02 — Terms of Use

Open access.Responsible use.

By accessing, downloading or using Ampe-DB you agree to the Terms of Use, License and Research Data Use Agreement distributed with the release. This page summarizes them; the release documents remain authoritative.

02.1

Acceptance of terms

By accessing, downloading or using Ampe-DB, users agree to comply with the release Terms of Use, License and Research Data Use Agreement distributed with the dataset.

Ampe-DB is openly downloadable after completion of a short access form declaring the intended purpose of use. The form is a required use declaration, not an approval process.

AgreementResearch Data Use AgreementAMPE_DB_RESEARCH_DATA_USE_AGREEMENT.pdf
LicenseRelease licenseLicense.pdf
TermsTerms of UseDistributed with the release
02.2

Permitted & prohibited use

Permitted

Ampe-DB is intended primarily for non-commercial research, educational, cultural and exploratory use.

  • Non-commercial academic research
  • Teaching and education
  • Cultural and artistic work
  • Independent and exploratory study

Commercial use or product integration requires prior written permission from the dataset maintainers. Contact the team →

Prohibited

  • Surveillance, biometric identification, law-enforcement profiling or tracking of individual participants.
  • Attempts to re-identify participants or connect pseudonymous IDs with real identities.
  • Unauthorized redistribution of raw videos, audio, pose files, skeleton coordinates or other participant-derived data.
  • Uses that misrepresent or disrespect the cultural practice of Ampe.
  • Claims that the dataset represents all regional forms of Ampe or African movement broadly.
02.3

Attribution

Any publication, presentation, demonstration, repository or public output using Ampe-DB must cite the dataset.

The CITATION.cff file distributed with the release is the preferred citation source.

Suggested citation and acknowledgement →
02.4

No warranty

Ampe-DB is provided as-is. The maintainers do not guarantee that every derived pose or skeleton estimate is free of tracking error.

Users are responsible for selecting appropriate quality thresholds and reporting limitations in derived analyses. See Known limitations.

02.5

Participant privacy

  1. 01
    Use only the pseudonymous identifiers distributed with the release.
  2. 02
    Do not attempt participant identification, profiling or linkage to external datasets.
  3. 03
    Consent records and personally identifying information are not distributed as analysis metadata.
02.6

Cultural responsibility

Ampe is a living Ghanaian cultural practice.

Interpret results within the documented scope of the sampled recordings, avoid broad claims about African movement generally, and distinguish computational labels from the full cultural meaning and rules of the game.

02.7

Derived outputs

Published figures, model outputs and aggregate statistics must not enable reconstruction of restricted participant-derived data or create a new route to re-identification.