The website "BlankCrack" (henceforth "this website") is a "game for
science", or "game with a purpose", or "serious game". Data collected
through this website may be made available to the public through a
CC-BY-SA license. By creating an account on this website, users agree to
the present terms of use in their entirety without provision, addition or
modification of any kind.
Collection of non-personal information: All data submitted to this
website, with the exception of data allowing personal identification, may
be used for academic, research and/or educational purposes. All data
submitted to this website, with the exception of data allowing personal
identification, may be distributed to third parties for the use of
academic, research and/or educational purposes. Such data includes, but is
not limited to: word pairs submitted through the "blank" page of this
website (accessible here), responses
submitted through the "crack" page of this website
(accessible here) along with time
taken before submission and displayed sentences, friends list, scores.
Data submitted to this website will not be used for commercial and/or
advertisement purposes. Use of this website will be considered as explicit
consent to the use of all submitted data for academic, research and/or
educational purposes, with the exception of data allowing personal
identification.
Personal information and privacy policy: Data allowing personal
identification will not be distributed to third parties, including and not
limited to IP address, email address, timezoneselected, sign-in and
sign-out times, not including usernames. All usernames present in data
shared to third parties will be pseudonymized and replaced with randomly
generated placeholders prior to any sharing of data to third parties. No
attempt to identify individuals based on their usernames or personal
information will be made by parties obtaining access to this data or to a
copy thereof. Collection of personal information by this website is
limited to the requirements of maintaining this website, including, but
not limited to, handling connections to this website, contacting users,
and handling breach of the present terms of use.
Sharing of data to third parties: All third parties obtaining a
copy of the data submitted to this website, directly or indirectly from
the administrators of this website, will be required to explicitly
consent to the abovestated terms of use. No third party may use data
collected through this site for any other purposes than academic, research
or educational purposes. No third party may attempt to identify
individuals based on pseudonymized usernames. All third parties having
access to data collected through this website or to a copy thereof is
liable and accountable for ensuring the application of the present terms
of use with respect to the data or copy thereof obtained by said third
party.
Interruption and termination of service: Access to this website may
be interrupted for upgrades or maintenance at any given time, for any
duration of time. Administrators of this website are under no obligation
to maintain this website. Access to this website may be terminated at any
point. Upon explicit request from users, user accounts may be deleted.
Upon explicit request from users deleting their accounts, data pertaining
to the friends list of said users may be deleted. Upon explicit request
from users deleting their accounts, data submitted by said users through
the "blank" page of this website may be deleted. Upon explicit request
from users deleting their accounts, data submitted by said users through
the "crack" page of this website may be deleted. Data destruction requests
concerning data previously shared to third parties is to be forwarded to
said third parties, who will be fully liable to comply with this request.
Behavior of users on the website and prohibited uses: Users of this
website must adopt a behavior that is not offensive. Administrators of the
website reserve the right to decide which behavior is deemed offensive, as
well as the applicable sanctions. Prohibited uses of this website include,
but are not limited to: transmitting content that could be deemed
unlawful, threatening, harassing, racist, abusive, libelous, pornographic,
vulgar, defamatory, obscene, indecent, or otherwise inappropriate;
including any messages constituting or encouraging criminal conduct;
altering or modifying another website to falsely imply that it is
associated with the present website; breaching, or attempting to breach,
this website's security systems; gaining unauthorized access to this
website's data or the data of other users; enabling third parties to
violate the present terms of use; any illegal use of this website.
Administrators of this website reserve the right to decide on sanctions in
case of prohibited use of this website, up to and including legal
prosecution.
Amendments to the present terms of use: Administrators of this
website reserve the right to amend the present terms of use at any time.
Amendments to the present terms of use will be made explicit to users upon
signing in; such notifications are held sufficient to effectuate the
amendments by all involved parties. Users are accountable for abiding to
the amended terms of use in their entirety.
