Terms and Conditions

Accepting the Terms and Conditions

In order to use Roper Center services, you must agree to the Terms and Conditions and may not use the services if you do not accept the Terms and Conditions.

Accept the Terms by:

Clicking to accept the Terms, where this option is made available to you in the user interface for any Service; or
actually using the Services. In this case, you understand and agree that the Roper Center will treat your use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.

You may not use the services and may not accept the Terms if (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with the Roper Center, or (b) you are barred from receiving the services under the laws of the United States or other countries including the country in which you are resident or from which you use the services.

Prior to using these services, it is recommended that you print or save a copy of the Terms and Conditions for your records.

Access

Permission is granted to access RoperExpress and/or iPOLL services via IP authentication or with the user name and password provided. User names and passwords must not be divulged to anyone. In the case of accidental disclosure or other breaches of security, the Roper Center must be notified immediately so that corrective measures may be taken (e.g. changing of passwords). The Roper Center reserves the right to withdraw permission to access RoperExpress or iPOLL any time, with a prorated adjustment of user fees.

Responsible Use and Data Confidentiality

Users may report information obtained from iPOLL or the results of aggregate statistical analyses of data obtained through RoperExpress.The Roper Center and the original collector of the data must be acknowledged in any resulting papers or publications. For more information on citation formats, see Roper Center Responsible Use Statement.

Users are expected to download reasonable amounts of data; excessive downloading of questions from iPOLL or datasets that may compromise the integrity of the archives will be investigated and may result in termination of access.

The Roper Center removes potentially identifying information from datasets before distributing them. However, users are responsible for protecting the confidentiality of respondents. If users discover the identity of any individual or organization, they must not make use of this information and contact the Roper Center immediately. For more information on data confidentiality, see Roper Center Responsible Use Statement.

Re-Dissemination

Data obtained from iPOLL or RoperExpress services remain the property of the copyright holder and may not be resold or redistributed. However, researchers who are actively collaborating with individuals at non-member institutions may provide a copy of relevant data sets to their collaborators for the duration of the project. iPOLL searches may be reproduced for teaching or research purposes within member institutions provided access is restricted to members of the institution.

No charge may be made for conducting iPOLL searches for others, and the results of single searches may not be photocopied, printed or otherwise reproduced for purposes of dissemination or resale.
No copy of the iPOLL Databank or datasets may be made.
Users are prohibited from including portions of the databank within any independent retrieval system that would be accessed by clients internal or external to the organization.
Roper Center data may be placed on web sites only if access is restricted to members.
The user may not (directly or through the use of any software program) create a databank in electronic or structured manual form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this site.
No part of the site may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other web site, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic retrieval system or service without prior written permission.

Membership Agreement

Users at member institutions are responsible for knowing and adhering to the terms of the membership agreement. The agreement is available from the Roper Center or from its representative at the member institution.

If the institution ceases to be a member of the Roper Center, individual users may keep copies of data obtained during the membership period, but the datasets and results from iPOLL searches must be removed from web sites or data libraries and cannot be further redistributed.