Legal:Emerging Education Research: Stakeholder Interview Privacy Statement

This statement describes how and when Wikimedia collects, uses, and shares the information we receive from survey participants.

Please note that this survey takes the form of an interview, which will be conducted through a third-party videoconferencing service; the third party service's use of your information may also be subject to their additional terms. If your interview takes place on Google Meet, please see Google's Privacy Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and Terms of Service. If your interview takes place on Zoom, please see Zoom's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. If your interview takes place on Skype, please see Microsoft's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Purpose of Survey

We appreciate your feedback! This survey will help us understand the motivations, needs, and perspectives of different stakeholders within the educational system of Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda.

What Information We Collect

This survey takes the form of an interview with open-ended free-response questions.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

The contents of your interview will not be shared publicly. Information gathered from these interviews will be used to inform further research by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Raw data will only be shared with the Wikimedia staff and contractors who need to process this information and are subject to non-disclosure obligations, with the exception of the circumstances described below.

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.

Important Information

Wikimedia Foundation is a global organization committed to promoting free and open knowledge. In submitting your response, you understand that the information transferred to Wikimedia Foundation will be collected, transferred, stored, processed, disclosed and otherwise used in the U.S. as described in this Privacy Statement. You also understand that the information may be transferred by us from the U.S. to other countries, which may have different or less stringent data protection laws than your country, in order to carry out the aforementioned purposes and objectives.

Wikimedia understands the importance of user privacy. For this reason, we work to protect our users from the unauthorized disclosure or use of information we maintain.

The raw data collected in this survey will be deleted, anonymized, or aggregated within 90 days. See our data retention guidelines for more information.

If you have questions about this survey, or wish to change, access, or delete the information you provided in the survey, please contact achang@wikimedia.org.

Thanks again for your feedback!

The Wikimedia Foundation

Please note that in the event of any differences in meaning or interpretation between the original English version of this Privacy Statement and a translation, the original English version takes precedence.