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Terms and Conditions for Use of the Urvashi Vaid LGBTQ Women’s Survey

Terms and Conditions for Use of the Urvashi Vaid LGBTQ Women’s Survey


To access the data portal, you must be a partner organization or apply to become a community partner. This is for security reasons to protect our data and in recognition of the contribution that partner organizations have made to the success of this project. To maintain the security and accessibility of our survey, any and all future data releases will be distributed only to registered users with the Data Portal. Check below to see if your organization is on the list of our partner organizations.

The data will be restricted for exclusive use by registered users, and their co-authors, until October 1st 2027.


Organizations can apply to become a survey partner by using the ‘Request Access to Data Portal’ form, providing some additional details about your interest in the survey data, accepting all terms and conditions for use of the Data Portal.

Currently, the Urvashi Vaid Data Portal is only available for community purposes.

Respondent Data is not available at the time. Access to respondent data will only be available to registered community members. Applications for use of respondent data for community purposes are being accepted.

Registered community partners who wish to use the data for research purposes must submit an application for Restricted Access to the Data Portal and proof of IRB-approval to alyasah dot ali dot sewell at emory dot edu. Restricted Access first requires submittal of the Request Access to Data Portal form and agreement to the terms and conditions of registration for community purposes.

Co-authors of data products that use restricted access data must be registered with the Urvashi Vaid Data Portal for use of data for community purposes.


Partner Organizations

To find out more about our partners and how you can support them or get more involved, click on their name and link to their site.

Terms and Conditions for Use of The Urvashi Vaid Data Portal

Registered Users are permitted to use the 2022 National LGBTQ+ Women’s Survey data (as held on the Critical Racism Data Lab’s data portal) under the following terms and conditions.

As a registered user you are granted access to use the data available on the data portal as it becomes available. Data will be regularly uploaded as it becomes available.

Access to the data is granted to the named individuals only. You may not share registration details with unregistered users.

We encourage the use of the data for the development of resources, tools, academic papers, data visualization, presentations, advocacy documents, opinion pieces, and other similar materials.  Registered users can co-author or co-produce with any person, but at least one of the authors / producers listed must be a registered user who has agreed to the data portal terms and conditions.   You may only share the data with an unregistered user when actively collaborating on a specific project.

Non-registered users may not publish any product using these data without a registered user working with them.

​​Registered users may never sell the data to any person or organization.

The data will be restricted for exclusive use by registered users, and their co-authors, until October 1st 2027.

NO WARRANTIES OR LIABILITY

In no event shall the Critical Racism Data Lab (institution) or any entity of Emory University (institution) be liable to any entity or person for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, including lost profits, arising out of the use of this Data, even if Institution has been advised of the possibility of such damage. Institution specifically disclaims any and all warranties, express and implied, including, but not limited to, any implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Institution’s data is provided “as is.” Institution has no obligation to provide updates or modifications of Institution’s Data that Institution may create.

Copies of all products produced with this data by registered users should be shared with the Critical Racism Data Lab (dataportal [at] criticalracismdatalab [dot] com)

All and any use of the survey data must be cited as.

Suggested Citation: Sewell, Alyasah Ali and Sutherland, Carla. 2023. “Data Portal of the National LGBTQ+ Women’s Community Survey, 2021-2022.” Critical Racism Data Lab: Atlanta, GA. Retrieved August 1, 2025: (scholarblogs.emory/lgbtqsurvey/dataportal)