Terms of use

1. Individual user upon registration shall indicate his/her personal data: name, last name, year of birth and e-mail address. Password will be sent to the e-mail address indicated upon the registration, and this e-mail address will be used for any further correspondence. Space, symbols or numbers may not be used when setting the user name.
2. User profiles could be created also for entities, such as schools, classes or projects, indicating it respectively.
3. Adding of observations is free of charge. 
4. Every user of the portal is responsible for truthfulness of the data inserted by him/her in the portal.
5. Every added observation, photography and audio record should correspond to the location, indicated on the map.
6. Only photographs and audio records made by user himself/herself or with author’s permission can be added to an observation.
7. Photographs should not be in contradiction to the Latvian legislation, also they should not contain illegal and/or unethical sights and actions, as well as commercial information.
8. Dabasdati.lv are not liable for information reported by users. If you notice violation of copyrights, other violation of the Latvian legislation or human rights of users, you should inform the portal administration immediately.
9. Added data, photographs and audio files belong to the users.
10. By publishing observations, photographs and audio files at Dabasdati.lv, the user agrees, that this information will be publicly accessible for any internet user (including, downloaded to devices of other users).
11. Administrators and moderators of the portal have rights to change particular fields of observations, e.g., species and status. All modifications with names and surnames of their authors maintain within the data base and are visible to all users; the author of relevant observation will see the notification about the changes made.
12. It is allowed for everyone to use the data of the portal for scientific and nature conservation goals, as well as raising public awareness and education of society, including a reference to the data source (portal Dabasdati.lv), without agreement from data owners.
13. The name and surname of the user (the person, who added the photography) and name of the portal (Dabasdati.lv) appears on every photography. In case of publishing, reference to the author and the portal should be included.
14. According to the principles of personal data protection, Dabasdati.lv does not disclose to third persons personal information of the users, except for the information which a user has entered for public viewing. The indicated e-mail is used only for communication about user’s observations and for administration’s internal communication with the users.
15. Every user is allowed to erase his/her observations and withdraw agreement for usage of his/her data. Every user can ask to erase his/her profile, sending written application to the Latvian Fund for Nature.
16. Users should not use the portal for commercial purposes without a prior written agreement with the administration of the portal.
17. Observations in nature should be done without disturbing wildlife. Special caution should be applied at the bird breeding sites and breeding grounds of other animals, or at the sites where juvenile animals are found.
18. Every user should respect other users of the portal. Mistakes in species recognition are perceived with understanding, experts provide the explanations for species identification and issue recommendations for observers in regards to the content of observations. Observations are discussed, but not the users. Administrators of the portal are allowed to erase any offensive comments.
19. Dabasdati.lv cannot guarantee a total security of information that is sent via internet.
20. While Dabasdati.lv is a long-term data platform, the owners of the portal cannot guarantee the maintenance of the data in perpetuity. If there would be a situation, when the maintenance of the portal will be discontinued due to technical or other reasons, the users will be warned beforehand. Exception is the cases of force majeure.
21. If a user indicates an e-mail address of a third person to Dabasdati.lv, as his/her contact data, he/she is responsible for obtaining the agreement from the third person for keeping his/her personal data in the database of Dabasdati.lv according to the Law on Personal Data Processing.
22. Dabasdati.lv can change the functionality and contents of the portal without prior warning to the users.
23. Administration of Dabasdati.lv is allowed to erase the observations, if there is a reasonable doubt that they include false data. In a case of repeated violation of the terms of use, administration of the portal can ban the user from the portal.
24. Administration of Dabasdati.lv is allowed to erase user’s profile, if the user has no registered observations and he/she has not logged in during last three years.
25. These rules are binding both to users of web version and users of mobile applications.