By requesting a version of SPADE.RIVMNational Institute for Public Health and the Environment , this agreement will come into effect with respect to copyright, disclaimer and additional conditions as included hereafter in this document.
Copyright
The copyright of SPADE.RIVM is owned by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)/ State of the Netherlands.
Together with the SPADE program, data on food consumption data from DNFCS 2007-2010 is provided. This is only intended to practice with SPADE (e.g. the exercises in the manual). The DNFCS data may not be used otherwise or published. The copyright of these data is owned by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)/State of the Netherlands. An application form to request DNFCS data can be downloaded through www.rivm.nl/dnfcs.
Disclaimer
SPADE is developed with great care by RIVM. RIVM accepts no claims for any direct or indirect damage, including financial loss, caused by any errors in the program or by misuse or misinterpretation of the program and the results produced by the program
Additional Conditions
Registration
The user or user group is required to register name, affiliation
and e-mail address. Optional other relevant characteristics are
registered.
The user is not authorized to forward the hyperlink that is
provided to download SPADE.RIVM to any other person or
organization. The user is also not authorized to forward the
downloaded SPADE.RIVM.zip-file to any other person or organization.
Each user needs to register individually by filling in the
application form. In this way, every registered person will receive
the SPADE newsletter and the announcements of new versions.
Referencing
SPADE may be used for publications by stating at least the
version number and source (SPADE.RIVM version 3.1) and a reference
to the following manuscript
Dekkers ALM, Verkaik-Kloosterman J, van Rossum CTM, Ocké MC. SPADE,
a new statistical program to estimate habitual dietary intake from
multiple food sources and dietary supplements. J of Nutr. 2014,
October 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3945/jn.114.191288.
Costs
RIVM does not charge users for downloading and using SPADE version 3.1. The users is not allowed to charge (end)users for the use of SPADE version 3.1.
New edition of SPADE
When the next version of SPADE is released users will be
notified by e-mail. The e-mail address as provided on the
registration form will be used. In case of changes in this e-mail
address, please send an e-mail to spade@rivm.nl
It is recommended to replace the current version of SPADE as soon a
new version becomes available. Otherwise, check on http://www.spade.nl/ whether you are
still working with the most recent version.
Inform on shortcomings or errors.
RIVM provides SPADE version for free to all interested users. Much
work has gone into the development of SPADE. We do hope that you as
user appreciate and respect this. We ask users, in case of any
unforeseen errors or shortcomings to inform RIVM through spade@RIVM.nl.
THE USER DECLARES TO AGREE WITH THESE CONDITIONS