Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
add article about data handling
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
marcolarosa committed Jul 24, 2024
1 parent a2e2e4a commit 0ec87ee
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Showing 3 changed files with 95 additions and 16 deletions.
14 changes: 2 additions & 12 deletions sidebar-menu.js
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -11,18 +11,8 @@ export const sidebar = [
{ text: "Beginner Tutorial", link: "/docs/guide/five-minute-tutorial" },
{ text: "Team", link: "/team" },
{
text: "Articles",
collapsed: false,
items: [
{
text: "Index",
link: "/docs/articles/articles-index",
},
{
text: "TayTay Sings the Budget Blues",
link: "/docs/articles/taytay-sings-the-budget-blues",
},
],
text: "Feature Articles",
link: "/docs/articles/articles-index",
},
{
text: "User Guide",
Expand Down
76 changes: 76 additions & 0 deletions src/docs/articles/how-your-data-is-handled.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
---
title: How is data handled inside Describo
aside: false
---

# How is data handled inside Describo?

::: tip Summary

Describo handles your data with the utmost respect for privacy and ownership. Describo ensures that
data remains your property and is not used for any purpose other than what **you** explicitly
specify. When using the Describo application locally, your data does not leave your computer, and
any metadata created is stored in the source folder. For users of the Describo Cloud services, your
data is processed securely using Amazon AWS, with support for data sovereignty. Further, it is not
stored beyond the processing time or used to train any AWS service.

**Your data remains your data. Always. In perpetuity. No Exceptions.**

:::

A common user concern is how online services handle their data.

- Does the data remain their property?
- How is the data used by the service?
- Who can access the data once it's uploaded to the service?

This document aims to explain, in simple language, how Describo handles **your** data.

Describo (the application, component and cloud service) does not assert any right or title to data
that you process with it.

If you download the Describo application and use it to describe a folder of content, that content
does not leave your local computer. Furthermore that content is not stored inside any part of the
Describo application. In this way, you can use Describo to interact with your data (describe it,
annotate the entities, transcribe content manually, visualise it) confident in the knowledge that
the data has not left its source location.

As Describo is an application that runs on your computer, any data source that is connected to your
computer can be interacted with inside Describo. Whether it's a Dropbox folder, Google Drive, a
Microsoft Onedrive folder or your company fileshare (Z:\\ drive or whatever); it's mounted on your
computer, Describo can work with it.

Any metadata that you create with Describo remains in the source folder inside a file named
`ro-crate-metadata.json`. Nothing is locked up inside the application.

## The Describo Cloud

If you choose to register with the Describo cloud and purchase credits to use the text extraction,
entity recognition or assistant capabilities, the data that you select for processing will be
uploaded to the Describo cloud. Detailed information about the Describo Cloud is at
[Cloud Services and Data Processing](/docs/guide/data-processing) but following is an explanation of
that content and more.

- Describo does not assert any right or title to any of the outputs of the cloud service. The
Describo Cloud empowers you to create, while you retain complete ownership of your outputs.

- The Describo Cloud is built using Amazon AWS. A good starting point for more information about
the data protection capabilities of AWS is found
[here](https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-protection/).

- The Describo Cloud supports _Data Sovereignty_. It is a common requirement that user data be
processed within regions that are consistent with your local legal requirements. To support
this, the Describo cloud operates in 3 regions globally and the region you use is determined via
geolocation of your IP address; ie the service you use is based on your location.

- The services that Describo Cloud uses are AWS Textract, Comprehend and Bedrock. Links to those
services, and their FAQs explaining how data is handled, are on the data processing page. In
summary: your data is processed by those services and **it does not go elsewhere**; including to
the providers of the Large Language Model underlying the assistant.

- The Describo Cloud does not store your data beyond what is required to process it and return the
response. Backups of your data are not made.

- **Your data will not be used to train any AWS service**.The AWS Organisation that runs the
services has been configured to explicitly opt out of any training on data uploaded to the
cloud.
21 changes: 17 additions & 4 deletions src/vue-components/FeatureArticles.vue
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
</el-radio-group>
</div>

<div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap space-x-1">
<div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap">
<div v-for="article of displayedArticles">
<Feature :link="article.link" class="bg-blue-100">
<Feature :link="article.link" class="border border-slate-300 rounded-sm m-1">
<template #title>{{ article.title }}</template>
<template #content>
<div class="flex flex-col">
Expand All @@ -37,12 +37,25 @@ import Feature from "./Feature.vue";
import { computed, ref } from "vue";
import uniq from "lodash-es/uniq.js";
import flattenDeep from "lodash-es/flattenDeep.js";
const articles = [
// {
// title: "Why Describo? Where does it fit?",
// link: "/docs/articles/why-use-it",
// text: "Start with Why!",
// keywords: ["purpose"],
// },
{
title: "How is data handled inside Describo?",
link: "/docs/articles/how-your-data-is-handled",
text: "Your data is yours.",
keywords: ["data handling", "data privacy & security"],
},
{
title: "TayTay Sings the Budget Blues",
link: "/docs/articles/taytay-sings-the-budget-blues.html",
link: "/docs/articles/taytay-sings-the-budget-blues",
text: "See how the e-discovery tools in Describo can help you.",
keywords: ["e-discovery", "Assistant"],
keywords: ["e-discovery", "assistant"],
},
];
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 0ec87ee

Please sign in to comment.