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title: How is data handled inside Describo | ||
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# How is data handled inside Describo? | ||
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::: tip Summary | ||
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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. | ||
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**Your data remains your data. Always. In perpetuity. No Exceptions.** | ||
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A common user concern is how online services handle their data. | ||
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- 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? | ||
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This document aims to explain, in simple language, how Describo handles **your** data. | ||
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Describo (the application, component and cloud service) does not assert any right or title to data | ||
that you process with it. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | ||
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## The Describo Cloud | ||
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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. | ||
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- 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. | ||
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- 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/). | ||
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- 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. | ||
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- 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. | ||
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- 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. | ||
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- **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. |
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