Privacy on the Greater Washington site

Who runs this site

The Upskilling Labs, Inc. runs this site, the same organization that runs theupskillinglabs.org. Its privacy policy applies here. This notice covers what’s different.

A separate database

This site keeps its own database, separate from the main site’s. It holds:

• your name, email address and profile picture, from Google when you sign in here, or passed from your dashboard on the main site when you come here from it;
• what you add here: your profile, the accounts you connect (a GitHub username, your name in The Labs’ Slack, the Google account to share files with), your posts and photos, and the pods and projects you’re part of.

Who sees what

Your own posts are visible to signed-in members only. A pod’s or project’s posts are the page speaking publicly, so anyone with the link can see them.

Searching for a session

When you search for a session, we add one to a daily count for the area your search found: a ZIP code, a neighborhood or town, or the nearest library. That tells us where to bring workshops next. We don’t keep what you typed, who you are, your IP address or the time. A street address is looked up on OpenStreetMap from our server, so it never goes there from your browser, and we don’t keep it.

It’s a prototype

The region is building this site while using it. Things will change, and the data may be reset, so please don’t post anything you couldn’t lose or wouldn’t want shared with members.

Questions or deletion

Email hq@theupskillinglabs.org to ask what we hold about you or to have it deleted.