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this summary is for convenience only and is not part of the agreement. where it differs from the terms below, the terms below win.

This License is a binding agreement between you and the Licensor. It governs all access to and use of the Datasets. Read it before you accept it. If you do not agree to it, do not accept it and do not download, access, or use the Datasets.

1.Definitions

"Licensor", "we", or "us" means the operator of tiago.zip and twitter.cat, a natural person resident in Portugal, contactable at legal@tiago.zip. The Licensor contracts under this designation. The Licensor will disclose their full identity where it is necessary to bring or defend legal proceedings, where a supervisory authority or court requires it, or on any other legitimate legal request.

"Datasets" means the data collections listed at tiago.zip/datasets and distributed from bigdata.tiago.zip, including twitter.cat, mastodon.parquet, bsky.parquet, twitter-typeahead.db, linktree.db, and manifold.zip, whether in whole or in part, in any format, version, or medium, together with their schemas, indices, identifiers, documentation, and any signals or annotations the Licensor has generated over them.

"You" or "Licensee" means the person accepting this License. If you accept it on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation, and "you" means both you and that organisation.

"Derived Material" means anything produced from or with the Datasets, including extracts, subsets, copies, translations, reformattings, aggregations, statistics, visualisations, indices, embeddings, vectors, features, model parameters, model weights, and any output that is substantially derived from the Datasets.

"Publish" means to make available to any person other than you, by any means, including distribution, transmission, display, hosting, public deposit, preprint, article, post, dataset release, or API.

"Personal Data", "Controller", "Processing", "Data Subject", and "Personal Data Breach" have the meanings given in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the "GDPR").

2.Acceptance

You accept this License by clicking to agree to it, by requesting access to a Dataset, or by downloading, accessing, or using any Dataset, whichever happens first. Access to the Datasets is conditional on that acceptance, and no access is granted without it.

Accepting on behalf of an organisation binds that organisation. Everyone to whom you give access within your organisation is bound by these terms, and you remain responsible for their acts and omissions as if they were your own.

3.What is licensed, and what is not

3.1 The Datasets consist largely of material published by third parties on public platforms. The Licensor does not claim authorship of, or copyright in, the individual posts, profile texts, images, or other third-party material contained in the Datasets. Those rights remain with whoever holds them.

3.2 What the Licensor does hold, and does license to you here, is:

3.3 This License is a licence, not a sale. No ownership passes to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

3.4 Nothing in this License grants you any right in third-party material beyond any right you may independently hold. You are responsible for your own compliance with the terms of the platforms the material originated from, with the rights of the people and entities it concerns, and with all law applicable to you.

4.Grant of licence

Subject to your continued compliance with every term of this License, the Licensor grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to:

This licence extends no further than the above. If your intended use is not described here, you need the Licensor's prior written permission, which you can ask for at legal@tiago.zip.

5.Restrictions

5.1 No redistribution

You may not Publish, share, sell, rent, licence, sublicense, mirror, host, seed, syndicate, or otherwise make available the Datasets or any substantial part of them, evaluated qualitatively or quantitatively, to any third party. This applies to the Datasets in their original form and to any transformed, reformatted, partial, or reconstructed form. Repeated and systematic extraction of insubstantial parts that together amount to a substantial part is equally prohibited.

Linking to tiago.zip/datasets is expressly permitted, and appreciated.

5.2 No machine learning

You may not use the Datasets or any Derived Material to train, pre-train, fine-tune, adapt, align, distil, quantise, evaluate, benchmark, or otherwise develop or improve any machine learning or artificial intelligence model or system of any kind. This restriction is not limited to generative models: it covers language models, classifiers, regressors, clustering and topic models, recommender systems, ranking models, embedding models, and any other statistical model learned from data.

You may not use the Datasets or any Derived Material as a retrieval corpus, knowledge base, or context source for any such model, whether at training time or at inference time.

If you believe a mandatory exception under applicable law entitles you to mine the Datasets regardless of this restriction, section 9.5 sets out what you must do before you obtain them.

5.3 No embeddings or learned representations

You may not compute, store, or use embeddings, vector representations, learned features, or any other semantic or learned encoding of the Datasets or any part of them, except with the Licensor's prior written permission.

