Legal:2024 Volunteer Committee Appointments Privacy Statement
This privacy statement supplements the Wikimedia Foundation's Privacy Policy for Application for 2024 Volunteer Committee Appointments 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 enable more equitable decisions, evaluate, iterate, and adapt our activities, and increase the sustainability of our movement. We will use the information you provide to:
- Find applicants, participants, or nominations
- Communicate with you further
For more information about this project, please read its related page.
How we collect your information
Google Forms is used to collect responses or registrations; please read their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Zendesk may also be used to collect information. Please read their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
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
- Demographic information
- such as nationality, gender
- Transcripts
- such as chat logs, captions, screenshots
- Public Wikimedia activity information
- such as user contributions or public logs
Sharing
How we share your information
Publishing: We will publish identifying data (such as direct quotes with attribution). 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, service providers, and volunteers 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 will be deleted, de-identified, or aggregated within 180 days. Please note that if you agree to future contact, your contact information will be retained longer to enable that communication. See our data retention guidelines for more information.
Who to contact
If you have questions, please email cstwikimedia.org. Participants who wish to change, access, or delete information they provided should contact us with their requests.