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Confidentiality Agreement
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 Confidentiality Agreement
Confidentiality Agreement between the Illinois
Speleological Survey, Inc. and
______________________________ (requestor).
The Illinois Speleological Survey (ISS) serves to
protect, conserve, locate, record, explore, and study
the caves and karst resources in the State of Illinois
by providing a permanent, non-profit, non-sectarian,
cooperative organization for the pursuit of speleology.
It further seeks to establish and nurture a professional
atmosphere among Illinois' speleologists and cooperate
with all individuals and organizations consistent with
the foregoing purposes. Through unanimous decision of
the ISS Data Management Committee, acting on behalf of
the ISS, and, when deemed necessary, through the
approval of the entire board of directors of the ISS,
permission is granted for
______________________________ (requestor)
to have access to the ISS data indicated
below, under the following conditions:
* These data may not be used for recreational caving
or commercially led trips.
* All data ownership rights will be retained by
the ISS, the data do not belong to the requestor.
* These data may not be disseminated without written
permission of the ISS Data Management Committee.
* A report of findings must be submitted to the ISS in a
timely manner.
* All data must be turned in when issued an updated
dataset for the same area.
* The cooperation of the ISS shall be acknowledged
in any reports, presentations, or publications that
result, at least in part, from use of ISS data.
Further conditions include:
* The ISS shall receive, in a timely manner, copies of
all reports, including quarterly reports, etc., sent to
the granting agency.
* The ISS shall receive copies of any scientific publications
resulting from this study.
ISS data for which access is granted:
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________.
Access to these data do not constitute permission
to visit sites. Site visits should be arranged with
current owners as appropriate. This agreement does not
imply that the ISS believes that the requestor is
qualified to safely visit caves or other sites included
in these data.
I have read the above document and agree to abide
by all conditions.
__________________________________ __________
(requestor) (date)
__________________________________ __________
(President of ISS) (date)
__________________________________ __________
(Data Request Committee of ISS) (date)
__________________________________ __________
(Data Request Committee of ISS) (date)
__________________________________ __________
(Data Request Committee of ISS) (date)
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