Terms of usage for Epos-France seismological data center services
Our services are subject to a fair-use policy.
Users may use our services as long as client actions do not inhibit our capability to serve others.
WebService usage policy
Web services that we host should be used within some limitations.
The Seismological Data Center may refuse to honor the requests that goes beyond those limits by returning the http code 429.
NOTE: In particular, polling for real-time continuous time series data is not welcome on any webservice. For continuous, near real-time data please use our streaming service.
Realtime data stream service usage policy
The Seismological Data Center allows a maximum of 5 active connections for a user. We may cut arbitrary the connections beyond that limit.
About personal information management
When accessing services, the client's IP address is collected and stored in a database for operational purposes. It allows the service operators to:
- be able to analyze the overall activity
- build anonimized statistics about data usage, by counting distinct IP addresses. Statistics are publicly available through the EIDA statistics dashboard and API.
The IP addresses are kept 4 months. After that period, the information is deleted automatically.
If you want to know more about our statistics process, you can contact us at mailto:sismo-help@epos-france.fr
What to do in case of error 429 ?
This error is returned by our webserver to the clients issuing to many requests in a time span. If you think that you should be able to issue more requests, please contact us at mailto:sismo-help@epos-france.fr.