Terms, accessibility and privacy

Terms

Content on the ESIC website is provided for general and research purposes only. ESIC accepts no responsibility for losses arising from reliance on information contained on the ESIC website, or other sites that we may link to from time to time. In particular, ESIC accepts no responsibility for losses arising from re-use of content on the ESIC website without conducting your own due diligence.

Unless otherwise stated, content on the ESIC website is © Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

This means you can share the content on the ESIC website by copying and distributing it, but you must comply with the terms of the CC-BY-4.0 licence, which includes acknowledging ESIC as the copyright owner and providing a link to the source page on the ESIC website. Please see https://creativecommons.org/licenses for more information.

If you use and/or share content from our website, you must do so in compliance with the law.

You may not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the ESIC website. You may not take any action, which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on ESIC infrastructure. 

By continuing to use the ESIC website, you accept and agree to the terms of use. It is your responsibility to periodically review the terms of use to stay informed of any changes.

Accessibility

ESIC is committed to ensuring that the ESIC website is accessible to all users, including individuals with disabilities. If you encounter any barriers while using the ESIC website or require assistance due to a disability, please contact us at info@evidencesic.org. We will make reasonable efforts to provide alternative formats or assistive solutions as needed to improve your access to our services. 

Privacy

ESIC is committed to safeguarding your personal information in accordance with data protection law. Your personal data, or personal information, is any information about you from which you can be identified directly or indirectly. This may be information you give to us or that we collect from you when you visit the ESIC website or when you contact us.

The main reasons we collect your information are to carry out and perform our contract with you, comply with legal obligations and in some cases, we use your personal information to pursue legitimate interests of our own or those of third parties (provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests). The information we collect is, and will, only be used for one of the purposes outlined in this webpage and where we have a valid legal basis for doing so.

The technical information we collect when you visit our websites is used for site administration and internal operations (i.e., troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes). This enables us to improve our website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device, and as part of our efforts to keep our website safe and secure.