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Guidance for on the intended use of this Acceptable Use Policy and Conditions of Use (AUP) text.
The AUP text below is intended to form part of the information presented to a member of a community (the user) at the time they register to access the services comprising an infrastructure. The AUP provides the user with information about their expected behaviour and restrictions on their use of the infrastructure. The registration point where the user is presented with the AUP may be operated directly by the user's research community or by a third party on the community's behalf.
The motivation to provide this "baseline" text is to facilitate -
rapid community infrastructure ‘bootstrap’ - communities do not have to build their own AUP from scratch
ease the trust of users across an infrastructure - services within an infrastructure have a common framework describing the behaviour of users coming from multiple communities
provide a consistent and more understandable enrolment for users - as users move between communities and projects come and go, users have a common understanding of their responsibiities.
Other information to be presented to a user as well as the AUP to properly define their responsibilities and rights when using the service are -
- Terms of Service -
- Privacy Notice - information about the processing of their personal data together with their rights under law regarding this processing
- Service Level Agreements - information about what the user can expect from the service in terms of quality such as reliability and availability