Data use agreement
New Zealand Virtual Herbarium (NZVH) data are made publically available on the understanding that its use will be consistent with efforts to preserve biological diversity. The participating herbaria are committed to improving the quality of their specimen data, and expect users to report any errors or discrepancies detected during its use. The user is licensed to use NZVH data for scholarly or educational, non-commercial research purposes, subject to the following terms and conditions:
- The user must not represent the data as their own.
- No proprietary rights over the data are conferred upon the user by this licence. All intellectual property rights, including copyright in the data, are retained by the contributing members of the New Zealand National Herbarium Network (NZNHN).
- The user must ensure that NZNHN is acknowledged in any use of NZVH data by the words: 'Specimen data reproduced from the New Zealand Virtual Herbarium.'
- NZVH data are supplied as is. NZNHN members provide no warranty, express or implied, concerning the accuracy or fitness for a particular purpose of the data.
- The user shall use NZVH data at their own risk and agrees that NZNHN members will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from the use of or reliance upon the data, or reliance on its availability at any time.
- The user warrants that the terms and conditions of this agreement are not inconsistent with any other contractual obligations they may hold.
- NZNHN retains the right to withhold or generalise any collecting information deemed sensitive.
- The maps included in this site include data sourced from Land Information New Zealand�s which are licensed by Land Information New Zealand for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence. Crown Copyright Reserved.
