The Dataverse Network Project

You can set up Terms of Use for your dataverse to require users to acknowledge your terms and click Accept before they can download or subset contents from your dataverse.

To set Terms of Use for downloading or subsetting contents from your dataverse:

1. Navigate to your dataverse homepage.
2. Click My Options in the top-right corner, scroll to Dataverse Terms of Use and click Edit Terms for File Download.
   You see the Edit Dataverse Terms for File Download page.
3. Click the Enable Terms of Use check box.
4. Enter a description of your terms to which visitors must agree before they can download or analyze any file.
   Note: A light blue background in any form field indicates HTML, JavaScript, and style tags are permitted. The html and body element types are not allowed.
5. Click Save Changes to keep your changes, or click Cancel to lose your changes.