Terms of use | SDG 6 Data

Short summary of the SDG 6 Data Portal Terms of Use

The access to and the use of content (including data) on the SDG 6 Data Portal are subject to the SDG 6 Data Portal Terms of Use, this page provides a short summary thereof. When you access and use the content, you are agreeing to comply with these terms.
The data in the SDG 6 Data Portal are provided by various United Nations agencies and other international organisations (referred to as data providers), who retain ownership and control thereof. The use of the data is governed by the specific terms and conditions of each data provider (see below list), which may change over time.
In most cases, the data are made available for you free of charge, to copy, redistribute and adapt, provided that you give appropriate credit (see suggested citation below) and indicate if you have made any changes, including translations.
Content is made available ‘as is’ and used at own risk: UN-Water and the data providers cannot be held accountable for its quality, accuracy, completeness, currency, relevance or suitability for any particular purpose, nor for the findings, interpretations and conclusions that are based on it, nor for its improper or offensive use.

Suggested citation

Based on data provided by [name of all data providers], downloaded from the UN-Water SDG 6 Data Portal (https://sdg6data.org/) on [date of download]. [The data have been modified].

Data providers and their terms and conditions

Below follows a list of the data providers to the portal, with links to their data use terms and conditions. More information about the data providers are available under https://sdg6data.org/about/data-sources and all datasets in the portal are marked with their data provider (see information icon next to each indicator name).

Data provider	Link to data provider’s terms and conditions, including short summary thereof
WHO	Data are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO). Users may copy, redistribute and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided they give appropriate credit (attribution) and indicate if they have made any changes, including translations. To submit requests for commercial use and queries on rights and licencing see www.who.int/about/licensing and https://www.unicef.org/legal#copyright, or contact info@washdata.org.
UNICEF	Data are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO). Users may copy, redistribute and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided they give appropriate credit (attribution) and indicate if they have made any changes, including translations. To submit requests for commercial use and queries on rights and licencing see www.who.int/about/licensing and https://www.unicef.org/legal#copyright, or contact info@washdata.org.
UN-Habitat	Data are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO). Users may copy, redistribute and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided they give appropriate credit (attribution) and indicate if they have made any changes, including translations. To submit requests for commercial use and queries on rights and licencing see https://data.unhabitat.org, or contact guo_unhabitat@un.org or Robert.ndugwa@un.org.
UNSD (including all SDG data)	All data and metadata are available free of charge and may be copied freely, duplicated and further distributed provided that UNdata is cited as the reference. For more information, see http://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=UNdataUse.
UNEP	Data are made available for personal non-commercial use, without any right to resell, redistribute, compile or create derivative works. For more information, see https://wesr.unep.org/Home/termsconditions.
FAO	FAO’s contributions herein are part of FAO’s AQUASTAT database. Such data are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO). Users may copy, redistribute and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided they give appropriate credit (attribution) and indicate if they have made any changes, including translations. For more information, see http://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use/en/. To submit requests for commercial use, please contact digital@fao.org.
UNECE	The data are made available free of charge, for users to copy, reproduce and redistribute the data for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged. For more information, see https://w3.unece.org/PXWeb/Static/Copyright_notice.html.
UNESCO	Data are made available for personal or public non-commercial use and may be reproduced, in part or in whole, and by any means, without charge or further permission unless otherwise specified. All requests for commercial use and translation rights should be submitted to: uis.publications@unesco.org. For more information, see http://uis.unesco.org/en/terms-and-conditions.
OECD	For most datasets, users may copy, redistribute and adapt the work for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, provided they give appropriate credit (attribution) and include the same acknowledgment requirement in any sub-licenses that they grant, along with the requirement that any further sub-licensees do the same. Some datasets are available under other licenses, the user is responsible for verifying which license that applies. For more information, see https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/.
UNDP	Data are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International Governmental Organizations license (CC-BY 3.0 IGO). Users may copy, modify and distribute data in any format for any purpose, including commercial use, provided that users give appropriate credit (attribution) and indicate if they have made any changes, including translations. For more information, see http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/copyright-and-terms-use.
World Bank Group	Most datasets are made available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0): allows users to copy, modify and distribute data in any format for any purpose, including commercial use, provided that users give appropriate credit (attribution) and indicate if they have made any changes, including translations. Some datasets are available under other licenses, the user is responsible for verifying which license that applies. For more information, see https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/public-licenses.