Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge Survey - Data Protection Statement

Data Protection

Responsible for Data Protection

Michael “Six” Silberman
Savignystraße 71
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
silberman@platformwork.org

If, after reading the statement below, you have questions regarding data collection, data processing, or your rights with regard to your personal data collected by this website, please write to Michael “Six” Silberman at silberman@platformwork.org.

Data Protection Statement

1 General

1.1 Structure of this website

This website consists of static pages and “dynamic” pages.

Static pages include:

The homepage, index.html, which includes the survey form
The “Organizers” / “Personnel” page, org.html
The “Impressum” page, impressum.html
The “Data Protection” page, gdpr.html (this page)

Dynamic pages include:

submit.php, which you access on submitting data into the survey form
confirm_email.php, which you access by clicking the link in the confirmation email you receive after submitting data in the survey form

1.2 Data collected automatically on all pages of this website (“Logging”)

When you access a static or dynamic page, the following information is collected:

The date and time of the access
The page you accessed
Your IP address
Information about your browser (“user-agent” string)

This information is stored in a log file on the server. This data is collected automatically for the purposes of monitoring server load, monitoring for irregular traffic (e.g., attempted intrusions, especially automated intrusions) and debugging. The legal basis for the collection of this data with respect to users in the European Union (EU) is provided by Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (controller’s legitimate interest). The data will not be shared with any third parties and will be deleted after two years. If you are within the EU, the GDPR provides you with rights with respect to the storage and processing of this data. These rights are listed in Section 4 below. Reasonable effort will be exerted to provide all users of this website with all the rights afforded by the GDPR, regardless of their location; no guarantees regarding this provision can be made for users outside of the EU, however.

1.3 Data provided actively by user

When you enter data into the survey form on the homepage and successfully submit the data, all the data you enter into the form fields is saved in a database. More detail is provided in Section 2 below.

When you access confirm_email.php by clicking the email confirmation link, no additional information is collected, but the information is stored in a database, not only in a log file. More detail is provided in Section 3 below.

1.4 SSL

This website uses SSL on every page.

1.5 Cookies

This website does not use cookies.

2 Survey form

The purpose of this website is to allow crowdsourcing requesters with opinions about committing to pay minimum wage to express those opinions. To support this purpose, the homepage (index.html) includes a form with fields (some optional) in which you are asked to enter the following information:

Your name
Your main institutional or organizational affiliation
Your email address
Any additional institutional affiliations you may have
Whether you are, have recently been, or plan soon to be:
- an academic requester (i.e., a person who posts tasks to crowdsourcing platforms for research purposes)
- a non-academic requester
- an intermediary (i.e., a person who posts tasks to crowdsourcing platforms on behalf of other people)
- a university administrator and/or IRB/ethics board member
- a crowd worker for whom income earned via crowd work is economically important
If you have some other relationship to crowd work, and if so, what
Whether crowdsourcing is essential, important but not essential, not that important, or not at all important to your research or business
About how many tasks you posted in the last year to crowdsourcing platforms
Whether you seek already to pay workers completing your crowdsourcing tasks a minimum wage; why or why not; and if so, what amount
Whether you would be willing to commit to pay, or consider committing to pay, a minimum wage for your crowdsourcing tasks; why or why not; and if so, what amount
Whether or not you are a robot

By filling out this form and clicking the button labeled “Submit” at the bottom of the form, you consent to transmitting your data and having it saved in a database on the server hosting this website. The legal basis for the collection of this data with respect to users in the EU is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (data subject’s consent). The data will not be shared with any third parties and will be deleted after two years. For the purposes of communication regarding the Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge, including communication of personal data of survey participants, members of the Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge Survey Advisory Board are not considered third parties. Should Advisory Board members receive any such data, they are bound by the provisions of this data protection statement.

3 Email confirmation

After successful completion of the survey form on the homepage of this website (see Section 2 above), an email will be sent from the email address faircrowdwork@gmail.com with the sender name “Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge Survey” to the email address you entered into the survey form.

The purpose of this email is to confirm your ownership of the email address you entered. The email contains a link of the form:

https://pledge.platformwork.org/confirm/XXXXXXXX

where XXXXXXXX is a unique “confirmation code” that is automatically generated and assigned (i.e., saved in the database on the server hosting this website in the same record as the rest of your answers to the survey questions) upon your completion of the survey.

Clicking on the link will cause your browser to access confirm_email.php, a dynamic page on this website. That page will update the database record corresponding to your answers to the survey questions to indicate that you have clicked the link. It will also save the date and time at which, and the IP address from which, you accessed the page, in the same database record.

The legal basis for the collection of this data with respect to users in the EU is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (data subject’s consent). The data will not be shared with any third parties and will be deleted after two years. For the purposes of communication regarding the Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge, members of the Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge Survey Advisory Board are not considered third parties. Should Advisory Board members receive any such data, they are bound by the provisions of this data protection statement.

4 Your rights

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GPPR) provides users of this website located in the EU with specific rights with respect to their personal data.

The operators of this website aim to provide all users of this website, regardless of their location, with these same rights to the extent possible given reasonable effort; no guarantees can however be made for users not located in the EU.

These rights are provided by Articles 13 through 22 (Sections 2 through 4) of GDPR and are as follows:

The right to be informed of personal data being processed
The right to access the personal data being processed (i.e., to receive a copy)
The right to request rectification of inaccurate personal data
The right to request erasure of your personal data
The right to request “restriction of processing” of personal data you believe may be inaccurate
Where the legal basis for data processing is not your consent but rather the “legitimate interests” of the website operator (in this case the collection of IP addresses and browser information and their storage in server log files), the right to object to that processing
The right to portability, i.e., the right to transfer your data to another “controller”
Where the legal basis for data processing is your consent, the right to withdraw consent for processing of your personal data (this does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent prior to your withdrawal of consent)
The right to be informed of the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, based on your personal data, and to be provided with meaningful information about the logic involved as well as the envisaged consequences
The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

5 Contacts

The first point of contact regarding your rights with respect to your personal data is the “controller” in the sense of GDPR responsible for this website:

Michael “Six” Silberman
Savignystraße 71
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
silberman@platformwork.org

Email is the preferred contact method.

Reasonable efforts will be made to afford the rights provided by GDPR to all users of this website, regardless of their location; no guarantees can be made for users outside the EU, however.

If you are located in the EU, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country of residence or in the location of the data processing.

The supervisory authority responsible for oversight of data processing on this website, by virtue of the controller’s location, is:

Der Hessische Datenschutzbeauftragte
Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 1
65189 Wiesbaden
Germany
Tel.: +49 611 1408 0

This data protection statement may be updated occasionally to reflect changes to the website and/or new legal developments.

Updated 7 November 2018