Guidelines for using the Digital Collections
Guidelines for using the Digital Collections service of the National Museum in Wrocław
I. General terms and conditions
1. The Internet service called the Digital Museum of the National Museum in Wrocław (henceforth ”the Digital Museum”) is operated by the National Museum in Wrocław located at Pl. Powstańców Warszawy 5, 50-153 Wrocław, NIP: 8971900176, listed in the register of the institutions of culture run by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, no. RIK 127/2022.
2. The Digital Museum operates based on the rules described in these guidlines and the current legal regulations.
3. The Digital Museum is aimed at the presentation of digital exhibits (free-of-charge information service) in the collection of the National Museum in Wrocław.
4. The guidelines define the scope and the kind of (free) services provided online by the National Museum in Wrocław as part of the Digital Museum and the principles of providing these services.
5. The National Museum in Wrocław makes every effort to ensure the appropriate security of the Digital Museum.
II. Terms of providing the services
1. The use of the Digital Museum is possible only after reading these guidelines and their acceptance without any alterations or reservations.
2. The National Museum in Wrocław sets the following technical requirements in order to access the Digital Museum services:
III. Registration
1. Accessing and using the Digital Museum is free of charge, while some functionalities of the service require the user’s registration.
2. Registration procedure is as follows:
IV. Using the Digital Museum
1. Users of the Digital Museum services can:
2. Browsing through the digital exhibits in the Digital Museum does not require registration, similarly as with downloading, printing and sharing the digital artefacts.
3. The registration of the user account allows the user to create a list of favourite digital exhibits.
4. The user is solely responsible for the way in which he/she uses the access to the digital exhibits of the Digital Museum, as well as the content which he/she may share via the Digital Museum services, including legal responsibility for any unlawful actions.
V. Copyright to digital exhibits and their images accessible via the Digital Museum
1. In the Digital Museum all the digital exhibits are marked with their legal status according to the best of the knowledge of the National Museum in Wrocław in the following way:
2. The digital images of the artefacts (photographs) were created by the following members of Museum staff: Edmund Witecki, Arkadiusz Podstawka, Wojciech Rogowicz, Magdalena Lorek.
3. There is limited access to some digital exhibits via downloading their images due to the ongoing copyright protection, which is indicated by the non-active symbol of downloading the file.
4. It is not permitted to unlawfully reproduce, distribute and obtain any benefits, including financial, from the publication of images of exhibits included in the Digital Museum in relation to which copyright still applies.In such cases the digital exhibit can be used only for private purposes, educational and research procedures, indicating the source of origin in accordance with the generally accepted legal regulations. In such cases the image should be signed as ”the property of the National Museum in Wrocław” and providing the website address of the Digital Museum where the digital artefact was placed.
5. The National Museum in Wrocław, in creating the Digital Museum, pays particular attention to explaining the issue of copyright in relation to the exhibits placed in the Digital Museum. The form of sharing images corresponds to the state of knowledge on the part of the National Museum in Wrocław. Persons in possession of any information regarding copyrights of the presented digital exhibits or have any claims concerning the protection of these rights are kindly requested to contact the National Museum in Wrocław in order to explain the situation and carry out alterations, at the following e-mail address: muzeum.cyfrowe@mnwr.pl .
6. Detailed guidelines regarding the sharing of images of the exhibits from the collection of the National Museum in Wrocław, indluding the application form to use again the information belonging to the public sector can be found at: www.mnwr.pl/kontakt/udostepnianie-zdjec/
VI. Personal data
1. The administrator of the users’ personal data is the National Museum in Wrocław.
2. Detailed information about the principles of the processing personal data can be found at https://mnwr.pl/polityka-prywatnosci/
3. The National Museum in Wrocław makes use in its Digital Museum of such technologies as plugs of social media portals, including the Facebook Social Plugin, through which the service providers of the social media portals can obtain access to the user’s data. In the Digital Museum platform there are keys, i.e. ”Recommend/Share”, linked with Facebook, which results in the presence of the code referring to that portal. By recommending an image or sections of the web page, the user logs into the Facebook service, which follows the principles of privacy applied by Facebook. These principles are available at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy
VII. Final recommendations
1. The National Museum in Wrocław reserves the right to introduce improvements and changes regarding information and other contents found in the Digital Museum, including the denial of access to the Digital Museum at any time and without any prior notice.
