# Terms and Conditions

## Data Licensing

The CMNPD data is made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) license. Except as otherwise provided in any additional terms for a service, you may print or download content from the services for your own personal, non-commercial, informational or scholarly use.

## Cite Us

**If you use the database in your research, please cite:**\
Chuanyu Lyu, Tong Chen, Bo Qiang, Ningfeng Liu, Heyu Wang, Liangren Zhang, Zhenming Liu, CMNPD: a comprehensive marine natural products database towards facilitating drug discovery from the ocean, *Nucleic Acids Research*, **2021**, 49(D1): D509-D515. doi: [10.1093/nar/gkaa763](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa763).

## Submission Policy

1. CMNPD deposit system requires registration. When registering, you need to provide accurate and complete information.<br>
2. Compared with unregistered users, you do not have any permissions or rights in this service to access additional content other than public data and your own deposited data.<br>
3. CMNPD reserves the right to modify your deposited data for the purpose of providing a consistent representation of all information within the service.<br>
4. Your deposited data will be made available without cost and without restriction to the public.<br>
5. You can delete your deposited data at any time before publishing. Once the data is reviewed and published, however, you will need to contact the CMNPD team to apply for deletion of your data from the public region.

## Privacy Notice

This website requires cookies, and the limited processing of your personal data in order to function.

We collect the following personal data:&#x20;

* Email address
* IP addresses
* Date and time of a visit to the service website
* Amount of data transmitted
* Date and time when the feedback was sent

We will use the personal data:&#x20;

* To provide the user access to the service
* To better understand the needs of the users and guide future improvements of the service
* To conduct and monitor data protection activities
* To create anonymous usage statistics
* To conduct and monitor security activities

The personal data will be disclosed to authorized CMNPD staff only and will not be transferred to third organizations.


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