Terms & Conditions

IWYP Member Space

 

Terms and Conditions

By clicking in the check box “Agree with Terms and Conditions”, you indicate that you accept all the Terms and Conditions of the Agreement. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you will not be able to access the International Wheat Yield Partnership (IWYP) Member Space and have access to the information and data contained therein.

Briefly, and in “non-legalese” terms, the Agreement says that:

  1. IWYP provides you a non-exclusive and non-transferrable permission to use the Data and Information.1  
  2. You can make copies of the Data and Information for personal use.
  3. Data and information, and copies of such can only be used for research, teaching and education, and for preparing publications.
  4. You can share the Data and Information for formal teaching and education purposes, provided you inform the recipients that the data cannot be redistributed. You cannot share the data with others for any other purpose.
  5. You shall acknowledge and reference the use of the Data and Information in all publications according to the directions provided by the Agreement.
  6. All rights attached to the Data and Information are owned by IWYP and/or its partners. You shall not seek any intellectual property or other legal rights over the Data and Information you access.
  7. IWYP will not be liable for any loss or damage resulting from an error or inaccuracy in the Data or Information or as a result of using them.
  8. You shall not disclose to any non-Members of IWYP or third parties Data or Information that you have viewed, downloaded or copied from the IWYP Member Space.
  9. Upon termination of this Agreement, you must return and/or destroy copies of the Data or Information within 7 calendar days.

Full Agreement

By clicking on the acceptance button, you indicate acceptance of this Agreement. Such acceptance is on your own behalf, either as an independent individual or to perform your job duties/obligations for your employer institution, subject to the Terms and Conditions below.

If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you will not be able to access the IWYP Member Space and therefore the Data and Information contained therein.

AGREEMENT FOR ACCESS AND USE OF DATA FROM THE IWYP MEMBER SPACE

Definitions

In this Agreement, except where a different interpretation is clear from or necessary in the context, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:

Data and Information: All the numbers, characters, values of qualitative or quantitative variables related to an item which are directly generated and/or captured from research-related activities as well as processed, aggregated, interpreted, commented, codified or in any way analyzed data taking on a meaning (the latter referred to as Information), including any documentation associated with meetings, research reports, conferences and photographic images, that the User is permitted to retrieve from the IWYP Member Space under this Agreement.

Intellectual Property: Any law existing in any jurisdiction that protects the rights contained in Data and Information electronic files.

IWYP Member Space: A private collaborative workspace containing indexed Data and Information relevant to the operational functioning of IWYP Management and Research Projects. It is accessible from the IWYP Website and by use of an assigned and confidential username and password.

Provider: The International Wheat Yield Partnership (IWYP).

User:    The individual who has accepted this Agreement by accessing the IWYP Member Space.

NOTE: Headings are used in this Agreement for the convenience of the parties only and shall not be deemed to be any indications of the meaning of the clauses to which they relate.

In this Agreement:

  1. words importing the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa
  2. words importing any particular gender shall include all other genders
  3. references to persons shall include bodies of persons whether corporate or incorporate
  4. words importing the whole shall be treated as including a reference to any part of the whole

Use of the IWYP Member Space and the Data and Information contained therein

The Provider grants to the User a non-exclusive non-transferable license to use the Data and Information from the IWYP Member Space in accordance with this Agreement. If the User agrees upon this agreement to perform activities related to their job duties/obligations, the User must make sure this Agreement is neither contrary to such employment obligations/duties nor violated while performing them.

The User may make copies of the Data for personal use as follows:

  1. By temporarily displaying on a computer terminal the Data and Information retrieved from the IWYP Member Space; and
  2. By making one copy on paper of the Data and Information retrieved from the IWYP Member Space; and
  3. By downloading and storing by electronic means a copy of the Data and Information on the User’s own equipment or equipment under his control.

The User may only use copies of the Data and Information for the purposes of research, teaching and education, and for preparing publications, subject to the restrictions below.

The User is allowed to share the Data for formal educational and teaching purposes, provided that the students that have access to the Data are clearly informed that access is conditioned to not redistributing the Data. The user shall not redistribute the Data for any other purpose without the prior written consent of the Provider.

The User shall acknowledge and reference the use of the Data and Information in all publications using a specific citation which acknowledges the Provider and the party which originally delivered the Data and Information.

The User shall not seek any form of intellectual property rights or other legal rights directly over Data and Information accessed from the IWYP Member Space. If new intellectual property is generated with the Data and Information in conjunction with the User’s own data and information, the User is entitled to seed joint ownership with the owner of the accessed Data and Information. This clause shall survive termination of this Agreement.

The User shall stop using the Data and Information, and immediately contact the Provider for guidance in case of risk or suspicion of violating Terms and Conditions of this Agreement, whether such violation is directly made by the User or by any person or entity to whom the User provided or permitted access to the Data and Information, whether while performing their job duties/obligations or during the performance of their personal activities.

Term

Subject to Clause 6, this Agreement will continue in force for as long as the User is in possession of the Data and Information.

Intellectual Property

All rights including Intellectual Property Rights in the IWYP Member Space are owned by the Provider and/or jointly between the Provider and its Research Partners.

The User acknowledges that his or her permission to use the Data and Information, and IWYP Member Space, is limited to the rights expressly conferred by this Agreement.

Liability and indemnity

The User acknowledges to the Provider and agrees that the Provider makes no express or implied warranties as to the merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of the Data and Information, and the IWYP Member Space.

The Provider shall have no liability to the User in contract tort or otherwise for any loss or damage which the User suffers (whether direct consequential or any other form of loss) as a result of any error or inaccuracy in the Data and Information within the IWYP Member Space or as a result of using the Data and Information within the IWYP Member Space. The User is encouraged to contact the Provider immediately for any errors or inaccuracies discovered in the Data and Information, and the Provider agrees undertakes to take reasonable action to address such errors or inaccuracies.

Termination

The Provider or User may terminate this Agreement by thirty (30) days’ notice to the other party without providing any reasons for termination.

This Agreement shall immediately terminate if the User:

  1. breaches any provision of this Agreement that is not capable of being remedied;
  2. materially breaches any provision of this Agreement that is capable of being remedied but not remedied within thirty (30) days as of the date of notice sent to the User by the Provider; or
  3. enters into an arrangement for the benefit of creditors, becomes insolvent, files for protection under bankruptcy laws or otherwise seeks relief from creditors or anything analogous to the matters stated hereinbefore under any applicable law.
  4. Upon termination of this Agreement, the User must return and/or destroy copies of the Data within seven (7) days of the date on which termination takes effect and certify to the Provider that this has been complied with. This clause shall survive termination of this agreement.
  5. Termination of this Agreement shall not affect any obligation by either party to the other which are outstanding as at the effective date of termination nor any of the provisions of this Agreement which are expressed to survive termination.

Force majeure

Neither party shall have any liability or be deemed to be in breach of this Agreement for any delays or failures in performance which result from circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the parties, including, without limitation, fire, flood, riots, strikes, epidemics, war (declared or undeclared and including the continuance, expansion or new outbreak of any war or conflict now in existence), embargoes and governmental actions or decrees.

Entire Agreement

This Agreement contains the whole agreement between the parties and supersedes any prior oral or written agreements, arrangements or understandings between them in relation to its subject matter and the parties confirm that they have not entered into this Agreement upon the basis of any representations that are not expressly incorporated into this Agreement. No oral explanation or oral information given by any party shall alter or affect the interpretation of this Agreement.

Reservation of rights

All rights not specifically and expressly granted to the User by this Agreement are reserved to the Provider. The Provider reserves the right to vary the terms of this Agreement by general online notification or other forms of notification to the User.

Notices

Any notice consent or the like (in this clause referred to generally as “Notice”) required or permitted to be given under this Agreement shall be binding upon the User if sent by the Provider via electronic mail and shall be deemed given at the time of its actual transmission provided that the Provider does not receive any indication that the electronic mail message has not been successfully transmitted to the User.

Non-Waiver of Remedies

No failure or delay by either party in exercising any of its rights under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of that right, and no waiver by either party of any breach of this Agreement by the other shall be considered as a waiver of any subsequent breach of the same or any other provision.

Any provision of this Agreement may be waived if, but only if, such waiver is in writing and is signed, by the party against whom the waiver is to be effective.

Invalid Clauses

If any provision or part of this Agreement is held to be invalid, amendments to this Agreement may be made by the addition or deletion of wording as appropriate to remove the invalid part or provision but otherwise retain the provision and the other provisions of this Agreement to the maximum extent permissible under applicable law.

Assignment

This Agreement shall be personal to the User and shall not be assigned or transferred without the prior written consent of the Provider.

Dispute Resolution

Any disagreements between the parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Agreement shall be settled amicably by negotiation in the first instance, failing which all disputes arising out of or in connection with it shall be finally settled under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce by one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with the said Rules.

This Agreement shall be governed by general principles of law to the exclusion of any national system of law. Such general principles of law shall be deemed to include the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2010.