The SLS is based on the concept that all members of the SLS-SC have equal access to the raw and processed data obtained at the CFHT and released by the SLS Data Processing center. Access to the SLS data will be via registration as a SLS Registered User. The raw and reduced data will be made available to all Registered Users simultaneously. Individuals in charge of reducing and releasing the SLS data will not undertake science analysis in advance of the release to the SLS-SC.

The SLSDP will setup a password-secured website for providing access to the raw and reduced data to the whole SLS-SC. The CADC will also offer a password-protected access to the data released by the SLS-DP. The raw data distributed to the SLS-SC will include all stellar frames as well as all calibration data used for the processing. The processed data will include both the non-telluric-subtracted and telluric-subtracted spectra with wavelengths referring to the Solar-System Barycentric frame, and corrected from all known residual instrumental contributions to the RV and spectropolarimetric signal. RV measurements and Zeeman signatures derived from processed spectra with reference cross-correlation tools will also be released with the processed spectra.

The raw and processed data released by the SLS-DP will be proprietary within the SLS-SC for a period of 12 months after each release of the SLS-DP. The RV & spectropolarimetric information associated with the processed data will remain proprietary with the SLS-SC for an additional period of 12 months, whereas the processed intensity spectra (with RV & spectropolarimetric information removed) will be made available to the whole CFHT community through the CADC. The full data released by the SLS-DP (including RV & spectropolarimetric information) will be made available by the CADC to the whole CFHT community 24 months after the initial release by the SLS-DP. SLS-RUs agree to protect the proprietary rights of the SLS community by individually not exporting proprietary data (nor any SLS-specific documents / tools) to persons other than SLS-RUs or of making public the data in digital form. The export of SLS proprietary data / documents / tools to external members of a scientific collaboration is permitted only upon the explicit authorization from the CFHT Executive Director, upon advice from the SLS-EB.