Legal:Research Showcase Privacy Statement
This privacy statement supplements the Wikimedia Foundation's Privacy Policy for Research Showcase participants. We describe how we collect, use, share, store, and delete the information we receive from participants.
Collection & Use of Info
Why we collect your information
This project will help us invest in skills and leadership development, identify topics for impact, and innovate in free knowledge. We will use the information you provide to:
- Run the associated event or meeting
- Communicate with you further
- Advance knowledge through open research and study
For more information about this project, please read its related page.
How we collect your information
Zoom is used to host the meeting or stream the event; please read their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. YouTube is also used to host the meeting or stream the event; please read their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. We may also collect information over email and from your organizational affiliations or prior publications.
What information we collect
If you choose to participate, we will ask you to provide the following types of information:
- Responses to questions
- such as defined and free-form responses
- Contact information
- such as name, username, email address
- Media submissions
- such as video, photo, slide decks
- Recordings
- such as video, audio, photo
Sharing
How we share your information
Publishing: Contact information submitted during event registration will not be shared publicly. Recordings taken or live-streamed during the event will be published. Please turn your camera off and use a display name if you do not wish to be recorded. Media submissions may be included in event recordings and/or published separately. We will publish identifying data (such as direct quotes with attribution). For an example, please review what we have published previously. To facilitate this publishing, you agree to license your copyrightable contributions under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 and 4.0.
Access: Raw data will only be shared with Wikimedia staff, contractors, and service providers who need to process this information and are subject to non-disclosure obligations.
Other sharing: We may disclose any collected information when required by law, when we have your permission, when needed to protect our rights, privacy, safety, users, or the general public, and when necessary to enforce our Terms of Use or any other Wikimedia policy.
Protection
How long we keep your information
The raw data we collect may be retained indefinitely. See our data retention guidelines for more information.
Who to contact
If you have questions, please email elescakwikimedia.org. Participants who wish to change, access, or delete information they provided should contact us with their requests.