Disclaimer

Nitrate App website disclaimer

This Nitrate App website relates to the use of the Nitrate App, as available for Android and Apple at the common places, and the information collected with the use of the Nitrate App.

This Nitrate App website is for use by any person willing to actively participate in research on the relationship between different agricultural practices and water quality.

This Nitrate App aims to use the efforts of many people to establish the relationship between different agricultural practices and water quality. Offering a method that allows participants - which can be any person willing to actively participate in research on the relationship between different agricultural practices and water quality, but who we expect to be mainly farmers- to both collect nitrate measurements and share this information easily. Participants can take nitrate measurements by using test strips and share the outcome information by sending the results by smartphone. The thus collected measurements will be freely available on this web-site.

You may use the information presented at this website as long as you mention in any publication you make, that you made use of information collected using the Deltares Nitrate App website https://publicwiki.deltares.nl/display/wqapp

The accuracy of the app mostly depends on the accuracy of the test strips. Test strips typically just give a rough indication of the actual concentration. From these result, we estimated the accuracy of the strips and app-use at 30%. The accuracy of conventional lab measurements is ca. 10%.
A known issue with testing strips in general is that the colour reaction has a slight temperature dependency. At low temperatures, this leads to an underestimation of the higher nitrate concentrations for which a correction is possible. Note that the app is designed for outdoor use in good light conditions. See also the Tips and Tricks at www. https://publicwiki.deltares.nl/display/wqapp/Accuracy for getting the most accurate readings!

The use of this Nitrate App website is subject to the conditions set out below. By using this Nitrate App website, you declare that you are acquainted with these conditions and agree to them.

Disclaimer

USE OF THE NITRATE APP AND OF THE RESULTING INFORMATION IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND EXPENSE. THE NITRATE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. DELTARES EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR FOR FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE AND ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHATSOEVER SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF YOUR DOWNLOADING, USE OF, OR RELIANCE UPON, THE NITRATE APP.

DELTARES EXPRESSLY REMARKS THAT THE NITRATE APP AND INFORMATION PRESENTED AT THIS WEBSITE IS NOT FIT FOR ASSESSSING WATER BEING APPROPRIATE FOR DRINKWATER PURPOSES OR NOT. AMONGST WHICH WATER FROM DOMESTIC WELLS.

FOR ANY DECISION REGARDING THE USE OF WATER FOR DRINKINGWATER PURPOSES PLEASE FOLLOW LOCAL LEGISLATION AND INSTRUCTIONS.

YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE NOT TO CLAIM ANY RIGHTS TO THE DATA YOU COLLECTED AND UPLOADED THROUGH THE NITRATE APP AND THIS WEBSITE.

Netherlands law applies to (the use of) this Nitrate App, this website and the resulting information.

Nitrate App Website Privacy Statement

" Privacy Statement

For your use of this website and our Nitrate App, we do not store or otherwise process any of your personal data.
While you can choose to either make a public measurement and share the water quality data you have collected, or to register to your account so that your measurements remain private and can only be viewed by you, for neither of these purposes will we process your personal data.
When using this website and the Nitrate App to make a (public) measurement, a universally unique identifier ("UUID") is generated on your device for practical purposes. The UUID is a 128-bit number that is used to identify information on a computer device. In this case, the UUID is used so that we can track and file the measurement data, and that you can access and share the data. Importantly, this UUID cannot be linked to your person and thus no personal data is processed for these purposes.
In addition, when you register an account before making your (private) measurements, no personal information is required nor requested.
If you have any questions about this statement, please contact us at:
Deltares
P.O. Box 177
2600 MH Delft
tel: +31 (0)88 335 8273 (between the hours of 8.00 and 17.30)
email: dataprotection@deltares.nl "