Copyright and License
One of our founding principles is making our data publicly available so that each mission’s effect can be felt for years to come. The data from our missions is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. You are permitted to copy and redistribute our data in any format or medium, for any purpose including commercial use. You may also adapt and make derivative materials based upon our data. If you adapt our data, you are only permitted to distribute derivative materials under the same license. You must credit Drone Adventures using “© Drone Adventures”. Please read the full text of the legal code to understand your rights and obligations in using our data.
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Statement describes how Drone Adventures protects the privacy of individuals whose information is collected in the context of our drone missions or through their interaction with our website, https://dronesforearth.org/ (the “Website”).
Drone Missions
We capture still photography and videos while completing humanitarian, environmental and cultural missions. Most of our imagery is captured in public spaces, however sometimes we partner with organizations to capture photos and videos of their property. We do not use facial recognition software, and we will only display the names and affiliations of individuals captured in our images with their consent. The date and location of photos and videos are displayed on the Website. If you would like to request that your image be blurred or removed from our Website, please contact us at privacy@dronesforearth.org.
Online Privacy
Drone Adventures does not collect any personally identifiable information about you when you visit the Website unless you voluntarily provide this information, for example by contacting us through our email forms. Personal information collected in these cases may include your name, email address, and the content of your message. By providing information through our email forms you consent to our use of such information to respond to your requests. If you provide personal information in connection with a potential collaboration with us, we will also use such information for the purpose of assessing the collaboration. If you opt-in to receiving communications from us, you may unsubscribe at any time by following the opt-out instructions in the applicable communication. If you share Website content using third-party social platforms that we support including Facebook or Twitter, or if you otherwise interact with Drone Adventures’ accounts with such third-party social platform providers, the privacy policies of such third-party providers as well as the privacy settings associated with your accounts with such third-party providers will also govern such interactions. Drone Adventures automatically collects certain statistical and other data about visits to the Website through the use of cookies. This information includes IP addresses, statistics on pages viewed, web browsers and operating systems.
Security and Disclosures
We use commercially reasonable efforts to store and maintain your personal information in a secure environment on our systems. Drone Adventures will not share or disclose your personal information to any third party without your consent except in compliance with legal or regulatory requests, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Statement.
Contact Us
From time to time, we may make modifications to this Privacy Statement, and if we decide to do so in the future, we will post an appropriate notice on the Website. If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy practices, please contact privacy@dronesforearth.org. Last updated: May 19, 2014
Re-publication Guidelines
Drone Adventures encourages the republication of our posts and images. Any republication of our content must be made available free of charge, and you are not permitted to sell any of our content or to place it behind a paywall. Please read the following guidelines for republication of our content.
Re-publication of Posts
You may republish our posts in any media, provided that you cite Drone Adventures as the original source and provide a link to our site. You must also give credit to the author of the post in the byline of the republication.
If you do not have sufficient space to republish the full text of a post, you may republish the first few lines of the post, followed by a link guiding the reader to the Drone Adventures site to read the complete post.
You may not modify our posts unless you have received our prior written permission. If you would like to request our permission to modify one of our posts, please contact us at info@dronesforearth.org.
Re-publication of Images
You may republish images posted on our site either together with the posts that they correspond with or separately. In either case, you must provide credit to Drone Adventures (and if applicable the photographer’s name) in the following manner: “image courtesy of Drone Adventures”.