Common use of Termination and Data Destruction Clause in Contracts

Termination and Data Destruction. (a) Upon Research Project close-out, Approved User agrees to destroy all copies, versions, and data derivatives of the dataset(s) retrieved from Accessclinicaldata@NIAID on both local servers and hardware, and if cloud computing was used, delete the data and cloud images from cloud computing provider storage, virtual and physical machines, databases, and random access archives. (b) Data retained to comply with any institutional policies (e.g., scientific data retention policy), law, and scientific transparency expectations for disseminated research results, and/or journal policies for the purpose of supporting the findings (e.g., validation) resulting from the research described in the DAR will be considered to be part of the approved Research Project. The NIAID DUA terms of agreement will remain effective prior to Research Project close-out, including for any time that the Data are retained for validation purposes.