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Privacy Policy

MIT Libraries is committed to preserving your privacy. The personal information we receive through DSpace is used solely for purposes of the functioning of the system, and for the specific research purposes described below.

This system collects personal information from:

1. users involved in the submission of DSpace content and metadata
2. users who subscribe to the DSpace alerting service

Personal information collected by DSpace will not be used for any commercial or philanthropic purpose not directly connected with or approved by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

We do not disclose information about your individual visits to our site, or personal information that you provide us, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, etc. to any outside parties except when we believe, in good faith (i) that the law requires it, or (ii) that disclosure is necessary to protect the rights and property of DSpace users.

DSpace data may be used by researchers of the HP-MIT Alliance's SIMILE research project under the conditions set forth in the "Terms for Use of DSpace Production Data".

Any DSpace records used in a publicly accessible forum, such as demonstrations, presentations, or research papers, will be scrubbed of specific references to real people and personal information.