Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals Webservices: Terms of Use for Commercial Institutions Date 2018-12-26 The Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich (BAS) provides licensed webservices (termed 'webservices' in the following) to commercial 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 obtain a BAS user license for the respective service, except for the service 'ASR' which may not be used by commercial institutions. BAS user licenses are time limited and amount limited (e.g. a maximum of calls per day); the user is obliged to restrict his/her usage within these limits; otherwise the BAS reserves the right to deny access to the webservices or to terminate running processes. The BAS will apply amount monitoring and reverse IP mapping to determine the IP address of hosts calling/accessing the webservices to verify usage within the contracted limits. 2. The results of the licensed webservice may be used for profit purposes except where the results of the service are traded directly to a third party (i.e. the user acts as a retailer or broker). 3. Uploaded Data The user must be able to present proof that he has the rights to use all data that are uploaded. 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 materials will be deleted automatically after 24 hours. Uploaded data will not be forwarded to third parties. 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 licensed webservice(s). 7. Disclaimer: the use of the licensed webservice(s) 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 webservice(s). 8. Limitation of liability: the BAS will not be liable for any damages resulting from the use of the licensed webservice(s) or the use of results of the licensed webservice(s); the BAS aims to provide the webservice(s) on a 24/7 basis, but will not be liable for any damages that are caused by non-availability of the webservice(s) for any reason; the BAS will not be liable for any unauthorized use of the webservice 'ASR'.