Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2026-07-28 · Operator: newmes · Contact: [email protected]

1. Summary

ATLAS displays information about researchers compiled from public scholarly sources. It does not require an account, does not set tracking cookies, and runs no analytics scripts. The only personal data involved are (a) the public researcher records we display, and (b) minimal technical data inherent to serving a website.

2. Researcher data we display

For each researcher the service may show: name, last known institutional affiliation, publication titles/years, citation counts, co-authorship links, and conference participation derived from public program listings. Sources: OpenAlex (CC0 public-domain bibliographic data) and publicly announced conference programs (ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS).

Legal basis (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f); Korean PIPA Art. 15(1)6): our legitimate interest — and the public's — in visualizing openly published scholarly records, which the researchers themselves made public by publishing. We display no private contact details, no home addresses, and no sensitive categories of data.

3. Your rights (researchers appearing in ATLAS)

• Correction — if your record is wrong (mis-attributed papers, wrong affiliation, inflated/split citation counts), email us and we will fix it.
• Removal — you may request removal of your node from the visualization; we will comply within 14 days unless the record is required to preserve the integrity of others' co-authorship data, in which case we will minimize it (e.g., de-identify).
• Access / objection — you may ask what we hold about you or object to processing at the same address.

Requests: [email protected]. EU/EEA and UK residents may also lodge a complaint with their supervisory authority; Korean residents may contact PIPC (privacy.go.kr).

4. Visitor data

• No accounts and no advertising. Analytics (opt-in) — on your first visit you are asked whether to allow analytics. Until you choose Allow analytics, no Google Analytics script is loaded, no request is made to Google, and no _ga cookies exist. Choosing Essential only keeps it that way.
  
  If you allow it, we use Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-1H27H7E7WM). What reaches Google then is: the page URL you are on, standard request metadata from which Google derives approximate location and device type, and — when you click through to the graph — the event open_atlas_graph with the page type and the OpenAlex or ROR identifier of the entity that page is about. This means the analytics data can show which public researcher, institution or collaboration pages were viewed. Those identifiers describe the page's subject, not you.
  
  What is never sent: your name, email address, or account details (we hold none), and the contents of any correction request you email us. Analytics runs only on researcher-atlas.com — preview and staging deployments send nothing.
  
  You can change your mind at any time using the analytics settings below. Withdrawing deletes the _ga cookies and stops all further transmission. Browser cookie controls and Google's opt-out add-on work too; the site is fully functional either way.
• localStorage — your "me" selection and view preferences are stored only in your browser and never transmitted to us.
• Hosting logs — the site is served by Cloudflare Pages (CDN). Cloudflare processes standard access data (IP address, request metadata) to deliver and secure the service, per the Cloudflare Privacy Policy. We do not receive or store these logs.
• Third-party API — when you open a researcher profile, your browser may query api.openalex.org directly for live citation data; OpenAlex then sees your IP address, per the OpenAlex privacy policy.
• Service worker cache — for offline/PWA use, app files are cached on your device; you can clear them by uninstalling the app or clearing site data.