Data Use Agreement

1. Permitted purpose. Use the data only for the research purpose you stated in your request. Any other use is a breach.
2. No re-identification. You will not attempt to identify any individual — victim, witness, source, contributor, reviewer or perpetrator — or combine this data with other data to do so.
3. No onward transfer. You will not share, republish, resell or transfer the data to any third party without AHRC’s written consent, and will never transfer it to any government, security or de-facto authority.
4. Attribution. Cite “Afghanistan Human Rights Center (AHRC), incident dataset [version], retrieved [date].”
5. Documented, not total. These are documented incidents — a lower bound, not a complete total, and coverage varies by place and time. Do not compare raw counts across provinces or periods as if coverage were equal, and carry this caveat in any published finding.
6. Publication. You may publish aggregated, non-disclosive analysis. Published tables and maps must not reveal any cell that could identify an individual (use a minimum cell count of 10).
7. Security. Store the data with access limited to your named project members, keep it encrypted, and never upload it to a public repository or a third-party AI service.
8. Breach & deletion. Notify AHRC within 48 hours of any loss or unauthorised access, and delete all copies when the project ends or on AHRC’s written request.

This is a plain-language summary. AHRC may require a full signed agreement for some recipients, and the data is provided “as is”, with no warranty.