Courseopedia Privacy Policy

Effective October 1, 2008:

About Courseopedia.com
Courseopedia.com is a vertical search engine for courses that allows instructors and educational institutions to post courses to its database and students to search for courses.

Courseopedia.com cares deeply about online privacy. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at support@courseopedia.com.

Information Collection and Use by Courseopedia.com
Courseopedia.com collects user submitted information such as name and email address to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Courseopedia.com service.

Courseopedia.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.

From time to time, Courseopedia.com or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on Courseopedia.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

Use of Cookies
Courseopedia.com does not use cookies to store visitors' preferences so no information is saved on a user's computer.

Links
Courseopedia.com contains links to sites. Courseopedia.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on Courseopedia.com.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
Courseopedia.com users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Account Info.

Security
Courseopedia.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. Courseopedia.com takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time. For any additional information about the security measures we use on Courseopedia.com, please contact us a support@courseopedia.com.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information Courseopedia.com Collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, Courseopedia will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Courseopedia.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Courseopedia.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. Courseopedia reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of Courseopedia or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest. For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy" section below.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A User is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted. If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at: support@courseopedia.com.