Privacy policy
Thotdemy.com (a Thotdemy, “we,” or “us” in this Privacy Policy) cares about the
confidentiality and security of your information. Thotdemy operates the Thotdemy, which consists of content and pages and Thotdemy mobile applications.
The Thotdemy Site allows you to:
Some courses available on the Thotdemy Site are offered by our Members. This term refers to educational institutions or other leading global entities that create courses and/or programs using tools provided by Thotdemy and offer those courses directly to you through the Thotdemy Site.
Other courses and programs are viewable on the Thotdemy Site but are provided by educational institutions, corporate, and non-profit partners that are not Members and/or are offered in partnership. Signing up to receive more information about, enrolling in, or participating in these courses or programs may take place on third-party sites that are not subject to this Privacy Policy. The privacy policies explaining how your Personal Information (as defined below) will be collected, used, and disclosed when you enroll and participate in those courses and programs, and your rights over your Personal Information, will be made available to you when you visit the relevant site, begin the enrollment process, or start the course or program, as applicable.
This Privacy Policy describes how Thotdemy collects, uses, and shares your Personal Information when you interact with the Thotdemy Site or when someone interacts with the site on your behalf (e.g., the Learning & Development administrator for the institution sponsoring your enrollment). The term “Personal Information” (as used throughout this Privacy Policy) is information that relates to an individual who can be directly or indirectly identified.
This Privacy Policy also describes how Thotdemy uses your Personal Information when you interact with Thotdemy on certain other sites (e.g., on social media sites). Finally, it describes how Members collect, use, and share your Personal Information when you enroll in courses offered by those Members on the Thotdemy Site.
If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access, browse, or create an account on the Thotdemy Site, enroll in any courses, or complete any form requesting additional information about offerings on the Thotdemy Site. Any version of this Privacy Policy in a language other than English is provided for convenience, and the English language version is the authoritative version if there is any conflict.
Thotdemy collects information from you when you create an Thotdemy account and/or
sign up to receive more information about courses offered on the Thotdemy
Site. For example, we require your name, username, email address and
country of residence when you create an account. (You can voluntarily
choose to share additional information in your profile, but this is not
required.) We also require your contact details when you sign up to
receive more information about courses, otherwise we cannot send you
this information, and we collect information from you when you send
messages to us (whether on the Thotdemy Site or on other platforms, e.g.,
social media sites). You may unsubscribe from Thotdemy promotional emails at
any time by clicking “unsubscribe” on the emails you receive from us.
Thotdemyalso automatically collects information about your visit to the Thotdemy
Site when you browse courses on theThotdemy Site, as explained in our Cookie Policy.
Some
courses or programs are viewable on the Thotdemy Site but are offered in
partnership with other providers. When you sign up to
receive more information about these courses or programs, you supply
your Personal Information directly to that provider or otherwise direct Thotdemy to share your information with that provider. In those cases, the
privacy policies explaining the Personal Information that the provider
collects, and how the provider uses it, will be made available to you
when you sign up. If you later choose to unsubscribe from receiving
promotional messages about these courses or programs, you must do so
directly with the course provider by clicking “unsubscribe” on the email
you receive from that provider. Providers of other courses or programs
for which you have signed up to receive information will continue to
send you communications unless and until you unsubscribe directly with
that provider.
Enrolling in courses
Thothdemy collects information from you when you enroll in courses on the Thothdemy Site. For example, if you enroll in any course on the Thothdemy Site that requires payment to access the course and/or be eligible for a Verified Certificate of Achievement, we require Personal Information to enable you to pay for that course, so that our third-party vendor can process payment. A Verified Certificate of Achievement (“Certificate”) is a virtual certificate that shows that you have successfully completed your Thothdemy course or program or other product or service. You can also provide additional information if you wish to apply for financial assistance to pay for a course.
Note that Thothdemy does not itself collect or store financial account numbers or identification issued by a governmental entity, employer, or other authority. Instead, if you choose to make a purchase on the Thothdemy Site, you will be directed to Thothdemy’s third-party payment processor. If you do not wish to submit the required payment information, then you will not be able to move forward with your purchase.
Thothdemy also automatically collects information about your visit to the Thothdemy Site when you enroll in courses on the Thothdemy Site, as explained in the Cookie Policy.
When you enroll in a course on the Thothdemy Site, the Member that offers the course will receive Personal Information from your Thothdemy account profile.
As set out above, enrollment for some courses and programs viewable on the Thothdemy Site takes place on other sites, including those operated by ThothDemy. In those cases, this Privacy Policy does not apply. The course or program provider’s privacy policy will be made available to you when you begin the enrollment or application process.
