Terms of Use

BSCW - Basic Support for Cooperative Work is a service developed by Fraunhofer FIT together with OrbiTeam Software GmbH & Co. KG for the international scientific community. The service is provided by Orbiteam, Bonn free of charge.

The Use of the BSCW service is governed by the terms and conditions detailed below. OrbiTeam reserves the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time - especially to adapt them to changes in legal, technical or organizational requirements.

The maximum amount of disk space allowed per user is 1 Gigabyte. After one year of inactivity user accounts will be deleted.

OrbiTeam reserves the right to terminate the BSCW service at its sole discretion with a at least 3 months' advance notice.

OrbiTeam takes no liability that the BSCW service will meet the user's requirements or purposes. As the BSCW service is provided free of charge, OrbiTeam shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damages or termination resulting from the use of the BSCW service.

OrbiTeam reserves the right to modify BSCW's functionality and user interface and to install new releases of BSCW.

OrbiTeam undertakes reasonable efforts to provide BSCW as a reliable service. However, OrbiTeam takes no warranty that the BSCW service - in whole or in part - is accessible without interruptions or for an unlimited period of time. Thus, OrbiTeam shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damages resulting from the fact that the BSCW service may temporarily not be accessible.

OrbiTeam undertakes every reasonable efforts to make sure that access to information in a BSCW workspace is granted or denied according to the access rights defined. However, OrbiTeam takes no warranty that BSCW will block and prevent any unauthorised access by third parties to information stored in a BSCW workspace. Thus, OrbiTeam shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damages resulting from unauthorized access to information stored in a BSCW workspace.

OrbiTeam undertakes reasonable efforts to provide safe storage of information in a BSCW workspace. However, OrbiTeam takes no warranty for a secure and permanent storage. Thus, OrbiTeam shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damages which might result from information in a BSCW workspace being altered, damaged or deleted.

Each user takes unlimited liability that her/his use of the BSCW service does not infringe copyrights or intellectual property rights of third parties.

The use of BSCW is subject to German law. This forbids any use of BSCW which would violate legal terms or offend the general rules of fair dealing, including - but not limited to - storing or sharing information with pornographic or racially discriminating content. Should a user fail to comply with these obligations, OrbiTeam reserves the right to exclude this user from any further use of the BSCW service and to delete any incriminating information from the server without further notice. OrbiTeam reserve the right to claim damages resulting from such missuse.