Copyright notice

A number of the cave descriptions are derived from material published in the Austrian cave kataster, translated by CUCC members. We believe that copyright in the translation can be assigned to CUCC, but acknowledgement of the original source is included where this is available. We have been asked to restrict access to cave descriptions derived from Austrian sources, so you will find that this material is in the "NoInfo" hierarchy which is under password protection.

Copies of this archive being browsed from local disc (especially if intended to be used on a machine with no "real" net connection) may contain a mirror of certain pages produced by third parties. There will always be a link to the original website, as well as an internal link to the local mirror. These pages are not reproduced on our main web server, and you will therefore find that the local link will not work when browsing from chaos.

A number of other descriptions are derived from individual club publications, and the sources are individually acknowledged. Again, where translated, we believe that copyright in the translation lies with the translator, and rights to grant permission to use the material have been granted to CUCC. Where original publication was in English (material from Bristol Exploration Club, University of Bristol Speleological Society and Lancaster University Speleological Society), then copyright undoubtedly lies with those organisations or with the individual authors. Permission has been sought to include such material in the archive, but neither CUCC nor the editors of these pages have been granted the right to permit further reproduction - please approach these organisations or the original authors direct.

Copyright in the html, page layout and structure of the archive lies with Andy Waddington in almost all cases.

Photographs: Where scanned photographs or images digitised from video are included, the copyright information for the original photograph is included in the html page which includes the fullsized image. In almost all cases, the html files, page layout and image manipulation used to produce an image for the website is © Andy Waddington. In these cases, these aspects may be reproduced with acknowledgement, but permission to use the image must be sought from the original photographer.

There is a list of all the individual contributors to this archive, who ultimately own copyright to the original articles. As almost everyone on an expedition writes something in the logbook, see the list of expedition members for a pretty inclusive list of authors.

Where no address is given, please approach the webmaster (email: <Austria> on site pennine.demon.co.uk) in the first instance before reproducing any material.

And finally ... material written specifically for this archive tries to be as objective, accurate and up-to-date as possible. Individual articles and logbook write-ups may not be any of these. In ALL cases, any opinions expressed are those of the contributing author, and do not necessarily reflect an official position of Cambridge University Caving Club or of any other body which they may appear to represent. Any representation of a legal or 'official' position reflects our best efforts at understanding, but should not be taken as an authoritative source. Errors, omissions and misunderstandings are inevitable, especially when there are language barriers and only one visit to the area each year. Legal positions, regulations, policies and responsible bodies all change, and the latest situation may not yet have come to our attention. In no case can CUCC or the authors of information presented here be held responsible for any conflict, loss or consequential damage arising from the use of or inability to use the information. We would appreciate being informed of any errors, omissions or misunderstandings of which you become aware.