COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES ON THE DocMode.org SITE

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

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

DocMode.org also partners with third parties to help us track and understand your activity on the DocMode.org Site, how you interact with DocMode.org’s social media, and how you find or may be referred to the DocMode.org 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 DocMode.org Site. One of the third parties that DocMode works with is Google. In addition to using the information it collects performing services for DocMode, Google may also use such information as described in its privacy policy. To see how Google may use information collected through our use of the Google services on the DocMode Sites visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.
DocMode.org and Members use Cookies and other Tracking Technologies for the following purposes:

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

You have some options for managing Cookies and other Tracking Technologies. These include:

  • Modifying your browser settings:You should be able to control how and whether your web browser accepts Cookies by adjusting its privacy and security settings. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new Cookies, how to receive notification of new Cookies, and how to disable existing Cookies. If you reject DocMode.org’s Cookies, many functions and conveniences of the DocMode.org Site may not work properly.
  • Opting-out of certain third-party tracking and advertising: Some of the third parties used by DocMode.org or a Member for Cookies and Tracking Technologies offer the ability to opt-out from their tracking by following processes described on their websites. A list of some such third parties is maintained and available at the DocMode.org learner Help Center and includes, for some, links to applicable opt-out processes. Neither DocMode.org nor any Member is responsible for the effectiveness of any third-party opt-out options.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS USED

DocMode.org and Members use information, including Personal Information, to carry out the following purposes:

  • Operate and improve the DocMode.org Site – This includes creating and improving features that support the DocMode.org community and enable DocMode.org Site usage at scale. This also includes personalizing the DocMode.org 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 DocMode.org. 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 DocMode.org Site, to enroll and participate in courses and programs on the DocMode.org Site, to learn effectively in such courses and programs, and to purchase or obtain products and services on the DocMode.org Site such as Verified Certificates.
  • Develop and maintain the security and performance of the DocMode.org Site – This includes tracking DocMode.org 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 DocMode.org Site.
  • Communicate with you – This includes answering your course and platform questions, notifying you of course and DocMode.org Site maintenance and updates, marketing to you about course offerings, programs, news, and related products and services of DocMode.org or DocMode.org affiliates, 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 DocMode.org Site usage against goals and mission – This includes performing analytics to evaluate access to and performance in courses and course-related products and services and to report aggregate usage information (not Personal Information) to business partners and external audiences.
  • Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations – This includes responding to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; and investigating, preventing, or taking action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, security or technical issues, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of DocMode.org, Members, or others, and as otherwise required by applicable law.

DocMode.org or a Member may also seek your consent for additional uses of information, including Personal Information, and will use it only for the purpose described to you. All use of Personal Information is subject to applicable law.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS SHARED

DocMode.org and Members share information, including Personal Information, with third parties for the following purposes:

  • With service providers, contractors, and other third parties that help carry out the uses described above – DocMode.org requires third parties to: (1) abide by this Privacy Policy and applicable law; (2) handle Personal Information in a confidential manner and maintain adequate security; and (3) use Personal Information only as needed to fulfill the relevant purpose(s). In some cases, the DocMode.org Site and individual courses are integrated with third-party services or contain links to websites published by third parties, including other content providers as well as service providers. These third parties are responsible for their own privacy practices, so you should pay attention anytime you are redirected to a third-party website and be sure to review its privacy policy.
  • With other learners in courses that you take and with other visitors to the DocMode.org Site, to create an interactive learning environment, support class participation, and share course information – This includes sharing comments, coursework, or other information or content that you submit to a portion of the DocMode.org Site designed for viewing by other class members or for public communication. This also includes providing opportunities for you to communicate with other users who may have similar interests or educational goals, for instance, recommending specific study partners or connecting potential student mentees and mentors. In such cases, DocMode.org and each Member that offers a course in which you enrolled may use all information collected about you to determine who might be interested in communicating with you, but will only provide others your username (for clarity, no disclosure of your real name or email address).
  • With employers, government programs, institutions, or other enterprises that sponsor your enrollment in a course for training or other educational purposes – If an entity pays for or otherwise sponsors your Verified Certificate or course participation, DocMode.org will share information with the entity as needed to confirm your enrollment, participation, progress, and completion status in that course.
  • With affiliates of DocMode.org or a Member, or with successors in the event of a merger, acquisition, or reorganization, for their use consistent with this Privacy Policy.
    With Organisations who you have agreed to pay on your behalf when you enroll in 100 % or any discount courses that are sponsored. The moment you enroll via such Sponsored discount courses you agree that DocMode.org can provide your learner information (analytics) of the enrolled course to the sponsoring organisation.

