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Data Licence Terms

Last updated: 2026-07-13

This is a working draft. Final terms require review by qualified legal counsel before they are binding.

These Data Licence Terms ("Licence") govern the datasets, enrichment layers, feeds and related materials (the "Licensed Data") that [ActiScale legal entity] ("ActiScale", "we") provides to a buyer ("Licensee", "you") under an order or order form that references this Licence. ActiScale's data is consented at source, provenance-tracked, and delivered with commercial training rights included, as further described below.

1. Grant of commercial training rights

Subject to your compliance with this Licence and payment of the applicable fees, ActiScale grants you a worldwide, non-exclusive (except where an exclusivity option is purchased under section 3), non-transferable licence to use the Licensed Data to develop, train, validate and evaluate machine-learning models, including for commercial products and services. This grant includes the right to create model weights and derived artifacts from training on the Licensed Data.

2. Permitted use

You may:

  • Use the Licensed Data internally to train and evaluate models for your own products and research.
  • Retain trained model weights and evaluation results derived from the Licensed Data, consistent with this Licence.
  • Make the number of internal copies reasonably necessary for the licensed purpose, provided all provenance and consent metadata is preserved.

The licensed scope, licensed hours, tiers and any field-of-use restrictions are set out in the applicable order form and are subject to legal review.

3. Exclusivity options

By default the Licensed Data is non-exclusive and ActiScale may license the same or similar data to others. Where an order form specifies an exclusivity option, ActiScale will not license the identified dataset or domain to third parties for the agreed exclusivity window and scope. Exclusivity applies only to the specific data and terms named in the order form.

4. Redistribution restrictions

Unless the order form expressly permits it, you may not sell, sublicense, publish, or otherwise distribute the Licensed Data, in whole or in part, to any third party. You may not use the Licensed Data to build or offer a competing data-licensing product. Trained model weights are not considered Licensed Data and may be distributed as part of your own products, provided the underlying Licensed Data is not reconstructable from them and no raw clips are exposed.

5. Provenance and consent records

Each item of Licensed Data carries provenance metadata, including a collector identifier, device class, location class, timestamps and a consent record. You agree to preserve this metadata and not to strip, alter or falsify it. On reasonable request, ActiScale will make available the consent record associated with any item in a dataset you have licensed.

6. Audit

To confirm compliance with the licensed scope and redistribution restrictions, ActiScale may, on reasonable prior notice and no more than once per year, audit your use of the Licensed Data. Audits will be conducted during business hours, limited to what is necessary to verify compliance, and subject to reasonable confidentiality protections. The audit mechanism is subject to legal review.

7. Warranties on rights clearance

ActiScale warrants that the Licensed Data is collected with consent obtained from contributors at source, and that it holds the rights necessary to grant the commercial training licence in section 1. Except for this express warranty, the Licensed Data is provided without further warranties, and ActiScale disclaims implied warranties to the maximum extent permitted by law. The precise warranty and any indemnity for rights clearance are subject to legal review and the order form.

8. Fees

Fees for the Licensed Data are stated in the applicable order form and are payable per the terms there. Fees for buyers are set independently of any amounts ActiScale pays members of the collector community, and nothing in this Licence entitles you to information about those amounts.

9. Confidentiality

Each party will protect the other's confidential information disclosed in connection with an order and use it only to perform under this Licence. This section does not restrict information that is public through no fault of the receiving party or independently developed.

10. Term and termination

This Licence applies for the term stated in the order form. Either party may terminate for material breach that remains uncured after written notice. On termination, your licence to use the Licensed Data ends and you must cease use and, on request, delete or return copies of the Licensed Data, except that model weights lawfully created during the term may be retained subject to the redistribution restrictions above. Provisions that by their nature should survive — including confidentiality, audit for the licensed period, and limitations of liability — survive termination.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, and ActiScale's aggregate liability is limited to the fees paid for the Licensed Data under the relevant order form, subject to legal review.

12. Contact

Questions about these Data Licence Terms may be sent to [licensing contact email] or by post to [ActiScale legal entity], [registered address].