CSAR Conditions of Use

All CSAR users are required to abide by the following conditions of use.

1. Conditions of Use

Many items of software on the CSAR systems are made available under licence agreements which restrict their use to academic research and teaching. Special arrangements, however, may be made in many cases to allow the systems and software to be used for commercial processing and commercially-sponsored research work. It is essential however that the CSAR Helpdesk is informed of such prospective use in order to allow necessary arrangements to be made. It should be noted that a charge will be made for such use.

Use of the CSAR service will be for academic research work.

Users will undertake not to divulge passwords to any other persons, unless specifically authorised by CSAR, or allow other persons to use their userid.

Note the condition of the Data Protection Act indicated below.

2. Data Protection Act

1. The Data Protection Act, 1984, provides for the registration and protection of personal data (i.e. that which relates to an identifiable living individual). The only personal data which users are permitted to store on the CfS Computer Systems is research data which has been registered under the Data Protection Act. The user is responsible for ensuring that this data is registered in accordance with the Act through their own University, via their local Data Protection Officer
2. Students must observe the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals model conditions which require them not to construct or maintain files of personal data without the express authority of an appropriate member of staff, who will be responsible for making the student aware of the Act's requirements. Students must abide by the Data Protection Act's principles in all cases where they come across personal data registered by the University.
3. Registration with CSAR will imply permission for user details to be stored in the MC Registration Database and to be used for mailing, accounting, reporting, and other administrative purposes connected with running a computer service.

3. Use of High Performance Computers

1. In accordance with guidance issued by the United Kingdom Department of Trade and Industry on the use of High Performance Computers, users are not permitted to use the CSAR Service for any research, development, manufacture and procurement of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems, in support of internal repression or international aggression, or any other restricted usage as may be listed from time to time.
2. These universal criteria support:
   1. the U.K.'s international obligations and commitments to enforce United Nations Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and European Union arms embargoes, together with any national embargoes or other commitments regarding the application of strategic export controls;
   2. the U.K.'s international obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the biological weapons convention, the chemical weapons convention and the missile weapon convention;
   3. the U.K.'s commitments to the international export control regimes-the Australia group, the missile technology control regime, the nuclear suppliers group and the Wassenaar arrangement which limits usage for proscribed countries including Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea;
   4. the EU common criteria for arms exports, the guidelines for conventional arms transfers agreed by the permanent five members of the UN Security Council, and the OSCE principles governing conventional arms transfers.