This does not restrict the ordinary mechanics of the analysis section 4 permits. You may compute hashes, checksums, fingerprints, shingles, sort keys, and indices, and hold them internally, where they are necessary to query, deduplicate, join, or maintain your copy, or to carry out the deletions section 8.5 requires. Those structures are Derived Material: you may not Publish or transfer them, and section 10.4 applies to them on termination.

5.4 No harmful use

You may not use the Datasets or any Derived Material to:

5.5 No commercial use

You may not use the Datasets or any Derived Material for any commercial purpose, meaning any use directed toward commercial advantage or monetary compensation, including use within or on behalf of a for-profit entity. Commercial use is available only under a separate written agreement with the Licensor. Write to legal@tiago.zip and it will be considered on its merits.

5.6 No circumvention

You may not share, publish, or transfer your access credentials, signed URLs, or download links, circumvent or attempt to circumvent any access control or rate limit, or access the Datasets by any route other than the one you were given. You may not remove, obscure, or alter any notice, licence text, identifier, or watermark contained in or distributed with the Datasets, nor any canary record the Licensor has placed in them. Canary records are synthetic: they are fabricated and correspond to no real person.

6.Publication

6.1 Publishing work based on the Datasets is permitted, and encouraged, on these conditions. You must send a draft of the intended publication to legal@tiago.zip at least fourteen (14) days before the date you intend to Publish, and you must not Publish it until the Licensor has approved it in writing. You must consider any feedback received in good faith, and the version you Publish must be the version that was approved, apart from immaterial changes.

6.2 Approval is at the Licensor's discretion. In the ordinary course the Licensor will approve a publication that complies with this License, credits it correctly, and creates no material risk of harm to a Data Subject. Silence is not approval. If the Licensor does not respond, you may not Publish. You are free to follow up, and to withdraw and stop instead.

6.3 Aggregate statistics, aggregate visualisations, charts, tables of summary figures, and written analysis may be Published under this section.

6.4 A publication may quote individual records as examples, provided that fewer than one hundred (100) records in total are quoted across the whole publication, that each quotation is necessary to illustrate a point actually made, and that you redact or omit any record where publication would be likely to harm the person it concerns.

6.5 You may not Publish anything from which the Datasets, or a substantial part of them, could be reconstructed or recovered, whether directly, by inversion, by repeated querying, or by combination with other published material. A publication that operates as redistribution by another name is a breach of section 5.1, whatever it is called.

7.Attribution

7.1 Every publication, interface, paper, post, report, or other artefact that uses or draws on the Datasets must carry clear and obvious credit to the Licensor, placed where a reader will actually see it, not buried in an appendix or a collapsed footnote.

7.2 The minimum short form is:

Data from tiago.zip/datasets

with a working hyperlink to https://tiago.zip/datasets wherever a link is possible.

7.3 For academic or formal publication, the long form is:

<dataset name> (<version or retrieval date>). tiago.zip datasets.
https://tiago.zip/datasets. Used under the tiago.zip Dataset
License v1.0.

7.4 You may not state or imply that the Licensor endorses, sponsors, supports, verifies, or is affiliated with you, your organisation, or your work. Approval under section 6.1 is permission to publish under this License. It is not review of your methods, verification of your findings, agreement with your conclusions, or endorsement of anything, and you may not describe it as any of those. You may state, accurately, that the publication was permitted under this License.

7.5 Beyond the attribution required above, you may not use "tiago.zip", "twitter.cat", or any associated name, logo, or mark as a trademark, as part of your own name or branding, or in any way that suggests affiliation.

8.Personal data

THE DATASETS CONTAIN PERSONAL DATA RELATING TO A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF LIVING PEOPLE. THIS SECTION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE IN THIS LICENSE. IF YOU CANNOT MEET IT, DO NOT TAKE THE DATA.

8.1 The Licensor processes personal data within the Datasets as a Controller, relying on legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, as described in the Data Processing Notice.

