About

MONA is a free and open source project mobile app aiming for all people to discover and enjoy public art and cultural institutions in Québec.

MONA is produced by the Maison MONA, a non-profit organisation based in Montréal (CA). The project is built in collaboration with the art+site research group from Université de Montréal. As detailed in Privacy Policy, the data we collect only serves the purpose of academic research. The project is entirely non-commercial; no third parties are involved.

Privacy Policy

By using this app, you are agreeing to the collection and use of your personal information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. We may change the Privacy Policy from time to time, and we encourage you to consult the Privacy Policy regularly for changes.

What data do we collect?

We value your privacy and minimise the use of your personal data. We solely collect the data relevant to our research, meaning your photographs, ratings and comments of the artworks you visit. The data is stored on our university servers and access is limited to their anonymised version for our research group.

Why do we collect data?

We study people's interests in public art. The collected data helps us understand how you perceive such artworks.

Your rights

You may ask us any questions regarding your data or request the complete deletion of your data on our server by contacting us at data@monamontreal.org.

Licences

Code

iOS: MONA is published on the AppStore under the Apache Version 2.0 licence: Copyright 2020 Maison MONA

Android: MONA is published on Google Play under the General Public Licence (GNU GPL v.0.).

Design

Our design is under the international Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0

Data

Art

The metadata of the artworks in MONA comes from:

• Open data portals from the cities of Montréal - public art collection et subsidised murals - and Rimouski, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence
• information from the ArtPublicMontréal website
• partnerships with cultural organisations, including Dose Culture, Mu, MURAL

Cultural institutions

Metadata of cultural institutions comes from:

• Québec Open Data Portal: public libraries directory and Montréal public cultural institutions, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence