Terms of Use

As part of our initiatives to improve our service delivery, the Computing and Archiving Research Environment (COARE) has set up its Service Knowledge Management System (SKMS) to manage all COARE-related knowledge and information. The COARE Wiki, as an integral part of the COARE SKMS, is utilized to store, manage, and present all information relevant to the COARE and its users. The COARE SKMS and the COARE Wiki are part of the COARE's IT Service Management (ITSM) implementation, in compliance with the industry’s standards on IT service delivery.

The following terms apply to all COARE users and website visitors of the COARE SKMS and the COARE Wiki. All users and visitors of this website are expected to comply with these terms and are encouraged to check this page regularly to be updated of the changes in these terms.

Access to this website

The COARE Team will ensure that this website is accessible and available as needed.

However, if the need arises, the COARE Team reserves the right to amend, suspend, or withdraw access to this site without prior notice.

Content

The copyright ownership of all the content on this website belongs to the DOST-ASTI and COARE, unless stated otherwise.

While the COARE Team puts in their best effort to present current and accurate information on this website, there may be instances that some information posted here may be out of date and incomplete at any given time. Feel free to contact us if you have concerns on any of the contents published on this site.

Visitors and COARE users may only download or copy the contents of this website for the purposes of research, reference, and personal or non-commercial use. No other use for the contents is permitted without prior written consent communicated to the COARE Team.

This website and its contents must not be used:

• in any way that is unrelated to research and development (R&D) work and scientific studies;
• in any way that violates any local, national, or international law, statute, regulation, rule, order, treaty, and other pertinent laws;
• in any way that is in violation of or is encroaching on the rights of others, including, but not limited to, infringement or misappropriation of any intellectual property or proprietary right of another;
• in any way that is fraudulent, abusive, pornographic, obscene, defamatory, slanderous, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate or illegal;
• as an impersonation of any person or entity or otherwise misrepresents a COARE user’s affiliation with a person or entity.