GRYC general conditions of use

Last update: 21st January 2025
Welcome to the GRYC website (gryc.inrae.fr).
We invite you to read our general conditions of use. This document contains the following sections:

By accessing our Website and using any of its services, you consent to our term of uses as well as all conditions and policies given below.

Note that if you do not agree to our general conditions of use, please do not access to our website.

General information

Please, refer to the legal notice and the cookie management pages.

Intellectual property rights

GRYC Websites consists in a combination of content that we created, that come from third part resources and that users creates. In this section, ownership and usage rights for each type of content is presented.

Our content

Our Website belongs to a public administration.
Structure of the Website, the data we produce as well as texts and pictures displayed online can be reuse under the condition of the open license Etalab 2.0:
  • INRAE, editor of the Website, is the owner of GRYC logo and INRAE logo displayed on the Website. Thus, it is forbidden to reuse these logo with a prior written agreement from INRAE.
  • Our original contributions are free culture works licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
  • Our contributions that consist in amendments of third part data only concern data that were originally distributed freely in the frame of open science (see the next section about third part content) and hence, we impose no additional restriction for the reuse of this data.

Third part content

A large part of the data used and displayed on GRYC were retrieved from one of the INSDC databases, mostly from the European Nucleotide Archive, EMBL-EBI. These data are made freely available in context of open science by these resources and hence, no additional restriction are required for the reuse of these data from our Website. For sake of transparency and to respect third part resource policies, the data sources, the corresponding accession number(s) and a direct link to resources Website are given for each retrieved data.
For more information about the concerned third part resources policies and conditions:

User content

User contents dealing with personal data are obviously protected and restricted by our privacy policy detailed in the dedicated section below.
Other User contents concern user contributions on GRYC data. In the current version of our Website, two categories of contributions are possible:
  • Add a bibliographical reference on a strain or a locus page.
  • Submit a report issue on a strain, a chromosome or a locus page.
In both cases, these contributions are voluntary, they will be made freely available on our Website, no property rights can be demanded by the submitter.

Incoming or outgoing hypertext links

Hyperlinks from the website/application to external sites

The application may contain links to external sites (partner or third-party sites). INRAE may not be held liable for the content, use of the content or operation of such external websites.

Hyperlinks from external sites to the website/application

If you wish to add hyperlinks to the content of the website/application, you must:

  • Ensure that users can identify the origin and author of the document.
  • Not violate the interests of INRAE, the publisher of the website/application.

Limitation of liability

INRAE's liability

Website availability: Unless otherwise stipulated by law, INRAE makes no representations regarding the availability of the website and does not warrant that the information on the website will always be present.

IT security: Unless otherwise stipulated by law, INRAE does not warrant that the website, its features and its content are free of security flaws caused by hacking, intrusions, bugs, viruses or malware that may affect your computer hardware, software or data. You use the website, its features and its content at your own risk and under your sole responsibility.

You are required to take all necessary preventive measures to protect your own data, software and/or computer systems against contamination from any viruses and attacks.

User's liability

Content quality: Despite its best efforts to disseminate reliable content, INRAE does not warrant that such content is free of errors, inaccuracies or omissions. You are solely responsible for viewing, choosing, using and interpreting the content on this website.

INRAE may not be held, by any express or implied obligation, as liable to you or third parties for any direct or indirect damage arising from the use of the information, particularly by reason of inaccurate or incomplete information, or an indexing error with all or part of the website.

User accounts: You are solely responsible for the use of your account and your access codes, and you shall therefore hold INRAE harmless if your account is used fraudulently by a third party.

Content posted with reference to an unidentified or incorrect license: The contributor is solely and entirely responsible. INRAE plays a purely technical role as a hosting provider.

Contribution: Initial remarks are published under the responsibility of the user/contributor. Messages that contributors post in response to the articles express their personal convictions only.

Contributors are solely responsible for the exploitation, use and publication of the data that they may obtain.

INRAE shall not be liable for any errors or omissions in the information disseminated by the contributors or for any technical problems encountered on the sites to which hyperlinks are established, or for any interpretation of the information published on those sites and the consequences of their use.

Similarly, contributors are solely responsible for any changes to their profile. INRAE shall not be liable for any errors or omissions in the information that users have modified or for the consequences of such modifications.

Personal data

This website collects personal data in the following instances:

  • Login: IP address, date, time, pages viewed and technical information relating to response times (through cookies)
  • when creating your user account or if you are logging in with your institutional account: your e-mail address and your name.
These personal data are processed electronically by the relevant controller and the website publisher, such as specified in the legal notices of the said website.

Such personal data are required for the website to perform correctly with:

  • If we create a user account for you or if you log in with your institutional account: all the data requested when the account was created.
  • Information collected by some cookies
The purpose of the personal data is to implement the website, measure traffic and address response time incidents.

The legal basis for processing your personal data is to provide a service of general interest, except for contact forms and certain cookies where the legal basis is your consent.

Data storage periods
Data collected for the purpose Storage period
Complaints management Five years from resolving the complaint
Management and monitoring of users Five years after the person has left, barring exceptions specified in law or regulations
Physical and/or digital access to the platform Until the account is closed
Audience metrics One day
Internal cookies required for the website to function correctly Set to one day

At the end of the stated storage periods, data will be destroyed.

For more information about cookies and trackers, please consult the page Manage my cookies.

The recipients of the personal data are authorized personnel working in the controller's services, partners/supervisory bodies and providers in charge of managing and monitoring users, and implementing the website and the services offered.

In accordance with the EU regulation on the protection of personal data and the French Data Protection Act, you are entitled to access, correct, to withdraw your consent at any time, to oppose the use of, on grounds relating to your particular situation, and delete data held on you.

You may exercise these rights by contacting the publishing manager, such as specified in the dipso-contact@inrae.fr.

If there are doubts about the identity of the person wishing to exercise such rights, a signed identity document will be required.

The controller has designated a Data Protection Officer (DPO). You can contact the DPO by email at cil-dpo@inrae.fr or by writing to INRAE - 24, chemin de Borde Rouge - Auzeville - CS52627 - 31326 Castanet Tolosan cedex - France.

If you believe that there is a breach of your data protection rights even after contacting the controller, you can lodge a complaint with the data protection authority (CNIL) by writing to the following address: Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, 3 Place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 PARIS CEDEX 07 or online at http://www.cnil.fr/

Amendments

The website editor reserves the right to amend these terms of service without prior notice.

Termination

You may terminate your use of the website at any time by unsubscribing in the space provided OR by sending an email to the email address and/or a letter to the postal address indicated in the legal notices relating to this website. INRAE will promptly take your termination request into account.

If you fail to comply with the obligations set forth herein, INRAE reserves the right to delete your account, prevent you from re-registering and take any action and/or remedies to stop any breach of these rights and obtain compensation for the damaged suffered.

Governing law - Language - Disputes

These ToS shall be governed by and construed in accordance with French law, irrespective of the location in which the website is used. If any translated version of these ToS conflicts with the French version, only the French version will control. In the event of a dispute, you agree to contact INRAE in the first instance with the aim of reaching an amicable solution for any such disputes between the parties.

If the parties are unable to reach an amicable solution in respect of a dispute arising from or in connection with the validity, interpretation and/or performance of these ToS, the French courts shall have sole jurisdiction and venue unless otherwise stipulated by legislation.