8.2 On receiving any Dataset you become an independent Controller of the personal data it contains. You decide, within the limits this License sets on who receives the Datasets at all, the purposes and means of your own processing, and neither party is a processor for the other. You are solely responsible for your own compliance with the GDPR and any other applicable data protection law, including establishing your own lawful basis, meeting transparency obligations, keeping records of processing, carrying out a data protection impact assessment where one is required, and appointing a representative or data protection officer where required.

The requirements in sections 8.3 to 8.9 are conditions on which the Licensor is willing to disclose the Datasets to you at all. They are not instructions about how you process them afterward, and the Licensor exercises no ongoing control over your processing.

8.2.1 The characterisation in section 8.2 reflects the parties' intention, but controllership is determined by the facts. If a competent supervisory authority or court determines that the parties are joint controllers of any processing under Article 26 of the GDPR, this section is the arrangement that Article 26 requires, and the following allocation applies to that processing. The Licensor is responsible for the lawfulness of its own collection and of its disclosure to you, and for responding to Data Subjects about the Licensor's own copy. You are responsible for the lawfulness of everything you do after receipt, for security under section 8.7, for transparency toward Data Subjects in respect of your processing, and for responding to any Data Subject who approaches you. Each party responds to requests it receives and tells the other where the request concerns the other's processing. Nothing in this allocation limits a Data Subject's ability to exercise rights against either party under Article 26(3).

8.3 Purpose limitation. You may process the personal data in the Datasets only for the purpose you stated in your access request, or, where you made none, only for non-commercial research and analysis. You may not process it for any further or incompatible purpose without the Licensor's prior written permission.

8.4 Data minimisation. You must limit the records and fields you retain to those your stated purpose requires, and delete the rest.

8.5 Deletions, opt-outs, and erasure. The Licensor operates an opt-out at tiago.zip/trawler and acts on erasure and objection requests. Those removals must propagate to your copy. You must, on your own initiative and at your own expense:

Any suppression list the Licensor makes available will be made available to current licensees only, and in a form that lets you test whether a record you already hold has been suppressed without letting you enumerate the people on it. You may not attempt to enumerate, reverse, or reconstruct it.

These intervals are a floor, not a safe harbour. They do not displace your own obligation to act without undue delay, and where you learn of a removal or receive a request directly, you must act on it then rather than waiting for the next synchronisation.

Failure to act on a notice, or to re-synchronise where a suppression list is available, is a material breach of this License.

8.6 Special categories. The Datasets are not built around special categories of data under Article 9 of the GDPR, but material of that nature is inevitably present where people published it themselves. You may not target, filter for, isolate, or build any analysis around special-category data, and you may not infer special-category characteristics about identified or identifiable people.

8.7 Security. You must apply technical and organisational measures appropriate to the volume and sensitivity of the data, which at a minimum means: encryption at rest; access restricted to named individuals who need it for the stated purpose; authentication on every access route; no storage in any publicly readable bucket, index, share, endpoint, or repository; and no copies on unencrypted portable media.

8.8 Sub-processing and transfers. You may not transfer the Datasets to any third party. You may use infrastructure providers acting on your instructions, provided they are bound by obligations at least as protective as this section, and you remain fully liable for their acts and omissions. Where you transfer personal data outside the European Economic Area, you are responsible for putting a valid Chapter V transfer mechanism in place.

8.9 Breach notification. You must notify legal@tiago.zip within forty-eight (48) hours of becoming aware of any Personal Data Breach, any unauthorised access to or disclosure of any Dataset, or any loss of any copy of any Dataset, and provide the detail the Licensor reasonably needs to understand what happened. This is in addition to, and does not replace, your own obligations to supervisory authorities and Data Subjects.

8.10 Cooperation. You must cooperate promptly and in good faith with the Licensor, with Data Subjects, and with any competent supervisory authority in relation to the Datasets, and provide the Licensor on request with a written description of how you are holding and processing them.

