Gmaven Data Terms

This page sets out the principles that govern the use of Gmaven's licensed data products. It is a framework, not the full contract: every customer licenses our data under a signed agreement, and where this page and an agreement differ, the agreement prevails. Fees, service levels, liability and its limits are set out in each agreement. Your use of this website itself is governed by our Website Terms of Use.

1. Who we are

This framework is published by Gmaven (Pty) Ltd ("Gmaven", "we", "us", "our"):

• Registration number: 2013/104774/07
• Physical address: Rockjumper House, 1 Doug Crowe Square, Garlington, Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Postal address: Rockjumper House, 1 Doug Crowe Square, Garlington, Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Contact: info@gmaven.com, +27 (0) 10 142 1360

2. What we license

Gmaven licenses South African commercial property data to businesses. This framework covers that data however it reaches you:

• the Gmaven API (your systems ask questions of our data, one query at a time);
• MCP access (a standard way for AI assistants to fetch our data on your behalf);
• data feeds (scheduled deliveries of data into your systems); and
• data and figures delivered as part of a Gmaven study or report.

Our data is licensed, never sold. A licence gives you the right to use the data for an agreed purpose; the data itself, and the database it comes from, remain Gmaven's.

3. The licence, in principle

Unless your agreement says otherwise, a Gmaven data licence is non-exclusive (others may license the same data), non-transferable (it is yours and may not be passed on), and lasts for the term of your agreement.

4. How you may use the data

• For the purpose stated in your agreement.
• Within your own business, by your authorised users.
• Through the interfaces we provide for it (the API, MCP, or your agreed feed).
• Keeping any access credentials (keys and logins) secure and unshared: they are issued to you, and activity under them is your responsibility.

5. How you may not use the data

Without Gmaven's prior written permission, you may not:

• resell, redistribute, publish or sub-license the data, in whole or in part;
• build, or help anyone else build, a database or product that competes with Gmaven's;
• extract or copy the data in bulk, or access it by any means other than the interfaces we provide;
• share the data, or access to it, with anyone outside your agreement; or
• remove or obscure any attribution, notice or marking that comes with the data.

6. AI and machine learning

Two different things, treated differently:

• Using our data through an AI assistant. This is what our MCP access is for. Licensed customers may query Gmaven data through AI assistants as part of their licence, on the same terms as any other use.
• Training models on our data. Gmaven data may not be used to train, fine-tune or otherwise improve any artificial intelligence or machine-learning model, yours or anyone else's, without our prior written consent.

7. Your outputs, our records

The analyses, reports, models and decisions you build using our data are yours, and you may use them in your own business and with your own clients. The underlying Gmaven records and figures within them remain licensed data: the restrictions above continue to apply to those records wherever they appear, and your outputs may not be used as a route to republishing the data itself.

8. The figures we publish on this website

Figures that Gmaven publishes openly on this website (for example the provincial floor-space table and the drill-down slice on our Understand a market page) may be quoted freely, by anyone, with attribution to Gmaven and, where the quote appears online, a link to the page the figure came from. This permission covers our published figures only; it does not extend to licensed data supplied to customers.

9. Ownership

Gmaven and its licensors own the data, the database, the geographic area definitions, the methodology and the software used to deliver them, including the copyright, database and compilation rights in each. Your agreement grants you use rights only; all rights not expressly granted are reserved.

10. Personal information (POPIA)

Most Gmaven data describes buildings and areas, not people. Where licensed data does include personal information (for example a contact name), South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) applies. From the moment such data is in your hands, you are responsible for your own processing of it: you must have lawful grounds to hold it, keep it secure, honour the rights of the people it describes, and use it for no purpose beyond your agreement.

11. Accuracy and reliance

We measure our data building by building and work continuously to keep it accurate and current. Even so, no dataset of this scale is ever complete or error-free, and the data is supplied as is: we do not warrant completeness or accuracy, and you should verify any figure on which a high-stakes decision rests. Your agreement sets out any further warranties and their limits.

12. When access ends

When your agreement ends, your right to use the data ends with it. Your agreement sets out what you must delete or stop using, and what you may keep (for example, reports you have already produced).

13. Governing law and contact

This framework, and every Gmaven data agreement unless it states otherwise, is governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa.

For any question about these terms or about licensing Gmaven data, contact us at info@gmaven.com or +27 (0) 10 142 1360.