Authorized use only#
The extension is a private research tool provided to specific, authorized annotators — project staff and vetted research partners. You may use it only with an account the project has granted you, and only for the project's hate-speech research. Do not share your account or attempt to access data or features beyond your role.
Eligibility#
Use requires that you are at least 18 years old, located in the United States, and authorized to act on behalf of your organization — you confirm all three when you accept these terms at first sign-in, and that confirmation is recorded with your account.
Acceptable use#
- Annotate in good faith and in line with the project's annotation guidelines.
- Do not use the extension to harass anyone, to re-publish collected content, or for any purpose other than authorized research.
- Respect the terms of the platforms you browse (X, YouTube, Rumble, TikTok, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, 4chan, 8kun, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Truth Social, and AI chat assistants); the extension is an observation tool and does not act on your behalf on those platforms.
- Do not attempt to disrupt, reverse-engineer for misuse, or circumvent the security of the service.
Being named as a user#
By accepting these terms you agree that the AddressHate project may say publicly that you use the extension. Specifically, we may state — on our website, in presentations, in funding and grant reporting, in academic publications and in press materials — that:
- your organization uses the AddressHate Annotator, and show its name and logo in a list of participating organizations; and
- you are one of the project’s authorized annotators, by name and role, in participant lists, acknowledgements and methodology sections.
You confirm you are entitled to give this permission for your organization — the same authority you attest to under Eligibility.
What this does not let us do. It is permission to name you as a user, and nothing more. We do not publish your annotations attributed to you, quote you, describe your individual work or judgements, or state or imply that you endorse any finding — each of those needs your separate agreement. Nor does it give anyone rights in your organization’s trade marks beyond identifying it as a participant.
If you would rather we didn’t. Write to ksaiki@addresshate.org and we will stop naming you in anything published from then on. Material already printed, published or filed — a paper, a grant report — cannot be recalled, and neither can the record that you took part where a funder or a journal requires us to keep it.
Accounts and security#
You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for activity under your account. Notify us promptly of any suspected compromise. We may suspend or revoke access that violates these terms or the research protocol.
Your data#
Your use of the extension is also governed by our Privacy policy. You can remove your data as described in Data deletion.
Intellectual property#
The extension and the service are the property of the AddressHate project. These terms grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable right to use them for authorized annotation only.
The antisemitism taxonomy is not ours to grant. The categories and concepts in the annotation drawer are another team’s published work, used under its own open-access licence and credited under Sources and credits below. Nothing in these terms restricts what that licence already permits you to do with it.
Sources and credits#
The antisemitism label space in the annotation drawer is the Decoding Antisemitism Lexicon, reproduced as published. It is open access under CC BY 4.0.
Becker, M. J., Troschke, H., Bolton, M., & Chapelan, A. (Eds.) (2024). Decoding Antisemitism: A Guide to Identifying Antisemitism Online. Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature.
What we changed#
The 6 categories and 40 concepts are reproduced in the Lexicon’s own names, order and grouping. Its numbering runs 1–41 with 36 omitted — that entry is a chapter heading rather than a codeable concept — and each concept in the drawer carries its published number so it can be looked up in the book directly. The one-line definitions shown beside a concept are AddressHate’s own plain-language summaries written for annotators, not the Lexicon’s text. The severity scale the drawer asks for first is AddressHate’s own and is not part of the Lexicon.
Disclaimer and liability#
The extension is provided “as is,” without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the project is not liable for any indirect or consequential damages arising from your use of it.
Termination#
You may stop using the extension and delete your data at any time. We may end or suspend your access if it is no longer authorized or if these terms are breached.
Changes#
We may update these terms; the “Last updated” date reflects the current version, and it is the version your acceptance is recorded against. If a change materially affects you we do not rely on the date, and we do not treat your continued use as agreement: the extension puts the new terms in front of you and asks you to accept them before it opens again. If you would rather not accept them, stop using the extension and, if you want, delete your data — see Data deletion.
The rest#
- Governing law. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, USA, and the courts there will hear any dispute arising from them.
- If one part fails. If a court finds any provision unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that provision applies as narrowly as the law allows.
- No waiver. If we don't enforce something straight away, we haven't given up the right to enforce it later.
- Whole agreement. These terms and the Privacy policy are the entire agreement between us about the extension, and replace anything said beforehand.
- Not transferable. Your account is personal to you. We may assign these terms to a successor of the research project.