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OER World Map is a collection of free services by the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (hbz), Jülicher Str. 6, 50674 Köln, Germany. OER World Map is committed to privacy by design and complies with German data protection legislation. OER World Map allows you to
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Parts of the maps shown when accessing OER World Map are provided by Mapbox Inc., 1714 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009-4309, United States. See https://www.mapbox.com/privacy/.
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Your activities are logged and processed to further improve the service, as well as to prove that you have claimed to have the necessary rights for the publication.
This logging includes the
This information can be deleted upon request.
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We are committed to publishing content, which is dedicated to the Public Domain. We therefore encourage the use of application of CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication and license fallback from the Creative Commons tool set.
If you are providing content to OER World Map, we ask for content to be provided under the condition that you can assure anybody using the content, that the person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain. This may be achieved by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.
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This is the third version of our Privacy Policy and Terms of service (version 3.0) as of May 2nd 2017. The previous versions can be found here (2.0) and here (1.0).