TS4NFDI Service Portal

Status: May 2025

Privacy Policy of the ZBMED apply, supplemented by the following Special Conditions Service Portal

Special Conditions of Service Portal is provided by:

Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED) - Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften
Scientific Director: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Gleueler Straße 60
50931 Köln
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)221 478-5685
E-mail: info@zbmed.de
Website: https://zbmed.de

1. Scope of Application

1.1 These Special Conditions Service Portal regulate the use of the Service Portal as well as the rights and obligations of Registered Users.
1.2 Service Portal is primarily aimed at researchers and data stewards scholars who want to search, explore, and manage terminologies.

2. Registration

2.1 Service Portal can be searched and its content can be explored and reused without registration.
2.2 Some services, such terminologies collection, customized search settings, configuration, and user profiles require a registration (Registered Users).
2.3 There is no entitlement to registration, account, or profile. TS4NFDI is entitled to reject registrations or terminate accounts if a violation of these Special Conditions Service Portal exists or is expected.
2.4 While registering, users must agree to the Special Conditions Service Portal and the Data Protection Declaration. If these Special Conditions Service Portal are updated, Registered Users will be notified of the changes two weeks in advance by email. By subsequently continuing to use Service Portal, Registered Users agree to the changes.
2.5 A usage relationship is established between TS4NFDI and the Registered User through registration.
2.6 When registering, users are obliged to fill in mandatory fields truthfully and completely, to keep their data up-to-date and secret, and to protect data from access by third parties.
2.7 Accounts may be terminated for cause by TS4NFDI. A cause can be a breach of the Terms of Use or these Special Conditions or a legal obligation or official order for TS4NFDI to block the access or any other conduct, which raises the suspicion that the user violates or will violate the Terms of Use, these Special Conditions or other legal obligations also in the future.
2.8 TS4NFDI will terminate accounts at the request of the user in text form at any time and without undue delay. All personal data in the user profile will be deleted without undue delay. Content created by users remains published as long as the TS4NFDI does not delete this content or the user does not request its deletion, whereupon the TS4NFDI will anonymize this content.

3. Service Portal

3.1 Anyone can view and use Service Portal content. Registered Users can also create content such as terminologies collection. Users can set their own content to private.
3.2 Registered Users confirm that published content does not infringe any third-party rights (e.g. copyright, rights of performers, personality and publicity rights, data protection) or are offending in any way. If others are involved in the production, Registered Users confirm that all participants are aware of the content of this agreement and have given their consent.
3.3 Registered Users ensure that the published content does not violate applicable law or offend common decency, in particular, does not constitute a criminal offense and does not constitute an administrative offense (e.g. infringement of copyright, trademark law, competition law) or none have offensive, discriminatory, racist, pornographic or extremist content. In the event of a violation, Section 5 applies.
3.4 If a user becomes aware of a violation of the law within the meaning of 3.2 or 3.3 he/she is obliged to inform the TS4NFDI immediately.
3.5 Registered Users will indemnify the TS4NFDI from all claims of other users or third parties that they assert against the TS4NFDI due to infringement of their rights through content published by the respective Registered User if the respective user can be held responsible. The respective Registered User assumes the costs of an appropriate legal defense of the TS4NFDI. This does not apply if the Registered User is not responsible for the infringement. Users are obliged to provide all information necessary for the examination of the claims and defense in the event of a claim against the TS4NFDI truthfully and completely without further delay.

4. Functionality of the Service Portal

4.1 Anyone can use the Service Portal to view, search, and browse indexed vocabularies, terminologies, or ontologies without registration.
4.2 Service Portal provides some functionalities that requires registration. Registered users are able to define terminlogies collection and config the paramters concerning the API Gateway andTSS widgets.

5. Rights and obligations of the TS4NFDI

5.1 Service Portal content created by Registered Users is licensed to TS4NFDI under the license CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication).
5.2 Service Portal content is published by TS4NFDI under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication).
5.3 The TS4NFDI assumes no liability that the service and its content are always uninterrupted, unchanged, and available in full, as well as being up-to-date and free from errors of an editorial or technical nature. No liability is accepted for damage caused by trusting the content of the platform or its use.
5.4 The TS4NFDI reserves the right to change the functionality, the appearance, and these Special Conditions Service Portal at any time. Registered Users will be informed of the changes two weeks in advance by email. By continuing to use the platform after the deadline, users agree to the changes.
5.5 The TS4NFDI is entitled to terminate its service at any time. In this case, the TS4NFDI reserves the right to delete the content. However, this does not result in an obligation to delete the content.
5.6 The TS4NFDI provides scientific information in all areas of engineering as well as chemistry, information technology, mathematics, and physics to the public. If content by Registered Users does not satisfy the quality criteria TS4NFDI generally applies to scientific information, TS4NFDI may exclude the content from its services without prior notice.
5.7 In principle, the TS4NFDI is only liable for damage caused by intent or gross negligence. In case of injuries to life, body, or health statutory provisions apply.
5.8 Liability for damage from unauthorized use of password-protected logins by third parties is not accepted.
5.9 Insofar as liability is limited or excluded, this also applies in favor of executive employees (m / f), representatives (m / f), and vicarious agents (m / f) of the TS4NFDI.
5.10 If there are concrete indications of a violation of these Special Conditions Service Portal, the TS4NFDI is entitled to delete content, restrict the use of the services, or block the Registered User concerned. When choosing a measure, the legitimate interests of the Registered User are taken into account, in particular, whether there are indications that the Registered User was not responsible for the violation.
5.11 Content that contains a legal violation according to 3.2 or 3.3 may be blocked or deleted by the TS4NFDI.

6. Miscellaneous

6.1 The usage relationship and these Special Conditions Service Portal are subject to German law.
6.2 The place of jurisdiction is Köln .
6.3 In the event of a dispute, the TS4NFDI endeavors to reach an amicable settlement.