General Disclaimer https://www.deltares.nl/en/disclaimer/
Specific Nitrate Aquality App Web-Site disclaimer:
This Nitrate Application Web-Site Aquality App (formerly: Nitrate App) website relates to the use of the Nitrate Aquality App, as available for Android and Apple at the common places, and the information collected with the use of the Nitrate AppAquality App.
The Aquality App is for use by any person willing to actively participate in research on the relationship between different agricultural practices and water quality.
The Nitrate Aquality 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 at 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 Aquality App Website https://publicwiki.deltares.nl/display/wqapp]
The accuracy of the app mostly depends on the accuracy of the test strips and your optimized use of the test strips. For more on accuracy and use of test strips please read carefully . 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 test 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 https://publicwiki.deltares.nl/display/wqapp/Accuracy and
https://publicwiki.deltares.nl/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=127634730
for getting the most accurate readings!
The use of the Aquality App and this Aquality App website is subject to the conditions set out below. By using the Aquality App and this Aquality App website, you declare that you are acquainted with these conditions and agree to them.
Disclaimer
USE OF THE NITRATE APPLICATION, AQUALITY APP (FORMERLY: NITRATE APP) AND OF THE RESULTING INFORMATION AND THIS WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND EXPENSE. THE NITRATE APPLICATION, THIS WEBSITE AND THE PRESENTED INFORMATION AQUALITY APP (FORMERLY: 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 RELAINCE RELIANCE UPON, THE NITRATE APPLICATION, THIS WEBSITE AND THE PRESENTED INFORMATIONAQUALITY APP (FORMERLY: NITRATE APP).
DELTARES EXPRESSLY REMARKS THAT THE NITRATE APPLICATION AND THE AQUALITY APP (FORMERLY: NITRATE APP) [AND INFORMATION PRESENTED AT THIS WEBSITE IS ] 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 DRINKING WATER PURPOSES PLEASE FOLLOW LOCAL LEGISLATION AND INSTRUCTIONS.
YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE NOT TO CLAIM ANY RIGHTS TO THE DATA YOU COLLECTED AND UPLOADED THROUGH THE AQUALITY APP (FORMERLY: NITRATE APP) [AND THIS WEBSITE].
Netherlands law applies to (the use of) the Nitrate Application, this Aquality App (formerly: Nitrate App), this website, and the resulting information and this website.
Privacy statement
Deltares files your measurement in a database together with the coordinates and your email address. Your email address is personal data and will be processed in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act and (starting May25 2018) the General Data Protection Regulation (Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming).Your email address will only be used for the purposes of the Nitrate Application and related research, but not displayed at the Nitrate App Website. Your email address will also not be made available to third parties otherwise, except in the event of a statutory obligation.
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