Privacy — Wisdom Lab

This is a non-commercial academic research project. Short version: we store your chosen nickname and your proverb judgments; published research data is anonymized; we never sell or share anything.

Who is responsible

Vlad Belciug (researcher, Constanța, Romania) — contact: vladbelciug80@gmail.com. Co-investigator: Elena Pelican, Ovidius University of Constanța.

What we process, and why

• Your nickname — shown on the leaderboard and linking your judgments together. Please use a nickname rather than your full name if you prefer.
• Your judgments (which proverb pairs you rated, the rating, the time) — the scientific purpose of the platform.
• Technical data (IP address) — held briefly in memory for abuse prevention (rate limiting) and in standard server logs; not linked to your judgments by us.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in conducting open academic research (GDPR art. 6(1)(f)); participation is entirely voluntary.

Publication and retention

Judgments are published as open scientific data with nicknames replaced by neutral identifiers (e.g. "annotator_2"). The research database is kept for the duration of the project; backups are retained up to 30 days beyond deletion.

Hosting

Servers are provided by netcup GmbH (Germany) under a GDPR data-processing agreement.

Your rights

You may request access to, correction, or deletion of the data linked to your nickname at any time — one email suffices. You may also complain to a supervisory authority (in Romania: ANSPDCP).