Governance carried into practice
Clarity for every person, laboratory, project, and passage of information.
This center gathers the complete public policy suite for Brown Virtual Lab. Each document has its own durable address and shares one operator, version, effective date, contact pathway, and participation boundary.
- Operator
- My Heart Opulence LLC dba Heart Innovation & Equity Research Institute
- Version
- 2026-09-02.3
- Effective
- September 2, 2026
- Review status
- Prepared for qualified counsel review
One coordinated suite
Every rule belongs where participants can find and understand it.
Public access, intellectual property, research participation, privacy, data and artificial intelligence, working groups, community, events, beta testing, and cookies each receive a dedicated governing surface. Activity-specific protocols and agreements may add requirements for a particular project or institution.
Platform Terms of Use
The governing terms for public access, accounts, collaboration features, educational materials, research-development resources, and owner-controlled operations.
Read the complete document02Effective September 2, 2026Platform License Agreement
The permission boundary for Site access, templates, resources, downloads, workflows, software, and protected program materials.
Read the complete document03Effective September 2, 2026Research Participation Agreement
The governing boundary between general collaboration and any activity that becomes formal research involving people, identifiable information, protected records, or regulated data.
Read the complete document04Effective September 2, 2026Privacy Policy
A complete account of public, member, lab-lead, operational, consent, directory, and audit information handled through Brown Virtual Lab.
Read the complete document05Effective September 2, 2026Data and AI Policy
The standards for information handling, artificial intelligence, analytics, de-identification, provenance, review, and publication.
Read the complete document06Effective September 2, 2026Working Group Participation Agreement
The shared covenant for laboratory crews, professional circles, project teams, mentors, reviewers, and cross-hub collaborators.
Read the complete document07Effective September 2, 2026Community Guidelines
The conduct and safety standards for a rigorous, generous, multidisciplinary, national, and international scholarly community.
Read the complete document08Effective September 2, 2026Event Registration Terms
The participation, payment, activation, recording, access, conduct, cancellation, and replay terms for Brown Virtual Lab events.
Read the complete document09Effective September 2, 2026Feedback and Beta Testing Agreement
The terms for voluntary product feedback, early-access workflows, evolving features, pilot functions, and derivative improvements.
Read the complete document10Effective September 2, 2026Cookies Policy
The policy for device-local preferences, essential operational records, optional analytics, acknowledgment, and withdrawal.
Read the complete documentPublic-release boundary
General collaboration begins here. Formal research receives its own governed passage.
- Public forms receive high-level collaboration, professional, and laboratory information.
- Profile and institutional publication follow explicit permission and owner review.
- Protected or restricted information follows an approved secure pathway.
- Human-subjects research follows the applicable protocol, ethics review, institutional authorization, data-use terms, and informed consent.
- Qualified counsel review remains the formal legal approval milestone for production reliance.