GLEAC AI Framework, Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

1. AI Ethics and Policy Framework

GLEAC's use of artificial intelligence is guided by a published ethical framework. The framework governs every AI project undertaken by GLEAC and applies to all internal models, third-party AI service integrations, and commercial licensing of GLEAC-generated datasets.

1.1 Core Principles

1. Fairness and Non-Discrimination. AI systems are designed to prevent biases and to ensure equitable outcomes for all users. Regular audits identify and mitigate biases in AI models to uphold fairness and inclusivity.
2. Transparency. GLEAC maintains clear documentation of AI design, training data, and decision-making processes. Users are informed whenever they interact with AI systems.
3. Privacy and Data Protection. All AI systems comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other applicable privacy laws. Personal data is anonymized, encrypted, and collected with informed consent.
4. Accountability. A designated AI Ethics Officer oversees the ethical implications of all AI projects. Developers, partners, and stakeholders are accountable for AI performance and behavior.
5. Safety and Security. Rigorous testing ensures system reliability and security. Cybersecurity measures safeguard against misuse, unauthorized access, and data breaches.
6. Sustainability. Environmental impact assessments guide AI projects. Efforts are made to minimize the energy consumption of AI systems and the data infrastructure that supports them.
7. Human Oversight. Critical decision-making involving AI includes mechanisms for human review and override.

1.2 Operational Guidelines

1. Ethical Impact Assessments (EIA) precede all AI projects.
2. Continuous monitoring ensures compliance with ethical and legal standards.
3. Feedback mechanisms address ethical or operational concerns promptly.
4. Employees and contractors receive regular training on AI ethics and best practices.
5. The application of this framework to GLEAC's Mentors, Experts, and Coaches is detailed in Section 4 below.

2. Privacy Policy

2.1 What We Collect

• Personal data (such as names, email addresses, and contact details) is collected only when necessary to deliver services or comply with legal obligations.
• Data used for commercial licensing of aggregated datasets is anonymized as described in Section 4.4.
• Information collected from Mentors, Experts, and Coaches may be used to market them as such; this category of information is not anonymized when used for individual marketing purposes, in order to accurately represent contributors to clients.

2.2 How We Use Data

• To deliver, improve, and personalize GLEAC's services and user experiences.
• To ensure security, prevent fraud, and comply with legal obligations.
• To match clients with services provided by Mentors, Experts, and Coaches.
• To train, fine-tune, and evaluate AI models, both internal and through commercial licensing to third parties, in accordance with Section 4.
• To produce research, white papers, benchmarks, and other publications that advance the responsible development of AI.

2.3 Data Sharing and Commercial Licensing

• Data is shared with third parties only in specific situations: business transfers, legal compliance, or pursuant to the affirmative license grants described in Section 4.
• GLEAC commercially licenses aggregated and anonymized contributor data to third parties, including artificial intelligence laboratories, research institutions, enterprises, and government agencies. Such licensing is governed by the affirmative license grant set forth in Section 4.1.
• Mentor, Expert, and Coach marketing information may be shared with clients to represent their services accurately.

2.4 Data Retention

Information is stored only as long as required for business, contractual, or legal purposes, and in accordance with applicable data retention laws.

2.5 User Rights

• Users may access, update, or request deletion of their personal data, subject to legal and contractual retention obligations.
• Rights under GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable privacy laws are fully respected.
• Mentors, Experts, and Coaches have additional rights and obligations described in Section 4.

2.6 AI and Generative AI Usage

• AI enhances GLEAC's services but does not replace human decision-making in critical contexts. Human oversight is maintained.
• Data collected from Mentors, Experts, and Coaches is licensed to GLEAC for use in training internal AI models, for commercial licensing to third-party AI laboratories and research institutions, and for integration with AI partners. The scope of these rights is defined in Section 4.1.
• AI-generated outputs may reference individual Mentors, Experts, and Coaches in promotional, educational, or product contexts. Where such reference is made, GLEAC follows the protections described in Section 4.8.

