Copyright

Please also refer to the FreshwaterLife General Terms which give further guidance on copyright issues. This copyright statement is held jointly by the FreshwaterLife project partners. The direct assignable body is the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA), The Ferry Landing, Far Sawrey, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 0LP, United Kingdom. This assemblage of project partners will from herein be referred to as FreshwaterLife.

FreshwaterLife assembles, constructs and administers several databases, systems, software packages and websites with the aim of providing a freshwater information service. These systems, and the data and content held by these systems, will be referred to collectively as the FreshwaterLife website. This should be taken to include all FreshwaterLife products, including CD-ROMs, documents and other publications derived from these systems and their content.

In addition to this general copyright statement, some of the data may be subject to specific terms that the owner or supplier of that data has imposed on its use (We call these Specific Terms of Access.)

FreshwaterLife has a compilation copyright on the FreshwaterLife website. All material, data and information on this website are protected by copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights. Any attempt to copy the whole FreshwaterLife website or any section of the website without the permission of the Chief Editor will be regarded as an infringement of copyright.

Copying and downloading of individual items, pages, data, metadata or other materials (referred to collectively as Knowledge Objects – KOs from herein) will be subject to any copyright conditions laid down in the Specific Terms of Access for that KO or other materials. Any use or inclusion of FreshwaterLife KOs or other materials in other documents or media must include an appropriate copyright and permissions notice. Use of any material from FreshwaterLife is restricted to informational, not-for-profit or personal use only and no modifications to the information are permitted. Furthermore, you may not re-publish any of the data made available to you, or exploit it for commercial purposes. Reproduction and dissemination of material in this electronic product for educational or other non-commercial purposes are authorised without any prior written permission from the copyright holders provided the source is fully acknowledged.

You must acknowledge the original author/owner of data in any derived information product or publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, that is based wholly or in part on that record. Reproduction of material in this product for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without written permission of the copyright holders. Applications for such permission should be addressed to the FreshwaterLife Chief Editor. You must acknowledge and correctly cite FreshwaterLife in any derived information product or publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, that is based wholly or in part on the resources and information collated by FreshwaterLife.

FreshwaterLife requests to be informed of any such acknowledgements and citations. Any information product or publication that you make which contains any part of the data made available to you via this website must contain a statement that the data supplier, recorder [where identified], and FreshwaterLife bear no responsibility for any further analysis or interpretation of that data.