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@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@ As a general rule, you should be local staff, an instructor, or (in small vACCs
 
 If you're a member of local staff looking to add your local vACC to the platform, feel free to open an issue with your name, vACC staff role, and Discord username. We'll get back to you as soon as possible.
 
-By default, we'll assume that you're happy for you data to be added to this repository. If you'd rather it wasn't open to public contributions, we can keep it in our closed-sourced respository, instead.
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-**N.B.** Closed-source data is not truly hidden - it is still freely accessible via the API.
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 ## Project Maintainers
 From time to time, we may reach out to certain members of the community and ask them to help with maintaining this repository. Their tasks may include (amongst other things): approving changes to the repository, and altering the contents of data files to follow our global standards (consistency in boundaries, naming conventions, ownership structure, etc.).