Privacy and Use Policy

GENERAL

VideoLectures.NET is committed to developing open and fair policies for the use of VideoLectures.NET materials for teaching and learning. We are equally committed to protecting the privacy of our users online. This privacy and use statement discloses the privacy and use practices for the VideoLectures.NET web site.

USE

Information gathered from users on the VideoLectures.NET web site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0. Rather than perceived as a restriction on use, this is seen as facilitating use through the addition of context, association, and relevance, to make VideoLectures.NET easier to find and use for educational purposes.

Not all VideoLectures.NET are covered by the same licenses. VideoLectures.NET gathers and presents metadata (pointers) on VideoLectures.NET materials, which themselves have varying degrees of open use and reuse policies, copyright agreements, and licensing arrangements.

Although we seek to point to open and re-usable content, VideoLectures.NET in no way promotes the use of materials outside the particular legal restrictions imposed by an VideoLectures.NET author or provider. We reserve the right to remove any material from the site deemed to fall outside of the definition of VideoLectures.NET. We make no claim of rights over VideoLectures.NET content hosted on other sites that we may link to.

We take no responsibility for the consistency of VideoLectures.NET content that we may link or for the use that any user of the VideoLectures.NET site may engage in or recommend to others.

PRIVACY

Sharing of Personally Identifiable Information: VideoLectures.NET respects the privacy of the individual and undertakes to protect the confidentiality of personal information that is supplied in the course of membership and participation on the VideoLectures.NET web site.

Creation and Sharing of User Data on the Site: VideoLectures.NET provides its registered users with the privilege of adding user-created data to the site. It is the right of VideoLectures.NET to grant and revoke this right to any user of the VideoLectures.NET web site. A user may be required to or allowed to submit some personal information as part of his or her Member Profile, such as user name and role, affiliated institution, subject or grade taught, for example, as part of membership and participation in an online community based on open educational resources vetting.

Ratings, reviews, and tags created by the user are by definition part of the VideoLectures.NET knowledge base and are created under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0.

VideoLectures.NET is not responsible for any personally identifiable information that a user discloses to sites visited and for the privacy practices of such sites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the VideoLectures.NET web site.

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

X5GON Project

Within this project, we collect user activity data that is acquired by the X5GON snippet integrated in our system. The user data we acquire through the snippet is anonimized and consists of the following values:

User ID. This value is the identifier of the user accessing the learning material. It is created using the X5GON snippet and stored as a cookie in the user's browser. The value is randomly generated, anonimized, and cannot be used to get back to the user.

Material URL. This value is the material identifier and the link that the user visited.

Referrer URL. This URL is the link from which the user arrived to the material.

Access Date. The date at which the material was accessed.

User Agents. This attribute contains information about the technology the user used to access the material.

Language. The language configuration used in users technology.

User Location. The geographical location from which the user accessed the material, e.g. city, country, and continent. NOTE: This value will be calculated using the users IP. The user IP is NOT stored in our databases.

The acquired user data is used to identify users learning interests and give personalized recommendations. More can be found on the X5GON privacy policy page.