In addition to the NCEI Privacy and NOAA privacy policies, the CrowdMag app implements the following privacy measure to ensure that CrowdMag data are collected anonymously. We do not collect personally identifiable information, including your name, email address, or your device's unique identification number. If you enable the “send data” option in the CrowdMag app, the following information will be sent to NOAA:
- Magnetic field data from the phone's magnetic sensor
- Time of measurement
- Location of measurement
- Location accuracy
- The model of your phone (so that we know which type of sensor was used to collect the magnetic field data)
CrowdMag data is stored in an internal, non-public database at NCEI. Our magnetic field research team will use these data to assess the utility of incorporating crowdsourced magnetic field data for modeling Earth’s magnetic field. Using CrowdMag data, our team will periodically produce scientific products such as maps, graphs and/or mathematical models. To further geomagnetic field research, these products may be presented at meetings, be included in publications, or be made available to the public via the Internet.
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The following information is for the NOAA Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing information collection, which NOAA has submitted to OMB for approval. Currently, this collection includes 49 Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing projects, including the project related to this document, website or app.
Paperwork Reduction Act Burden Statement
A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with an information collection subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 unless the information collection has a currently valid OMB Control Number. The approved OMB Control Number for the Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing information collection is 0648-[XXXX]. Without this approval, we could not conduct these information collections. NOAA recognizes that the PRA does apply to its Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing information collections and OMB approval is pending. In the interim, OMB is permitting NOAA to conduct those collections. Public reporting for these information collections is estimated to be between one minute and 8 hours per response depending on the project, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the information collection. All responses to this information collection are voluntary. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this information collection, including suggestions for reducing this burden to the NOAA Citizen Science Office at citizenscience@noaa.gov.
Privacy Act Statement
Authority
The collection of this information is authorized under 5 U.S.C. § 301, Departmental regulations which authorizes the operations of an executive agency, including the creation, custodianship, maintenance and distribution of records, and 15 U.S.C. 1512, Powers and duties of the Department.
Purpose
NOAA is collecting this information to help meet its mission to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, ocean, and coasts, to share that knowledge and information with others, and to conserve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems and resources. NOAA collects limited information, such as name, address, phone number, or email address for a variety of purposes. This information will be used to respond to user inquiries or provide services requested by the user.
Routine Uses
Disclosure of this information is permitted under the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. Section 552a) to be shared among Department staff for work-related purposes. Disclosure of this information is also subject to all of the published routine uses as identified in the Privacy Act System of Records Notice COMMERCE/NOAA-11, Contact Information for Members of the Public Requesting or Providing Information Related to NOAA’s Mission, and COMMERCE/DEPT-23, Information Collected Electronically in Connection with Department of Commerce Activities, Events, and Programs.
Disclosure
Furnishing this information is voluntary. By providing this information, you are consenting to the use of that information only for the purpose for which it is submitted.