General Terms and Conditions of PlantStar
These Terms and Conditions set out the conditions in which you may access and use the different services available. All users of the services offered by PlantStar Ltd (“PlantStar Ltd.”, “PlantStar”, ”the app”, “the application” “we”, “us”, “our”) accept the present General Terms and Conditions.
User account
Using the PlantStar plant finding service and data do not require creation of a user account, but this action is necessary to participate in the enrichment of the PlantStar database, as well as use of the Community, Contribution and Favourites features.
When you create an account, we collect your e-mail address, which will be used for password resetting and to contact users based on their contact preferences.
Your username (to log in) will be displayed next to the licence associated to contributed images.
For security reasons, passwords are not directly stored in the database. They pass through a cryptographic hash function whose result is stored (the hashing action cannot be reversed).
A unique numeric identifier is attributed to each account and will be associated to every data contributed with this account.
Use of the PlantStar application
Your personal account and your login information provided by PlantStar are placed under your exclusive responsibility.
You will not share your password nor let anyone else access your account, nor do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
You are solely responsible for the use made of your login information.
You are solely responsible for any loss, diversion or non-authorized use of your login information and their consequences.
All remarks and images submitted on the application must follow the laws and regulations of the jurisdiction in which it is released.
You expressly commit not to using any racist, pornographic, or slanderous words on the application.
It is reminded that you are entirely responsible for the content you spread and that PlantStar will not be considered responsible for the content you have issued.
Limitation of liability
You acknowledge having been informed and accept the fact that under no circumstance whatsoever shall PlantStar be liable for the creation, modification, suppression of your personal data, which is under your full responsibility.
You use PlantStar at your own risk.
Under no circumstance whatsoever shall PlantStar be liable for any direct or indirect damages, in particular material prejudice, data loss or financial prejudice related to the access or use of this application.
The PlantStar contents are displayed without any warranty whatsoever.
You are entirely responsible for any damage caused to your device or for any data loss that may incur as a result of the use of the application.
PlantStar shall not be responsible for any direct or indirect damages that may incur as a result of the use of the application.
Users' rights and obligations
The contents of the app are protected under the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All reproductions other than for the personal use of users of the app, notably with a view to publication in any form, are strictly forbidden without the express written permission of PlantStar Ltd.
Visitors are responsible for their interpretation and use of the information consulted, and for the data they provide on forms included in the site.
They are bound by the prevailing rules and regulations.
Intellectual property rights
No element of the PlantStar application shall be copied, reproduced, modified, republished, downloaded, distorted, transmitted or distributed, howsoever done, partially or integrally, without the written and prior authorization from PlantStar Ltd., except for the strict needs of the press and provided that the intellectual property rights and any other mentioned property rights are being respected.
The content and information you post on PlantStar belong to you.
You guarantee PlantStar that the content and information you publish in PlantStar do not infringe any third parties' rights, such as but not limited to, any intellectual property rights or privacy rights.
Meanwhile, you agree to grant PlantStar your data, as described above, with Creative-Common Attribution International 4.0 license. (CC-BY 4.0)
By using the PlantStar application, you accept to transfer content and information including but not limited to: photographs, plant descriptions and associated user data such as: username, date and location to the PlantStar team, and accept to make them available to all PlantStar users under a Creative-Common Attribution International 4.0 license. (CC-BY 4.0)
Under this Creative Commons license any person shall be free to reproduce, modify, distribute and transmit your data, as described above, to the public under the following conditions:
Mention the username of the original author of the work and provide a link to the license.
Personal data
By registering to the PlantStar application, you accept that your identity, under the username and email address you specified when registering, is published in association with the content and information you post through the PlantStar application.
The legal basis for the processing is:
· the execution of the PlantStar service contract.
In accordance with Articles 49 and following of Law No 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on data processing, files and freedoms and Articles 15 and following of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals regarding the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (RGPD or GDPR), any person may:
· have confirmation that personal data relating to him/her are or are not processed and, where they are processed, access to such personal data,
· request the correction or deletion of their personal data,
· request that the processing of their personal data be limited,
· request the portability of their personal data if the processing is based on consent or a contract.
Any person may also, for legitimate reasons, object to the processing of data concerning them. Any person may give general or specific instructions regarding the storage, deletion and communication of your personal data after your death.