8.11 Verification. On fourteen (14) days' written notice the Licensor may verify your compliance with this section and with section 5, by written enquiry, by reviewing your records and configuration, and where that is not sufficient by inspection of the systems holding the Datasets, remotely wherever remote inspection will do. Verification happens no more than once in any twelve months, unless the Licensor has reasonable grounds to suspect a breach or a Personal Data Breach has occurred, in which case it may happen at any time on seventy-two (72) hours' notice. It must be conducted during your normal working hours, must not require you to disclose anything subject to legal privilege, another party's confidential information, or personal data unrelated to the Datasets, and must not unreasonably disrupt your work. The Licensor bears its own costs, unless verification establishes a material breach, in which case you bear the reasonable costs of that verification. Where you hold the Datasets under the ethical or data governance oversight of a research institution, a current report or certification from that body is enough to satisfy this section unless the Licensor has reasonable grounds to suspect a breach.

9.Text and data mining reservation

9.1 The Licensor expressly reserves the right to carry out text and data mining of the Datasets, of any Derived Material, and of every page and endpoint from which they are described or served, within the meaning of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790, as transposed into Portuguese law by Decreto-Lei n.º 47/2023 of 19 June, and within the meaning of any equivalent provision under any other applicable law. This reservation applies to the sui generis database right described in section 3.2 and to every other right the Licensor holds.

9.2 This reservation is made in machine-readable form, in addition to this text, by all of the following means, and is intended to be effective by any one of them:

9.3 Accordingly, no text and data mining exception under Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/790, nor any equivalent exception elsewhere, is available in respect of the Datasets. Any reproduction or extraction for text and data mining requires the Licensor's prior written permission.

9.4 Sections 5.2 and 9.3 do not purport to override Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2019/790, which cannot be excluded by contract where it applies. Article 3 applies only to a research organisation or cultural heritage institution within the meaning of Article 2 of that Directive, carrying out text and data mining for the purposes of scientific research, in respect of material to which it has lawful access.

9.5 Except for any Dataset the Licensor has expressly chosen to publish openly, the Datasets are not openly available: lawful access to them is granted on request, and only on the terms of this License. If you intend to rely on Article 3, you must say so to the Licensor in writing before you obtain any Dataset, identify the research organisation or institution you are acting for, and describe the research. The Licensor will decide whether to grant access on that basis, and may refuse. Obtaining or retaining a Dataset without making that disclosure is obtaining it by misrepresentation, and you do not have lawful access to it for the purposes of Article 3.

9.6 Article 3 permits reproduction and extraction for the purpose of text and data mining, and retention with an appropriate level of security. It does not permit redistribution or publication of the Datasets, use for anything other than scientific research, commercial use, or anything prohibited by sections 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6, 7, or 8, all of which continue to apply in full. On termination under section 10 you cease to have lawful access, and section 10.4 applies.

10.Term, revocation, and destruction

10.1 This License takes effect when you accept it and continues until it is terminated.

10.2 The Licensor may revoke this License, in respect of you individually or of everyone, at any time, with or without cause, by notice to the email address you provided or by publishing notice at tiago.zip/license. Access to the Datasets may be withdrawn at the same time or at any other time.

10.3 This License terminates automatically and immediately on any breach by you, without notice.

10.4 On termination for any reason you must, without further demand:

Where a backup medium cannot be selectively erased, you must isolate it, make no further use of it, and destroy it at the end of its normal retention cycle, and you must say so in your certification.

10.5 Material you Published in compliance with sections 6 and 7 before termination may remain published. The obligations in sections 7 and 8 continue to apply to it.

10.6 Sections 3, 5, 7, 8, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, and 11 to 16 survive termination.

10.7 Continuity. The Licensor is one person, and the removal mechanisms in section 8.5 depend on the Licensor operating them. If they become unavailable, your duty to re-synchronise is suspended while they are unavailable and no breach arises from that suspension, but every other obligation in section 8 continues, in particular your duty to act on requests made to you directly by a Data Subject. If the Licensor has issued no removal notice, published no update to any suppression list, and has been unreachable at legal@tiago.zip for twelve (12) consecutive months, this License terminates automatically at the end of that period and section 10.4 applies, save that certification is not required and you should retain your own record of the destruction. The Licensor's successors, personal representatives, or assigns may give notice that they are continuing the Licensor's role, in which case this License continues unaffected.