Participating in courses
Thothdemy collects information from you when you participate in courses offered on the Thothdemy Site. For example, we collect the information that you submit as part of your participation in the course, that you include in messages to Thothdemy (including messages to learner support), that you provide in user surveys, or that you provide on public forums, webinars and other interactive experiences on the Thothdemy Site. We also require Personal Information when you participate in remote proctoring or other course facilitation processes, so that Thothdemy’s third-party vendor can monitor and assess the integrity of your course activity, or when you earn a Certificate (the certificate will have your name on it).
Thothdemy also collects usage information about your participation in courses, as explained in the Cookie Policy.
When you participate in a course, the Member that offers the course will receive Personal Information about your activity and performance in the course.
As set out above, participation for some courses and programs viewable on the Thothdemy Site takes place on other sites, including those operated by ThothDemy. In those cases, this Privacy Policy does not apply. The course or program provider’s privacy policy will be made available to you when you begin your participation in the course or program.
Information Collected from Other Sources
Where permitted by law, we collect or receive information about you from Members, your employer or potential employer, third parties to which you indicate that you would like to learn more about a course or program offered on the Thothdemy Site, organizations that are our partners, companies to which you’ve provided your information for professional or continuing education opportunities, or ThothDemy (collectively “Other Sources”) in order to update or supplement the information that you provide or that we collect automatically when you visit the Thothdemy Site. We use this information to help us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect, to target our communications so that we can inform you of products, services or other offers that may be of interest to you, and for internal business analysis or other business purposes. We collect Personal Information from Other Sources with your consent where such consent is required or, otherwise, for the purposes of our legitimate interests, as further described below in How Thothdemy uses your Personal Information.
Children’s Information
We do not direct the Thothdemy Site to, nor do we knowingly collect any Personal Information via the Thothdemy Site from, children under the age of 13. If you learn that a child has provided us with Personal Information in violation of this Privacy Policy, you may notify us at privacy@Thothdemy.org.
HOW Thothdemy USES YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Thothdemy uses information, including Personal Information, to carry out the following purposes:
Operate and improve the Thothdemy Site — We use information we collect for this purpose, including creating and improving features that support the Thothdemy community and enable Thothdemy Site usage at scale. This also includes personalizing the Thothdemy Site, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs. We do this to meet our legitimate business interests in offering the most useful and helpful experience for our learners.
Create, administer, provide, and teach courses — We use information we collect for this purpose, including creating and improving the delivery of massive open online courses and programs on the Thothdemy Site. This also includes personalizing courses, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs, assessing your performance, and awarding Certificates. We do this to meet our legitimate business interests in offering the most useful courses possible.
Offer and improve products and services — We use information we collect for this purpose, including enabling you to navigate the Thothdemy Site, to enroll and participate in courses and programs on the Thothdemy Site, to learn effectively in such courses and programs, to purchase or obtain products and services on the Thothdemy Site such as Certificates, and to invite you to participate in market research. We offer products and services on the basis that it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you under the Terms of Service and improve our products and services to meet our legitimate interests in offering the highest-quality online courses and programs available.
Develop and maintain the security and performance of the Thothdemy Site — We use information we collect for this purpose, including tracking Thothdemy Site outages and creating software solutions, detecting violations of the Honor Code and Terms of Service, and monitoring uses, misuses, and potential misuses of the Thothdemy Site. We do this to meet our legal obligations to keep Personal Information secure and to meet our legitimate business interests in keeping the Thothdemy Site available at all times.
Communicate with you — As permitted by law, we use information we collect for this purpose, including answering your course and platform questions and notifying you of course and Thothdemy Site maintenance and updates. We do this on the basis of our legitimate interests in keeping learners up to date about our platform and responding to learner questions.
Promote courses and programs — As permitted by law, we use information we collect for this purpose, including developing and providing promotional and advertising materials that may be useful, relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you. We send marketing and advertising to you about course offerings, programs, news, and related products and services of Thothdemy or Thothdemy affiliates (including ThothDemy), as well as communications about products or services of selected business partners that may be of interest to you. Where required by law, we only send you marketing that you have asked for or that you have given your consent to receive. In other cases, we send marketing to meet our legitimate business interests to promote our business.
Support scientific research including, for example, in the areas of cognitive science and education — We use the information about your participation in courses for this purpose, including collaborating to enable and conduct research about how learners access and master course materials online, with the goal of improving course outcomes. We do this to meet our legitimate interests in supporting scientific and educational research.
