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The CourseFeed Install Guide contains all the information you need to get CourseFeed setup for your school. Download the Install Guide
The CourseFeed Free Plug-in seamlessly integrates Facebook with your school’s online learning management system without requiring users to hand over login credentials. Request the Free Plug-in.
As outlined in the Install Guide, you need to create a Gateway user account and submit the details online here: Submit Gateway Account Details
 
 
  CourseFeed Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

CourseFeed strives to provide users with a better academic experience by notifying users of course information in a timely manner and connecting you with Facebook friends and classmates in the context of a course. Think of CourseFeed as a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feed of online course information stored in your school’s learning management system delivered in an easy to use Facebook interface. CourseFeed takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. Please feel free to contact us with questions or comments at: privacy@coursefeed.com
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What This Privacy Policy Covers?

This policy covers how CourseFeed treats personal information that CourseFeed collects and receives, including information related to your past use of CourseFeed products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like course information, name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
 
     
 

Information Collection and Use

 
 
  • CourseFeed collects personal information when you register with us or add the CourseFeed application for Facebook®, when you use CourseFeed products or services, when you visit CourseFeed pages or the pages of certain CourseFeed partners. When you register with CourseFeed and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. CourseFeed collects information about you from Facebook and the online learning management system to which it is integrated. CourseFeed does not access any other school/institution system even if such system is connected to the online learning management system.
  • When you use CourseFeed, you may set up your school courses, form relationships, send messages, upload files, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, 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 information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.
  • You post content on the Site at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other 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 will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. 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.
  • CourseFeed strives to provide notifications to users of course related content in a timely manner but is not responsible for lost or late notifications. You are still responsible for checking your school’s learning management system for changes to your course.
  • CourseFeed automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, CourseFeed cookie information, and the page you request.
  • CourseFeed uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting.
 
     
  Information Sharing and Disclosure  
 
  • CourseFeed does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the f
  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
  • Following circumstances:
  1. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of CourseFeed's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
  2. We transfer information about you if CourseFeed is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, CourseFeed will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  • CourseFeed displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria —for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
    CourseFeed does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

  • By providing CourseFeed with access to courses on your school’s learning management system, such as you grant CourseFeed permission retrieve all course related information and content such as but not limited to links to files, folders, and assignments, announcements, personal contact information, and course roster information, for the purpose of displaying and notifying you of online course activity through the CourseFeed interface and/or email.

  • CourseFeed does not download, save, or store files that reside on the learning management system. To access files CourseFeed provides links which direct you to your school's online content system login screen where you can access the files directly.

  • We recognize the sensitive nature of course related information and content and will maintain the same level of privacy and separation currently implemented by your school’s learning management system. CourseFeed is limited to retrieve only content links and information that is accessible by you based on your institution’s online content system configuration and your enrollment permissions. CourseFeed will never present to you information or content you do not already have access to
  • Because CourseFeed mirrors your school’s learning management system only students, teachers, TAs, administrators and other individuals currently enrolled by your school administration in your course will display in the course roster and have access to course materials.

  • CourseFeed may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message, or someone posts on your Course Wall, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact
  • Generally, you may opt out of such emails by clicking the opt out link in the footer of each email, though CourseFeed reserves the right to send you notice about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.
 
     
 

Children Under Age 13

  • CourseFeed 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, please do not attempt to use CourseFeed 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 CourseFeed. 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.

 

 
 

Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

  • We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
 
  Cookies
  • CourseFeed may set and access CourseFeed cookies on your computer.

  • CourseFeed lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to CourseFeed's cookies.

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

 
 

Confidentiality and Security

  • We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

  • We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you. For more information see our Security Statement.

  • Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information we encrypt that information. Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services.

 
 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

  • Your use of CourseFeed, 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 and our Terms of Use at any time. 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 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 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 Us

  • If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at privacy@coursefeed.com.
    Or
    in writing at: ClassTop, Inc.
    CourseFeed Application 1875 S. State St. Ste. 1010 Orem, UT 84097
    Effective Date: October 25, 2007
 
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