Data theft, misuse, and unauthorized redistribution harm everyone.

MNI invests substantial time, expertise, and financial resources to research, verify, maintain, and continuously update its data. When individuals or organizations obtain or use our data without authorization or without paying, it does not only harm our company—it also increases costs for legitimate customers and undermines fair competition.

Those who misuse data gain an unfair economic advantage by avoiding the costs of lawful licensing, while relying on the investment made possible by paying customers. If companies like MNI could not protect their data, it would be impossible to continue producing accurate, high-quality, human-verified business information.

Unauthorized use of MNI data may constitute copyright infringement, breach of contract, misappropriation, unjust enrichment, or other violations of law. In certain circumstances, it may also carry civil or criminal penalties. We take the protection of our data seriously.

As a licensed user of IndustrySelect or any MNI product, you agree that you may not (unless specifically permitted in writing by MNI):

• Share your IndustrySelect login credentials or otherwise provide access to your account
• Share, resell, sublicense, redistribute, or transfer any data obtained from MNI
• Provide access to MNI products or data to any person or entity that is not a licensed user
• Use MNI data for the benefit of any third party that is not a paying MNI customer
• Use MNI data in any competing, derivative, or commercial product or service outside the scope of your license
• Continue to use MNI data after your license or subscription expires or is terminated (except as expressly permitted by your agreement)
• Scrape, harvest, crawl, extract, copy, mirror, or systematically download data using automated tools, scripts, bots, or similar technologies
• Use MNI data to train, fine-tune, validate, benchmark, or develop any artificial intelligence, machine learning, or similar models or systems
• Use IndustrySelect or any MNI data in any manner that violates your license agreement or our Terms of Use

Without a valid license or written authorization from MNI, you may not:

• Ask or encourage an IndustrySelect subscriber to provide login credentials or access to their account
• Request, receive, purchase, or obtain MNI data from any third party
• Use MNI data for any business, commercial, research, or operational purpose
• Knowingly benefit, directly or indirectly, from the unauthorized use of MNI data

Violations of these restrictions may result in legal action and can give rise to claims including copyright infringement, breach of contract, misappropriation, unjust enrichment, and other civil or statutory claims.

MNI uses a variety of technical, legal, and investigative methods, including embedded and traceable records, to detect unauthorized use, redistribution, or misuse of its data. For more information, please review our Copyright Statement.

If you become aware of theft, misuse, or unauthorized access to MNI data, we encourage you to report it. We will treat reports confidentially to the extent permitted by law.

Validated and actionable reports of data theft may be eligible for a reward.

Contact us to report data misuse:

MNI
Attention: Legal
1633 Central Street
Evanston, IL 60201
Email Legal

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