Privacy Policy for Sarah Palin Algorithmic Gibberish

tl;dr: This quiz collects several types of data, but none that can identify you personally. Some of this data is publicly visible, and I provide links to it so that you can see what the data looks like and be certain that I am not building a private data hoard from this quiz.

In more detail

Here are the kinds of data that this quiz collects:

1. Like many other pages on this website, this quiz uses Google Analytics to collect data about visitors. This data includes such things as what operating system you use, what country you are visiting from, and other data that is only available in aggregate and which cannot be tied to you personally.
   • You can read the Google Analytics Tracking Overview or read Google's Privacy Policy.
   • Not all pages on my website gather this data (for instance, web pages that are designed for use by my students do not gather Google Analytics data), but this quiz does.
2. The quiz itself collects aggregate data about quiz answers: how many questions of each type have been asked and how many of those were correct.
   • The amount of information collected by this site in this category is incredibly small: as of this writing (29 January 2016), it occupies only 68 bytes, total, in aggregate for all people taking the quiz, and that includes text labels for the data. For this aggregate data to grow even to 100 bytes, every person on earth would have to take this quiz a thousand million million million times.
     • If you'd like, you can directly see this data here.
   • It does not tie any answers to you personally, nor does it collect enough data that answers can later be tied back to data that is collected from other sources.
3. If you arrive at this quiz via its short URL, then the short URL service is.gd collects some data about your use of that URL.
   • You can read is.gd's ethics policy (it's better than any other I've seen) if you'd like.
   • If you'd like, you can see the aggregate data that is.gd has collected for the quiz here.

What this data is used for

• Quiz answer tallies are an inherently interesting part of this quiz: they are not currently (as of 29 January 2016) visible to the public, but they will be soon, when I have written a brief script wrapper that displays them. However, since no data is collected that can be tied to individual quiz answers, I cannot disclose how any particular person did, because I don't know. All I have is the aggregate correct/incorrect answer tallies for all users, which are available here.
• Data from is.gd and Google Analytics help me to see broad trends in usage of this quiz and other areas of my website so that I have information that assists me in improving the site itself.
• Data that is already publicly available is made visible by links on this page. I will never release data that is not already publicly available to anyone other than me, except:
  • if I am compelled to do so via a valid legal order by a court that has jurisdiction over me; or
  • as is technically necessary for me to collect the data in the first place. (For instance, Google can themselves see the Google Analytics data that they collect on my behalf; the process of collecting the data automatically releases it to Google.)
• I will never attempt to aggregate data from various sources on this quiz, and so I will never be able to release aggregate data.

Your rights

• You have the right not to engage with this web site if these terms are not palatable to you. I respect your right to make meaningful choices about your own privacy and data security, and have attempted to make my collecting practices clear through this document.
• You have the right to use technological means to limit the data that is collected by this quiz (such as by using browser extensions that prevent scripts from executing or otherwise opt out of data collection). You will not be prevented from engaging with this website or otherwise penalized for doing so.
• You are welcome to provide feedback or ask questions about your privacy by contacting me, and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible with a meaningful response to your question or concern.