Track Thothdemy Site usage against goals and mission — We use information we collect for this purpose, including performing analytics to evaluate access to and performance in courses and course-related products and services and to report aggregate usage information (not Personal Information) to business partners and external audiences. We do this on the basis of our legitimate interests in completing and furthering our goals and the mission of the Thothdemy Site.
Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations — In some circumstances, we use information we collect for this purpose, including responding to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; and investigating, preventing, or taking action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, security or technical issues, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Thothdemy, our Members, ThothDemy, or others, and as otherwise required by applicable law. We do this to comply with applicable law (including laws requiring us to keep Personal Information secure), or to meet our legitimate interests in preventing illegal activity, and/or protecting our rights and those of others.
Thothdemy may also seek your consent for additional uses of information, including Personal Information, and in such cases will use your Personal Information only for the purpose described to you. All use of Personal Information is subject to applicable law.
HOW Thothdemy SHARES YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Thothdemy shares the information we collect about you, including Personal Information, with other entities or individuals in the following circumstances:
With Members — Members receive your Personal Information when you enroll or participate in their courses or programs, as described in Section V below.
With service providers, contractors, and other third parties that help carry out the uses described above — We share your information with third parties that provide business, professional, or technical support functions for us. These service providers are only given access to your information to the extent necessary to process your information and/or provide services to Thothdemy, and they are prohibited from using or sharing your information for any other purposes. They also are required to handle Personal Information in a confidential manner and maintain reasonable security practices. In some cases, the Thothdemy Site and individual courses are integrated with services or content provided by third parties not affiliated with Thothdemy (“Third-Party Content”). Third-Party Content linked to or embedded on the Thothdemy Site is governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. Your use of Third-Party Content is subject to each site’s privacy policy, which may be different from ours. We have no control over the information that is collected, stored, or used by Third-Party Content. For more information about exercising your choices regarding personalized ads offered through our advertising partners, please see our Cookie Policy.
With other learners in courses that you take and with other visitors to the Thothdemy Site, to create an interactive learning environment, support class participation, and share course information — This includes sharing comments, coursework, or other information or content that you submit to a portion of the Thothdemy Site designed for viewing by other class members or for public communication. This also includes providing opportunities for you to communicate with other users who may have similar interests or educational goals, for instance, recommending specific study partners or connecting potential student mentees and mentors. In such cases, Thothdemy may use all information collected about you to determine who might be interested in communicating with you but will only provide others your username (for clarity, no disclosure of your real name or email address).
With employers, government programs, institutions, or other enterprises that sponsor your enrollment in a course for training or other educational purposes — If an entity pays for or otherwise sponsors your Certificate or course participation, Thothdemy will share information with the entity as needed to confirm your enrollment, participation, progress, and completion status in that course.
With affiliates of Thothdemy, including ThothDemy — All Personal Information shared by Thothdemy with ThothDemy will be used consistent with this Privacy Policy.
For legal or safety reasons — We access or share your information to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety; as permitted by law; or otherwise as required by law. We disclose your information to protect the security of the Thothdemy Site and our servers, network systems, and databases. We also disclose your information, as necessary, if we believe that there has been a violation of our Honor Code or Terms of Service (including investigation of potential violations thereof), any other legal document or contract related to the Thothdemy Site, or the rights of any third party.
To detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or other technical issues.
Pursuant to a sale or transfer of business or assets — Thothdemy may sell or purchase assets during the normal course of our business. If another entity acquires us or any of our assets, information we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, such information may be considered an asset of ours and may be sold or transferred to third parties. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to require that the transferee use your information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Thothdemy may also seek your consent for additional disclosures of information, including Personal Information, and will share it only as described to you or as described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, Thothdemy may de-identify or aggregate your Personal Information and share it with the public and with third parties, including, but not limited to, researchers and business partners.
We may transfer Personal Information from your location to other countries, including Australia, Canada, the European Economic Area, Mexico, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where our employees and/or servers are located. Where your Personal Information is transferred outside of the country where you are located, such information is adequately protected by an adequacy decision by EU authorities, Standard Contractual Clauses, or a service provider’s Binding Corporate Rules. A copy of the relevant mechanism can be provided for your review on request to privacy@Thothdemy.org.
HOW MEMBERS COLLECT, USE AND SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Members receive your Personal Information after you enroll in a course or program offered by that Member or otherwise with your express consent. If you enroll in a course, the Member that offers that course will receive Personal Information from your Thothdemy account profile. During your participation in a course, the Member that offers that course will receive the information that Thothdemy collects about your activity and performance in that course.
