Legal:Global Readers Survey Privacy Statement
This privacy statement supplements the Wikimedia Foundation's Privacy Policy for Global Readers Survey participants. We describe how we collect, use, share, store, and delete the information we receive from participants.
| Global Readers Survey | |
|---|---|
| From the Research team | |
 The data we collect will be used to review or improve our services | |
| Data Collected | |
| Responses | Yes |
| Demographic data | Yes |
| Recording | No |
| Device data | Yes |
| Nonpublic Wikimedia session data | Yes |
| Data Published | |
| Non-Identifying | Yes |
| Identifying | No |
| Data Access | |
| Wikimedia Foundation | Yes |
| Volunteers | No |
| Other |
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| Data Storage and Deletion | |
| Raw Data Retention | 180 days |
| Data Location | U.S. and others |
| Please read the full Privacy Statement | |
Collection & Use of Info
Why we collect your information
This project will help us innovate in free knowledge, support safety and inclusion, and manage internal knowledge. We will use the information you provide to:
- Improve our projects, tools, and services
- Advance knowledge through open research and study
For more information about this project, please read its related page.
How we collect your information
QuickSurveys is used to collect survey responses; please read its pages on Meta-Wiki and MediaWiki. To help us understand how and why our users visit the Wikimedia projects, we will link your survey responses to the additional data QuickSurveys collects, which is detailed below. LimeSurvey is also used to collect responses or registrations; 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
Demographic information- such as nationality, gender
Device information- such as IP address, user agent
Nonpublic Wikimedia session information- such as page viewed, login status
Sharing
How we share your information
Publishing: We will only publish non-identifying data (such as anonymous quotes, statistics, or other aggregate data). For an example, please review what we have published previously. To facilitate this publishing, you agree to donate your copyrightable contributions to the public domain under the terms of Creative Commons Zero 1.0.
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 will be deleted, de-identified, or aggregated within 180 days. See our data retention guidelines for more information.
Who to contact
If you have questions, please email research-wmf
lists.wikimedia.org. Participants who wish to change, access, or delete information they provided should contact us with their requests.