Submission Agreement & Privacy Notice

Plain‑Language Summary

When you paste a chatlog here you give The Human Line Project permission tostore it, analyse it, publish it and let anyone reuse it forever.
Strip out anything you don’t want on the public internet.
If you leave personal or sensitive details in, you expressly consent to theirpermanent publication and reuse.  You may ask for deletion before public release by emailing thehumanlineproject@gmail.com.

After release, removal is no longer technically feasible.

1. Licence Grant

You grant The Human Line Project a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable,royalty‑free, sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, modify, publish,distribute and create derivative works from the submitted content(“Content”) for any purpose, including academic research, datasetpublication, machine‑learning model development and commercial products orservices.  You irrevocably waive your moral rights in the Content to the fullest extentpermitted under the Canadian Copyright Act.

2. Contributor Declarations

1. You own the Content or have permission to license it.
2. You understand the Content—including any personal or sensitive      information—will be made publicly available and may be copied to servers      anywhere in the world for free reuse.
3. If the Content includes personal data about others, you have obtained      their consent or have another lawful basis to disclose it.
4. You are at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live).

3. Explicit Consent to Process Sensitive Information

By ticking the consent box on the submission form you providemeaningful, explicit consent under section 4.3 of PIPEDA to thecollection, use, worldwide disclosure and permanent republication of anypersonal or sensitive information in your submission for the purposesdescribed in this Agreement.  You acknowledge that once published such datacannot be reliably deleted or recalled.

4. Data Handling & Cross‑Border Transfers

Your submission is stored on Canadian servers. For research integrity andopen‑science purposes, the dataset (or parts of it) may later be hosted ormirrored on servers in other countries.  Those copies will be governed by theprivacy and access laws of their respective jurisdictions, and foreignauthorities may obtain lawful access without notice to you or to us.

We retain personal information only as long as needed for research and legalcompliance. When it is no longer necessary, identifying details are deletedor irreversibly anonymised; de‑identified data may be retained indefinitely.You may request access, correction or deletion of your personal data at anytime before public release.  After release, deletion is no longerpossible.

5. Contact & Complaints

Questions or takedown requests:  thehumanlineproject@gmail.com

You may also lodge a privacy complaint with the Office of the PrivacyCommissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca).

6. Disclaimer & Governing Law

The Content is provided “AS IS”.  Liability is limited to the maximum extentpermitted by the laws of Canada.  Any dispute arising from this Agreementshall be resolved in a Canadian court of competent jurisdiction.