Members use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
Create, administer, provide, and teach courses;
Offer and improve products and services;
Communicate with you;
Promote courses and programs;
Support scientific research including, for example, in the areas of cognitive science and education; and
Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations.
Members share your Personal Information in the following ways:
With service providers, contractors, and other third parties;
With other learners in courses that you take and with other visitors to the Thothdemy Site, to create an interactive learning environment, support class participation, and share course information;
With their affiliates;
For legal or safety reasons;
To detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or other technical issues; and
Pursuant to a sale or transfer of business or assets.
Members may also seek your consent for additional use or sharing of information, including Personal Information, and will use/share it only for the purpose described to you. All use and sharing of Personal Information is subject to applicable law. Members may de-identify or aggregate your Personal Information and share it with the public and with third parties, including but not limited to researchers and business partners.
HOW TO MANAGE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You can manage your Personal Information through learner features on the Thothdemy Site and requests to the Thothdemy learner support team. If your request involves information controlled by a Member, Thothdemy will, as applicable, notify the appropriate Member to address your request. Thothdemy will provide support to the extent required by applicable law (e.g., for learners in the European Union, United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, the People’s Republic of China, California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and other locations) and more broadly when possible, as a courtesy in our sole discretion. Thothdemy will notify you in the event that Thothdemy is unable to meet a request that is not legally required. Similarly, Members will only be obligated to comply with requests to the extent legally required but may choose to comply with other requests in their sole discretion. If you believe your rights regarding your Personal Information have been infringed upon, please contact us at privacy@Thothdemy.org. Individuals with unresolved concerns may have the right to lodge a complaint with their applicable data protection authority.
If you have requested information about and/or enrolled in courses or programs offered on third-party sites or by providers that are not Members, including courses or programs offered by ThothDemy, the privacy policies relevant to those courses or programs describe how to exercise your rights over your Personal Information.
Access and correct your Personal Information
Much of your Personal Information is available in your Thothdemy account. Your name, email address, and other identifiable profile information is editable through your Thothdemy Account Settings except as noted below. Your account dashboard lists all current and archived courses in which you have enrolled and includes links to any Certificates you may have earned. You may download copies of your earned Certificates directly from your Thothdemy account. Please contact Thothdemy learner support to request any corrections to your Personal Information.
Please note that usernames cannot be changed. This is an Thothdemy system restriction. Because usernames identify you in courses and elsewhere on the Thothdemy Site, Thothdemy encourages you to use discretion in choosing your username. If you want to protect your identity, do not use your real name or a name identifiable to you as your username. Also, Thothdemy does not track or index every time or every place on the Thothdemy Site when or where a learner may volunteer Personal Information, so neither Thothdemy nor Members will be able to help you locate or manage all such instances. Thothdemy encourages you to use discretion before volunteering Personal Information on the Thothdemy Site.
Restrict or object to the processing of Personal Information
If you want to manage emails and other communications Thothdemy sends to you, you may update your preferences in your Thothdemy account dashboard, follow the steps described in links at the bottom of email messages, or contact Thothdemy learner support. If you exercise your right to unsubscribe from promotional emails or other communications from Thothdemy, you will continue to receive promotional emails and other communications from providers that you have not yet exercised this right in relation to, unless and until you unsubscribe directly with that provider. To unsubscribe from marketing messages you receive after requesting information about a program or course offered by a non-Member provider, including ThothDemy and its affiliated companies, please follow the links at the bottom of those email messages.
You may object to, or request that Thothdemy or a Member cease, use of your Personal Information for other purposes by contacting the Thothdemy learner support team. Please note that if you choose to restrict Thothdemy’s or a Member’s ability to process Personal Information, and the processing is otherwise required to provide you with various services and products offered on the Thothdemy Site, you may not be able to establish an Thothdemy user account or enroll in a course, and Thothdemy or a Member may not be able to provide you with those services or products.
Delete account and Personal Information
To request deletion of your Thothdemy account and Personal Information, you should click the button labeled “Delete my account” in your Thothdemy account settings. Because this is a permanent action and cannot be reversed, Thothdemy may ask you to complete an authentication process that aims to confirm your authority to manage the Thothdemy account affected by your request.
With respect to your Thothdemy account, Thothdemy will permanently:
deactivate your Thothdemy account,
remove the active profile,
retire your username, and
remove you from Thothdemy email lists.
With respect to your Personal Information, Thothdemy will permanently remove your Thothdemy account profile Personal Information from the Thothdemy Site.
