Terms of Use

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in the Geohazards Exploitation Platform (GEP) (the “Platform”), which provides access to services enabling users to discover, access, process, and collaborate on research data related to Earth Observation and geohazard monitoring, terrain motion analysis, and critical infrastructure assessment.

1. Acceptance

By accessing and browsing the Platform or by using and/or downloading any content from it, you agree to and accept the Terms of Use as set forth below.

2. Purpose of the Platform

All materials contained in this Platform are provided for informational and collaborative purposes only and shall not be construed as a commercial offer, a license, an advisory, fiduciary, or professional relationship between you and the Platform operators. No information provided on this Platform should be considered a substitute for your own independent investigation.

3. Links to Third-Party Websites

Links to third-party websites are provided solely for convenience and do not imply any approval or endorsement by the Platform of the linked sites, even if they may contain the Platform’s logo, as such sites are beyond the Platform’s control. The Platform cannot be held responsible for the content of any linked site or any link contained therein.

You acknowledge that framing the Platform or applying any similar process is prohibited.

4. Intellectual Property

This Platform is protected by intellectual property rights and is the exclusive property of the Platform operators. Any material it contains—including but not limited to texts, data, graphics, pictures, sounds, videos, logos, icons, or code—is protected under intellectual property law and remains the property of the Platform operators or third parties.
You may use this material for personal, educational, and non-commercial purposes in accordance with applicable intellectual property laws. Any other use or modification of the Platform’s content without prior written authorization is prohibited.

5. Warranty and Liability

All materials contained on this Platform are provided “as is” and without warranty of any kind to the extent allowed by applicable law. While reasonable efforts will be made to provide reliable and accurate information, the Platform does not guarantee that it is free of inaccuracies, errors, or omissions, nor that it is free of viruses or other harmful components, or that its content is appropriate for your particular use or up to date. The Platform operators reserve the right to change or update information at any time without notice.
The Platform does not guarantee results derived from the use of any tools or software available through it. You are solely responsible for any use of the materials contained herein.
The information contained in this Platform does not extend or modify any warranty that may apply under a contractual relationship you may have with the Platform operators. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Platform shall not be liable for any indirect, consequential, or incidental damages, including but not limited to lost profits, business interruption, or loss of data arising out of or in connection with the use or inability to use the Platform or any linked site.

6. Privacy and Cookies

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for details regarding the collection and use of personal data, as well as the use of cookies on the Platform.

7. Conditions for Use of the Forum

Your permission to use the forum is subject to the following conditions:

  • You must be at least thirteen years old.
  • You may no longer use the forum if the company contacts you directly to say that you may not.
  • You must use the forum in accordance with Acceptable Use and Content Standards.

8. Acceptable Use

  1. You may not break the law using the forum.
  2. You may not use or try to use another’s account on the forum without their specific permission.
  3. You may not buy, sell, or otherwise trade in user names or other unique identifiers on the forum.
  4. You may not send advertisements, chain letters, or other solicitations through the forum, or use the forum to gather addresses or other personal data for commercial mailing lists or databases.
  5. You may not automate access to the forum, or monitor the forum, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the forum to index it for a publicly available search engine, if you run one.
  6. You may not use the forum to send e-mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or group mail aliases.
  7. You may not falsely imply that you’re affiliated with or endorsed by the company.
  8. You may not hyperlink to images or other non-hypertext content on the forum on other webpages.
  9. You may not remove any marks showing proprietary ownership from materials you download from the forum.
  10. You may not show any part of the forum on other websites with <iframe>.
  11. You may not disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the forum.
  12. You may not strain infrastructure of the forum with an unreasonable volume of requests, or requests designed to impose an unreasonable load on information systems underlying the forum.
  13. You may not impersonate others through the forum.
  14. You may not encourage or help anyone in violation of these terms.

9. Content Standards

  1. You may not submit content to the forum that is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes content that is harassing, inappropriate, abusive, or hateful conduct.
  2. You may not submit content to the forum that violates the law, infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.
  3. You may not submit content to the forum containing malicious computer code, such as computer viruses or spyware.
  4. You may not submit content to the forum as a mere placeholder, to hold a particular address, user name, or other unique identifier.
  5. You may not use the forum to disclose information that you don’t have the right to disclose, like others’ confidential or personal information.

10. Enforcement

The company may investigate and prosecute violations of these terms to the fullest legal extent. The company may notify and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting violations of the law and these terms.

The company reserves the right to change, redact, and delete content on the forum for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted content to the forum in violation of these terms, contact support immediately.

11. Your Account

You must create and log into an account to use some features of the forum.

To create an account, you must provide some information about yourself. If you create an account, you agree to provide, at a minimum, a valid e-mail address, and to keep that address up-to-date. You may close your account at any time by e-mailing support.

You agree to be responsible for all action taken using your account, whether authorized by you or not, until you either close your account or notify the company that your account has been compromised. You agree to notify the company immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised. You agree to select a secure password for your account, and keep it secret.

The company may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the forum according to its policy for handling copyright-related takedown requests, or if the company reasonably believes that you’ve broken any rule in these terms.

12. Your Content

Nothing in these terms gives the company any ownership rights in intellectual property that you share with the forum, such as your account information, posts, or other content you submit to the forum. Nothing in these terms gives you any ownership rights in the company’s intellectual property, either.

Between you and the company, you remain solely responsible for content you submit to the forum. You agree not to wrongly imply that content you submit to the forum is sponsored or approved by the company. These terms do not obligate the company to store, maintain, or provide copies of content you submit, and to change it, according to these terms.

Content you submit to the forum belongs to you, and you decide what permission to give others for it. But at a minimum, you license the company to provide content that you submit to the forum to other users of the forum. That special license allows the company to copy, publish, and analyze content you submit to the forum.

When content you submit is removed from the forum, whether by you or by the company, the company’s special license ends when the last copy disappears from the company’s backups, caches, and other systems. Other licenses you apply to content you submit, such as Creative Commons licenses, may continue after your content is removed. Those licenses may give others, or the company itself, the right to share your content through the forum again.

Others who receive content you submit to the forum may violate the terms on which you license your content. You agree that the company will not be liable to you for those violations or their consequences.

13. Your Responsibility

You agree to indemnify the company from legal claims by others related to your breach of these terms, or breach of these terms by others using your account on the forum. Both you and the company agree to notify the other side of any legal claims for which you might have to indemnify the company as soon as possible. If the company fails to notify you of a legal claim promptly, you won’t have to indemnify the company for damages that you could have defended against or mitigated with prompt notice. You agree to allow the company to control investigation, defense, and settlement of legal claims for which you would have to indemnify the company, and to cooperate with those efforts. The company agrees not to agree to any settlement that admits fault for you or imposes obligations on you without your prior agreement.

14. Applicable Law

Any controversy or claim arising out of or related to these Terms of Use shall be governed by the applicable laws of the jurisdiction where the Platform is operated. The competent courts of that jurisdiction will have exclusive authority.
If any provision of these Terms of Use is held by a court to be illegal, invalid, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

15. Modifications of the Terms of Use

The Platform operators reserve the right to change these Terms of Use at any time and without notice. You will be automatically bound by such modifications when using the Platform, and should periodically review the Terms of Use.