Data protection

Prohibition on the use of information

All rights reserved. The exclusive rights to any materials (including photographs, images, videos, publications, as well as all texts) posted on the https://www.geoscan.ru website belong to the website owner — Geoscan Ltd. (unless explicitly stated otherwise in the text or publication). The person indicated as the author on the publication page is considered its author, unless proven otherwise. Copyright information refers to any information that identifies a work, its author, or another rights holder, or information regarding the terms of use of the work.

Copying, reproducing, or otherwise using any information from the https://www.geoscan.ru website (in whole or in part) is prohibited. Posting a link to the website https://www.geoscan.ru on third-party websites, as well as accompanying this link with a brief annotation (an excerpt from the publication text) of no more than 300 characters, is allowed and does not require obtaining permission specifically.

The use of any information posted on this website, including any images, videos, and/or their parts, is only possible upon written consent of the copyright holder of such information, Geoscan Ltd. Any copying of videos, photographs, and images posted on the https://www.geoscan.ru website without written permission is not allowed.

The posting of this information on the Internet, including on this website, does not constitute consent for the further use of any videos, images, or any other information published on this website without prior agreement with the copyright holder of this website, Geoscan Ltd.

When using the Materials from the https://www.geoscan.ru website, either in full or in part, users (any visitors to the https://www.geoscan.ru website, information agencies, newspapers, magazines and other printed publications, electronic media, any other mass media, as well as Internet websites not registered as mass media, individuals, organizations, and public associations, or any other third parties) are required to:

  1. Obtain written permission from the copyright holder of the https://www.geoscan.ru portal to use the materials by contacting the following email address: info@geoscan.ru.
  2. Provide links to the source of the materials (the https://www.geoscan.ru website) as follows: «Source: Geoscan Group website — geoscan.ru».
  3. Indicate when reproducing and otherwise using the materials from the https://www.geoscan.ru website in printed form: the source, the author(s) of the material (if available), and the date the material was published on the https://www.geoscan.ru website.
  4. Indicate when reproducing and otherwise using the materials from the https://www.geoscan.ru website on the Internet: the source, the author(s) (if available), and the date the Material was published on the https://www.geoscan.ru website. Include an active hyperlink to the https://www.geoscan.ru website not blocked from indexing by search engines.
  5. Maintain the integrity of the materials, preventing any distortion.
  6. Not alter the original text when reproducing and otherwise using the materials. Shortening or rearranging parts of the materials, supplementing them with illustrations, forewords, afterwords, comments, or any other annotations is allowed only to the extent that it does not distort the meaning of the materials.
  7. The user shall bear responsibility for any distortion of the meaning of the materials resulting from their inaccurate reproduction.

Legal information regarding the consequences of copyright infringement

 

Article 1300 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation  

The following actions with respect to works are prohibited: 1) removing or altering copyright information without the permission of the author or other rights holder; 2) reproducing, distributing, importing for distribution purposes, publicly performing, broadcasting over the air or via cable, or making publicly available works for which copyright information has been removed or altered without the permission of the author or other rights holder.

In the event of a violation of the provisions set forth in paragraph 2 of Article 1300 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the author or other rights holder has the right to demand, at their discretion, either compensation for damages or the payment of compensation in accordance with Article 1301 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.

Article 1301 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation  

In cases of infringement of the exclusive right to a work, the author or any other rights holder, along with using other applicable remedies and penalties established by this Code (Articles 1250, 1252 and 1253), has the right, in accordance with paragraph 3 art. 1252 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, to demand at its discretion that the infringer pay a compensation instead of the reimbursement of damages:

  1. in the amount from ten thousand rubles to five million rubles, as determined at the discretion of the court based on the nature of the violation;
  2. in an amount equal to twice the value of counterfeit copies of the work;
  3. in an amount equal to twice the value of the right to use the work, determined based on the price that is typically charged under comparable circumstances for lawful use of the work in the manner employed by the infringer.