Opiniowiki:Privacy policy
Privacy Policy
Our mission to build a transparent platform for public discourse extends to how we handle your data. This policy outlines our commitment to protecting your privacy while enabling the core functions of Opiniowiki. Our guiding principle is to collect only what we need and to use it to provide a better, more engaging experience for our community.
1. Information We Collect
To run our platform, we collect the following types of information:
- User-Generated Content: All comments, arguments, and replies you voluntarily contribute. This content is the essential raw material for the AI analysis that powers our interactive articles.
- Registered User Information: To create an account, we require a valid email address, a username, and a password. You may optionally add other information to your public profile, such as a profile picture or a short biography.
- Anonymous User Information: You may contribute without an account. To prevent abuse and maintain the integrity of the platform, we log the IP address associated with anonymous contributions. This IP address is not publicly displayed.
- Usage Data: We use standard analytics tools, including Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, to understand how users interact with our platform. This includes information like pages visited and features used, which helps us identify areas for improvement.
2. How We Use Your Information
Our use of data is directly tied to user-facing benefits and platform functionality:
- To Power Our Core Technology: Your comments are the input for the AI that generates and updates our interactive, source-traceable articles.
- To Foster a Responsive Community: For registered users, we use your email address to send notifications when someone replies to your comment, helping you stay engaged in the conversation.
- To Improve the Platform: We analyze aggregated, anonymous usage data to make Opiniowiki more intuitive, faster, and more valuable for our community.
- To Maintain Platform Safety: We use information like IP addresses and account data to investigate and prevent spam, manipulation, and other violations of our community guidelines.
3. Data for Research: Our Ethical Framework
As a Public-Facing Civic Intelligence Platform, our data is a valuable resource for academics, journalists, and researchers. We are committed to fostering research in a way that is ethical and respects our users.
We may partner with academic institutions or research organizations. All such partnerships will be governed by our strict Ethical Research Framework, which requires transparency, data anonymization where appropriate, and a commitment to ensuring that research does not harm the user experience or the integrity of our community. Any platform-sanctioned research will be publicly disclosed.