DocMode.org or a Member may also seek your consent for additional disclosures of information, including Personal Information, and will share it only as described to you. In addition, DocMode.org or a Member may share with the public and with third parties, including but not limited to researchers and business partners, information and Personal Information that is de-identified or aggregated in a manner that does not personally identify you.

HOW TO MANAGE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You can manage your Personal Information through learner features on the DocMode.org Site and requests to the DocMode.org learner support team. If your request involves information controlled by a Member, DocMode.org learner support will notify and coordinate with the appropriate Member to address your request. DocMode.org will provide support to the extent required by applicable law (for example, learners in the European Union) and more broadly when possible, as a courtesy in our sole discretion. DocMode.org will notify you in the event that DocMode.org is unable to meet a request that is not legally required. Similarly, Members will only be obligated to comply with requests to the extent legally required, but may choose to comply with other requests in their sole discretion.
Access and correct your Personal Information
Much of your Personal Information is available in your DocMode.org account. Your name, email address, and other identifiable profile information is editable through the profile settings in your DocMode.org account except as noted below. Your account dashboard lists all current and archived courses in which you have enrolled and includes links to any Verified Certificates you may have earned. The dashboard also contains copies of your answers and other participation and performance in courses. Please contact DocMode.org learner support to access and update this or other information. If your request involves information controlled by a Member, DocMode.org learner support will notify the appropriate Member of your request.
Exceptions:

  • Usernames cannot ever be changed. This is an DocMode.org system restriction. Because usernames identify you in courses and elsewhere on the DocMode.org Site, DocMode.org encourages you to use discretion in choosing your username. If you want to protect your identity, do not use your real name or a name identifiable to you as your username.
  • DocMode.org does not track or index every time or every place on the DocMode.org Site when or where a learner may volunteer Personal Information, so neither DocMode.org nor Members will be able to help you locate or manage all such instances. DocMode.org encourages you to use discretion before volunteering Personal Information on the DocMode.org Site.

Restrict or object to the processing of Personal Information
If you want to manage emails and other communications to you, you may update your preferences in your DocMode.org account dashboard, follow the steps described in links at the bottom of email messages, or contact DocMode.org learner support. You may object to, or request that DocMode.org or a Member stop, its use of your Personal Information for other purposes by contacting the DocMode.org learner support team. If your request involves information controlled by a Member, DocMode.org learner support will notify the appropriate Member of your request. Please note that if you choose to restrict DocMode.org’s or a Member’s ability to process Personal Information, and the processing is otherwise required to provide you with various services and products offered on the DocMode.org Site, you may not be able to establish an DocMode.org user account or enroll for a course, and DocMode.org or a Member may not be able to provide you with those services or products.
Delete account and Personal Information
To request deletion of your DocMode.org account and Personal Information, you should click the button labeled “Delete my account” in your DocMode.org account settings. Because deletion on the DocMode.org system is a permanent action and cannot be reversed, DocMode.org may ask you to complete a process that aims to confirm your authority to manage the DocMode.org account affected by your request.
With respect to your DocMode.org account, DocMode.org will permanently:

  • deactivate your DocMode.org account,
  • remove the active profile,
  • retire your username, and
  • remove you from DocMode.org email lists.

With respect to your Personal Information, DocMode.org will permanently delete your DocMode.org account profile Personal Information from the DocMode.org Site.
As noted above, to the extent that DocMode.org associates the information that DocMode.org collects directly or indirectly with an individual (for example, you), the association is based on Personal Information in your DocMode.org account profile. By erasing the Personal Information in your DocMode.org account profile, the remaining information about your activity on the DocMode.org Site will no longer be associated with you, except as noted below.
These changes will be applied to data stores that are used for operation of the DocMode.org Site including course administration by Members. If you enrolled in any courses on the DocMode.org Site, the DocMode.org learner support team will share your request with the Members that offered those courses.

