Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals Webservices: Terms of Use for Academic Institutions Date 2018-12-26 The Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich (BAS) provides free webservices (termed 'webservices' in the following) for members of academic institutions (termed 'user' in the following) subject to the following Terms of Use. The BAS may amend these Terms of Use at any time by posting amended versions on this website. 1. In order to access the webservices, the user must be a member of an academic institution (i.e. can be authenticated via a Shiboleth authentification service provided by the academic home institution of the user; in case your institution does not provide such a service, please obtain a CLARIN IDP account at https://user.clarin.eu/user/register). The BAS reserves the right to grant or deny access to the webservices or to terminate running processes at any time. 2. The results of the webservices may be used for non-profit research purposes only. If you intend to utilize webservice results for commercial purposes or to access webservices from a commercial host, please contact the BAS prior to any usage to obtain a BAS user license. The BAS will apply reverse IP mapping to determine the IP address of hosts calling/accessing the webservices to verify non-profit usage. 3. Uploaded Data The user must be able to present proof that they have the rights to use all data that they upload. The user entitles the BAS to store the uploaded data, to process them, to store all intermediate and final results of the process and to remove data that have been stored during processing. All uploaded material will be deleted automatically after 24 hours. Uploaded data will not be forwarded to third parties, except in the case of the service 'ASR', which forwards user data to a third-party, commercial webservice provider (see details and EULAS of these third-party providers on the 'ASR' webservice page). The Terms of Use of these third-party providers differ from the Terms of Use of the BAS. The user indemnifies and will not hold the BAS responsible for any claim arising from use of these third party webservices. 4. Results The user agrees to avoid any non-ethical usage of the webservices or of results of webservices. The copyright of the results of the webservices belongs to the user of the webservices. The BAS retains the right to store the results only for the technical purpose of providing the service. Intermediate or end results will not be exploited or reviewed in any way by BAS, and are deleted automatically after 24 hours. 5. Monitoring For monitoring purposes each transaction on the BAS server will be logged internally and by an external non-public monitoring service of the CLARIN consortium. Internal logging information is confidential and will not be released to third parties. External logging information will be anonymized (stripped from personal information) and made accessible to partners of the CLARIN consortium for the purpose of deriving usage statistics regarding the webservices. The user agrees to these monitoring policies. 6. The user will indemnify and will not hold the BAS responsible for any claim arising out of the use of the webservices. 7. Disclaimer: the use of the webservices is at the user's own risk. The webservices are provided on an "as is" basis. The BAS does not provide a warranty of any kind for the webservices. 8. Limitation of liability: the BAS will not be liable for any damages resulting from the use of the webservices or the use of results of the webservices; the BAS aims to provide the webservices on a 24/7 basis, but will not be liable for any damages that are caused by non-availability of the webservices for any reason.