Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Binding Agreement

These Terms of Service constitute a legally binding agreement between you (whether individually or representing an academic body, educational institution, or enterprise) and Showusmeastoryscope Botanical Station Lda (“Showusmeastoryscope”). By visiting, browsing, indexing, or utilizing any portion of showusmeastoryscope.rest, you affirm that you have read, comprehended, and agreed to be legally bound by these terms. If you do not consent to all clauses herein, you must immediately terminate access to this portal.

2. Scientific Purpose & Educational Scope

The materials, diagnostic keys, high-resolution imagery plates, morphological descriptions, and ecological habitat surveys provided on this site are published exclusively for scientific education, academic taxonomy, conservation awareness, and botanical interest. While our curators make every rigorous effort to maintain empirical accuracy according to peer-reviewed Iberian flora standards, nature variable conditions dictate that field determinations must always be corroborated by trained botanists.

3. Intellectual Property Rights & Licensing

All content featured across Showusmeastoryscope—encompassing without limitation text monographs, curated photographic plates, custom SVG vector badges, graphical user interfaces, layout styles, and proprietary algorithmic diagnostic layouts—is the exclusive intellectual property of Showusmeastoryscope Botanical Station Lda or used under verified public photo licenses (e.g., Unsplash License).

You are granted a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable limited license to view, download, and print individual pages for personal educational and non-commercial research use, subject to the condition that all original copyright and taxonomic attribution notices remain strictly attached.

Express Prohibitions: You may not systematically scrape, harvest, re-publish in commercial compendiums, or ingest our proprietary monographs into automated artificial intelligence models without prior written authorization from our station directorate.

4. User Conduct & Sensitive Location Protection

In using our field inquiry tools and interactive forms, you explicitly covenant that:

• You will not submit falsified, fraudulent, or malicious botanical sighting reports that could distort national flora mapping.
• You will respect the fragile status of wild Prunus lusitanica habitats. Publishing exact sub-meter GPS coordinates of critically endangered or unmonitored relict populations that could expose them to illegal wild harvesting or unregulated tourism is strictly forbidden on public forums.
• You will not introduce viruses, worms, trojans, or automated scripts that compromise server operation or data integrity.

5. Botanical & Toxicological Disclaimer

Crucial Botanical Warning: As documented in our identification monographs, plant tissues of Prunus lusitanica (specifically seeds, crushed stems, and mature foliage) contain naturally occurring cyanogenic glycosides which release hydrocyanic acid upon digestion. Under no circumstances should any wild plant materials be ingested. Showusmeastoryscope disclaims any and all liability for personal injury, adverse toxicological reactions, or veterinary harm resulting from the misidentification, mishandling, or consumption of wild flora.

6. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable Portuguese and European Union law, Showusmeastoryscope Botanical Station Lda, its directors, researchers, curators, and affiliates shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages—including but not limited to loss of data, research interruptions, or loss of goodwill—arising from your inability to access, or your reliance upon information retrieved from, this platform.

7. Governing Law & Judicial Jurisdiction

These Terms of Service, along with any disputes arising out of or related to their interpretation, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the substantive laws of the Portuguese Republic, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising under these Terms shall be instituted exclusively in the competent civil courts of the Judicial District of Sintra, Portugal.