Undertaking:
I hereby undertake that I will use the materials supplied to me by the Australian Data Archive (ADA) at The Australian National University (The ANU) for non-commercial research and educational purposes only, in accordance with and subject to the conditions set out in the Terms and Conditions of Use below.
I also consent to my name and institutional affiliation being provided to the Data Owners so that they may collect information about the usage of their data and make contact with colleagues with similar interests.
Terms and Conditions of Use:
I acknowledge that:
1. Use of the material is restricted to use for analytical purposes and that this means that I can only use the material to produce information of an analytical nature. Examples of such uses are:
(a) the manipulation of data to produce means, correlations or other descriptive summary measures;
(b) the estimation of population characteristics from sample data;
(c) the use of data as input to mathematical models and for other types of analyses (e.g. factor analysis); and
(d) to provide graphical and pictorial representation of characteristics of the population or sub-sets of the population.
2. The material is not to be used for any non-analytical purposes, or for commercial or financial gain, without the express written permission of the Australian Data Archive. Examples of non-analytical purposes are:
(a) transmitting or allowing access to the data in part or whole to any other person / Department / Organisation not a party to this undertaking; and
(b) attempting to match unit record data in whole or in part with any other information for the purposes of attempting to identify individuals.
3. Outputs (such as statistics, tables and graphs) obtained from analysis of these data may be further disseminated provided that I:
(a) acknowledge both the original depositors and the Australian Data Archive;
(b) acknowledge another archive where the data file is made available through the Australian Data Archive by another archive; and
(c) declare that those who carried out the original analysis and collection of the data bear no responsibility for the further analysis or interpretation of it.
4. Use of the material is solely at my risk and I indemnify the Australian Data Archive and its host institution, The Australian National University.
5. The Australian Data Archive and its host institution, The Australian National University, shall not be held liable for any breach of this undertaking.
6. The Australian Data Archive and its host institution, The Australian National University, shall not be held responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the material supplied.
7. Once access has been granted to the data, abuses of access rights, breaches of this undertaking, or failure to keep the data safe, may result in the application of penalties. Penalties will escalate in severity depending upon the seriousness of the breach and vary from termination of access to the user and/or institution, on either a temporary or permanent basis, through to potential legal action in the most extreme cases.
8. I will notify promptly the ADA of any non-compliance with these Terms and Conditions of Use or of any infringements of the data, including unintentional disclosure or any errors within the data of which I become aware.
9. At the conclusion of my research, to offer for deposit with the ADA any new dataset that has been derived from the materials supplied or which have been created by the combination of the material supplied with other available data. The deposit of the derived dataset will include sufficient supporting documentation to enable the new dataset to be made accessible to other users.