Privacy Policy

Welcome to Course Networking, an academic and professional networking and content delivery service.  The Course Networking service (the "Service") is operated by CourseNetworking, LLC (collectively, "us", "we" or "the Company").  This Privacy Policy is intended to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using the Course Networking Site located at www.coursenetworking.com, and its directly associated domains (collectively, the "Site").

By using or accessing the Site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

The Information We Collect

When you visit the Site you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us, and website use information collected by us as you interact with our Site.

When you register with the Site, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.

When you enter the Site, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all Site visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to the Site.

When you use the Site, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the Service and offer personalized features. When you update your information, we may keep a backup copy of the prior version in our archives

You post User Content (as defined in the Terms of Use [www.thecn.com]) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Site users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site or any other information you provide to us will not be viewed by unauthorized persons, or that you User Content or any other information you provide to us will be completely secure from misappropriation by hackers or from other nefarious or criminal activities. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your User Content.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on the Site is a violation of the Terms of Use and should be reported to info@coursenetworking.com.

If you choose to use our “Invite New Members” service to tell a friend about the Site, we will ask you for your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Site.  The Site stores this information to send this one-time email, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at info@coursenetworking.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

By using the Site, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.

Children Under Age 13

The Site does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register.  If you are under 13, do not attempt to register for the Site or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address.  No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Site. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@coursenetworking.com.

Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

We recommend that minors over the age of 13 receive the permission of their parents or guardians before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

Use of Information Obtained by the Site

When you register with the Site, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on the Site. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by the Site that we think you may find valuable.

Profile information is used by the Site primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the Service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. Your name and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the Site and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines.

The Site may send you Service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the Service. Generally, you may opt out of such emails, though the Site reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

The Site permits sharing information with others - other students and colleagues in your networks - while providing you with privacy settings that restrict  access to your information. We allow you to choose the information you provide to others through the Site. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to provide the Service; 2) legally permitted or required; 3) necessary in our opinion to protect or defend our rights or property or the rights or property of another user of the Service; 4) necessary in our opinion to protect the personal safety of our employees, users of the Service, or the public; or 5) with your permission.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, some examples of circumstances under which we may share your personal information are:

• We may provide your personal information to service providers to help us bring you the Services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the Service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about the Site, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the specified purposes.
• We occasionally provide demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into the  Site. Such accounts have only limited capabilities (e.g., messaging is disabled) and passwords are changed regularly to limit possible misuse.
• We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Service or using the  Site, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
• If the ownership of all or a portion of our business were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner(s).

When you use the Site, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a fellow student or colleague), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, or other items, this information may become publicly available.

Links

The Site may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this Site.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over much of your personal information on the Site is readily available through the profile editing tools. You may modify or delete your profile information at any time by logging into your account. Individuals who wish to deactivate their Site account may do so by contacting us at info@coursenetworking.com. Deleted information may persist in our archives, but will not be generally available on the Site after deactivation.

Where you make use of the communication features of the Service to share information with other individuals, (e.g., sending a message to another Site user) you generally cannot remove or delete such communications.

Security

The Site takes reasonable precautions to protect your information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we recommend that you do not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of the Site, please contact us at info@coursenetworking.com

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions

Your use of the Site, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages, and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the Privacy Policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this Privacy Policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current Privacy Policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting the Site

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at info@coursenetworking.com. You may also contact us by mail at 351 W. 10^th St., Ste. 314; Indianapolis, Indiana 46202.