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Effective: 2024-05-21

Overview

At Indiana University (IU), we are committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of personal information entrusted to us. By accessing and using IU's services, you acknowledge and consent to the practices described in our global privacy statement here: https://privacy.iu.edu/privacy/global.html.

For additional information outlining how Indiana University collects, uses, and safeguards personal information obtained specifically through our website (https://annotate.osome.iu.edu/), please also review the information below.

Continued use of our website indicates consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of this information as described in this notice.

Visitors to other IU websites should review the privacy notices for the sites they visit, as other units at the university may collect and use visitor information in different ways. Indiana University is not responsible for the content of other websites or for the privacy practices of websites outside the scope of this notice.

Changes

Because Internet technologies continue to evolve rapidly, Indiana University may make appropriate changes to this notice in the future. Any such changes will be consistent with our commitment to respecting visitor privacy, and will be clearly posted in a revised privacy notice.

Collection and Use

Passive/Automatic Collection

When you view pages on our site, the web server automatically collects certain technical information from your computer and about your connection. This information is outlined in the IU Privacy statement.

In addition to any information outline in the global statement, our server and/or site collects the following:

Active/Manual/Voluntary Collection

We will not attempt to collect any information from you through the use of forms or other type of manual input.

Additional Information Related to Information Collection

This site also stores following information about users: 1.Username: Users are required to provide a username during registration for identification purposes. 2.Password: A password is required to secure user accounts and ensure confidentiality. 3.Email ID: Users must provide an email address for account verification and communication purposes. In addition to the above, annotators who annotate datasets on our platform may provide the following information: 1. Answers to Questions: Annotators may submit answers to questions related to the datasets they annotate. 2.Annotation Time: The time taken by annotators to complete dataset annotation tasks may be recorded. Dataset Storage: Datasets uploaded to our website are stored securely on our servers. Definition files to annotate datasets are stored securely on our servers.

Information Sharing

Except as described in the IU Privacy statement, we will not share any information with any other entities or organizations for any reason.

Except as provided in the Disclosure of Information section below, we do not attempt to use the technical information discussed in this section to identify individual visitors.

Additional Information Related to Information Use

We may use information of annotators to annotate datasets such as time to annotate and then use that information in future for further data analysis purposes.

Cookies

For more information on how we use cookies, please review the IU Privacy statement.

Our site does not use cookies to store information about your actions or choices on pages associated with our site.

Children

This site is not directed to children under 13 years of age, does not sell products or services intended for purchase by children, and does not knowingly collect or store any personal information, even in aggregate, about children under the age of 13. We encourage parents and teachers to be involved in children's Internet explorations. It is particularly important for parents to guide their children when they are asked to provide personal information online.

Use of Third Party Services

Our website does not utilize web analytics services beyond what is noted in the IU Privacy statement.

Security

Due to the rapidly evolving nature of information technologies, no transmission of information over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. While Indiana University is committed to protecting user privacy, IU cannot guarantee the security of any information users transmit to university sites, and users do so at their own risk.

Links to non-university sites

Indiana University is not responsible for the availability, content, or privacy practices of non-university sites. Non-university sites are not bound by this site privacy notice policy and may or may not have their own privacy policies.

Privacy Notice Changes

From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice.

We will post the policy changes to our Website to notify you of these changes, but only data collected from the time of the policy change forward will be used for these new purposes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Website periodically.

Contact Information

If you have questions or concerns about this policy, please contact us.

Indiana University
ATTN: Ben Serrette
1015 E 11th Street
Bloomington, Indiana
47408
bserrett@iu.edu
812-855-2675

If you feel that this site is not following its stated policy and communicating with the owner of this site does not resolve the matter, or if you have general questions or concerns about privacy or information technology policy at Indiana University, please contact the chief privacy officer through the University Information Policy Office, 812-855-UIPO, privacy@iu.edu.

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