Terms of Use

Restrictions on use. Except where permitted by applicable law, an applicable third-party licence or the operator’s written permission, you must not:

Copy, decompile, reverse-engineer or duplicate NaturaNote’s proprietary source code or protected design assets.
Scrape, harvest or extract NaturaNote’s proprietary source code or protected design assets for commercial reuse or training AI models.
Use NaturaNote’s proprietary source code or protected design assets to create a competing product.

These restrictions do not prevent ordinary browser operation, offline caching, authorised backups or recovery, use of the app’s export features, or your use of your own records. They do not reduce rights granted for third-party components or rights that cannot lawfully be restricted.

Using NaturaNote

NaturaNote supports environmental field observations, offline preparation, optional project sharing and exports. No account is required. Use the app lawfully and within your training, permissions, site requirements and organisational procedures. These terms explain the conditions for use alongside the Privacy Policy.

Your records and permissions

You retain the rights you hold in your observations, photos, recordings and other uploaded material. You must have permission to collect, store, use and share it. Using NaturaNote does not transfer ownership of your records to the operator. You permit the processing, storage, display, copying and transmission necessary to provide the features you choose, including sharing a selected project with link holders. NaturaNote does not automatically publish your field records to the Atlas of Living Australia.

Do not upload unlawful material, unnecessary personal information, confidential or culturally restricted knowledge, or exact sensitive locations unless you are authorised and the project’s controls are suitable. Do not misuse project links, interfere with others’ records, circumvent access controls or disrupt the service.

Licence to use. Subject to these terms, you are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to access and use the NaturaNote web application at naturanote.app for personal or professional environmental data collection. This licence does not transfer ownership of the app. Subject to applicable law, the operator may revoke this licence for a material breach of these terms.

Ownership of intellectual property. N. Hoffman | NaturaNote retains the intellectual property rights held by the operator in NaturaNote’s original code, user interface, design assets, scripts and software architecture. All rights are reserved in that proprietary material, subject to the licence to use above. User content and third-party software, maps and data remain subject to their respective owners’ rights and applicable licences; no ownership of those materials is claimed.

Project links and copies

A project link grants access to the selected project to whoever possesses it. Keep links and owner backups secure and share them only with intended recipients. Link holders may retain copies and exports. Disabling or replacing a link cannot recall those copies. Device-based access and entered observer names are not identity verification.

Sources, names, maps and licences

Check all source licences and attribution requirements before importing or redistributing maps, images, specialist layers or other material. Keep credits and restrictions with your exports. OpenStreetMap content is credited to its contributors and remains subject to its licensing terms.

Scientific-name suggestions use factual names and identifiers supplied through the Atlas of Living Australia. ALA and underlying data providers retain their applicable rights; comply with the ALA terms and any provider-specific licences. The lookup does not grant rights to ALA photographs, descriptions or trademarks, and does not imply ALA or CSIRO endorsement of NaturaNote. A suggested name is not confirmation of a species identification.

Third-party software remains subject to the licences listed in Licensing. Those licences govern your use of their components and prevail over conflicting restrictions in these terms for those components.

Accuracy and professional use

Observations, source metadata, classifications, coordinates, estimated areas and map alignment need appropriate checking. Device GPS accuracy is an estimate and is not a survey certification. A downloaded source or species suggestion may be incomplete, outdated or unsuitable for your purpose. The app does not grant site access, authorise wildlife handling or sampling, replace cultural-heritage protocols, or constitute professional, legal or regulatory advice.

Metadata fields are informed by ISO 19115-1 and ISO 19157-1 concepts. Completing them does not establish ISO conformance, authoritative provenance, fitness for purpose or regulatory acceptance. Obtain the checks, approvals and specialist review appropriate to your work.

Disclaimer of warranties (“as is”). Except for rights and guarantees that cannot lawfully be excluded, NaturaNote is provided “as is” and “as available”, without additional warranties of any kind, express or implied. Subject to those non-excludable rights, N. Hoffman | NaturaNote does not guarantee species identification accuracy, data permanence, uninterrupted service or uninterrupted offline map access. Users remain responsible for keeping independent backups of their field data and project files. See Applicable rights and enquiries.

Project history and sealed transfers

History starts when tracking is enabled; the app cannot reconstruct earlier actions. New entries record observed changes and may include earlier record values, attachment fingerprints and layer fingerprints. The interface and shared-history endpoint do not offer an edit control for existing history entries, but local device storage and the service are not a tamper-proof evidence system.

A sealed transfer is a separate snapshot with file checksums and a device signature. Keep its verification receipt separately in a location you trust. A successful check establishes consistency with the key and, when supplied, the retained receipt. It does not prove who collected data, trusted collection time, truth or completeness before sealing, legal chain of custody or evidentiary admissibility. Work on extracted copies in QGIS and retain the original sealed ZIP. Continuing to edit the live project does not alter a downloaded sealed copy.

Backups, availability and changes

Prepare and test offline use before fieldwork. Browser storage may be cleared, denied, evicted or lost with the device; synchronisation and third-party services can be interrupted. Export and securely retain regular backups and check that required photos, recordings and maps are included. Sealed transfer files are for verification and transfer; use a restorable project backup when you need to recover the app’s editable project or sharing controls.

The operator may update features, sources or service arrangements. Do not rely on uninterrupted access or permanent storage as your sole recordkeeping system. You remain responsible for appropriate independent copies, source permissions and your organisation’s retention requirements.

Applicable rights and enquiries

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies rights, guarantees or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable law, including the Australian Consumer Law where it applies.

Governing law. Subject to any mandatory rights that apply to you, these terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Western Australia, Australia.

The operator is N. Hoffman | NaturaNote. No public email address is listed. Use an existing communication channel with the operator for service enquiries, or contact the person/organisation that supplied your project link for project-specific matters.