Research Data Agreement

This agreement is between Konexium (contact: support@konexiumai.com; legal name, address and registration number to be added once the business is registered) and [recipient institution or organisation, legal name and address] (the Recipient).

Complete this record before access starts:

• Project title, purpose and approved outputs: [details].

• Lead researcher, email and named team members: [details].

• Schedule: [A or B]. Approved files, countries, releases and any linkage: [details].

• Approved storage providers, countries, backup locations and access countries: [details].

• Start date: [date]. Expiry date, 12 months later: [date].

• Konexium owner approval, date and notice email: [details].

• Recipient's authorised signatory, title, signature and date: [details].

• Konexium signatory, signature and date: [details].

An applicant's checkbox records acceptance and a request for access. It does not replace institutional authority, signatures or owner approval. The Recipient is responsible for its approved team. New members, purposes, linkage or storage locations need written approval first.

The v1 package contains `release_manifest`, screened `entities_gleif`, `coverage_statistics`, `verification_statistics` and `sources_and_methods`. Only cleared files listed in its manifest are supplied. Releases are planned quarterly. Unsafe or uncleared material may be delayed or withheld.

V1 excludes people, contacts, customer workspace data, register-presence statistics and distress series. It includes no national-register record files, sanctions tables or procurement tables. Access covers the approved project and named team. It provides no customer workspace or general product access.

GLEIF reference data is provided under CC0 1.0, as stated in GLEIF's terms. Konexium does not own that data or charge for exclusive rights to it. Publicly published Konexium aggregates carry CC BY 4.0, with attribution and changes identified. Other supplied material has only the rights stated in the manifest and this agreement.

This agreement governs controlled access and Konexium's separately licensed contribution. Its purpose, sharing, citation, security, retention and termination conditions do not restrict rights already available under CC0, CC BY 4.0 or applicable law. Those components may be obtained and reused separately, including commercially where their licences allow. Open-licence rights do not expire with this agreement. No extra downstream restriction is imposed on CC BY material. Payment buys the approved research service and access package, not ownership or exclusivity in open data.

Within the selected schedule, the team may analyse approved files and produce the approved papers, theses, reports and non-identifying findings. Publish only results that pass disclosure checks. Preserve source credits, link applicable licences, identify transformations and cite the release and methods. Konexium has no veto over research conclusions. Sharing a publication link is welcome, not required.

Use this exact citation template, replacing its placeholders:

Konexium (YEAR). Konexium Africa Research Dataset, release RELEASE_ID, snapshot SNAPSHOT_DATE. [assigned DOI or approved landing-page URL], accessed ACCESS_DATE. Includes GLEIF LEI reference data (CC0); additional components retain the licences and attributions in the release manifest.

Use only an actual assigned DOI or approved URL. Include only components present. The citation duty covers Konexium's contribution and agreed outputs; attribution is not a condition of GLEIF's CC0 rights.

Subject to section 3, the Recipient and team must not:

• Identify or re-identify people, reconstruct suppressed cells, or link data to expose protected information.

• Contact companies or people discovered through the data for marketing, advertising or sales prospecting.

• Resell, sublicense or republish record-level files, including in appendices, repositories, client deliveries or data products. Share controlled files only with approved members bound to these terms.

• Treat a match, absence, status or statistic as compliance clearance, an allegation, or a basis for enforcement, surveillance, hiring, credit or insurance decisions.

• Train models to recreate the dataset for resale, or use the files for general-purpose model training. Project-specific statistical modelling must stay within the approved purpose and storage arrangements.

• Upload controlled files to external AI tools or expose them through public links, shared credentials or unapproved services.

Both parties will minimise data, restrict access to authorised staff, require MFA for accounts with data access, encrypt transfers and stored copies, and keep access records. The Recipient will use the approved institutional storage and backup locations. It will protect download links and promptly remove departing team members.

Each party will meet its applicable duties under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, Kenya Data Protection Act 2019, South Africa POPIA and GDPR, where applicable. These commitments cover lawful processing, purpose limits, minimisation, security, rights requests, retention and lawful international transfers. Company-only data can still require protection, including under POPIA. Research status is not automatic permission or an exemption.

