Terms of Service — School Board Discourse Corpus

1. Purpose and Scope

The School Board Discourse Corpus is a private academic research tool. Access is restricted to the researcher and any explicitly authorized collaborators. This is not a public service. These terms govern use of the application and its data.

2. Acceptable Use

This application may be used solely for non-commercial academic research, including critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and related scholarly work. Any use for commercial purposes, surveillance, targeting of individuals, or any purpose inconsistent with academic research ethics is prohibited.

Users must comply with all applicable terms of third-party services from which data is sourced, including:

3. Content and Data

Transcripts and video metadata displayed in this application are sourced from publicly available YouTube videos. Copyright in the underlying meeting recordings remains with the originating school districts or other rights holders. Content is used under fair use provisions for non-commercial academic research and criticism.

4. No Warranty

This application is provided as-is for research purposes. No warranty is made regarding the accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose of transcripts or analytical outputs.

5. Contact

Questions may be directed to: [email protected]