2. The National Museum in Wrocław does not accept any responsibility for the timeliness, correctness, completeness or the quality of information provided by third parties (e.g. its cooperating partners, institutions, organisations, etc.). Any claims against the National Museum in Wrocław are excluded regarding the responsibility for material and non-material damage, and damage caused by the usage or non-usage of the provided information, including the lack of access to the Digital Museum, unless any intentional actions or gross negligence on the part of the National Museum in Wrocław can be proved.
3. Any queries concerning the functioning of the Digital Museum as well as the ways of using materials published in the Digital Museum service, including those connected with copyright, should be sent to the following e-mail address: muzeum.cyfrowe@mnwr.pl
4. Detailed information regarding the exhibits which are the property of the National Museum in Wrocław, and the possibility of carrying out queries and other academic procedures can be supplied by curators from the relevant departments, whose correspondence addresses can be found on the website of the National Museum in Wrocław.
5. These guildelines do not constitute the regulations as described in art.8 of the Act dated 18 July 2002 on providing online services, and the content of the Digital Museum is not commercial information.
I. General terms and conditions
1. The Internet service called the Digital Museum of the National Museum in Wrocław (henceforth ”the Digital Museum”) is operated by the National Museum in Wrocław located at Pl. Powstańców Warszawy 5, 50-153 Wrocław, NIP: 8971900176, listed in the register of the institutions of culture run by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, no. RIK 127/2022.
2. The Digital Museum operates based on the rules described in these guidlines and the current legal regulations.
3. The Digital Museum is aimed at the presentation of digital exhibits (free-of-charge information service) in the collection of the National Museum in Wrocław.
4. The guidelines define the scope and the kind of (free) services provided online by the National Museum in Wrocław as part of the Digital Museum and the principles of providing these services.
5. The National Museum in Wrocław makes every effort to ensure the appropriate security of the Digital Museum.
II. Terms of providing the services
1. The use of the Digital Museum is possible only after reading these guidelines and their acceptance without any alterations or reservations.
2. The National Museum in Wrocław sets the following technical requirements in order to access the Digital Museum services:
a. software – any Internet browser using the JavaScript application;
b. hardware – browsing through the Digital Museum websites requires the the use of a terminal device with Internet access and browser such as: Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Safari in the updated version.
III. Registration
1. Accessing and using the Digital Museum is free of charge, while some functionalities of the service require the user’s registration.
2. Registration procedure is as follows:
a. the user accepts the Museum Guidelines,
b. the user supplies in the registration form the details necassary to access the Digital Museum (current e-mail address).
IV. Using the Digital Museum
1. Users of the Digital Museum services can:
a. browse and view digital copies of the exhibits,
b. download and use for personal purposes individual digital copies of artefacts, whilst the detailed principles are regulated by the individual licences and conditions described in point II.
2. Browsing through the digital exhibits in the Digital Museum does not require registration, similarly as with downloading, printing and sharing the digital artefacts.
3. The registration of the user account allows the user to create a list of favourite digital exhibits.
4. The user is solely responsible for the way in which he/she uses the access to the digital exhibits of the Digital Museum, as well as the content which he/she may share via the Digital Museum services, including legal responsibility for any unlawful actions.
