From 0ec87ee2070709d269df51da57d6ee349f5b7df4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marco La Rosa Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:22:31 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] add article about data handling --- sidebar-menu.js | 14 +--- src/docs/articles/how-your-data-is-handled.md | 76 +++++++++++++++++++ src/vue-components/FeatureArticles.vue | 21 ++++- 3 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) create mode 100644 src/docs/articles/how-your-data-is-handled.md diff --git a/sidebar-menu.js b/sidebar-menu.js index 6cb5594..871d693 100644 --- a/sidebar-menu.js +++ b/sidebar-menu.js @@ -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", diff --git a/src/docs/articles/how-your-data-is-handled.md b/src/docs/articles/how-your-data-is-handled.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c725bc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/docs/articles/how-your-data-is-handled.md @@ -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. diff --git a/src/vue-components/FeatureArticles.vue b/src/vue-components/FeatureArticles.vue index 23f6a43..86f5a97 100644 --- a/src/vue-components/FeatureArticles.vue +++ b/src/vue-components/FeatureArticles.vue @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ -
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