3. Terms of Use

3.1 Intellectual Property Rights

• GLEAC owns or licenses all content, trademarks, micro-practices, scenario instruments, application materials, and intellectual property associated with the GLEAC platform.
• All answers and responses provided by Mentors, Experts, Coaches, and applicants in connection with GLEAC's micro-practices, application processes, and platform engagements are the property of GLEAC, as described in Section 4.2.
• Platform content is provided to users for personal, non-commercial use only, except where additional licenses are expressly granted in writing.

3.2 User Obligations

Users must not engage in prohibited activities, including but not limited to: unauthorized data scraping, impersonation, reverse engineering, circumvention of access controls, or other misuse of GLEAC's services or platform.

3.3 Service Modifications and Interruptions

GLEAC reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the service, in whole or in part, with or without notice.

3.4 Dispute Resolution

Disputes are resolved first through good-faith informal negotiation. If unresolved, disputes are subject to binding arbitration before the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts under the laws of the United Arab Emirates.

3.5 Liability Limitations

To the maximum extent permitted by law, GLEAC is not liable for indirect, consequential, incidental, special, or punitive damages arising from the use of the service.

3.6 Indemnification

Users agree to indemnify and hold GLEAC harmless against losses, claims, and expenses resulting from their misuse of the service or violation of these terms.

4. Mentors, Experts, and Coaches

This section explains how the GLEAC AI Framework, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Use apply specifically to Mentors, Experts, and Coaches participating in the GLEAC community, and to applicants engaging with GLEAC's micro-practices and application processes. The provisions in this section apply in addition to the terms of any signed Business Terms and Conditions between GLEAC and a contributor.

4.1 Informed Consent and Affirmative License Grant

By accessing or using GLEAC's services, by submitting answers to GLEAC's micro-practices, or by participating in GLEAC's application process, each Mentor, Expert, Coach, or applicant (each a Contributor) grants to GLEAC a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, and irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, distribute, sell, license, sublicense, publicly display, publicly perform, and create derivative works from all materials and information provided by the Contributor, including without limitation answers to micro-practices, application-process responses, session recordings, written content, voice recordings, images, avatars, and other identifying or non-identifying content.

The license described above is granted for the following purposes:

1. Training, fine-tuning, evaluating, benchmarking, and improving artificial intelligence and machine learning models, whether internal to GLEAC or operated by third parties.
2. Commercial licensing of aggregated, anonymized, or otherwise processed datasets to third parties, including artificial intelligence laboratories, research institutions, enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions.
3. Marketing and promotional activities, including the marketing of individual Contributors to clients.
4. Integration with third-party artificial intelligence services with which GLEAC partners, including Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Learning Management Systems (LMS), and Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) systems.
5. Publication of research, benchmarks, white papers, and other works that advance the responsible development of artificial intelligence.

4.2 Ownership of Micro-Practices and Application Responses

All answers to GLEAC's micro-practices, application processes, scored assessments, and free learning instruments, including without limitation responses provided as part of the Contributor's application for admission to the GLEAC community, are the property of GLEAC. This is an outright transfer of ownership, not merely a license. GLEAC's ownership of such content is unconditional and survives termination of the Contributor's relationship with GLEAC.

For clarity:

• The micro-practices, scenarios, and assessment instruments themselves are GLEAC's intellectual property.
• The Contributor's answers, responses, and submissions to those micro-practices and instruments are also GLEAC's property.
• GLEAC may license, sell, sublicense, modify, anonymize, aggregate, publish, or otherwise exploit such content without further consent of, or compensation to, the Contributor, except as set forth in Section 4.5 (Revenue Share).

4.3 How AI Uses Mentor Data

• Contributor data may be used to train, fine-tune, and evaluate AI models, including models that enhance user interactions, generate content, and produce analytical outputs.
• AI-generated content may reference individual Contributors, including in cases such as AI-generated voice podcasts, written summaries, or other AI-driven engagements, subject to the protections in Section 4.8.
• GLEAC ensures that AI interactions remain ethical, transparent, and respectful of Contributor expertise.

