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Data access agreement
Also called data sharing agreement, data use agreement
A data access agreement is a formal contract specifying what you're allowed to do with a dataset you didn't collect yourself: how it can be stored, shared, and eventually deleted. Breaching it can jeopardize the arrangement for everyone after you.
In context
You'll usually need this when working with restricted, proprietary, or third-party datasets rather than data you gathered directly.