Agreements

I have read, understood, and agree that my use of Alliance Federation Systems and Services will be consistent with the Policies, Standards, Terms, and Procedures of the Alliance Federation as posted here: https://alliancecan.ca/en/policies.

I understand that these documents are subject to change.

By signing up for or renewing your Alliance account, you will automatically receive operational notifications like system outages and updates, resource allocation opportunities, and other maintenance activities that affect services.

It is also possible to sign up to receive optional news and communications from the Alliance, about training opportunities, events, surveys and more. You can unsubscribe from these at any time, in which case you will still receive operational notifications like the ones mentioned above.

When you open a support request, the Alliance Federation DRI Professionals (ADPs) may be able to help you more quickly if they are allowed to access your files. In most cases, read-only access to a limited number of files is all that will be needed. On rare occasions, providing support may require altering some of your files (write access). Such changes will always be limited to what is strictly necessary to resolve the issue. In the case of minor changes, our team will always inform you of any action that they have taken. In the case of more significant changes, they will ask explicitly for your consent before making the change.

Do you agree to allow Alliance Federation DRI Professionals (ADPs) to access the files as described above without explicitly asking for your consent each time the files need to be accessed?

Please note that this agreement only applies to users who are sponsored by a PI on Alliance systems. It does not apply to

• files stored in Nextcloud or one of our clouds
• files stored in your personal folder (/home)
• situations in which there is ambiguity as to who should get access to the files, such as when you have multiple sponsors

When you eventually leave your research team and your sponsored role ends, questions may arise about the files that remain in your account. Because intellectual property rules vary from institution to institution, our policy is that the sponsor must obtain your permission in order to access your files. If you have not explicitly shared the files with your sponsor before you leave, and you are no longer in touch with your former sponsor for any reason, obtaining this permission can be difficult or impossible.

To avoid such a problem, we offer you the following declaration. You may change your response at any time by visiting this page.