This document is preliminary and is only available for comments at this time.
The Data Use Community (DUC) is an open community project organized under the auspices of a consortium of organizations and individuals. Our challenges and goals are large. For that reason, we have a very permissive (non) privacy policy that mirrors our public mission to seek in-country perspectives, address best practices and align donors around the use of data.
Please assume that everything you contribute to the DUC is public. This includes presentations at community events, communication activities such as emails on public lists, wikis, online discussions of all sorts, and documentation that you post to this website.
Because we follow an academic model that expects mutual personal respect, disclosure of interests and openness of expression, even your DUC profile is public information. We will not share your personal information with other individuals or organizations without your permission, including public organizations, corporations or individuals, except when applicable by law. There will be cases where you are invited to share private information for various purposes, and denote that information as such. In those cases, we commit to only disclosing that information without your permission upon receipt of a valid subpoena and following notice from the DUC to you.
DUC is committed to support and work with partners seeking alignment around global privacy guidelines that give individuals control of their personal data.
Although what you disclose here is public, we are all limited by copyright and patent law in how we may use your contributions. Therefore, DUC only accepts voluntary contributions of content and documentation that are expressly licensed to DUC under an approved creative commons license.
DUC welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy. Send them to info@datausecommunity.org.