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The number of individual users in any company permitted to access SIN depends on the Licence Type as shown below:

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Members of the SIN club are permitted to download material and use it, with proper attribution, in their daily business. This permission strictly excludes reports, presentation or other products offered for sale to third parties, or for free distribution without the written permission of Clarksons.

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