (copy, redistribute) but not to modify (remix, transform and rebuild) website materials. You have to follow the conditions to give an appropriate credit (cite GGOS and place a link to the GGOS Website) and in this case to ask the website owner before sharing.

In other words, it is basically not allowed to copy or redistribute any photos, graphics or videos without authorization of the website owner. Usually it is no problem to reuse them, but the website owner can not give a general release. If you want to share any of these non-text media, please contact the website owner (Email Contact).

Corrections

We are all human and we cannot rule out that all information at the GGOS website is totally correct. There may be information that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, omissions or false descriptions. We reserve the right to correct any errors and to change or update the information on the website at any time, without prior notice.

If you detect some errors, inappropriate hyperlinks, etc. on the GGOS website, please contact the website owner (Email Contact).

Disclaimer

Content

All information published at this website is for general information purpose only. The website owner does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website, is strictly at your own risk. The website owner will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of our Website, Newsletter, etc.

GGOS Cloud

GGOS Cloud is a free tool for uploading, store and archive data at a Cloud Server. The use is on your own risk. The website owner do the best to backup the data in order to recovery it after a server problem, but he cannot guarantee to recover the stored data in all cases. The website owner will not be liable for any losses with the use of this GGOS Cloud service.

Hyperlinks

From our website, you can visit other external websites by hyperlinks. While we strive to provide only quality links to useful and ethical websites, we have no control over the content and nature of these sites. These links to other websites do not imply a recommendation for all the content found on these sites. Site owners and content may change without notice and may occur before we have the opportunity to remove a link which may have gone ‘bad’. Please be also aware that when you leave our website, other sites may have different privacy policies and terms which are beyond our control. Please be sure to check the Privacy Policies of these sites as well as their “Terms of Use” before engaging in any business or uploading any information.

If you detect errors, inappropriate hyperlinks, etc. at the GGOS website, please contact the website owner (Email Contact).

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