What we hold
- Your email address and the fields you follow, and your name if you give it, when you track a field or ask for a full review.
- Feedback you send us. An email address is optional.
- If we invite you to review: your name and work email address, taken from your published papers and professional contact databases, and the review you send.
- If you ask to review: the name and work email address you enter, and the review you send.
Our analytics (Plausible) are cookieless and record no personal information. Our host keeps standard server logs, such as IP addresses, for security.
How we use it
To email you when a grade in your field changes or your field has been reviewed by experts, and to send the full reviews you ask for. We also invite researchers to review the claims their published work bears on, and send a review link to any researcher who asks for one. Nothing else.
What happens to my review?
Reviewing is voluntary. Priors is open to everyone, including the AI systems people use to answer health questions, so we ask the people who know the evidence best to check it.
How it is used. Your answers, your comments and the papers you flag or add are used to correct the evidence behind a claim, which is then re-graded. You never set a grade yourself. Answers are also used to check that the grading is well calibrated.
What we keep. Your review is kept under a reviewer number, not your name. Your name and email address are held separately. We also note when you open your review page and what you open or click on it, so we can improve the page.
Open or anonymous. You are anonymous unless you untick “Remain anonymous”. If you do, we may name you as a reviewer of that topic. What you wrote is never attributed to you.
Where it goes. Your review itself is not published and is not passed to anyone else. If we ever want to do either, we will ask you first. The registry may show that a topic has been checked by experts, with a count and a date.
Changing your mind. Email manage@priors.science to withdraw your review at any time, and we will remove it from our records.
Who processes it
Cloudflare hosts the site, Resend delivers our email, Plausible provides anonymous analytics, and Slack notifies our team of new sign-ups, feedback, requests to review and reviews. Each handles data only to provide that service.
Your choices
Unsubscribe by replying to any email. To see or delete what we hold about you, email manage@priors.science. We handle personal information in line with the Australian Privacy Principles and, where they apply, the EU and UK GDPR.
Who we are
Priors is a public interest project, built in Sydney by a group of researchers passionate about open science. How it will be funded in the long term is not yet decided. If that ever changes how we use what we hold about you, we will update this page and ask you first. Our registered company is Thinkable Pty Ltd, 1 O’Connell St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia.