Updated: 27 March 2014

All content and software on the Website is the copyright of the National Water Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion Committee (NWSHPC) or Akvo Foundation or third parties. However, much of the Website’s content and software is available for your use under a number of open licenses. For trademark restrictions, please note that the NWSHPC have trademarks, which are described on the respective members websites. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion or use of, or access to, the Website (including content, software and account information), with the following exceptions:

General website content

All content created by the NWSHPC and displayed on the Website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Plus Netherlands License. (CC-BY-NC-SA Plus).

User-Generated Content on the Website

Material that is submitted to the Website by users is available is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Plus Netherlands License. (CC-BY-NC-SA Plus).

User-Generated Content and Data on the Akvo RSR service

Material that is submitted to the Akvo RSR service by users and systems, i.e. photographs, updates and project descriptions, is available is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Plus Netherlands License. (CC-BY-NC-SA Plus).

Data that is submitted to the Akvo RSR service by users and systems, i.e. other information than photographs, updates and project descriptions, is available under a dual license. Both licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. (CC-BY-SA). And under the Open Database License 1.0 [ODbL] (or later versions as applicable).

User-Generated Content and Data on the Akvo FLOW service

Photographs that are submitted to the Akvo FLOW service by users and systems is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. (CC-BY-NC-SA).

Data that is submitted to the Akvo FLOW service by users and systems is available under a dual license. Both licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. (CC-BY-SA). And under the Open Database License 1.0 [ODbL] (or later versions as applicable).

Copyright Violations

The NWSHPC respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. The NWSHPC has no responsibility for content on third party websites that you may find or access when using this website’s products or services. Material available on or through other websites may be protected by copyright and intellectual property laws. The terms of use of those websites, and not the NWSHPC Terms, shall govern your use of that material.

It is the NWSHPC’s policy, at its sole discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may infringe or repeatedly infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of the NWSHPC and/or others.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide the NWSHPC with the following information:

1. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest; 2. a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed; 3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website, with enough detail that we may find it; 4. your address, telephone number, and email address; 5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law; 6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner’s behalf.

The NWSHPC agent for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

By mail: Copyright Notice c/o National Water Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion Committee. Ministry of Public Works Complex. 107 South Lynch Street, Monrovia, Liberia

By email: nwshpcsecretariat@gmail.com

Permissions

If you are seeking permission to use the NWSHPC trademarks, logos, service marks, trade dress, slogans, screen shots, copyrighted designs, or other brand features, please contact nwshpcsecretariat@gmail.com.