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It is permitted to quote from standards provided the quotation serves the purposes of explanation, reference or illustration and does not exceed a length warranted by such purpose. Quotations and their sources must be disclosed. If reference is made to the author in the source, the author must be must be mentioned as well.

We will be pleased to check the reliability of form and content of your proposed quotations. Please contact us in writing at SNV shop, Bürglistrasse 29, 8400 Winterthur, Switzerland (shop@snv.ch).

Like other ways of editing, to translate a standard means to modify the document. A translation may even attain the status of a document in its own right. However it is not permitted to translate a standard without the explicit approval of SNV or its author.

Of course it is permitted to continue to use such standards within the scope of a single licence. If the idea is to continue to distribute historical standards internally or to make them available to multiple users, such uses must be provided for by licences for internal distribution of standards. However market expectations are based on the use of standards currently in force.

An SNV single licence entitles buyers to use a standard as a single user. Single users are permitted to print (an electronic version) or copy (a paper version) for personal working purposes and to permanently save a standard (on a drive accessible by the single user only) or archive it. In addition buyers are permitted to make and archive a backup copy of a standard.

Buyers of SNV licences for internal distribution of standards (multi-user licences) are permitted to allow multiple users to copy and exploit a standard within the scope of the licence (specifying number of staff / number of standards / sites). During the licence period, permission to print and permanently save the standard also applies to the additional authorised users. In addition buyers are permitted to make and archive a backup copy of a standard.

As a general rule, the right of usage of a standard (single licence) is held by the company purchasing the licence. The company may make the standard available for use to a user (usually a member of staff), but it is permitted neither for the company nor the user to cede or transfer the licence to any third party.

The company holding the licence is responsible to make sure that a user leaving the company returns the standard and does not make, and take with him, any copies of it. Subsequently the company may make the standard available for use to another member of staff.

The company is free to choose the member of staff permitted to use the standard from among all employees at all sites of the company including the ones located abroad.

Purchasing a standard (single licence), a client acquires only a limited right of usage for a user of the documents in question. The client is entitled to allow a user to exploit and use the purchased standards and related products as intended, and to download and print for use by a user any standards and related products purchased electronically. Making a purchase from SNV, a buyer of standards and related products (single licence) does not acquire any further rights of usage, copying and distribution. Specifically buyers are not permitted to copy, modify, publish or make available to third parties purchased standards and related products in any way going beyond the scope of personal use as governed by law. Nor are buyers permitted to produce and make available to third parties excerpts from standards and related products without the explicit approval of SNV in writing.