Exceptions :

  • Deletion will not apply to historical activity logs or archives unless and until these logs and data naturally “age-off” the DocMode.org system.
  • DocMode.org does not track or index every time or every place on the DocMode.org Site when or where a learner may volunteer Personal Information, so neither DocMode.org nor Members will be able to help you locate or manage all such instances. DocMode.org encourages you to use discretion before voluntarily sharing your Personal Information on the DocMode.org Site.
  • DocMode.org will archive course data (in a manner and to the extent permitted under applicable law) to serve its mission to enable scientific research on cognitive science and education. These archives are used to produce encrypted research data packages for Members, and Personal Information may not be deleted from research data packages retained by Members.
  • DocMode.org and each applicable Member cannot always delete records of past interactions and transactions. For example, records relating to previous purchases on the DocMode.org Site must be retained for financial reporting, audit, and compliance reasons.
  • DocMode.org and each Member will retain and use Personal Information as necessary to comply with its legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce its agreements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

Data retention

DocMode.org controls its own copy of information collected through the DocMode.org Site and has an information security program designed to protect information in its possession or control. This is done through a variety of privacy and security policies, processes, and procedures. DocMode.org uses administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that reasonably and appropriately protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information that it collects, receives, stores, or transmits. Nonetheless, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure; and therefore, DocMode.org cannot guarantee its absolute security. While DocMode.org works hard to ensure the integrity and security of its network and systems, DocMode.org cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent “hackers” or other unauthorized persons from illegally accessing or obtaining information.
If DocMode.org learns of a security breach involving its copy of your Personal Information, DocMode.org may attempt to notify you electronically so that you may take appropriate protective steps. By using the DocMode.org Site or providing Personal Information to DocMode.org, you agree that DocMode.org can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the DocMode.org Site. If a security systems breach occurs, DocMode.org may post a notice on the DocMode.org homepage (www.DocMode.org) or elsewhere on the DocMode.org Site and may send an email to you at the email address associated with your DocMode.org account. Depending on where you are located, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach, involving your Personal Information, in writing.
If a Member learns of a security breach involving that Member’s copy of your Personal Information, the Member may attempt to notify you electronically so that you may take appropriate protective steps. By enrolling in a Member’s course on the DocMode.org Site or providing Personal Information to the Member, you agree that the Member can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your course enrollment and participation. If a security systems breach occurs, the affected Member may post a notice on the DocMode.org site and/or send an email to you at the email address associated with your enrollment in the Member’s course on the DocMode.org Site. Depending on where you are located, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach, involving your Personal Information, in writing.

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

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 DocMode.org Site 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.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have privacy concerns, have disclosed data you would prefer to keep private, or would like to access the Personal Information that DocMode.org maintains about you, please contact us at support@DocMode.org. You may also write to us at: ATTN: PRIVACY, DocMode, Docmode Health Technologies Pvt. Ltd.,Office No: 201, Kalpataru Plaza, Chincholi Bunder Rd, Nadiyawala Colony 2 Malad West, Mumbai-400064,Maharashtra. If your request involves a Member, DocMode.org will notify the appropriate Member of your request.
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GLOSSARY

Cookies are unique identifiers usually in the form of small data files placed on your device that send certain information about your activity on the DocMode.org Site or in an email communication back to DocMode.org or the authorized third party that served the cookie. DocMode.org or third parties may also use Flash cookies.

DocMode.org Site consists of all content and pages located within the DocMode.org web domain and all DocMode.org mobile applications.

Member is each educational institution or other leading global institution or entity that provides courses through the DocMode.org Site.

Personal Information is information that specifically identifies you or that, when combined with other information, could be used to identify you.

Tracking Technologies are web beacons, clear gifs, pixels, and similar technologies that are also unique identifiers used to track your online activity but are not stored on your device.

Verified Certificate is a virtual certificate that shows that you have successfully completed your DocMode.org course or program and verified your identity using your webcam and your acceptable form of photo ID.

Effective Date:
April 3rd, 2019