Terms of Use and License Terms

These Terms of Use and License Terms (hereinafter referred to as "Terms") regulate the terms and conditions for downloading and using the Dataset, which consists of articles from the Novinky.cz and Seznamzpravy.cz websites (hereinafter referred to as "Dataset").

All rights to individual articles of the Dataset are held by Seznam.cz, a.s., with its registered office at Praha 5 – Smíchov, Radlická 3294/10, Postcode 15000, Company ID No. 26168685, registered in the Commercial Register maintained by the Municipal Court in Prague, Section B, Entry 6493 (hereinafter referred to as "Seznam.cz") as the operator of the Novinky.cz portal, and further, according to the type of media: Seznam Zprávy, a.s., with its registered office at Praha 5 – Smíchov, Radlická 3294/10, Postcode 15000, Company ID No. 13974475, registered in the Commercial Register maintained by the Municipal Court in Prague, Section B, Entry 26792, (hereinafter referred to as "Seznam Zprávy" ) as a content supplier for Seznamzpravy.cz; or BORGIS a.s., with its registered office at Praha 2, Slezská 2127/13, Postcode 12150, Company ID No. 00564893, registered in the Commercial Register maintained by the Municipal Court in Prague, Section B, Entry 267 (hereinafter referred to as "BORGIS" ) as a content supplier for Novinky.cz. (Seznam.cz, Seznam Zprávy and BORGIS are hereinafter jointly referred to as „Providers “).

By registering, the user (hereinafter referred to as "User") expresses their agreement with these Terms and confirms that they are fully responsible for the use of the Dataset in accordance with these Terms. The Terms apply to the Dataset as a whole and to its components.

The User acknowledges that the Dataset is protected by Copyright and Trademark Acts, is subject to the rights of the Providers, contains personal data therefore its handling is restricted. The Dataset and its contents may only be used in the manner and the scope specified in these Terms.

Download and subsequent use of the Dataset is possible as follows: The User is entitled to use the Dataset exclusively for scientific and research purposes, in particular in connection with research on multimodal aggregation, which are not intended to achieve direct or indirect commercial benefit. The User shall not be entitled to use the Dataset in such a way that would: breach the legislation of the Czech Republic; infringe third party rights or violating the rights of third parties; breach good manners or threaten public order, might harm the Providers or third parties; breach the rules or conditions determined by the Providers, the Providers’ interests or interests of third parties. The Dataset or any component may not be used for training or be any part of a publicly available artificial intelligence language model.

The User shall not replicate the Dataset in any way or otherwise make it available to the public or place it on other websites.

The User undertakes to respect the personal and property rights of the authors, Providers, and all data subjects. If the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University notifies Users of an update of the version of the Dataset, in particular if any of the data subjects exercise their rights, the User is obliged to remove the original version and use the updated version.

All rights to use the Dataset are non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-assignable. The User is not entitled to grant a sub-license to a third party.

The Providers make no warranties concerning the functionality, quality, content, availability, or performance in relation to the foregoing purpose of use and shall not be liable for any damage or injury (including lost profits or other claims) that may arise to the User in connection with the use of the Dataset.

Providers do not process Users' personal data in any way. The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University is responsible for ensuring the processing of personal data in accordance with the legal regulations governing the protection of personal data.

These Terms shall be governed by applicable laws and regulations of the Czech Republic and are binding on all parties.

By accepting these Terms, the User confirms that he/she has read these Terms in full and agrees to be bound by them.

These Terms come into force and take effect on Oct 10, 2023.