Table 1 Elements of a data sharing agreement with an app or wearable company
From: Best practices for analyzing large-scale health data from wearables and smartphone apps
Data ownership | The partner owns the dataset; the act of data sharing does not transfer that ownership to the researcher. |
Scope of data use | The researcher will use the dataset only for non-commercial research and education purposes. |
Data access | Access to the data within the researcher’s organization will be granted only on a need-to-have basis. |
User anonymity | The researcher will not use the data to try and identify and contact the users. |
Publications | The researcher has the right to publish the results with an attribution or not, as preferred by the partner, provided that the data cannot be reconstructed from the publication and that no partner’s commercial secrets are disclosed. |
Licensing of results | The partner has non-exclusive, royalty-free license to any results obtained from the data |
