Who owns and controls my data?

When publishing data with our service, there is a range of Creative Commons and open software and hardware licences from which to choose. Mendeley Data (and parent company Elsevier) do not own the data you upload and publish using the Mendeley Data service. You retain complete control and copyright over the data and choose the terms under which others may consume and reuse it. Draft datasets can be deleted in the web interface or API and your published datasets can be deleted by contacting us. By creating a Mendeley user account and posting data, you grant our service permission to 'publish, extract, reformat, adapt, build upon, index, re-distribute, link to, and otherwise use [published data]'. We only seek to carry out these activities to the extent needed to provide services on our website and in our API for end users, such as enabling public datasets to be discovered and accessed.