Data Licensing Conditions

Effective date: 2025-06-09

These conditions apply to any organisation or individual ("you", "the Licensee") who is granted access to our scientific, peer-reviewed, breed database, structured breed data, images, or any sample or demonstration extract of it ("the Licensed Data"). They apply in addition to our Terms of Service and are intended to protect data we have created, curated, and compiled at considerable effort. By accessing or using the Licensed Data, you agree to these conditions.

1. Scope of the License

1.1. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Licensed Data solely for the purposes set out in your active subscription or written agreement with us.

1.2. The license does not transfer ownership of the Licensed Data or any intellectual property rights in it. We, and where applicable our contributors, remain the owners of the Licensed Data at all times.

1.3. You may not resell, redistribute, sublicense, or publish the Licensed Data, in whole or in part, except as expressly permitted in writing by us.

2. The License Depends on an Active Subscription

2.1. Your right to access, store, and use the Licensed Data exists only for as long as you hold an active, paid subscription or a current written agreement with us.

2.2. If your subscription lapses, is cancelled, expires, or is terminated for any reason, your license ends immediately and all rights granted under these conditions cease.

2.3. We may suspend or terminate the license if you breach these conditions or our Terms of Service.

3. Deletion on Termination

3.1. On termination or expiry of your license, you must, within thirty (30) days, permanently and irreversibly delete all copies of the Licensed Data in your possession or control, including copies held in backups, caches, data warehouses, and on the systems of any sub-processor acting on your behalf.

3.2. You must also remove the Licensed Data, and anything derived from it, from any derivative products you have created. This includes, without limitation, removing it from datasets, embeddings, vector stores, indexes, fine-tuned or trained artificial intelligence and machine learning models, and any other product, feature, or model whose behaviour or content was informed by the Licensed Data.

3.3. You warrant that, on request, you will confirm in writing that you have completed the deletion and removal required by this section. We may ask for reasonable evidence of compliance.

3.4. Obligations of confidentiality, attribution, and non-use of the Licensed Data survive termination.

4. Demonstration and Evaluation Data Slices

4.1. Any sample, demonstration, or evaluation extract we provide ("Demo Slice") is supplied solely so that you can evaluate the suitability of the Licensed Data before entering into, or during, a license.

4.2. You must not use a Demo Slice for any purpose other than evaluation. In particular, you must not use it in production, in any commercial product or service, to train or fine-tune any model, or to enrich, supplement, or build any dataset.

4.3. You must delete each Demo Slice once your evaluation is complete, and in any event if you decide not to proceed to a license.

5. Protecting the Licensed Data as Your Own

5.1. You must protect the Licensed Data with at least the same degree of care you apply to your own confidential and proprietary data, and never with less than a reasonable standard of care.

5.2. You must not expose the Licensed Data to any third-party large language model, AI assistant, or chatbot service, including but not limited to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and similar products, where doing so would permit that service to retain, learn from, or train on the Licensed Data.

5.3. You may only use such a service with the Licensed Data if you have first explicitly disabled the setting that allows the provider to train on or retain your data, and the provider contractually undertakes not to do so. The responsibility for verifying and maintaining that setting rests with you.

5.4. We impose this condition because we are the creators and compilers of much of the Licensed Data. We do not consent to it being ingested by models or services that do not respect our conditions, and you must not place it in a position where that can occur.

6. Our Rights as Creators

6.1. The Licensed Data is the product of our own work in creating, researching, photographing, labelling, and compiling dog and cat breed information. Nothing in these conditions grants you any right to claim authorship of, or rights in, the Licensed Data.

6.2. You must not remove, obscure, or alter any attribution, watermark, or notice we include with the Licensed Data.

6.3. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you under these conditions.

7. Breach

7.1. If you breach these conditions, we may suspend or terminate your license and require immediate deletion of the Licensed Data under section 3.

7.2. You remain responsible for any use of the Licensed Data by your staff, contractors, and sub-processors as if it were your own.

8. Contact

8.1. For licensing questions, evaluation access, or to confirm deletion, contact us at aden@thatapicompany.com.