Privacy Policy
KFork.mygreatway and each Member that provides courses through the KFork.mygreatway Site care about the confidentiality and security of your information. This Privacy Policy applies to information that KFork.mygreatway collects through the KFork.mygreatway Site when you interact with KFork.mygreatway, with Members, with other users, and generally with the KFork.mygreatway Site.
Your information is received and controlled by KFork.mygreatway according to this Privacy Policy when you sign up for an KFork.mygreatway account or otherwise use the KFork.mygreatway Site.
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- KFork.mygreatway is solely and independently responsible for its own privacy practices. No Member is responsible for KFork.mygreatway’s privacy practices.
If you enroll in a course offered by a Member through the KFork.mygreatway Site, information about you and your activity in the course is received and controlled also by that Member as described in this Privacy Policy.
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- Each Member is solely and independently responsible for its own privacy practices. No Member is responsible for another Member’s privacy practices. Also, KFork.mygreatway is not responsible for any Member’s privacy practices.
If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, then please do not access, browse, or register for the KFork.mygreatway Site or enroll in any courses. If you choose not to provide certain information required to provide you with various products and services offered on the KFork.mygreatway Site, then you may not be able to establish a user account or obtain those products or services.
Any version of this Privacy Policy in a language other than English is provided for convenience and you understand and agree that the English language version will control if there is any conflict.
This Privacy Policy is organized as follows:
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- Information that KFork.mygreatway collects from you (including Personal Information)
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies on the KFork.mygreatway Site
- How your information is used
- How your information is shared
- How to manage your Personal Information
- Storage & Security
- Privacy Policy updates
- Contact information
- Glossary
1)Information that KFork.mygreatway collects from you (including Personal Information)
KFork.mygreatway directly collects information when you:
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- sign up for an KFork.mygreatway user account and create an KFork.mygreatway user profile;
- enroll and participate in online courses;
- send email messages to KFork.mygreatway (including messages to learner support);
- participate in user surveys; and
- participate in public forums, webinars, and other interactive experiences on the KFork.mygreatway Site.
KFork.mygreatway also indirectly collects usage information about your visit to the KFork.mygreatway Site, as explained in the section below titled Cookies and Tracking Technologies.
Fork.mygreatway requires your Personal Information only in limited circumstances when you:
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- sign up for an KFork.mygreatway user account (name, username, email address);
To the extent that KFork.mygreatway associates the information that KFork.mygreatway collects directly or indirectly with an individual (for example, you), the association is based on Personal Information in your account profile.
You may voluntarily choose to share additional Personal Information on the KFork.mygreatway Site, for example:
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- in your KFork.mygreatway account profile (and you may display a limited or full profile to other KFork.mygreatway Site users);
- when participating in a course, forum, webinar, or other interactive experience on the KFork.mygreatway Site
- KFork.mygreatway encourages you to use discretion before voluntarily sharing additional Personal Information on the KFork.mygreatway Site. (If you later choose to delete your KFork.mygreatway account, deletion of your Personal Information will be subject to the process and limits outlined below.)
Members do not receive your Personal Information unless and until you enroll in a course. If you enroll in a course, the Member that offers the course will receive Personal Information from your KFork.mygreatway account profile plus the information that KFork.mygreatway collects about your activity and performance in the course in which you enrolled.
2)Cookies and Tracking Technologies on the KFork.mygreatway Site
Like many different web sites, KFork.mygreatway uses Cookies and other common Tracking Technologies on the KFork.mygreatway Site and in email communications to help KFork.mygreatway better understand your use and needs of the KFork.mygreatway Site, current and future KFork.mygreatway-related products and services, and how KFork.mygreatway and Members can improve. For example:
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- based on your cookie settings, KFork.mygreatway tracks information indicating, among other things, which pages of the KFork.mygreatway Site were visited, the order in which they were visited, when they were visited, and which hyperlinks and other user interface controls were used;
- KFork.mygreatway may log the IP address, operating system, and browser software (including mobile use and device type when you use KFork.mygreatway native mobile apps) you used when accessing the KFork.mygreatway Site, and KFork.mygreatway may be able to determine from an IP address your Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of your point of connectivity; and
- KFork.mygreatway may track and collect information from emails that KFork.mygreatway sends to you, for example whether you opened the email or clicked on any links from the email.
KFork.mygreatway also partners with third parties to help us track and understand your activity on the KFork.mygreatway Site, how you interact with KFork.mygreatway’s social media, and how you find or may be referred to the KFork.mygreatway Site. Individual Members may separately use Tracking Technologies within their courses and email communications to understand your activity within a course and how you find or may be referred to a course on the KFork.mygreatway Site.
