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This website is provided as a public service by Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) Research Programme Consortium and is subject to the following terms and conditions. Your use of the site is subject to these terms.

Disclaimer of liability

In the preparation of this website, every effort has been made to offer the most current, correct, and clearly expressed information possible. Nevertheless, inadvertent errors may occur. In particular, but without limiting anything here, LANSA disclaims any responsibility for typographical errors and accuracy of the information that may be contained on these web pages. LANSA reserves the right to make changes at any time and without notice.

The information and data included on LANSA web pages has been compiled from a variety of sources. Unless expressly stated otherwise, opinions given on this website are those of the individuals making them, and not those of LANSA or its funders: LANSA is not responsible for such opinions or any claims resulting from them. Further, LANSA makes no warranties or representations whatsoever regarding the quality, content, completeness, or adequacy of such information and data. In any situation where printed publications differ from the text contained in this system, the printed documents take precedence.

Some parts of the LANSA website are interactive, and we encourage contributions by users, which may or may not be subject to editorial control prior to being posted on the website. LANSA accepts no responsibility or liability for any material communicated by third parties in this way. LANSA reserves the right at its sole discretion to remove, review, edit or delete any content at our own discretion.

Unacceptable use

You must not use any part of the website for any purpose which is illegal, immoral, offensive to others or in breach of others' rights, or submit any content of that nature. This includes, but is not limited to any content or purpose which is discriminatory or harassing on the grounds of race, gender, religion, age or any other personal attribute, foul language, inciting hatred, sexually explicit, abusive, defamatory, in breach of copyright or other rights and such other activity as LANSA may from time to time determine is unacceptable. LANSA may remove or block access to any content or communication for any purpose. If you feel that your rights are infringed by anything on this site, please contact the LANSA Communications Manager (details below) giving a full description of the offending items and reasons. LANSA will investigate and, if it agrees, remove or block such content.

Disclaimer of reliability

While every effort is made to ensure that this website operates reliably, LANSA make no representations or warranties regarding the condition or functionality of this website, its suitability for use, or that the service it provides will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Disclaimer of damages

By using this website, you assume all risks associated with its use, including any risk to your computer, software or data being damaged by any virus, software, or any other file which might be transmitted or activated via this website. LANSA shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, including, without limitation, lost revenues or lost profits, resulting from the use or misuse of this website or the information contained in this website.

Disclaimer of endorsement

Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favouring by LANSA. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of LANSA, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

Links to other websites

Links from the LANSA website may take you to other websites that are not controlled by LANSA. While such links are provided in good faith, LANSA does not approve or endorse the websites to which it has established links in any way. Links are provided for your convenience only and LANSA is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any other website linked to or from the LANSA website. Use of any such links will not render LANSA liable to you or any other person for loss or liability of any kind.

We have tried to ensure that links to off-site materials are clearly indicated. If we have linked to your material and not clearly indicated that the content is non- LANSA, please let us know so that we can resolve the matter by making the link clearer, or removing the link.

Copyright

The LANSA consortium partners hold the copyright to all LANSA publications and LANSA website content but encourage reproduction of these materials for non-commercial purposes. Proper attribution is requested, stating the original source of the material. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for teaching or not-for-profit use is hereby granted without fee and without a formal request, provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that full attribution appears on the first page. Copyright for web content and publications not owned by LANSA consortium partners must be honoured and permission pursued with the copyright holder. Copying in any other circumstances, including but not limited to any commercial use, re-use in commercial publications, or for translation or adaptation, is not permitted without prior written permission from LANSA RPC, for which a fee may be payable.

To request permission to reprint or republish material from this site, or if you are unclear who is the copyright holder, please contact: lansa.southasia@gmail.com

Research Uptake and Communications Manager

LANSA RPC

M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)

Taramani Institutional Area 

Chennai, India

E-mail: lansa.southasia@gmail.com

Storage and use of personal information

LANSA is committed to protecting your privacy. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please e-mail lansa.southasia@gmail.com 

When you visit the LANSA website, we log non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type. We use this data to monitor usage and improve our website services.

In cases where you have provided LANSA with personal data, this may be used internally by us to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the services we provide. We may also use this information to contact you in the future unless or until such a time that you say you do not wish us to do so.

The database holding your personal details is held in the UK and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act applies. You have the right to inspect and update your personal details. If you require help with this, please contact lansa.southasia@gmail.com who will process your request within a reasonable time.

Email subscription services

You should not enter information on behalf of another person or about any other person. Your name and email address will be used only for delivering to you the services to which you have subscribed, for sending information about these services, for sending you password reminders and for validating security. They will not be provided to any third parties without your express consent.

Services allowing you to publish your personal information

For services allowing you to publish your personal information on a website, you are required to provide accurate information about yourself and accept sole and full responsibility for this and for keeping the information up to date. You should not enter information on behalf of another person or about any other person.

By providing your information to us, you are giving your permission for your personal information to be made freely and publicly available via the internet to any internet user accessing the website. A user will be able to view your information in a web browser but will not be able to change your information held and displayed by the website. Your information could be passed in this way to third parties in any country worldwide. If you do not wish to allow this type of access to your information, do not enter your information.

The inclusion of any information in the service is subject to acceptance procedures. Entering your information does not result in automatic inclusion in the service. By entering your information, you are submitting information to the approval process. You will be notified by e-mail if the profile meets the inclusion criteria.

LANSA reserves the right to edit each contribution (within the limits of the 1998 UK Data Protection Act). If any of the information submitted is deemed to be offensive, inflammatory or materially misleading by LANSA (in its sole discretion), LANSA reserves the right to refuse to publish contributions.

Password protected services

You are responsible for the safeguarding of any information, such as passwords and user needed information for use of your computer and/or your account with LANSA. LANSA will not be responsible for any consequences of such information failing to be adequately safeguarded.

You should not enter information on behalf of another person or about any other person. You are required to use all reasonable endeavours to ensure against unauthorised access to the service, in particular the use of user names and passwords by unauthorised individuals.

Password reminders and other information from the service will be sent to the email address you have given.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions or the practices of this website, please contact lansa.southasia@gmail.com 

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