ACE-Data-0 Research License Agreement

ACE-Data-0 RESEARCH LICENSE AGREEMENT Version 1.0 Copyright (c) 2026 S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University, and ACE Robotics. All rights reserved. This Agreement governs access to and use of ACE-Data-0. By requesting access to, downloading, or using the Dataset, you accept this Agreement and agree to be bound by it. If you do not accept it, you may not access or use the Dataset. 1. DEFINITIONS 1.1 "Licensors" means S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University and ACE Robotics, jointly. 1.2 "Dataset" means ACE-Data-0, including all recordings (video, audio, motion capture, tactile), object meshes, calibration and synchronization data, annotations, metadata, documentation, and any part or subset thereof, in whatever form distributed by the Licensors. 1.3 "You" means the individual natural person who has been granted access to the Dataset by the Licensors. This Agreement is entered into by you personally, not by your institution. 1.4 "Non-Commercial Academic Research" means research, teaching, and scholarly activity conducted without any commercial purpose and without any direct or indirect commercial advantage, at or under the supervision of an accredited academic or non-profit research institution. Research funded in whole or in part by a commercial entity, research conducted with a view to commercial exploitation, and any use in or in support of a product, service, or internal business process are NOT Non-Commercial Academic Research. 1.5 "Derivative Material" means any model, model weights, feature representation, embedding, annotation, statistic, rendering, reconstruction, synthetic data, or other output that is produced from, trained on, or derived from the Dataset. 1.6 "Participant" means any natural person appearing in, or whose body, hands, voice, motion, or contact signals were recorded in, the Dataset. 2. GRANT OF LICENSE Subject to your continuing compliance with this Agreement, the Licensors grant you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to download, store, reproduce, and modify the Dataset, and to create Derivative Material, in each case solely for the purpose of Non-Commercial Academic Research. No other rights are granted. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Licensors. 3. RESTRICTIONS You shall not, and shall not permit or assist any third party to: 3.1 Use the Dataset or any Derivative Material for any commercial purpose, including product or service development, evaluation, demonstration, benchmarking for commercial claims, or any internal business process of a commercial entity. 3.2 Distribute, publish, transmit, sublicense, sell, rent, lend, host, mirror, or otherwise make the Dataset available, in whole or in part, to any person who has not been granted access individually and directly by the Licensors. This includes shared drives, public or private code repositories, torrents, model hubs, and inclusion in any other dataset or collection. Every collaborator, student, or colleague who requires the Dataset must submit their own access request. 3.3 Attempt to identify, contact, locate, track, or infer private attributes of any Participant, or to link any Participant to any other data source. 3.4 Use the Dataset or any Derivative Material to develop, train, evaluate, or deploy systems for biometric identification, face or gait recognition, emotion inference, surveillance, profiling, or any purpose that would infringe the privacy, dignity, or fundamental rights of any person. 3.5 Use the Dataset or any Derivative Material in any manner that violates applicable law, or in any application intended to cause physical or psychological harm. 3.6 Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, attribution, or licence notice accompanying the Dataset. 3.7 Circumvent, or assist in circumventing, the access controls applied to the Dataset. 4. DERIVATIVE MATERIAL AND PUBLICATION 4.1 You may publicly release Derivative Material, including trained model weights, provided that (a) the Derivative Material does not permit reconstruction of any substantial portion of the Dataset and does not reveal the identity of any Participant; (b) it is released for Non-Commercial Academic Research only; and (c) it is accompanied by a notice stating that it was derived from ACE-Data-0 under this Agreement. 4.2 You may reproduce a limited number of images or short clips from the Dataset in academic papers, theses, posters, and conference presentations for the purpose of illustrating your research results, with attribution to ACE-Data-0. 4.3 Any publication, preprint, technical report, or public artifact that uses the Dataset or any Derivative Material must cite ACE-Data-0 as specified in the accompanying dataset card. 5. TERM AND TERMINATION 5.1 This Agreement takes effect when access is granted to you and continues until terminated. 5.2 The Licensors may terminate this Agreement and revoke your access at any time, with or without cause, and immediately upon any breach by you. 5.3 On termination you must cease all use of the Dataset and delete all copies of the Dataset in your possession or control, and confirm this in writing on request. Sections 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 survive termination. 5.4 The Licensors may modify or withdraw all or part of the Dataset at any time, including at the request of a Participant. Where a Participant withdraws consent, you must delete the affected recordings on notice. 6. NO WARRANTY THE DATASET IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE LICENSORS DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE DATASET IS FREE OF ERRORS OR THAT IT IS SUITABLE FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE DATASET OR THE USE OF OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE DATASET. 8. INDEMNITY You shall indemnify and hold harmless the Licensors and their officers, employees, students, and agents against any claim, loss, damage, cost, or expense arising from your use of the Dataset or from your breach of this Agreement. 9. GENERAL 9.1 This Agreement is governed by the laws of Singapore, and the courts of Singapore shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from it. 9.2 This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Licensors concerning the Dataset and supersedes any prior understanding. 9.3 If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force. 9.4 Failure by the Licensors to enforce any provision is not a waiver of that provision. 10. CONTACT Requests concerning commercial licensing, industrial collaboration, use outside the scope of this Agreement, or participant data withdrawal should be addressed to the ACE-Data-0 authors through either of the following channels: Community tab: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ACERobotics/ACE-Data-0/discussions Project page: https://ace-data-engine.github.io/ACE-Data-0/