V. Copyright to digital exhibits and their images accessible via the Digital Museum
1. In the Digital Museum all the digital exhibits are marked with their legal status according to the best of the knowledge of the National Museum in Wrocław in the following way:
a. ”all rights reserved”, which means that the authors copyright to the given exhibit belong to the National Museum in Wrocław or a third party;
b. ”public domain”, which means that copyright to the given exhibit has not been established or expired, or that the given object does not constitute a work in the understanding of the general legislation;
c. in relation to digital images of exhibits (photographs) – ”copyright to the image by the National Museum in Wrocław”, which means that the copyrigh to such a photograph belong to the National Museum in Wrocław.
2. The digital images of the artefacts (photographs) were created by the following members of Museum staff: Edmund Witecki, Arkadiusz Podstawka, Wojciech Rogowicz, Magdalena Lorek.
3. There is limited access to some digital exhibits via downloading their images due to the ongoing copyright protection, which is indicated by the non-active symbol of downloading the file.
4. It is not permitted to unlawfully reproduce, distribute and obtain any benefits, including financial, from the publication of images of exhibits included in the Digital Museum in relation to which copyright still applies.In such cases the digital exhibit can be used only for private purposes, educational and research procedures, indicating the source of origin in accordance with the generally accepted legal regulations. In such cases the image should be signed as ”the property of the National Museum in Wrocław” and providing the website address of the Digital Museum where the digital artefact was placed.
5. The National Museum in Wrocław, in creating the Digital Museum, pays particular attention to explaining the issue of copyright in relation to the exhibits placed in the Digital Museum. The form of sharing images corresponds to the state of knowledge on the part of the National Museum in Wrocław. Persons in possession of any information regarding copyrights of the presented digital exhibits or have any claims concerning the protection of these rights are kindly requested to contact the National Museum in Wrocław in order to explain the situation and carry out alterations, at the following e-mail address: muzeum.cyfrowe@mnwr.pl .
6. Detailed guidelines regarding the sharing of images of the exhibits from the collection of the National Museum in Wrocław, indluding the application form to use again the information belonging to the public sector can be found at: www.mnwr.pl/kontakt/udostepnianie-zdjec/
VI. Personal data
1. The administrator of the users’ personal data is the National Museum in Wrocław.
2. Detailed information about the principles of the processing personal data can be found at https://mnwr.pl/polityka-prywatnosci/
3. The National Museum in Wrocław makes use in its Digital Museum of such technologies as plugs of social media portals, including the Facebook Social Plugin, through which the service providers of the social media portals can obtain access to the user’s data. In the Digital Museum platform there are keys, i.e. ”Recommend/Share”, linked with Facebook, which results in the presence of the code referring to that portal. By recommending an image or sections of the web page, the user logs into the Facebook service, which follows the principles of privacy applied by Facebook. These principles are available at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy
VII. Final recommendations
1. The National Museum in Wrocław reserves the right to introduce improvements and changes regarding information and other contents found in the Digital Museum, including the denial of access to the Digital Museum at any time and without any prior notice.
2. The National Museum in Wrocław does not accept any responsibility for the timeliness, correctness, completeness or the quality of information provided by third parties (e.g. its cooperating partners, institutions, organisations, etc.). Any claims against the National Museum in Wrocław are excluded regarding the responsibility for material and non-material damage, and damage caused by the usage or non-usage of the provided information, including the lack of access to the Digital Museum, unless any intentional actions or gross negligence on the part of the National Museum in Wrocław can be proved.
3. Any queries concerning the functioning of the Digital Museum as well as the ways of using materials published in the Digital Museum service, including those connected with copyright, should be sent to the following e-mail address: muzeum.cyfrowe@mnwr.pl
4. Detailed information regarding the exhibits which are the property of the National Museum in Wrocław, and the possibility of carrying out queries and other academic procedures can be supplied by curators from the relevant departments, whose correspondence addresses can be found on the website of the National Museum in Wrocław.
5. These guildelines do not constitute the regulations as described in art.8 of the Act dated 18 July 2002 on providing online services, and the content of the Digital Museum is not commercial information.