Conditions of Use

The following conditions regulate the use of computer programs developed by the Columbia Basin Water Management Division, Northwestern Division, Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army. By accepting and/or applying any such program, the recipient agrees to be bound by these conditions:

1. The computer programs are furnished by the Government and are accepted and used by the recipient individual or group entity with the express understanding that the United States Government makes no warranties, express or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness, reliability, usability, or suitability for any particular purpose of the information or data contained in the programs, or furnished in connection therewith, and that the United States Government shall be under no liability whatsoever to any individual or group entity by reason of any use made thereof.


2. The programs belong to the United States Government. Therefore, the recipient agrees not to assert any proprietary rights thereto nor to represent the programs to anyone as other than Government programs.


3. The recipient may impose fees on clients only for ordinary charges for applying and modifying these programs.


4. Recipients who modify NWD-NP computer programs assume all responsibility for problems arising from, or related to, those modifications. As of 1998, recipients will not receive program updates, correction notices, or other program services from NWD-NP. User support from NWD-NP is not available.


5. This "Conditions of Use" statement shall be furnished to all third parties that receive copies of NWD-NP programs from the recipient. Third party recipients must be notified that they will not receive program updates, correction notices, other programs services, or user support from NWD-NP.


6. All documents and reports conveying information obtained as a result of the use of the program(s) by the recipient, or others, will acknowledge the Columbia Basin Water Management Division, Northwestern Division, Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, as the source of the program(s).