Svalbard Terms of use
The conditions under which the Wire is published and read. They are short, because the Wire asks nothing of its readers but attention.
What you are reading
Svalbard Wire reports what public sources said, when they said it, with a link to each. It is published by Rafael Garcia del Valle, a sole proprietorship (enkeltpersonforetak) registered in Norway, organisation number 936 731 546; the full details are on About the Wire. It is information, not advice, and it is not the authority's own page.
The avalanche danger, the weather and its alerts, the notices of Sysselmesteren (the Governor of Svalbard) and the flight status on each day page are reproduced from the authorities named next to them, with the time they were checked. Conditions on Svalbard change faster than a page does. Before you act on a safety line, open the authority's page, which is linked beside it. The Wire is not a warning service and not an emergency service. In an emergency call 112 for the police, 113 for an ambulance or 110 for the fire service.
Accuracy and liability
Every item is checked against its source before it is published and corrected when it proves wrong, as the Editorial standards describe. Errors still happen. The Wire is published as it stands, and the publisher is not liable for loss that follows from relying on it, so far as Norwegian law allows. A reader who finds an error writes to editor@svalbardwire.com.
Bookings and links
The Wire sells nothing. The Book link on a tour takes you to Visit Svalbard, and the booking is a contract between you and the operator, under the terms shown there. The prices and spaces the Wire shows carry the time they were checked and can differ from their source. The figure that counts is the one in the operator's own booking system; where the operator has none, the one in the Visit Svalbard booking system; for a tour on neither, the one on the operator's website.
Links to other sites are given as sources. The Wire does not control those sites and is not responsible for what they show or record.
On the book shelf a link to a shop may earn the Wire a commission. Every such line says so before the link, in the same size as the text, as Norwegian marketing law requires of advertising.
Copyright
The Wire's own text, its selection and arrangement, its photographs and its nameplate belong to the publisher. You may quote a few sentences with the Wire's name and a link to the page. For anything longer, write to editor@svalbardwire.com. The Wire's translations of official notices may be copied and shared freely, with a note that they are Svalbard Wire's unofficial translation and a link to the authority's original.
Material from others keeps its own terms. The articles the Wire reports on belong to their publishers and are linked, not copied. Each picture carries its licence in its credit and may be reused only under that licence. The conditions data comes from MET Norway, NVE, Avinor and Port Longyear under the terms those bodies set. History articles translated from Store norske leksikon carry the CC BY-SA licence and their authors' names.
The name Svalbard Wire and the seal may not be used in a way that suggests the Wire endorses a product, a service or a view.
Reading by machines
The Wire reads other sites politely, within their robots.txt and at a measured pace, and asks the same. Automated reading of the site that follows its robots.txt and does not strain the server is allowed.
Comments
The site has no comments. Comments left on the Wire's Facebook page are hidden and read only for errors they point to, as the Privacy page describes. Corrections, replies from people named in an item and questions go by email.
The law that applies
Norwegian law governs these terms and the use of the site, and disputes belong to the Norwegian courts. The terms may change; the current version is the one on this page, and the line at its end gives the date it last changed.