Acknowledgement Required

The Atlantic CDC grants permission to download data from this web site, on the condition that the user acknowledges both the CDCs collaboration, and the persons or institutions listed in the CITATION field.

Restrictions

The ACCDC makes a strong effort to verify the accuracy of all the data that it manages, but it shall  not be held responsible for any inaccuracies in data that it provides. By receiving ACCDC data, recipients assent to the following limits of use:

a.)   Data is restricted to use by trained personnel who are sensitive to its potential threat to rare and endangered taxa.

b.)   Data is restricted to use by the specified Data User; any third party requiring data must make its own data request.

c.)   The ACCDC requires Data Users to cease using and delete data 12 months after receipt.

d.)   ACCDC data responses are restricted to that data in our Data System at the time of the data request.

e.)   Data is qualified as to location (Precision) and time (SurveyDate); cf Data Dictionary for details.

f.)   ACCDC data reports are not to be construed as exhaustive inventories of taxa in an area.

g.)   The non-occurrence of a taxon cannot be inferred by its absence in an ACCDC data report.