Copyright, Citation and Reuse Policy

This Policy covers reports, polls, briefs, articles, tables, charts, maps, photographs, audio, video, presentations, instruments, data, dashboards, training materials, Website pages, and visual identity. Material-specific conditions may prevail.

Rights may belong to the Center, commissioner, funder, author, photographer, designer, data provider, another publisher, or multiple parties. Users should review the material page, rights notice, license, and agreement. Website presence does not establish exclusive Center ownership.

• Share the official link.
• Download a public copy.
• Quote limited portions.
• Use in teaching and research.
• Refer to findings in media.
• Recreate a chart from published data.
• Include selected findings in a report or presentation.
• Discuss or criticize.

• Credit the source.
• Preserve meaning, context, and limitations.
• Use the latest version.
• Identify correction or withdrawal.
• Do not imply Center approval.
• Respect third-party rights.

Attribution includes Center, title, author where applicable, date, version, link, and dataset title where used.

Limited quotation may support research, education, criticism, media, analysis, and policy discussion. Verbatim text is identified, context preserved, and separate excerpts are not combined to fabricate a position. Long or complete republication may require permission.

Summary is allowed with attribution, separation of Center content from user analysis, and no transformation of probability into certainty, unsupported generalization, or question distortion.

Permission is ordinarily required for complete Website republication, books or journals, sale, full translation, material adaptation, paywalls, commercial databases, or publication under another identity. Permission may define scope, language, duration, platform, format, attribution, and fees.

• Credit source and retain title.
• Preserve denominator and necessary notes.
• Identify data period.
• Do not remove categories misleadingly.
• Do not change values.
• Disclose reordering or reformatting.

Recreation is subject to rights and must preserve data, scale, categories, and notes, identify user design and interpretation, and avoid applying the Center logo to modified graphics.

Color, font, layout, size, or chart type may change only where meaning, uncertainty, categories, and source visibility remain intact and the new graphic is not presented as official.

Image rights may belong to the Center, photographer, agency, or partner. Reuse is not assumed. An identifiable person’s image may not be moved into a stigmatizing, political, sensitive, or unsafe context or used to imply support.

• Credit map and data sources.
• Retain geographic notes.
• Avoid misleading relabeling.
• State that boundaries or names do not necessarily express a political position.
• Review layer rights.
• Do not expose sensitive locations.

Questionnaires may be released for learning, review, reproducibility, and comparison. Users may not remove attribution, claim original authorship, apply the Center logo, imply Center sponsorship, assume universal suitability, or resell within a closed product. Commissioner or provider rights may apply.

• Preserve wording, option order, and reference period.
• Preserve interviewer instructions, routing, and language.
• Credit the source.
• Identify modifications.
• Do not attribute modified-question findings to a Center poll.

Use is governed by access, terms, agreements, commissioner rights, and participant protection. Download does not automatically authorize redistribution, reidentification, AI training, linkage, commercial exploitation, or public-platform upload.

Tables, indicators, charts, analysis, and code may be publishable without redistribution of raw files. Other users should be directed to the official data page.

Code may use open, specific, restricted, joint, or no-reuse terms. Data-use rights do not automatically include software, templates, or tools.

Limited slides may be used with attribution and context; modified slides should not carry the logo. Resale, rebranding, full distribution, paid-course conversion, or material translation may require permission.

Excerpts, tables, and charts may normally be used in lectures, assignments, theses, workshops, and noncommercial training with attribution. Full textbook or paid-platform inclusion may require permission.

• Identify study and fieldwork dates.
• Define target population.
• Use the latest version.
• Do not present polling as certain prediction.
• Retain limitations.
• Do not use the logo as an editorial endorsement mark.

Public findings may be cited in an advisory report, but permission may be required for sale, paid databases, advertising, products, instruments, full reports, logos, or restricted data. Material may not imply that the Center recommends a product, company, campaign, or service.

