Work created by students may contain (privacy) sensitive information. Turnitin complies with Utrecht University’s privacy and security requirements. This means for example that all submitted information can only be used for plagiarism detection (and therefore not for other purposes).

If you suspect your assignment or thesis may contain (privacy) sensitive information:

• • When submitting a document to Turnitin, it is possible to have the document excluded from the database, this always needs to be discussed with your teacher first. Another option is to anonymize the document and remove any confidential details before submitting, this always needs to be discussed with your teacher first

The privacy statement for Turnitin is available here