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Use of data: You may only use the Software or Service to access the Data. Other than as described in the Terms of Use, you may not use, access, display, sell, modify, publish, distribute, or allow any third party access to the Data. You shall only access and use the Data and Service for non-commercial academic purposes.

Restrictions:  You shall not…

(a) violate any local, state, provincial, national, or other law or regulation, or any order of a court;

(b) distribute Data outside of any territorial restrictions;

(c) use manual or automated software, devices, scripts, robots or other means to access, “scrape,” “crawl” or “spider” any of our web pages;

(d) use the Site, Software, Service or Data for any purposes that are not expressly permitted by these Terms of Use;

(e) infringe the rights of any person or entity, including any person’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or contractual rights;

(f) interfere with or damage the Site, Software or Service, including through the use of viruses, cancel bots, Trojan horses, harmful code, flood pings, denial-of-service attacks, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or electronic mail address information or similar methods or technology;

(g) systematically retrieve data or other content from the Site to compile, directly or indirectly, in single or multiple downloads, a collection, database, directory or the like.

Please also access the tab “Terms of Use” once you enter the database to notice the entire Terms of Use.