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In creating a login and downloading the Area Deprivation Index data sets from our site (collectively, the "Data") you acknowledge and agree that you and the employer you identify during account creation (you and your employer hereinafter collectively referred to as "You") are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, non-sublicensable license to use for Your internal non-profit educational, research, and public health purposes ("Authorized Uses"). The license granted hereunder does not include the right to sell, market, or otherwise commercially exploit, republish, or redistribute the Data or to use or disclose the Data for any other purpose not expressly authorized (collectively, "Unauthorized Use") without the express written permission of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The University of Wisconsin-Madison may terminate Your license for any reason upon sixty (60) days written notice send to the email address You provide in creating Your account or immediately in the event University of Wisconsin-Madison finds, at its sole discretion, Your Unauthorized Use. You shall include the following citation in any use of the Data:

Kind AJH, Buckingham W. Making Neighborhood Disadvantage Metrics Accessible: The Neighborhood Atlas. New England Journal of Medicine, 2018. 378: 2456-2458. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1802313. PMCID: PMC6051533.

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University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. {specify year} Area Deprivation Index {specify version}. Downloaded from https://www.neighborhoodatlas.medicine.wisc.edu/ {date}

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