Who we are

This is the privacy policy (“Policy” or “Privacy Policy”) of the AI Collaborative. (“AI Collaborative”, “we”, “our” or “us”).  The AI Collaborative is an initiative of The Omidyar Group which aims to help govern artificial intelligence based on democratic values and principles and to ensure that the public has a critical voice in AI governance and development. The Omidyar Group is a data controller in relation to your personal information.
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Personal information means information that identifies you personally, for example your name, email address or information that can be linked with such data in order to identify you.
Your information privacy is extremely important to us. We have prepared this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, disclose personal information and the rights you have in relation to your personal information when you use the AI Collaborative website (“website”) and related services. If at any time, you have any concern or questions about your personal information, please get in touch at privacy@collaborative.ai.

THE INFORMATION WE PROCESS, HOW WE USE IT AND WHY
AI Collaborative collects certain personal information in providing its website and services.
This includes:
Where you are using the website:
AI Collaborative seeks to collect minimal personal information when you use our website. We mostly collect anonymized information regarding page views of our home page. Below we set out the limited circumstances in which we collect personal information.
When you visit our website, you have the option to provide your email address to hear updates from Current AI. In the event that you provide your specific consent and your email address, we only use this to communicate with you regarding updates about Current AI.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
The website is intended for users who are 18 years old or older. We request that minors under the age of 18 not submit any personal data to the website.  We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under the age of 18.  If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a child under the age of 18, we will delete such information from our records.  

WHO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH
We use Webflow to store data which includes your email address that is processed by us.
We use a privacy-friendly analytics service called Plausible. We use Plausible to understand how our website is being used and where visitors are coming from. We send Plausible anonymous information on the pages that you visit on our website, where your visit originated from (referrer), details of the device type (operating system; browser version), and your approximate location (country). No personal information is collected by Plausible.
Your personal information may also be shared in the event of a transfer of the assets or ownership in connection with any proposed reorganization or sale. We may also disclose personal information in the event of a legal requirement.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR
AI Collaborative has processes in place to ensure that it does not retain your personal information for longer than is necessary for the purposes it was originally collected, unless we have a legal or regulatory reason to keep it for a longer period.
We retain your email address for the duration of our relationship with you and after 5 years. You can at any time request that we unsubscribe you from our communications by contacting us at privacy@collaborative.ai. For more information on our retention periods, please contact us at privacy@collaborative.ai.
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INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
Certain countries have rules around the transfer of personal information and require us to ensure that personal information remains protected according to appropriate standards. AI Collaborative stores your personal information in the United States using its processor, Webflow. Webflow is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Plausible is hosted in the EU.
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Where we transfer any personal information outside of the EU/EEA and the UK, including to the United States we will (i) ensure that an adequate level of protection for that personal data is ensured by applicable data protection laws and (ii) in the absence of an adequate level of protection, provide appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses and/or (iii) enter into or establish any other appropriate instruments or undertakings required under applicable data protection laws to effect such data transfer without breach of such laws.
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AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING
AI Collaborative does not undertake any automated decision-making, including profiling.

INFORMATION SECURITY AND RISK MITIGATION
AI Collaborative places a high priority on information security and has implemented a range of technical, organizational and legal safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the personal information it processes and the data it processes. This includes:

All data is encrypted at restThose with access use 2FA/MFAAll data access is logged
However, no data transmission over the Internet or other network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect information transmitted on or through the website or services, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information you transmit on or through the website or services, and you do so at your own risk.
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OTHER WEBSITES
The AI Collaborative website may link to other, unaffiliated third party websites.  Please note that AI Collaborative is not, and cannot, control or be responsible for the content or privacy and confidentiality practices of any third party websites. A link to a third party website does not mean that we endorse it. You must always carefully review the privacy and confidentiality policy of any third party website that you may visit in order to understand how the operators of that website may collect, store and use your personal information.

YOUR RIGHTS
By law, and depending on where you are based, you may have a number of rights regarding your personal information in certain circumstances. Please contact us at privacy@collaborative.ai to exercise any of your rights. Generally, we will respond to your request within one month, however if your request is complex and requires additional time, we will let you know as soon as possible.

RIGHTS
‍To access: You may have the right to obtain access to your personal information that we are processing, as well as certain other information about how we process your personal information.
To be informed: You may have the right to be provided with clear, easily understandable and specific information about how we handle your personal information as found in this Privacy Policy.
To rectification: If your personal information is inaccurate or incomplete, please let us know as you are entitled to have your personal information corrected.  
To object to processing: In certain circumstances, you have the right to object to processing including for direct marketing. You are able to opt-out of receiving marketing e-mails from us by unsubscribing to our emails or contacting us at privacy@collaborative.ai
To restrict processing: In certain circumstances, you may have the right to have us restrict the processing of your personal information. For example ‘blocking’ any further use of your personal information.
To erasure: In certain circumstances, you may have the right to the deletion or removal of your personal information.
To data portability: You may have the right to have your personal information transferred. For example, if you obtain similar services from another organization, you can request that we transfer your personal information in a secure manner to that organization.
To withdraw consent: Where you have provided your consent for the processing of your personal information, you can withdraw your consent at any time. This will not make any prior processing unlawful, but it does mean that not further processing will be undertaken. This includes withdrawing consent for marketing.
To lodge a complaint with your data protection regulator: You may have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle your personal information with the relevant data protection regulator.


CHANGES AND REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will inform you by posting the revised Privacy Policy on the website. Those changes will go into effect on the ‘revised’ date shown. Please check the website frequently for any changes.This Privacy Policy was published on February 11 2025.
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California Residents

If you are a California resident, you have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended by the California Privacy Rights Acts of 2020 (collectively referred to as CCPA). The following provisions apply in California in addition to the provisions of the Privacy Policy set out above.
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‍Definitions
‍For California residents, personal information has the meaning given in the CCPA.
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‍Rights relating to your personal information
‍California residents receive certain rights with respect to their personal information, as described below.  These rights are not absolute and are subject to certain exceptions more fully set forth in the CCPA. As a California resident, you have the right to:know your personal informationrequest deletion or rectify your personal informationlimit the use or disclosure of sensitive personal informationthe right not to receive discriminatory treatment from us for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.Please contact us at privacy@collaborative.ai to exercise any of these rights.
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‍Right to know about personal information collected, disclosed, or sold
‍Each California resident has the right to request, subject to certain exceptions described in the CCPA, that certain entities disclose to that resident:the categories of personal information we have collected about themthe categories of sources from which the personal information is collectedthe business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the personal informationthe categories of third parties with whom we have shared the personal information andthe specific pieces of personal information we have collected about them (collectively, a “Request to Know”). In the past twelve months we have collected, and in the future we will continue to collect the categories of personal information cited in the section “The Information We Process, How We Use It and Why” above.  We collect this information from the sources described in the same section above. We use this information as described in the same section above. We share this information with the third parties only as described in the section “Who We Share Your Personal Data With” above.We do not sell your personal information.  

‍Process for verifying requests of California residents
‍In order to protect your privacy and security, prior to completing any Request to Know or request to delete that you may submit, we must verify your identity.  We will verify your identity by asking you to provide certain data that we have already collected from you to confirm that they match our records.  In certain instances, additional verification steps may be required.

‍Authorized agents
‍California residents have the right to designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on their behalf.  Prior to completing a request made by such an authorized agent, we require that you provide your authorized agent with written permission to submit such a request and require that you or your authorized agent provide us with a copy of such written permission. Additionally, we require that you verify your identity pursuant to the procedure described above.