Before any processing that requires it, the parties will document their actual controller/processor roles, lawful basis, transfer safeguards and any required ethics review or impact assessment. This agreement is not a substitute for a required processing or transfer agreement.

If unexpected protected data is found, stop using and sharing it, isolate the affected file and notify Konexium. Both parties will cooperate on correction, access, objection and erasure requests. Neither may assume a research exemption without documenting its basis.

Notify the other party without undue delay, and within 24 hours of discovering a suspected data incident affecting the package. Share known facts, contain harm and provide updates. This contractual target does not replace either party's statutory notification deadlines or duties.

The term is 12 months from the recorded start date. Renewal requires a fresh owner approval, updated project details and, for Schedule B, a new annual invoice. There is no automatic renewal or charge. The Recipient may end the agreement by written notice.

Konexium may suspend access immediately for suspected misuse, a security incident or a credible rights or disclosure risk. It will give the reason and review the issue promptly. A correctable breach normally has 14 days to be fixed. Konexium may terminate for a serious breach, an unresolved breach or a rights/security risk that cannot safely be resolved. It may withdraw an affected file without ending the whole agreement.

If Konexium ends paid access without Recipient breach, it will refund the unused part of the annual fee pro rata. No refund is due for Recipient breach or voluntary early cancellation, except where law requires it.

Stop controlled use when the project ends, access expires or termination takes effect, whichever comes first. Within 30 days, delete working files and derived copies containing controlled records or reconstructable information. Confirm deletion in writing. Inaccessible backups must expire within 90 days; if restored, delete the affected copies before use.

Keep non-identifying published results, citations and minimal compliance records. A legally required archive must be documented, notified to Konexium, access-restricted and unavailable for new analysis. Section 3 preserves separate open-component rights. Neither party promises to recall lawfully published open material.

Konexium will issue versioned notices identifying affected releases, files, errors and replacements or withdrawals. The Recipient must promptly stop affected controlled use, apply the notice, tell approved collaborators and correct materially affected outputs where feasible. Keep the original release citation and add the correction reference. Send suspected errors to the recorded notice email; do not send sensitive payloads through public channels.

Data is supplied as available. Konexium gives no warranty of completeness, accuracy, fitness for a purpose or uninterrupted delivery, to the extent law allows. The Recipient must assess limitations and verify important findings independently.

To the extent law allows, Konexium is not liable for indirect losses or lost profit, revenue or opportunity. Its total liability under this agreement is capped at the fees paid under it in the preceding 12 months, or USD 100 where no fees were paid (Schedule A). These limits do not cover fraud, deliberate misconduct, gross negligence or liability that law does not allow to be limited. They do not limit a data subject's statutory rights.

Governing law: the laws of England and Wales. Before starting formal proceedings, the parties will try in good faith for at least 30 days to resolve a dispute through their named contacts. Disputes not resolved that way go to the courts of England and Wales. This does not stop either party seeking urgent relief elsewhere to protect confidential information or data.

Price: free. The owner may approve an academic or non-profit institution for a named non-commercial project. Teaching, a thesis, independent academic research and public-benefit reports may qualify. Institutional status alone does not establish eligibility. Commercial funding, sponsored commercial research or intended commercial benefit requires Schedule B. Approved non-identifying findings may be published. The same cleared quarterly data is used for both schedules.

Price: USD 1,200 per year per team. One named team within the Recipient organisation may use the same cleared data for approved commercial internal research. Commercially funded academic or non-profit projects use this schedule. Approved non-identifying findings may be published; this grant does not permit a client data feed, redistribution or compliance clearance.

Konexium invoices manually. The invoice records the team, term, payment due date and any applicable taxes. Access starts after payment and owner approval. There is no automatic billing. Team size and membership are recorded in the approval; no unstated seat limit applies.

Custom research datasets are quoted separately from USD 500 per project for Konexium-run checks for a defined country/sector study. Neither schedule includes custom work. A separate written scope must set price, delivery, permitted use and release clearance before work starts.