Privacy Policy
Effective date: 16 June 2026
This policy explains how information is handled when you use the ICONIP 2026 AI Misinformation Resilience Challenge.
Information We Collect
The service may collect and store:
- your email address, first name, last name, and selected challenge difficulty
- authentication, login, logout, and account-status records
- chat sessions, messages, uploaded files, evidence, AI responses, and scores
- leaderboard totals, progress, rankings, and participation statistics
- technical information such as timestamps, user agent, route access, IP-related service logs, and security events
- administrative actions and records used to investigate abuse or support users
Do not submit sensitive personal information or confidential material through the challenge.
How Information Is Used
Information may be used to:
- authenticate users and operate the challenge
- generate AI responses, calculate scores, and display leaderboards
- detect duplicate, copied, paraphrased, spammed, or abusive submissions
- manually review leading accounts and verify prize eligibility
- investigate security incidents, rule violations, and technical problems
- administer the event and communicate with participants
- support research, evaluation, reporting, and improvement of AI resilience, where appropriate
AI and Service Providers
Messages and permitted attachments may be processed by AI, hosting, database, storage, email, analytics, or support providers required to operate the service. These providers process information under their own applicable terms and safeguards.
Leaderboards and Public Information
Leaderboards may publicly display a participant name or other chosen display identifier, rank, points, and challenge results. Email addresses are not intended to be displayed publicly.
Fair-Play Review
Organizers may review chat history, submissions, evidence, account activity, and scoring patterns to identify repeated or substantially similar content, including paraphrased submissions across different chats or accounts. This review may affect scores, rankings, account access, or prize eligibility.
Retention and Security
Information is retained for as long as reasonably needed to operate and evaluate the challenge, administer prizes, investigate misuse, meet legal or institutional requirements, and support approved research or reporting.
Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to protect information, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.
Your Choices
You may stop using the service at any time. Requests about access, correction, or deletion of personal information should be directed to the ICONIP 2026 CTF organizers. Some records may need to be retained for security, integrity, prize verification, research governance, or legal reasons.
Contact
Privacy questions should be directed to the ICONIP 2026 CTF organizers through the event's official contact channels.