Terms and conditions

This Licence is created on the date that the tool, provided for you to use on this website and described below, is used by you and will endure for the time (session) that you use the tool, terminating immediately after each use. If you use the tool again, you will be asked to accept this licence again for the new session. The tool Owners (as they are defined below) may update the tool at any time or remove the use of the tool. The tool is in development at the present time and your attention is drawn to the disclaimers in this licence regarding its functionality and any reliance you may be considering placing on the results of the use of the tool.

In this licence the word “tool” refers to the functionality presented by the D-MOSS Vietnam dengue fever and / or water availability forecasting websites.

The Owners means the people who own the intellectual property rights in the tool who are HR Wallingford Ltd and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In addition some people have provided data which is used in the tool. These data owners are the UK Met Office and other agencies including space, meteorological and other government agencies in Europe, the USA and Vietnam and they are also licencing your use of the data when you use the tool. These data owners are also included within the definition of the word “Owners” but if they are using the tool on the website they will also be subject to these licence terms for each use of the tool.

You agree with the Owners that:

  1. You are licenced to use the tool for free for the period described above
  2. You may use the tool for the purpose of predicting dengue fever and / or water availability at your discretion but only subject to the exclusions of liability in this licence and the disclaimer on the website. The tool is under development and the Owners have no control over your use of it. Therefore the Owners have no responsibility for your use of the tool or its results
  3. You may not assign, transfer, delegate or sell in any way the rights under this licence and they are personal to you only
  4. The tool is the property of the Owners. All rights of ownership, copyright, trademarks and knowhow in the tool or the data within it (as appropriate) remain with the Owners
  5. The Owners do not guarantee or warrant that the tool is free from errors or will meet your requirements or that the results will be correct. You use the tool at your risk. To the full extent permitted by law you agree that the Owners will not be liable to you or to any third party to whom you supply the results of the tool for any direct or indirect damage howsoever this arises even where the Owners are aware of the possibility of such damage. The Owners will also not be liable to you if the tool is not capable of being used for any reason.