• The name may identify the source.
• Do not use it in a product, event, advertisement, domain, or account implying affiliation.
• Logo use requires permission except inside an unmodified original publication.
• Do not alter, crop, recolor, combine, merchandise, or campaign with it.
• Data reuse does not authorize copying visual identity.

Full translation ordinarily requires permission. Unofficial excerpts or summaries identify translation status, source, original language, and link and do not attribute translation errors to the Center.

Abridgement, reorganization, combination, slides, chart redesign, summary, translation, video, course, or derivative tool is identified as adapted, with author, material changes, and lack of Center approval unless approval was actually provided.

• Do not remove findings from context.
• Do not conceal question or denominator.
• Do not exclude categories to strengthen a claim.
• Do not combine noncomparable waves.
• Do not remove limitations or turn association into causation.
• Do not present an author opinion as a Center position.

Users remain responsible for verification, attribution, prevention of fabricated findings or quotations, keeping restricted data out of public tools, and not presenting generated text as Center-authored.

Restricted data, nonpublic text, participant databases, confidential material, and commissioner instruments may not train or improve models without explicit authorization. Public-material use remains subject to terms, rights, technical restrictions, and law.

Large-scale collection may require permission where it downloads many files, burdens the Website, circumvents controls, redistributes content, is commercial, or includes restricted material. Requests identify purpose, scope, method, duration, outputs, and storage.

The Center cannot grant rights it does not hold. Original permission may be required for photographs, maps, measures, questions, or logos. Joint publications require all attribution and authorized permission.

Rights may belong to the client, Center, or both and may differ among report, data, and instrument. Publishing a summary does not automatically open the full report or data.

• Unpublished drafts.
• Internal reports and confidential data.
• Client presentations, correspondence, and contracts.
• Files received in error.
• Login-restricted content.
• No redistribution without express permission.

Preliminary material is identified and replaced where final versions appear. The latest corrected version should be used. Withdrawn material should not be relied upon and may be referenced historically only with clear withdrawal status and replacement.

Limited screenshots of public pages, charts, or tables may be used with attribution, no personal or restricted content, and no misleading alteration. Official links, titles, previews, and short excerpts may be shared without creating messages the Center did not issue.

Conversion of substantial material into podcasts, video, courses, or animation may require rights review, especially for commercial or translated uses. Published material may be filed in proceedings with version, date, method, and context; the Center does not testify for third-party interpretation without agreement.

Material may be converted to accessible text, HTML, large print, high contrast, tables, or descriptions while preserving content and source. Libraries may request public preservation copies retaining versions and corrections and excluding restricted files.

• Full republication or translation.
• Logo use.
• Sale or commercial product.
• Dataset redistribution.
• Material adaptation.
• Images of people.
• Joint or unclear rights.
• Training models on nonpublic material.
• Complete research instruments.

Identify requester, organization, material, link, portion, purpose, format, language, audience, distribution, commercial nature, copies or duration, deadline, and context.

Submit a Permission Request

Ownership, purpose, participant protection, meaning, commercial use, partner rights, status, misrepresentation, and sensitivity are reviewed. The result may be approval, conditions, partial approval, modification request, referral, no permission needed, or refusal. Silence is not permission.

Conditions may cover attribution, links, no modification, review, duration, platform, no logo, no sublicense, final copy, or fee. Permission does not imply endorsement, participation, translation certification, or responsibility for an adaptation.

Unauthorized copying, attribution removal, logo misuse, misleading translation, distorted findings, sale, restricted-data redistribution, impersonation, image misuse, or false partnership claims may be reported with original and disputed links, copy, description, and rights relationship.

A rights holder may identify the material, right, location, contact, action, and evidence. Access may be temporarily restricted and outcomes may include attribution correction, replacement, removal, or rejection. Removal is not necessarily a legal admission.

Reuse may be restricted even where rights are owned if it endangers participants, children, communities, sensitive locations, disclosers, or fieldworkers. Permission is not granted where risk is unacceptable.