Section 0 - Preamble
What is ICAR?
The aims of objectives of the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR) are described here on the ICAR website.
About the ICAR Guidelines
Scope
The ICAR Guidelines attempt to provide the world-wide farm livestock recording sector with detailed standards and guidelines representing the state-of-the-art for the full range of activities involved in the identification, performance recording and evaluation of farm livestock.
Changes and Limitation of Liability
The latest version of the ICAR Guidelines are published by ICAR here on its website. No rights may be derived from this publication. Despite the care and accuracy with which the information contained in the ICAR Guidelines is prepared, they may contain information that is incorrect and or incomplete. ICAR is not liable for the direct or indirect damage resulting from the use of the information in the ICAR Guidelines. ICAR reserves the right to make corrections and changes, without prior warning, to the: details, terms and conditions relating to the use, information, logo's, and pictures contained in the ICAR Guidelines. Certain hyperlinks (references outside of the domain www.icar.org) contained in the ICAR Guidelines will point to sites of third parties. ICAR is not liable for the information offered there.
Copyrights
Intellectual property rights apply to the contents of the ICAR Guidelines, including copyrights, database rights and trademark rights. You are not entitled to exploit, multiply or otherwise trade any of the contents of the ICAR Guidelines without express prior written approval of ICAR. Contact ICAR for more information about the use of the material contained in the ICAR Guidelines.
Languages
English is the official language of the ICAR Guidelines. ICAR members are encouraged to translate relevant parts of the ICAR Guidelines to their own languages noting:
- There is no need for an official translator but the person(s) doing the translation must
be familiar with English, the subject matter, and a native speaker of the language translated into.
- The is no need to keep the original format and translators are free to adapt the style
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- Being a translation, there is no need for any ICAR official approval. Just add at the
beginning of the translated Guidelines a disclaimer, stating that the original English text is the approved version and include a link to the guidelines section of the ICAR website or the relevant section which has been translated.
- Where a translation has been carried out a certified copy in the language must be
provided to ICAR who will make it publically available via the ICAR website. ICAR is not responsible for any errors in translation.
Purpose of the ICAR Guidelines
The ICAR Guidelines have been developed and are maintained by ICAR for a number of purposes as described below.
Standards
To provide standards for animal recording which ensure the equivalence of animal recording results collected and or reported by ICAR members world-wide.
Reference
To provide practitioners in the field of animal recording with descriptions of procedures and practises which are that state-of-the-art.
Certification
To provide detailed descriptions of the standards, and procedures which are followed by ICAR in providing certifications.
