The following database producer's special conditions for use of his database(s) apply to your use of the SPECINFO file on STN.

I. General Part

1. Scope
Section 2 to 4 of these conditions apply to all databases offered via STN Karlsruhe as far as no differing regulations are specified under II. Special Part

2. Customers
A customer is an individual or an institution (i.e. a legal body such as a university, public authority, company) for whom online access has been ordered.

3. Search Results
All rights are reserved.

Search results delivered online or offline are only for internal (own) use of the customer. No written permission of the database producer is required if search results delivered to the customer in computer-readable form are used only for internal purposes of the customer, i.e. printed, processed, modified, or linked with other data (e.g. for creating a database). The customer must observe the copyright of the database producer. Results from searches carried out by the customer on request, or on behalf of individuals or institutions (see under 2.) outside his own institution (third parties) may only be given to them for explicit internal use. The transmitted search results must include the database producer's copyright. For safety purposes, the customer may keep a copy of the results obtained from a search carried out for third parties. The customer must obtain database producer's specific written permission for any further uses of search results obtained for third parties, particularly for the transmission of search results in electronic form or their distribution in hardcopy, e.g. sale, loan, license, or free charge. The customer must do his/her best efforts in preventing a theft or inadvertent illicit dissemination of the records.

4. Warranty and Liability
The database producers shall use their best efforts to deliver correct information in their databases, however, they do not accept warrenty and liability for completeness, accuracy and timeliness unless set out differently in II. Special Part.

II. Special Part

Machine-readable data shall not be processed or otherwise altered by users during all data handling for internal uses. The CHEMICAL CONCEPTS data may be used for establishing an internal database, expressly excluding activities for generating new software (expert systems or the like) based on these data. Online users shall obtain prior consent of CHEMICAL CONCEPTS before passing on to third parties machine-readable search results or data obtained for themselves or compiled on behalf of persons or organizational units not belonging to the users' institution. CHEMICAL CONCEPTS give warranty that the software and the data in principle are described correctly. CHEMICAL CONCEPTS does not give express or implied warranty for the comleteness, correctness, accuracy, or fitness of the software and the data for a specific purpose. Users are aware of and accept that the efficiency and capability of the software and the data used under this contract are not unlimited, and shall indemnify CHEMICAL CONCEPTS, their employees and their contracting parties against liability for direct or indirect damage arising out of the use of the software and the data, unless evidence is given that CHEMICAL CONCEPTS have caused such damage wilfully or by gross negligence.