Effective date: April 29, 2019
Last revision: August 4, 2022

XR Safety Initiative (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://xrsi.org website (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding collecting, using, and disclosing personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. Using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information per this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from the xrsi.org website.

Definitions

Service
Service is the xrsi.org website operated by XR Safety Initiative.

Personal Data
Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Data
Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies
Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Data Controller
Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and how any personal information are, or are to be, processed.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

Data Processors (or Service Providers)
Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.
We may use the services of various Service Providers to process your data more effectively.

Data Subject (or User)
Data Subject is any living individual using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally Identifiable Information (PII) may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
  • Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may interest you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

Usage Data

We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies, such as beacons, tags, and scripts, are also used to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

XR Safety Initiative uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service
  • To notify you about changes to our Service
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer support
  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service.
  • To monitor the usage of our Service
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues
  • To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), XR Safety Initiative’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

XR Safety Initiative may process your Personal Data because:

  • We need to perform a contract with you
  • You have permitted us to do so
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests and your rights do not override it
  • To comply with the law

Retention of Data

XR Safety Initiative will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

XR Safety Initiative will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers outside your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

XR Safety Initiative will take all the necessary steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and follows this Privacy Policy. No transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or country unless adequate controls exist, including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

Legal Requirements

XR Safety Initiative may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of the XR Safety Initiative
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Our Policy on “Do Not Track” Signals under the California Online Protection Act (CalOPPA)

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting your web browser’s Preferences or Settings page.

Your Data Protection Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a European Economic Area (EEA) resident, you have certain data protection rights. XR Safety Initiative aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit your personal data use.

Please contact us if you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it removed from our systems.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. Please contact us to assist you if you cannot perform these actions yourself.

The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.

The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable, and commonly used format.

The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time when XR Safety Initiative relies on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. Please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA) for more information.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that we do not operate. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. Please contact us if you are a parent or guardian and know that your Child has provided us with Personal Data. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will inform you via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service before the change becomes effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. These Privacy Policy changes are effective when posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

  • By email: info@xrsi.org

XRSI Goals

Intending to address the challenges of global research XR, the goal for XRSI is to

Some of the more immediate technical challenges surfaced by industry experts of value to this effort include:

  • Fostering a healthy research cyberinfrastructure ecosystem
    • Bringing together the ongoing initiatives developing federation toolsets at various layers of the technology stack
    • Facilitating coordination between and among these efforts and identifying gaps in …
  • Encouraging policy coordination
    • Addressing the limitations of existing standards that impact governance, resource discovery, authorization for data access, and resource usage
    • Identifying and differential legal terms of use and coordinating security and audit policies that respect local policy and regulatory obligations
    • Encouraging funding agencies to establish policies and practices that would support greater and more open access
  • Resolving financial barriers to access through streamlined account subscriptions and payments through coordination of research funding practices and expanded programmatic partnerships with commercial XR providers.

As part of the test-bed project, we will work closely with university-based research cyberinfrastructure organizations and public/commercial XR technology providers to:

  • Establish a “standards-based” workflow for the management of access and use of XR data and computing resources;
  • Establish reporting to and coordination with funding agencies;
  • Develop “community-based” contracts to streamline the acquisition of services;
  • Encourage commercial providers to offer research cyberinfrastructure consistent with community-generated requirements and compliant with relevant policies;
  • Develop a standard approach to communicating any data/resource stewardship, policy-based, regulatory, contractual, and financial obligations related to accessing and using XR technologies.