Who we are
Nanoleaf! Headquartered in Toronto, Canada (where the beta and research programs are run from). https://research.nanoleaf.me is the digital home for this initiative. This privacy and personal information handling policy is a companion to the primary Terms of Service and Privacy Policy governing our wider operations, and available on nanoleaf.me.
We do our utmost to treat your personal information in a privacy-by-design manner, and collect as little personal information as possible in the course of administering research projects. Information that you provide to us in the course of research isn’t sold, traded, or provided to companies outside of Nanoleaf. Information that you provide on the Nanoleaf Research website isn’t used to market or sell Nanoleaf’s products to you unless you’ve explicitly requested this or provided consent to do so.
Comments & Form Submissions
When you leave comments on posts or submit a form entry (example, a survey), we collect the data shown in the form, and your IP address and browser user agent string. The IP address and browser agent information is used to prevent spam and protect this website from certain types of malicious behaviour.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
User Experience Research Interviews
A research project (“Quest”) will sometimes involve qualitative research methods involving personal or group interviews. Such interviews are facilitated primarily through video or audio conference calls, and automated tools are used for transcribing the interview if the research method requires recording the call. Recordings are retained for 180 days and then deleted automatically. Transcriptions and research notes are anonymized and retained indefinitely, unless you request otherwise. Any information collected through interviews is considered protected access data, and accessible only to select staff within the Nanoleaf organization.
Media
If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract any location data from images which are published on the website (we will never publish an image you provide in the course of research without your explicit consent, which you may revoke at any time).
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Posts and pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behave in the exact same way as if you’ve visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
For example, if a YouTube video is embedded in page content, Alphabet and its subsidiaries may process behavioural data from your interaction with the video. Enabling Incognito mode or Privacy Sandbox mode in your browser can reduce the amount of information collected.
Who we share your data with
Any information submitted by you on this website is accessible only to a handful of employees at Nanoleaf. Aggregated research results are compiled and shared more broadly within Nanoleaf, but personally-identifiable information is anonymized before dissemination.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website, we store any personal information they provide in their user profile (please provide as little personally-identifiable information as possible). All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information (administration permission is restricted to a very small number of Nanoleaf employees who are directly engaged with this research program). Submissions which you make to this website are retained for a maximum of 180 days in their original form. Afterwards, the submissions are anonymized and retained indefinitely in an archived state.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is processed
Any information which you submit to this website is stored on servers located in Montreal, QC, Canada. Original submissions will be routinely accessed by Nanoleaf employees located in Toronto, ON, Canada and Paris, France.