KFork.mygreatway and Members use Cookies and other Tracking Technologies for the following purposes:
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- when necessary for system administration, security, and integrity to ensure the KFork.mygreatway Site works properly for you. Without these technologies, the KFork.mygreatway Site may not function correctly;
- to enable analytics, performance and functionality, to help KFork.mygreatway and Members gather information about how visitors use the KFork.mygreatway Site and monitor KFork.mygreatway Site performance, and to enhance your experience by recognizing and remembering whether you have visited the KFork.mygreatway Site before and may have any personal preferences; and
You have some options for managing Cookies and other Tracking Technologies. These include:
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- Modifying your browser settings: You should be able to control how and whether your web browser accepts Cookies by adjusting its privacy and security settings. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new Cookies, how to receive notification of new Cookies, and how to disable existing Cookies. If you reject KFork.mygreatway’s Cookies, many functions and conveniences of the KFork.mygreatway Site may not work properly.
3)How your information is used
KFork.mygreatway and Members use information, including Personal Information, to carry out the following purposes:
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- Operate and improve the KFork.mygreatway Site – This includes creating and improving features that support the KFork.mygreatway community and enable KFork.mygreatway Site usage at scale. This also includes personalizing the KFork.mygreatway Site, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs.
- Create, administer, provide, and teach courses – This includes creating and improving the delivery of massive open online courses and programs on KFork.mygreatway. This also includes personalizing courses, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs, and assessing your performance and awarding certificates.
- Offer and improve products and services – This includes enabling you to navigate the KFork.mygreatway Site, to enroll and participate in courses and programs on the KFork.mygreatway Site, to learn effectively in such courses and programs, and to purchase or obtain products and services on the KFork.mygreatway Site such as Verified Certificates.
- Develop and maintain the security and performance of the KFork.mygreatway Site – This includes tracking KFork.mygreatway Site outages and creating software solutions, detecting violations of the Code of Conduct and Terms of Service, and monitoring uses, misuses, and potential misuses of the KFork.mygreatway Site.
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- Communicate with you – This includes answering your course and platform questions, notifying you of course and KFork.mygreatway Site maintenance and updates, marketing to you about course offerings, programs, news, and related products and services of KFork.mygreatway
- Track KFork.mygreatway Site usage against goals and mission – This includes performing analytics to evaluate access to and performance in courses and course-related products and services.
- Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations – This includes 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 KFork.mygreatway, Members, or others, and as otherwise required by applicable law.
KFork.mygreatway or a Member may also seek your consent for additional uses of information, including Personal Information, and will use it only for the purpose described to you. All use of Personal Information is subject to applicable law.
4)How your information is shared
KFork.mygreatway and Members share information, including Personal Information, with third parties for the following purposes:
• With other learners in courses that you take and with other visitors to the KFork.mygreatway 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 KFork.mygreatway 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, KFork.mygreatway and each Member that offers a course in which you enrolled 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).
5)How to manage your Personal Information
You can manage your Personal Information through learner features on the KFork.mygreatway Site and requests to the KFork.mygreatway learner support team. If your request involves information controlled by a Member, KFork.mygreatway learner support will notify and coordinate with the appropriate Member to address your request. KFork.mygreatway will provide support to the extent required by applicable law (for example, learners in the European Union) and more broadly when possible, as a courtesy in our sole discretion. KFork.mygreatway will notify you in the event that KFork.mygreatway 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.
Access and correct your Personal Information
Much of your Personal Information is available in your KFork.mygreatway account. Your name, email address, and other identifiable profile information is editable through the profile settings in your KFork.mygreatway account except as noted below. Your account dashboard lists all current and archived courses in which you have enrolled and includes links to any Verified Certificates you may have earned. The dashboard also contains copies of your answers and other participation and performance in courses. Please contact KFork.mygreatway learner support to access and update this or other information. If your request involves information controlled by a Member, KFork.mygreatway learner support will notify the appropriate Member of your request.
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- Usernames cannot ever be changed. This is an KFork.mygreatway system restriction. Because usernames identify you in courses and elsewhere on the KFork.mygreatway Site, KFork.mygreatway 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.
- KFork.mygreatway does not track or index every time or every place on the KFork.mygreatway Site when or where a learner may volunteer Personal Information, so neither KFork.mygreatway nor Members will be able to help you locate or manage all such instances. KFork.mygreatway encourages you to use discretion before volunteering Personal Information on the KFork.mygreatway Site.
