These terms apply to this licence register portal (the "service") and to accounts on it. The service is operated by Syciety AS (org. no. 913 252 926), Oscarsgate 30, 0352 Oslo, Norway ("we", "us"). By using the service or creating an account, you accept these terms.
1. What the service is
The service only presents information that is already published by government authorities: mineral rights, mines, quarries and the companies that hold or run them, as published for Norway by the Directorate of Mining (Direktoratet for mineralforvaltning) and the Brønnøysund Register Centre (Brønnøysundregistrene). We don't create or verify this information. The service is not an official register; the authorities' own registers are the authoritative source.
2. The data and how you may reuse it
The underlying public data is made available by its publishers under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0. You may reuse it on those terms, including by crediting the source named on each page and in each download. These terms do not restrict any right NLOD gives you.
3. Accounts
- An account is needed to download data. It is free.
- Give accurate details, keep your password to yourself, and don't share your account. You are responsible for what is done with it.
- You can sign in with email and password or with Google. When you use Google, Google's own terms also apply to that sign-in.
- You can ask us to delete your account at any time (see Contact).
- We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms.
4. API and API keys
- Signed-in users can create API keys on their account page to use the licence data API.
- The API is a free service for evaluation use. Commercial use may be subject to a subscription fee; we will announce any fee before it applies.
- Each account has a monthly quota of API calls, shown on the account page. We may change quotas and limits, or suspend keys that are misused.
- Keep your keys secret. You are responsible for calls made with them; revoke a key at once if it may have leaked.
- API calls and bulk downloads are recorded against your account, as portal downloads are.
5. Acceptable use
Use the service in a way that doesn't harm it or its other users. In particular, don't:
- collect data from the service with scripts, crawlers or other automated means, other than through the downloads and the API it offers;
- get around rate limits, access controls or other protections, or use several accounts or addresses to do so;
- probe, attack or overload the service, or interfere with its operation;
- use the service for anything unlawful.
Requests and downloads are logged, and downloads are recorded against the account that made them, so that we can enforce these terms and keep the service available.
6. No responsibility for the data
The service and its data are provided "as is". We take no responsibility for mistakes, omissions or delays in the data, whether they come from the government sources or from how the data is combined here (for example, licence holders are matched to companies automatically). Nothing on the service is legal, financial or investment advice. Check the official registers before relying on any information.
7. Liability
We accept no liability for any loss or damage resulting from the use of the service or its data, from decisions based on it, or from the service being unavailable. This applies to the fullest extent Norwegian law allows; it does not limit liability that cannot be limited by law.
8. Privacy
How we handle personal data, including account details stored with Amazon Web Services in the EU (Stockholm) and the download log, is described in our privacy notice.
9. Changes
We may change the service or these terms. We will show the date of the current version at the top of this page. If you keep using the service after a change, the new terms apply.
10. Law and disputes
These terms are governed by Norwegian law. Disputes go to Oslo District Court (Oslo tingrett), unless mandatory consumer rules give you another venue.
11. Contact
Syciety AS, Oscarsgate 30, 0352 Oslo, Norway. Contact us through syciety.com.