Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 22, 2022

Introduction

Skill Josh and each Member that provides courses through the Skill Josh Site care about the confidentiality and security of your information. This Privacy Policy applies to information that Skill Josh (a 2U, Inc. company) collects through the Skill Josh Site when you interact with Skill Josh, with Members, with other users, and generally with the Skill Josh Site.
Your information is received and controlled by Skill Josh according to this Privacy Policy when you sign up for an Skill Josh account or otherwise use the Skill Josh Site.
Skill Josh is solely and independently responsible for its own privacy practices. No Member is responsible for Skill Josh’s privacy practices.
If you enroll in a course offered by a Member through the Skill Josh Site, information about you and your activity in the course is received and controlled also by that Member as described in this Privacy Policy.
Each Member is solely and independently responsible for its own privacy practices. No Member is responsible for another Member’s privacy practices. Also, Skill Josh 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 Skill Josh 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 Skill Josh 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:

We will use your Personal Data only in accordance with this policy. To enable us to fulfil the contract between us for the services you have requested, we need to process your Personal Data for purposes including the following:

Information that Skill Josh collects from you (including Personal Information)
Cookies and Tracking Technologies on the Skill Josh 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

INFORMATION THAT EDX COLLECTS FROM YOU (INCLUDING PERSONAL INFORMATION)

Skill Josh directly collects information when you:

sign up for an Skill Josh user account and create an Skill Josh user profile;
enroll and participate in online courses;
purchase a product or service (for example, Verified Certificates);
send email messages to Skill Josh (including messages to learner support);
participate in user surveys; and
participate in public forums, webinars, and other interactive experiences on the Skill Josh Site.

Skill Josh also indirectly collects usage information about your visit to the Skill Josh Site, as explained in the section below titled Cookies and Tracking Technologies.

Skill Josh 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 Skill Josh Site, for example a Verified Certificate, you will be directed to Skill Josh’s third-party payment processor and Skill Josh’s third-party ID verification service provider. If you do not wish to submit the required authentication or payment information, then you will not be able to obtain a certificate via the Skill Josh Site.

Skill Josh requires your Personal Information limited circumstances when you:

sign up for an Skill Josh user account (name, username, email address);
purchase a Verified Certificate (so that Skill Josh’s third-party vendor can authenticate your identity) or other product or service (so that Skill Josh’s third-party vendor can process payment);
participate in remote proctoring or other course facilitation processes (so that Skill Josh’s third-party vendor can monitor and assess the integrity of your course activity); or
earn a Verified Certificate (the certificate will have your name on it).

Cookies And Tracking Technologies on the Skill Josh Site

Like many companies, Skill Josh uses Cookies and other common Tracking Technologies on the Skill Josh Site and in email communications to help Skill Josh better understand your use and needs of the Skill Josh Site, current and future Skill Josh-related products and services, and how Skill Josh and Members can improve. For example:

based on your cookie settings, Skill Josh tracks information indicating, among other things, which pages of the Skill Josh Site were visited, the order in which they were visited, when they were visited, and which hyperlinks and other user interface controls were used;
Skill Josh may log the IP address, operating system, and browser software (including mobile use and device type when you use Skill Josh native mobile apps) you used when accessing the Skill Josh Site, and Skill Josh may be able to determine from an IP address your Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of your point of connectivity; and
Skill Josh may track and collect information from emails that Skill Josh sends to you, for example whether you opened the email or clicked on any links from the email.

Skill Josh also partners with third parties to help us track and understand your activity on the Skill Josh Site, how you interact with Skill Josh’s social media, and how you find or may be referred to the Skill Josh 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 Skill Josh Site.

Skill Josh and Members use Cookies and other Tracking Technologies for the following purposes:

when necessary for system administration, security, and integrity to ensure the Skill Josh Site works properly for you. Without these technologies, the Skill Josh Site may not function correctly;
to enable analytics, performance and functionality, to help Skill Josh and Members gather information about how visitors use the Skill Josh Site and monitor Skill Josh Site performance, and to enhance your experience by recognizing and remembering whether you have visited the Skill Josh Site before and may have any personal preferences; and
to support marketing by enabling Skill Josh and Members to deliver content relevant to your interests on the Skill Josh Site and third-party sites based on how you interact with Skill Josh or Member advertisements or content. Skill Josh and Members use “first-party” cookies, which means cookies served by Skill Josh or an individual Member, and also “third-party” cookies, which means cookies served by third parties that help Skill Josh and Members track this information.

STORAGE & SECURITY

Skill Josh stores information, including Personal Information, on its own servers and also on servers of companies that Skill Josh 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 Skill Josh or a Member operates, and in countries where Skill Josh 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 Skill Josh 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.

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