Please read these terms which explain how you may use UrTrees. By using UrTrees, you agree to these Terms of Use. We may need to change these Terms of Use from time to time. If you do not agree, do not use UrTrees. These terms of Use relate to those using the UrTrees app or website to add data. For further information please contact urtrees@icube.unistra.fr.

Background

UrTrees is a citizen science project available as a website and app that facilitates the recording, mapping, creation of 3D models and measuring of trees.
The information that is uploaded to UrTrees (i.e., tree data) may be shared with other organisations and used to support further research.
UrTrees is provided by the University of Strasbourg (Unistra) in partnership with the CNRS and The Open University (OU). The UrTrees website and app are hosted by Unistra. In these Terms of Use, when it says 'we' or 'us', it means Unistra, a French public university; and with its address at 14 Rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg CEDEX, France.
These terms explain how you may use UrTrees.
UrTrees handles any personal data that is submitted in accordance with our Privacy Policy which is available here.
To contact us please send an email to urtrees@icube.unistra.fr.

Acceptance

By registering and using UrTrees, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use UrTrees.
We may need to change these Terms of Use or our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will record any changes on this page and will bring them to your attention by website alerts and notifications. If you disagree with a change to the Terms of Use or our Privacy Policy, do not make any further use of UrTrees.

Liability

We provide UrTrees as a citizen science project to facilitate the measuring of trees and to help research. It is not provided for commercial use. As a result:

1. Except for any legal responsibility that we cannot exclude in law (such as for death or personal injury), we are not legally responsible for any losses that were not foreseeable to you and us when these Terms of Use were formed, or that were not caused by any breach on our part; and business losses or losses to non-consumers.
2. We have no liability to you for any breach of these Terms of Use caused by any event or circumstance beyond our reasonable control.

Accuracy

While we try to make sure that UrTrees is accurate, up-to-date and free from bugs, we cannot promise that it will be. Furthermore, we cannot promise that UrTrees will be fit or suitable for any purpose. Any reliance that you may place on the information on UrTrees is at your own risk.

Availability

We may suspend or terminate operation of UrTrees at any time as we see fit. While we try to make sure that UrTrees is available for your use, we do not promise that UrTrees will be available at all times nor do we promise uninterrupted service or use by you of UrTrees.

Restrictions

We provide UrTrees as a citizen science project. UrTrees may only be used for your own personal and non-commercial purposes.
You may not:

1. Use UrTrees for any unlawful purpose, or to infringe the rights of others on the site;
2. Use UrTrees to harass, distress, or inconvenience anyone;
3. Post information to UrTrees that is abusive, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise offensive orobjectionable;
4. Use UrTrees for advertising or for promoting any goods, services, events or opportunities;
5. Download or transfer information posted to UrTrees by other users;
6. Transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
7. Knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You are solely responsible for keeping your user details confidential.
If you choose to access or use UrTrees from locations outside France or the UK, you are responsible for compliance with local laws where they are applicable.
We may prevent or suspend your access to UrTrees if you do not comply with any part of these Terms, any terms or policies to which they refer or with any applicable law.
We may remove without notice any material posted on UrTrees that we consider unsuitable for any reason, at any time.
We may exclude anyone from using UrTrees if, in our view, they have used UrTrees contrary to or posted material contrary to these Terms of Use.

Ownership

We do not gain ownership of any of the videos and images that you provide to UrTrees. Any 3D model created from the videos that you provide is owned by UrTrees. In the spirit of the citizen science project that UrTrees is, the 3D model is freely available for anyone to use on the basis of a Creative Commons licence. The specific licence that UrTrees uses is CC BY-NC 4.0.

Permission to use

When you use UrTrees, you create and upload content (videos and photos of trees) to the UrTrees website or the app. By putting this content on UrTrees, you are saying that:

1. the content is yours, or you have the permission of the owner to agree to this use; and
2. we may use it at no charge to operate the UrTrees site, for our research and to develop tree measurement systems and software; and
3. we may share it with our partners who are working with us on research or development projects; and
4. we may share details of tree records and measurements (but not videos or photos) with others in order to help to research, manage and conserve trees. This may include sharing details with recording schemes and other research organisations.

Where we do share your observations, record and identifications or other content, we will only share with vetted bona fide organisations. Your personal data will be shared in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
If your information is used to help to develop tree measurement systems and software, any revenue that we may receive as a result will be used to support the UrTrees project.

Content: videos and images

Acceptable videos and images

Videos and photos of all trees are very welcome on UrTrees provided that they have been taken and provided in accordance with local legislation. Please note:

1. Nesting birds are vulnerable to disturbance if not approached with care. In the UK and Ireland, they are protected by law.
Bats are also vulnerable to disturbance. Again, in the UK and Ireland they are protected by law. In particular, it is generally illegal to intentionally or recklessly disturb a bat at a roost.

Ownership

Copyright in the videos and images remains with the author, however videos and images uploaded to the site may be used to operate UrTrees, to support our research and to develop measurement, recognition and identification software and systems.

Licence to use

In legal terms, by providing your videos and images to UrTrees:

1. You are granting us a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to use the videos and images at no charge to operate UrTrees, to support our research and to develop species identification systems and software;
2. You are granting us a licence to make the videos and images available to the research organisations and other third parties that we work with to support our research and to develop tree measurement systems and software, including those listed above. You are not granting us a licence to make the videos and images available to any other third parties;
3. You are not granting any third party the right to use the videos and images from UrTrees for any other purpose.

If you are not the copyright owner of the videos and images, you are confirming that the copyright owner has given their permission for this licence to be granted to us.

Corrections

If the content, record and observations uploaded to the site are to be valuable tree records they need to be accurate and available over the long term. This is why we use the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence for the 3D models and why we obtain from you an irrevocable licence to use videos and images. If you need to revise or remove videos or images that you have submitted, please contact us at urtrees@icube.unistra.fr.