- Copyright
You may be required to clear additional rights if a specific content depicts identifiable private individuals or includes third-party works. To use or reproduce content that is not owned by the EU, you may need to seek permission directly from the rightholders.
Software or documents covered by industrial property rights, such as patents, trademarks, registered designs, logos and names, are excluded from the Commission’s reuse policy and are not licensed to you.
Services created using the DestinE Digital Twin Outputs and/or DestinE Platform
Services created using the DestinE Digital Twin Outputs and/or DestinE Platform must mention that they rely on these elements and refer to their distribution by the European Commission. The attribution must be displayed prominently and provided alongside, within, or co-located with the services in the form of the following wording: “This service is created [based on data of the European Commission] and/or [using DestinE Platform]”.
- Non liability
The European Commission accepts no responsibility with regard to any problems incurred or any action taken by the users on the basis of the DestinE Digital Twin Outputs and the information provided through the DestinE Platform or any linked external website.
By using DestinE Digital Twin Outputs and the DestinE platform, the user renounces any claim for damages against the European Union. The scope of this waiver encompasses any dispute, including contracts and torts claims, that might be filed in court, in arbitration or in any other form of dispute settlement.
- External website disclaimer, data protection
When users choose to use the external website, they are subject to the cookie, privacy and legal policies of that external website.
Compliance with applicable data protection and accessibility requirements of external websites falls outside the control of the European Commission and is the explicit responsibility of the external website.
- Use of the EU emblem by third parties
According to this agreement, any natural or legal person (“third-party user”) may use the EU emblem or any of its elements, as long as this use:
(a) does not create the impression or assumption that there is a connection between the third-party user and any of the institutions, bodies, offices, agencies and organs of the European Union or the Council of Europe where this connection does not exist;
(b) does not lead the public to believe that the user benefits from the support, sponsorship, approval or consent of any of the institutions, bodies, offices, agencies and organs of the European Union or the Council of Europe where this is not the case;
(c) is not made in connection with any objective or activity which is incompatible with the aims and principles of the European Union or the Council of Europe, or is otherwise unlawful.
If the use of the EU emblem complies with the above conditions, there is no need to ask for written permission.
Registration of the EU emblem, or a heraldic imitation thereof, as a trade mark or as any other IP right is not acceptable. Download the EU Emblem and graphical information
