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Tableau Public Data Policy

We’re glad you want to use this service to visualize and publish data on the web. We built Tableau Public because, like you, we believe it should be easier to tell stories and communicate with data. You should feel free to use Tableau Public for data (including visualizations) about government, real estate, schools, science, government, sports, economics and thousands of other subjects.

The data you publish is your responsibility.

You are responsible for the content you publish to Tableau Public. We provide Tableau Public as a free service; we are not the owners or publishers of the data on our servers. We don’t screen content before it is published and we don’t make decisions about what content can exist on Tableau Public except as described in this policy. You should be mindful of the data you choose to post because it may have consequences. For instance: If you publish libelous or defamatory statements about someone, you can be sued by that person. If you publish confidential data about your customers that they would expect you to keep private, they might seek recourse, including legal action. If you publish data about people that embarrasses them, you can expect them to get angry at you.

You should not publish confidential data, like your company’s sales plan or your personal financial information. Once it is posted you should expect that data to be no longer private. Any data published may also be used by Tableau or other third parties to train AI models.

Our guiding principle is freedom of speech.

Our core guiding principle is the freedom of speech. However, even under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, there are limits to free speech and there are risks of liability for certain kinds of speech or content. Tableau generally allows content to be posted to Tableau Public unless such content may create liability for Tableau. Accordingly, Tableau reserves the right (but assumes no obligation) to remove such content, including:

  • Content that infringes third party copyright, trademark, or publicity rights - Tableau may remove content for which it has received a proper notice of claimed copyright infringement or a notice of trademark or publicity rights infringement.
  • Obscene content, child pornography, and content depicting the exploitation of children - Tableau may remove and/or report to appropriate authorities any such content that it finds or about which it is notified.
  • Content that incites violence - Tableau may remove any content that incites violence.
  • Content that violates applicable law - Tableau may remove content that violates applicable law, such as content regarding the current number and location of troops deployed in times of war.

Content that otherwise violates the Acceptable Use and External-Facing Services Policy. We will follow closely our goal to support the freedom of speech within the bounds of the law.

You must notify us if you wish us to take down content.

Although we reserve the right to screen or monitor content on our systems, we generally do not do so. If you discover content that you believe should be taken down, you may file a complaint in this way:

  • Copyright and Trademark. For copyright and trademark infringement complaints, please see this page for contact and further information.
  • E.U. Law Enforcement. For requests made by E. U. law enforcement agencies to remove terrorist-related content, please send an email to public-eu-takedowns@salesforce.pagerduty.com. Your email must include: (1) a subject header that includes “EU Terrorist Take Down Request”; (2) your name; (3) the name of your law enforcement agency; (4) your EU member state; and (5) a description of the information to be taken down and a link to the relevant page. Note, this alias must only be used by EU law enforcement officials.
  • Other. For complaints other than trademark and copyright or those made by law enforcement, send your complaint to public@tableau.com or mail your complaint to: Salesforce, Inc., Attention: Legal Department, Salesforce Tower 415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105

There is a formal process to take down content.

Upon receiving a request:

  • If a valid complaint claims infringement of copyright, we will promptly remove the content pending a counter-notice.
  • If the complaint claims (1) infringement of trademark, privacy, or publicity rights, or (2) that the content is obscene, child pornography, or depicts the exploitation of children, we may, in our discretion, remove the content.
  • If a request is made by law enforcement, we will remove the content in accordance with applicable law.
  • If the complaint makes some other claim, we may, in our discretion, take down the content while the complaint is evaluated. Our bias will be to not take down content while we evaluate the complaint.
  • If we do take down content, we’ll notify the user who posted it.

This is a living document.

As of today this policy outlines what kinds of content Tableau will remove from the Tableau Public servers. Content on the web is, by its very nature, an evolving area. Therefore Tableau may, from time to time, revise this policy. If we do, that revision will be effective no later than 30 days after being posted to the Tableau Public site. If the changes are material we might email you about them. We are committed to helping people tell stories and inform discussions with data. Making this policy clear is part of that.

We welcome your comments. Feel free to send any you may have to public@tableau.com.