11.No warranty

The Datasets are provided as is and as available, with all faults. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Licensor gives no warranty, condition, or representation of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, and specifically disclaims any warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, and non-infringement.

The Datasets are gathered by automated means from public platforms. They contain errors, omissions, duplicates, deleted material, spam, automated accounts, manipulated content, offensive material, and material that may be unlawful in your jurisdiction. Nothing in them is verified. The Licensor does not warrant that any Dataset will remain available, that it will be updated, or that any particular record is accurate or lawfully held. You are responsible for satisfying yourself that your intended use is lawful and appropriate.

12.Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Licensor is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, nor for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or anticipated savings, nor for any regulatory fine or penalty imposed on you, arising out of or in connection with this License or the Datasets, on any theory of liability, even if the Licensor was advised of the possibility.

The Licensor's total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with this License is limited to the greater of the total amount you paid the Licensor for access to the Datasets and one hundred euros (€100).

Nothing in this License excludes or limits liability for fraud, for wilful misconduct, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that cannot be excluded or limited under Portuguese law.

Where you take a Dataset as a consumer, meaning as a natural person acting outside your trade, business, craft, or profession, this section and section 13 apply only so far as mandatory consumer protection law allows, and to the extent any part of them would be unfair within the meaning of Directive 93/13/EEC as transposed where you live, that part does not apply to you. The rest of this License is unaffected.

13.Indemnity

You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Licensor against all claims, demands, proceedings, losses, damages, fines, penalties, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, to the extent they arise from your breach of this License, your negligence or wilful act, or your own processing of personal data. This does not extend to anything caused by the Licensor's own act or omission, and the Licensor must notify you promptly of any claim, not settle it without your consent, and let you conduct the defence if you choose to.

14.Record of acceptance

When you accept this License or request access, the Licensor records the date and time, the version of this License in force at that moment, the IP address and country the request came from, your browser's user agent string, and, where you provided them, the dataset you asked for, your email address, and the description of your intended use. That record is kept as evidence that this agreement was formed and on what terms, and is relied on for the Licensor's legitimate interests in establishing, exercising, and defending legal claims under Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

15.General

15.1 Entire agreement. This License is the entire agreement between you and the Licensor about the Datasets, and replaces any prior understanding about them. Any separate written agreement signed by the Licensor prevails over this License to the extent of any conflict.

15.2 Versions and changes. The Licensor may issue new versions of this License. A new version applies to any access, download, or use occurring after it is published at tiago.zip/license. If you do not accept a new version, your remedy is to stop using the Datasets and to comply with section 10.4. Each version carries a version number and a date.

15.3 No waiver. A failure or delay in enforcing any provision is not a waiver of it, and no single or partial exercise of a right prevents its further exercise.

15.4 Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it is to be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or if that is not possible, severed. The remainder stays in force.

15.5 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer this License or any right under it, by operation of law or otherwise, without the Licensor's prior written consent. The Licensor may assign it freely. Any purported assignment in breach of this section is void.

15.6 No agency. This License creates no partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship between you and the Licensor.

15.7 Notices. Notices to the Licensor go to legal@tiago.zip. Notices to you go to the email address you provided, and are treated as received twenty-four (24) hours after they are sent, unless they bounce. Keep your address current.

15.8 Injunctive relief. You acknowledge that a breach of section 5, 6, 8, or 10.4 may cause harm to the Licensor and to third parties that damages alone cannot remedy, and that the Licensor may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in addition to any other remedy.

15.9 Language. This License is written in English. Any translation is for convenience, and the English text governs.

16.Governing law and jurisdiction

This License, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it, including non-contractual disputes and claims, is governed by the law of Portugal, excluding its conflict of law rules and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

The courts of Lisbon, Portugal have exclusive jurisdiction, and you submit to that jurisdiction. This does not remove any right you may have, under mandatory law applicable to you as a consumer, to bring or defend proceedings in the courts of your own place of residence.

17.Contact

Questions about this License, requests for permission under sections 4, 5.2, 5.3, or 5.5, drafts under section 6.1, and notices under section 8.9 all go to legal@tiago.zip.

For requests about your own personal data within the Datasets, see the Data Processing Notice and the opt-out at tiago.zip/trawler.