1. The data and other materials provided by the Pacific Data Hub - Microdata Library will be used solely by the user and shall not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organisations without the prior written agreement of SPC or the originating data owner, and only subject to such conditions as may accompany such consent.
2. The data will be used for statistical and scientific research purposes only. They will be used solely for generating and perhaps reporting, aggregated information and not for investigations into specific individuals or organisations. In other words, the data shall be treated as a finished product - they may be used as a foundation for further work, but no reverse engineering or ‘upstream research” into the sources of the data itself will be permitted.
3. No attempt will be made to identify respondents or microdata providers, and no use will be made of the identity of any person, facility or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery would immediately be reported to SPC, to allow us to evaluate further use, apply further statistical disclosure control methods, impose further restrictions on access, or appropriately re-classify the data.
4. No attempt will be made to create links among datasets provided by the Pacific Data Hub - Microdata Library, and other datasets that could identify individuals or organisations.
5. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from the Pacific Data Hub - Microdata Library will cite the source of data in accordance with the Citation Requirement provided with the dataset.
6. The original collector of the data, the Pacific Data Hub - Microdata Library, and the relevant funding agencies bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

By continuing past this point to the data retrieval process, you signify your agreement to comply with the above-stated terms and conditions and give your assurance that the use of statistical data obtained from the Pacific Data Hub - Microdata Library will conform to widely-accepted standards of practice and legal restrictions that are intended to protect the confidentiality of respondents.