Notebooks Terms of Use

Effective as of November 6 2020

  1. Free-of-charge use
  2. Purchasing the service
  3. Service description
  4. Cookie policy
  5. General terms and conditions
  6. Privacy policy

1. Free-of-charge use

Notebooks is provided primarily for academic research and education in Finnish higher education institutions and state research institutes. For these use cases the use of service is free-of-charge. Also, it does not consume CSC's billing units. The definitive list of free-of-charge use cases is available at: https://research.csc.fi/free-of-charge-use-cases

2. Purchasing the service

Notebooks service can be purchased for use cases that do not meet the free-of-charge criteria. Notebooks is a component of CSC Services for Research. Notebooks is available by purchasing access to CSC Services for Research. The pricing of the service is as defined in: https://research.csc.fi/pricing

Total cost of Notebooks service consists of Base Package (billed once) and additional user accounts (if they are needed). All user accounts are personal and cannot be shared. Single purchase of a Base Package is valid for the duration of a single well defined research or education project (1-2 years). Use of Notebooks does not consume CSC's billing units.

3. Service description

Notebooks is provided with best effort service level and availability. Users are responsible for familiarizing themselves to the service description and ensuring that the service matches their needs.

4. Cookie policy

When you visit our website, cookies will save information about your stay. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device. There are two main types of cookies; session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies will be removed from your device as soon as you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored until they are deleted or expire.

The Notebooks service provides a web user interface, through which users can provision short-lived resources. Both the Notebooks web user interface and the web user interfaces of provisioned resources use cookies. Notebooks web user interface uses cookies to implement the core functionality of the service, so it is not possible opt-out from cookies while using the service. Notebooks web user interface does not use cookies to track usage on other sites.

5. General terms and conditions

Notebooks is a component of CSC Services for Research. Use of Notebooks must follow General Terms of Use for CSC's Services for Research: https://research.csc.fi/general-terms-of-use 

6. Privacy policy

Notebooks follows CSC customer register privacy policy: https://www.csc.fi/privacy