1. Agreement to Terms
By accessing or navigating the web platform located at clipcompasspurepixls.rest ("the Service"), operated by Clipcompass Purepixls Ltd. ("the Company", "we", "our"), you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be legally bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not accept these terms in their entirety, you must discontinue your use of the Service immediately.
2. Intellectual Property Rights
All content, architectural design elements, topographic visualizations, botanical texts, database arrangements, vectors, source code, and curated scientific indices hosted on this website are the intellectual property of Clipcompass Purepixls Ltd. or its licensors, protected by European and international copyright, database protection, and trademark laws.
- Academic and Non-Commercial Citation: You are granted a revocable, non-exclusive license to cite short excerpts of botanical texts for scholarly, educational, or ecological research, provided that clear attribution is given to "Clipcompass Purepixls — Troodos Botanical Atlas" and a hyperlink back to the originating page is maintained.
- Prohibited Actions: You may not systematically extract, harvest, screen-scrape, resell, republish, or duplicate large datasets, graphic modules, or telemetry feeds without our prior written consent.
3. Acceptable Use and User Obligations
You agree to utilize the website solely for lawful academic, educational, and observational purposes. In particular, you agree that you will not:
- Deploy automated scripts, bots, spiders, or crawlers that generate excessive server strain or bypass architectural access controls.
- Attempt to probe, scan, or breach the vulnerability of any server endpoint, security barrier, or authentication mechanism.
- Transmit any malicious payloads, worms, trojans, or computer viruses through the contact forms or communication channels.
- Use the topographic or GPS coordinates to facilitate unauthorized collection, poaching, or commercial exploitation of wild Cedrus brevifolia cones, seeds, or seedlings in protected reserves.
4. Botanical Accuracy and Scientific Disclaimer
The materials published within this atlas are provided for general educational, ecological, and botanical research purposes only. While our curators make reasonable efforts to verify taxonomic data, elevation coordinates, and conservation classifications against current peer-reviewed research, all information is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied.
Field exploration in the Troodos Mountain Range involves inherent natural hazards, including steep cliffs, rockslides, extreme winter weather, and summer fire conditions. Users utilizing GPS coordinates or hiking information do so entirely at their own risk and are responsible for consulting official Cyprus Department of Forests advisories.
5. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law in the Republic of Cyprus and the European Union, Clipcompass Purepixls Ltd., its directors, researchers, affiliates, and agents shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to loss of data, loss of goodwill, field expedition interruptions, personal injury during unguided mountain exploration, or hardware failure resulting from your access to or inability to use this platform.
6. Third-Party Hyperlinks and References
Our platform may feature links to external websites, institutional repositories (such as the IUCN Red List or Kew Millennium Seed Bank), or European environmental bodies. These links are provided solely as a scientific convenience. We hold no operational control over external websites and accept no liability for the content, privacy policies, or practices of third-party platforms.
7. Termination of Access
We reserve the right, without prior notice or liability, to suspend, terminate, or restrict your access to any section of the Service immediately if we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have breached these Terms of Service or engaged in abusive automated querying.
8. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
These Terms of Service and any contractual or non-contractual disputes arising from your use of the website shall be governed exclusively by the laws of the Republic of Cyprus and the applicable regulations of the European Union, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any dispute that cannot be resolved amicably shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Nicosia, Cyprus.
9. Modifications to Terms
We reserve the right to revise or update these Terms of Service at any time. When modifications occur, we will adjust the "Last Updated" timestamp at the top of this document. Continued use of the website following the posting of changes constitutes full legal acceptance of the revised Terms.