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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- These universal criteria support:
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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.
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