Terms of use
Glinkr is brought to you by Sopinspace as an experimental service. The software is "beta": we will do our best to solve bugs as soon as possible, but there is no guarantee of delay on these corrections.
Terms of use for the service
Glinkr is provided to you free-of-charge. We need as much as usage input as possible in order to understand where to put further effort. We understand that maps that you produce are important to you. We will keep Glinkr free-of-charge service in operation at least a year. As of 6 March 2007, the Glinkr code base is distributed as free software under the GNU GPL version 2 or any later version license. This gives you an additional guarantee that it will be possible for you to keep using the maps that you produce even if for some reason the service had to be discontinued. Please pay attention to the trademark warning. The free-of-charge service allows you to edit maps, and to embed them into Web pages if they are given the "public" status (see below for what is a "public" map). The number of maps that can be created in this free-of-charge service is limited to 50 per user. It is possible to use the service to create private maps that only you can see, but these private maps can not be embedded in your Web pages under the free-of-charge service.
When you make your maps public, you put them under a Creative Commons license that authorises their reproduction and communication to the public, in particular within the Glinkr service. You are sole responsible and will bear all costs from any litigation or damage resulting from the contents included in the maps. You certify that (1) you will make public only maps for which you own the necessary rights on any content included so as to submit them to the corresponding license (2) that you will make public only those maps for which giving access to the contents does not violate privacy rights, publicity rights or author rights of anyone.
Sopinspace, as operator of the Glinkr service, denies any responsibility on the contents of the maps you produce. Sopinspace reserves its rights to delete any map that does not respect these terms of use or legal obligations, and cancel service to its creator(s). Sopinspace's monitoring of Glinkr public maps is at its own discretion, and Sopinspace denies any obligation on checking that the contents included in the maps respect legal obligations or these terms of use.
These terms of use do not list types of contents or induced activities that are illegal: it is your own responsibility to know them and abstain from including them in your maps and usage of Glinkr. The following list types of contents that are forbidden according to these terms of use without being necessarily illegal (this list is motivated by the protection of the ecology of knowledge that the Glinkr service aims at serving):
- maps whose principal object is to advertise a person, site, service or product
- contents that are insulting, or constitue harassment or call to harrass any group or person
- maps that include personal details such as phone numbers, email or postal addresses
- maps that contain links to sites reserved to adults
- maps that contain information that is known to be inexact or libelous
Sopinspace reserves its right to judge when a given map is in contradiction with the terms of use, and to extend the list above when it is needed to cope with the insertion in the service of maps that are clearly prejudicial to the overall service to users
Ownership and terms of use for the maps
You are sole resposible for the maps contents. When you decide to make a map public, you will be presented with a choice of Creative Commons licenses. Please note that any restriction in these licenses applies only if the contents of your map meets the standards of originality that are constitutive of copyright. The idea of the service is that the creation of maps, if it is done by a sufficient number of users will result in a enriched representation of Web contents that is practically usable for access, analysis, and in some case creation of these contents.
The links that are included in the map boxes generally point to web pages that are not yours. You do this in your own responsibility. To avoid any confusion, when the end-user follows a link, it is always done by opening a new window.
Accessibility
AJAX-based graphical user interfaces such as Glinkr's do not meet the accessibility standards such as WAI. However, Glinkr is designed in such a way that embedding a Glinkr map in a web page that is WAI compliant does not break this property.
