Privacy Notice

Last updated: March 14, 2024

1. What does this notice cover?

At the Institute for the Advancement of Legal and Ethical AI (“ALEA Institute”), we’re researching and communicating about legal and ethical AI systems. If you are an ALEA Institute partner and we have signed any additional agreements, then you should review those terms and any related notice or consent forms.

This Website Privacy Notice describes how the ALEA Institute LLC collects, uses, and shares information when you use this website or any related domains (“site”, “website”). This notice does not necessarily cover the privacy practices of any other the ALEA Institute products or services.

2. What information does the ALEA Institute collect?

In general, we limit our collection of information. Here’s what we collect:

A. Browser Information

By visiting this site, your browser sends basic information to our servers as part of a normal HTTP(S) request, including your IP address, browser user agent, and other HTTP headers. We use this information for two purposes:

• Security and Availability: To address information security or availability issues, such as Denial of Service (DoS) or unauthorized access attempts (“hacking”).

• Internal Analysis: To understand and improve trends related to our content, e.g., “which posts are most popular?,” we use Plausible for our website analytics on our site. Plausible provides privacy-focused analytics in a way that respects users; Plausible does not collect IP addresses or use cookies.

B. Contact Information

If you submit information via our contact forms or to us directly, we will collect contact information or any other information you enter.

We use this information to contact you or take action based on the information or request you provide.

C. Marketing Information

We maintain certain mailing lists and communication channels through services such as Discourse and listmonk. If you sign up for one of our mailing lists or communication channels, we may use that information to contact you with marketing or information communication.

D. Third-Party Platforms

We may collect information when you interact with our content on third-party sites or platforms, such as social networking sites. This may include information such as reactions or comments that you post on our content, profile information gathered from social networking sites or the fact that you viewed or interacted with our content. These third-party platforms are governed by their own respective privacy policies and notices.

E. Other Information

We may collect other information from you that is not specifically listed here. Any use of such information will be in accordance with this Website Privacy Notice or as otherwise permitted by you.

We do not sell, trade, share or transfer your personal information to third parties except in the circumstances described below.

A. Service Providers

We use third-party service providers to host our website and provide website analytics. The following service providers may process information on our behalf:

• Amazon Web Services: website hosting

• Plausible: privacy-friendly web analytics

B. Legal Purposes

We may share your personal information when required to do so by law or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to:

(a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, including those outside of your country of residence;

(b) enforce our contractual terms, including investigation of potential violations thereof;

(c) protect against imminent harm to our rights, operations, property, privacy or safety, or that of our users or the public as required or permitted by law;

(d) allow us to limit the damages we may sustain or to pursue available remedies.

C. Fraud and Security

To detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.

D. Corporate transaction

In the event that we become involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or any form of sale of some or all of our assets, we may share and/or transfer your personally identifiable information.

We may share your personal information with a third party with your consent.

F. Aggregate Information

We may also share highly-aggregated, non-identifying information with the public or third parties for any reason; for example, to report on trends about the industry or the number of visitors to our website.

4. How do you use cookies?

We don’t.

5. What rights do I have?

You should know that you do have the right to opt out of all marketing communications from us. You can do this by unsubscribing from our mailing list. You can also contact us at hello@aleainstitute.ai.

6. Children Under Age 13

We do not intend for children under the age of 13 to visit our site or submit personal information to us. Children under 13 may send any personal information about themselves. If we discover that we have collected personally identifying information about children under 13, we will delete that information. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 for whom you believe we have personal information from or about, please contact us using one of the methods listed on this page.

7. Changes

We reserve the right to change this Website Privacy Notice at any time. If we make changes, we will provide you with notice of such change and will indicate on this page the new effective date.