As noted above, to the extent that Thothdemy associates the information that Thothdemy collects directly or indirectly with an individual (for example, you), the association is based on Personal Information in your Thothdemy account profile. By erasing the Personal Information in your Thothdemy account profile, the remaining information about your activity on the Thothdemy Site will no longer be associated with you. These changes will be applied to data stores that are used for operation of the Thothdemy Site including course administration by Members. If you enrolled in any courses or programs on the Thothdemy Site, Thothdemy will share your request for deletion with the Member(s) that offered those courses or programs.
We retain some data for a further period for the purposes described in Section VI.D below. We also do not track or index every time or every place on the Thothdemy Site when or where a learner may volunteer Personal Information, so neither Thothdemy nor Members will be able to help you locate or manage all such instances. Thothdemy encourages you to think carefully before voluntarily sharing Personal Information on the Thothdemy Site.
Data retention
Thothdemy will retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active or as needed to: provide you with services you have requested; maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting, audit, and compliance purposes; or comply with Thothdemy’s legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law. If you enroll in a Member’s course, such Member will also retain your Personal Information for as long as needed to provide you with services you have requested; to maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting, audit, and compliance purposes; and to comply with its legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce its agreements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law. Upon your request that Thothdemy deactivate your account and delete your information, Thothdemy will, within 30 days of your request, follow the process described in Section VI.C above, including, without limitation, archiving your course data (in a manner and to the extent permitted under applicable law) to serve its mission to enable scientific research on cognitive science and education. These archives will be used to produce encrypted research data packages for Members, and each such Member may also keep and use course data for scientific research.
STORAGE & SECURITY
Thothdemy stores information, including Personal Information, on its own servers and on servers of companies that Thothdemy hires to provide services. Each Member also stores information, including Personal Information, on its own servers and/or on servers of companies that the Member hires to provide services. In each case, information may be stored in the United States and in other countries where Thothdemy or a Member operates, and in countries where Thothdemy and each Member’s respective service providers operate. If you are in the European Union, Switzerland, or other regions with laws governing data collection and use, you acknowledge that Thothdemy and each Member may transfer, process and store your Personal Information in the United States and other countries, the privacy laws of which may be considered less strict than those of your region.
Thothdemy controls its own copy of information collected through the Thothdemy Site and has an information security program designed to protect information in its possession or control. This is done through a variety of privacy and security policies, processes, and procedures. Thothdemy uses administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that reasonably and appropriately protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information that it collects, receives, stores, or transmits. Nonetheless, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure; and therefore, Thothdemy cannot guarantee its absolute security. While Thothdemy works hard to ensure the integrity and security of its network and systems, Thothdemy cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent unauthorized persons from illegally accessing or obtaining information.
If Thothdemy learns of a security breach involving its copy of your Personal Information, Thothdemy may attempt to notify you electronically so that you may take appropriate protective steps. By using the Thothdemy Site or providing Personal Information to Thothdemy, you agree that Thothdemy can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the Thothdemy Site. If a security systems breach occurs, Thothdemy may post a notice on the Thothdemy homepage (www.Thothdemy.org) or elsewhere on the Thothdemy Site and may send an email to you at the email address associated with your Thothdemy account. Depending on where you are located, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach, involving your Personal Information, in writing.
If a Member learns of a security breach involving that Member’s copy of your Personal Information, the Member may attempt to notify you electronically so that you may take appropriate protective steps. By enrolling in a Member’s course on the Thothdemy Site or providing Personal Information to the Member, you agree that the Member can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your course enrollment and participation. If a security systems breach occurs, the affected Member may post a notice on the Thothdemy site and/or send an email to you at the email address associated with your enrollment in the Member’s course on the Thothdemy Site. Depending on where you are located, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach, involving your Personal Information, in writing.
PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES
This Privacy Policy will be reviewed and updated from time to time. When we do make material changes, we will give notice via the Thothdemy Site or by otherwise notifying you. The Privacy Policy will include a “Last Updated” date indicating that you should review the new terms, which will be effective immediately upon posting on this page. By accessing the Thothdemy Site after any changes have been made, you accept the modified Privacy Policy and any changes contained therein. In case you miss the notification referenced above, be sure to return to this page periodically to ensure familiarity with the most current version of this Privacy Policy.
If you have privacy concerns, have
disclosed data you would prefer to keep private, or would like to
access, delete or correct the Personal Information that Thothdemy maintains
about you, please contact us at info@thothdemy.com
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