Restrict or object to the processing of Personal Information
If you want to manage emails and other communications to you, you may update your preferences in your KFork.mygreatway account dashboard, follow the steps described in links at the bottom of email messages, or contact KFork.mygreatway learner support. You may object to, or request that KFork.mygreatway or a Member stop, its use of your Personal Information for other purposes by contacting the KFork.mygreatway learner support team. If your request involves information controlled by a Member, KFork.mygreatway learner support will notify the appropriate Member of your request. Please note that if you choose to restrict KFork.mygreatway’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 KFork.mygreatway Site, you may not be able to establish an KFork.mygreatway user account or enroll for a course, and KFork.mygreatway 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 KFork.mygreatway account and Personal Information, you should click the button labeled “Delete my account” in your KFork.mygreatway account settings. Because deletion on the KFork.mygreatway system is a permanent action and cannot be reversed, KFork.mygreatway may ask you to complete a process that aims to confirm your authority to manage the KFork.mygreatway account affected by your request.
With respect to your KFork.mygreatway account, KFork.mygreatway will permanently:
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- deactivate your KFork.mygreatway account,
- remove the active profile,
- retire your username, and
- remove you from KFork.mygreatway email lists.
With respect to your Personal Information, KFork.mygreatway will permanently delete your KFork.mygreatway account profile Personal Information from the KFork.mygreatway Site.
As noted above, to the extent that KFork.mygreatway associates the information that KFork.mygreatway collects directly or indirectly with an individual (for example, you), the association is based on Personal Information in your KFork.mygreatway account profile. By erasing the Personal Information in your KFork.mygreatway account profile, the remaining information about your activity on the KFork.mygreatway Site will no longer be associated with you, except as noted below.
These changes will be applied to data stores that are used for operation of the KFork.mygreatway Site including course administration by Members. If you enrolled in any courses on the KFork.mygreatway Site, the KFork.mygreatway learner support team will share your request with the Members that offered those courses.
Exceptions:
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- Deletion will not apply to historical activity logs or archives unless and until these logs and data naturally “age-off” the KFork.mygreatway system.
- KFork.mygreatway does not track or index every time or every place on the KFork.mygreatway Site when or where a learner may volunteer Personal Information, so neither KFork.mygreatway nor Members will be able to help you locate or manage all such instances. KFork.mygreatway encourages you to use discretion before voluntarily sharing your Personal Information on the KFork.mygreatway Site.
- KFork.mygreatway and each Member will retain and use Personal Information as necessary to comply with its legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce its agreements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
Data retention
KFork.mygreatway will retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with services; to maintain a record of your activities, and compliance purposes; and to comply with KFork.mygreatway’s legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce its 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; to maintain a record of your activities, 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 KFork.mygreatway deactivate your account and delete your information,
6)Storage & Security
KFork.mygreatway stores information, including Personal Information, on its own servers.
KFork.mygreatway controls its own copy of information collected through the KFork.mygreatway 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. KFork.mygreatway 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, KFork.mygreatway cannot guarantee its absolute security. While KFork.mygreatway works hard to ensure the integrity and security of its network and systems, KFork.mygreatway cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent “hackers” or other unauthorized persons from illegally accessing or obtaining information.
If KFork.mygreatway learns of a security breach involving its copy of your Personal Information, KFork.mygreatway may attempt to notify you electronically so that you may take appropriate protective steps. By using the KFork.mygreatway Site or providing Personal Information to KFork.mygreatway, you agree that KFork.mygreatway can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the KFork.mygreatway Site. If a security systems breach occurs, KFork.mygreatway may post a notice on the KFork.mygreatway homepage (www.KFork.mygreatway.com) or elsewhere on the KFork.mygreatway Site and may send an email to you at the email address associated with your KFork.mygreatway 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 KFork.mygreatway 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 KFork.mygreatway site and/or send an email to you at the email address associated with your enrollment in the Member’s course on the KFork.mygreatway 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.
7)Privacy Policy updates
This Privacy Policy will be reviewed and updated from time to time. When changes are made, the Privacy Policy will be labeled as "Revised (date)," indicating that you should review the new terms, which will be effective immediately upon posting on this page, with an updated effective date. By accessing the KFork.mygreatway 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.
8)Contact information
If you have privacy concerns, have disclosed data you would prefer to keep private, or would like to access the Personal Information that KFork.mygreatway maintains about you, please contact us at KFork@KFork.mygreatway.com. , KFork.mygreatway will notify the appropriate Member of your request.
9)Glossary
Cookies are unique identifiers usually in the form of small data files placed on your device that send certain information about your activity on the KFork.mygreatway Site or in an email communication back to KFork.mygreatway or the authorized third party that served the cookie. KFork.mygreatway or third parties may also use Flash cookies.
KFork.mygreatway Site consists of all content and pages located within the KFork.mygreatway.com web domain.
Member is each educational institution or other leading global institution or entity that provides courses through the KFork.mygreatway Site.
Personal Information is information that specifically identifies you or that, when combined with other information, could be used to identify you.
Tracking Technologies are web beacons, clear gifs, pixels, and similar technologies that are also unique identifiers used to track your online activity but are not stored on your device.
Effective Date:
August 10, 2020