Gulf-courses and each Member that provides courses through the gulf-courses Site care about the confidentiality and security of your information. This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect through the Gulf-courses.com when you interact with Members, with other users, and generally with the Site.
Your information is received and controlled by site according to this Privacy Policy when you sign up for an account or otherwise use the web Site.
Gulf-Courses is solely and independently responsible for its own privacy practices. No Member is responsible for Gulf-Courses’s privacy practices.
If you enroll in a course offered by a Member through the Gulf-Courses 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, Gulf-Courses 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 Gulf-Courses 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 Gulf-Courses Site, then you may not be able to establish a user account or obtain those products or services.
sign up for an Gulf-courses user account and create an user profile;
enroll and participate in online courses;
purchase a product or service (for example, Verified Certificates);
send email messages to gulf-courses (including messages to learner support);
participate in user surveys; and participate in public forums, webinars, and other interactive experiences on the web Site.
Gulf-courses 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 Site, for example a Verified Certificate, you will be directed to gulf-courses third-party payment processor and 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 course certificate via the Site.
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 account profile plus the information that gulf-courses collects about your activity and performance in the course in which you enrolled.
Gulf-courses and Members use information, including Personal Information, to carry out the following purposes:
Operate and improve the Site – This includes creating and improving features that support the community and enable Site usage at scale. This also includes personalizing the 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 Gulf-courses.com. 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 Site, to enroll and participate in courses and programs on the Site, to learn effectively in such courses and programs, and to purchase or obtain products and services on the gulf-courses such as Verified Certificates.
Develop and maintain the security and performance of the Site – This includes tracking Site outages and creating software solutions, detecting violations of the Honor Code and Terms of Service, and monitoring uses, misuses, and potential misuses of the Site.
Communicate with you – This includes answering your course and platform questions, notifying you of course and Site maintenance and updates, marketing to you about course offerings, programs, news, and related products and services of gulf-courses, and as permitted under applicable law, sending you communications about products or services of selected business partners that may be of interest to you. Support scientific research including, for example, in the areas of cognitive science and education – This includes collaborating to enable and conduct research about how learners access and master course materials online, with the goal of improving course outcomes.
Track Site usage against goals and mission – This includes performing analytics to evaluate access to and performance in courses and course-related products and services
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 elSite 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.
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