4.4 Anonymization for Commercial Licensing

When GLEAC licenses Contributor-generated content to third parties for the purposes of AI training, evaluation, benchmarking, or research, all such licensed datasets are anonymized prior to transfer. Anonymization includes, at a minimum:

• Removal of Contributor names, contact information, and other directly identifying personal information.
• Removal or hashing of unique identifiers that could be used to re-identify a Contributor.
• Aggregation or de-identification of metadata where appropriate to the licensing context.

Reasoning content, structured response data, scoring, and skill-domain tags are preserved in anonymized form to maintain the analytic value of the licensed corpus.

GLEAC does not transfer personally identifying Contributor information to third-party commercial licensees of training datasets, except where the Contributor has provided separate, specific, and informed consent.

4.5 Revenue Share for Commercial Licensing

GLEAC commits to share ten percent (10%) of net revenue received from third-party commercial licensing of Contributor-generated content with active Contributors who participated in producing the licensed corpus. Allocation, calculation, and payment of revenue share is subject to the following:

• Allocations are made on a quarterly basis, calculated proportionally to engagement and contribution levels during the relevant period.
• Active Contributor status is required for revenue-share eligibility, as defined by GLEAC's engagement criteria from time to time.
• Payments are made in accordance with GLEAC's standard payment terms (typically net 30 to net 90 days from receipt of licensee payment).
• Revenue share is calculated on net revenue, after deduction of direct licensing costs, third-party fees, and applicable taxes.
• The 10% revenue share is in addition to, and does not replace, any equity-pool benefits, marketing benefits, or other compensation set forth in a Contributor's signed Business Terms.

4.6 NFT Carveout

Where Contributor content has been minted, sold, or otherwise transacted as a non-fungible token (NFT), intellectual property ownership of such NFT-based content is governed by the terms of the relevant NFT transaction, which may provide for co-ownership between GLEAC, the purchasing party, and where specified, the Contributor. NFT-co-owned content is excluded from GLEAC's commercial licensing of aggregated datasets unless additional consent is obtained from all co-owners.

4.7 Personal Content Boundary

Personal content and information unrelated to GLEAC's micro-practices, application responses, session recordings, scored assessments, or other GLEAC-platform engagements remains the exclusive property of the Contributor. The boundary between personal content and GLEAC-platform-generated content is determined by whether the content was created on, in response to, or in connection with GLEAC's platform, technology, or instruments.

Examples:

• A Contributor's answer to a GLEAC micro-practice prompt is GLEAC-platform content (owned by GLEAC).
• A Contributor's personal blog post written outside GLEAC remains the Contributor's property.
• A Contributor's general professional biography submitted to GLEAC for marketing purposes remains the Contributor's content but is licensed to GLEAC for the purposes set forth in Section 4.1.

4.8 Protection Against Misuse

To prevent unauthorized access, misuse, or unintended AI misinterpretation:

• Cybersecurity measures protect Contributor data from breaches and unauthorized access.
• AI models undergo regular audits to detect and prevent bias, misinformation, or unfair representation.
• Mentors, Experts, and Coaches may request to review AI-generated content that references them by name to ensure accuracy and fair representation.
• GLEAC requires its third-party AI service partners and commercial licensees to adhere to comparable security and ethical standards via written agreements.

4.9 User Rights and Opt-Out

• Mentors, Experts, and Coaches have the right to access, update, or request deletion of their personal data under GDPR and other applicable privacy laws, subject to GLEAC's pre-existing license rights described in Section 4.1 and ownership rights described in Section 4.2.
• Contributors may request to opt out of specific AI-generated outputs that reference them by name, with reasonable notice to GLEAC.
• Opt-out from the use of Contributor data for AI training and commercial licensing is available upon written request. Contributors should note that opting out limits the GLEAC marketing and engagement benefits available, as the GLEAC community model is built on shared contribution. Where a Contributor opts out, GLEAC reserves the right to assess and to remove, with reasonable notice, any non-competitive Mentors, Experts, or Coaches.
• Continued use of the GLEAC platform following a published update to these terms constitutes acceptance of the updated terms. Contributors who do not agree should cease use of the platform and notify GLEAC in writing.
• Notwithstanding any opt-out, GLEAC's pre-existing license rights and ownership rights with respect to content already submitted prior to the effective date of opt-out remain in effect.

5. Contact Information

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