We offer guidelines for creating a profile, listing seeds, requesting seeds, and filling seed requests. Feel free to contact us at grassrootsseednetwork@gmail.com. You can also contact our website coordinator, Irena Hollowell, at sachairena@gmail.com. We value your input. If you'd like to get more involved with GSN, several distinct volunteer opportunities are available.
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Grassroots Seed Network terms of use
Grassroots Seed Network is a web service built on the Sharetribe platform. The general terms of Sharetribe below apply also to the use of Grassroots Seed Network.
Sharetribe is a social media service that allows its users to exchange goods and services and communicate with each other. The Sharetribe service may only be used in accordance with these terms of use. The service provider reserves the right to change these terms of use if required. Valid terms of use can be found on Sharetribe’s website.
Rights of Content
The users themselves retain the right to all text, pictures and other content that they create in the service. The users allow others to utilize the content in accordance with the nature of the service and furthermore allow the service provider to file information and data and make changes that are necessary for the service or the study, however other rights are not transferred from the users, unless specifically otherwise agreed. The responsibility of the content lies with the lister, who has provided it to the service. The service provider has the right to remove any material when it deems it necessary.
Disclaimer
No guarantees of the functioning of the Sharetribe service are given. The users are themselves responsible for their actions in the service and they should estimate the reliability of other users before dealing with them. The service provider can under no circumstances be liable for damage that is caused to the user. Data stored on Sharetribe are not guaranteed to remain there.
The Removal of a User
The service provider has the right to remove any users from Sharetribe and terminate their right of use of the service without any specific reason and without being liable for compensation.
Applicable Jurisdiction
The jurisdiction that is applicable in this service and these terms of use is that of Finland, unless something else is required by binding law.
Registrar
Grassroots Seed Network service: Sharetribe Ltd
www.sharetribe.com
info (at) sharetribe.com
Registrar Contact person
Antti Virolainen
Kirjurinkuja 3 F 46 02600 Espoo
+358-50-5311793
antti.virolainen (at) sharetribe.com
Name of the register
User register of the Grassroots Seed Network service
Use of personal details (purpose of register)
Personal details are collected to make communication and use of service possible. Details can be used for communication between service providers and users and also for direct communication between users. Some personal details are visible on the profile page of the user, but those details are voluntary (except name).
The handling of personal details is not outsourced, but the register data is stored on a server that is rented from a third party company.
Information content of the register
The following information may be stored in the register:
- Personal details: Name, email address, phone number, street address
- Account details: username, password (stored in encrypted format)
- The description text that the user may write about him/herself
- The offers and requests the user has posted to the service
- The given and received feedback and badges
- Statistical data about service usage, e.g. number times the user has logged in
Regular sources of information
Personal details are given by the user on registration to the service or when using it later.
Regular handovers of the information
The information may be handed over for research purposes as described in the Terms of use that the user accepts before starting to use the service. The researchers may not publish any research results so that identifying information would be revealed or that any specific user could be detected.
Information considering users of a single Grassroots Seed Network community may be handed over to the client who has founded that community or to the community administrators appointed by that client.
Transfers of the information outside the EU and the European Economic Area
Information may be stored to a server that may be located inside or outside of the EU and the European Economic Area
Register protection principles
The information is stored on computers. The access to the information is restricted with passwords and physical access to the computers is restricted by the server hosting company.