ECN Summary licence

Environmental Change Network (ECN)
Conditions of Use

The ECN Summary Database and its component datasets are proprietary products of NERC on behalf of ECN and thus protected by Copyright law. NERC reserves all rights of ownership and copyright in these data.

Users may not

1. transfer, assign, rent, lease, sell, give or otherwise dispose of these data,
2. release a Product or Tradeable commodity based in whole or in part on data supplied by ECN, unless prior written agreement has been obtained, and any royalties due have been paid,
3. reproduce any digital or numerical data other than for back-up purposes.

Users are required to acknowledge the Environmental Change Network (ECN) in all reference or publications which involve the use of ECN data. Users must offer ECN acknowledgement and/or co-authorship of any proposed publication arising from the use of the data. ECN will have the right to accept this offer, allow the user to publish in his/her own right, or refuse permission to publish, if in our judgement, the publication poses a threat to the data or ECN.

Although these data are subject to quality assurance procedures, we are not able to warrant the accuracy of any data supplied to the user, and have no responsibility for determining the fitness of the data for their intended use by the customer. The provision of such data carries no liability for its accuracy or reliability and ECN or its sponsors cannot be held accountable for any loss, damage, injury or any other occurrence arising from the use of these data.

Copies of, or a reference to, any publications which refer to these data should be sent to the ECN Research Co-ordinator.