McGill-User-Agreement.txt

*** McGill Human-Computing User agreement ***

Copyright 2012 McGill university, Alfred Kam, Jerome Waldispuhl and other contributors.

Title: Phylo | DNA Puzzles (a human-computing framework for comparative genomics)
URL: http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca

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1.     Use of this application is non-profit and strictly for research and teaching purposes only.

2.     No title to any intellectual property is transferred to the user of this application.

3.     Do not submit any information you consider confidential or proprietary to this application.

4.     End users grant to the authors of this application an worldwide, unrestricted, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use, reproduce, modify, improve, develop or translated the submitted information and any results from the application.

5.     This application is provided “As Is” by the authors, and hereby disclaims all warranties and conditions, either express, or  implied, including but not limited to any ( if any) implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of lack of viruses, of accuracy or completeness of responses and of results. The authors does not warrant that the application will meet the  requirements or that its operation will be error-free. Also, there is no warranty or condition of title, quiet enjoyment, quiet possession, correspondence to description or non-infringement, with regard to the application.  The entire risk as to the quality of or arising out of use or performance of the software and support services, if any, remains with the user. 

Exclusion of incidental, consequential and certain other damages.  To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the authors be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits or confidential or other information, for business interruption, for personal injury, for loss of privacy, for failure to meet any duty, and for any other pecuniary or other loss whatsoever) arising out of or in any way related to the use of or inability to use this application, the provision of or failure to provide support services, or otherwise under or in connection with any provision of this agreement,  and even if the authors have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

6.     This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the province of Québec and the laws of Canada applicable therein.

7.     This agreement is in English at the request of the parties.  Le présent contrat est rédigé en  anglais à la demande des parties.