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+<section class="privacy-policy">
+  <div>
+<h1>Privacy Policy</h1>
+
+<h2>Confidentiality &amp; Security of Personally
+Identifiable Information</h2>
+
+<p>We care about the confidentiality and security of your personal
+information. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to keep your
+Personally Identifiable Information private and will not share it with third
+parties, except as set forth in this Privacy Policy. However, no method of
+transmitting or storing electronic data is ever completely secure, and we
+cannot guarantee that such information will never be accessed, used, or
+released in a manner that is inconsistent with this policy. </p>
+
+<p>This Privacy Policy only applies to information that we collect
+through the Site and does not apply to information that we may collect
+from you in other ways (for example, this policy does not apply to
+information that you may provide to us over the phone, by fax or
+through conventional mail). In addition, please note your educational
+records are protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
+(&quot;FERPA&quot;) to the extent FERPA applies.</p>
+
+<h2>Usernames and Postings </h2>
+
+<p>Comments or other information posted by you to our forums,
+wikis, or other areas of the Site designed for public communications may be
+viewed and downloaded by others who visit the Site. For this reason, we
+encourage you to use an anonymous username, and to not post any personally
+identifiable information to those forums (or other public areas).</p>
+
+<h2>What You Consent to by Using Our Site</h2>
+
+<p>Please understand that by submitting any Personally Identifiable
+Information to us, you consent and agree that we may collect, use and
+disclose such Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with
+this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service (&quot;TOS&quot;), and as
+permitted or required by law. If you do not agree with these terms,
+then please do not provide any Personally Identifiable Information to
+us. As used herein, &quot;Personally Identifiable Information&quot;
+means your full name, email address, your physical address (if you
+provide it) and your student identification number, if applicable. If
+you refuse, or if you choose not to provide us with any required
+Personally Identifiable Information, we may not be able to provide you
+with the services that can be offered on our Site.</p>
+
+<h2>Information We Collect and How We Use It </h2>
+
+<p>We collect information, including Personally Identifiable
+Information, when you sign up for a User Account, participate in
+online courses, send us email messages and/or participate in our
+public forums. We collect information about student performance and
+patterns of learning. We track information indicating, among other
+things, which pages of our Site were visited, the order in which they
+were visited, when they were visited, and which hyperlinks and other
+user interface controls were used.</p>
+
+<p>We may log the IP address, operating system and browser software
+used by each user of the Site, and we may be able to determine from an
+IP address a user's Internet Service Provider and the geographic
+location of his or her point of connectivity. Various web analysis
+tools are used to collect this information. Some of the information is
+collected through cookies (a small text file placed on your
+computer). You should be able to control how and whether cookies will
+be accepted by your web browser. Most browsers offer instructions on
+how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the &quot;Help&quot;
+section of the toolbar. If you reject our cookies, many functions and
+conveniences of this Site may not work properly.</p>
+
+<p>Among other things, we may use the information that you provide
+(including your Personally Identifiable Information) in connection
+with the following:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>To help us improve <i>MITx</i> offerings, both individually
+     (e.g. by course staff when working with a student) and in
+     aggregate, and to individualize the experience and to evaluate
+     the access and use of the Site and the impact of <i>MITx</i> on
+     the worldwide educational community.
+     </li>
+ <li>For purposes of scientific research, particularly, for
+     example, in the areas of cognitive science and education. </li>
+ <li>For the purpose for which you specifically provided
+     the personal information, for example to respond to a specific inquiry or
+     provide you the specific course and/or services you select. </li>
+ <li>To track both individual and aggregate attendance,
+     progress and completion of an online course, and to analyze statistics on
+     student performance and how students learn. </li>
+ <li>To monitor and detect violations of the Honor Code, the
+     Terms of Service, as well as other misuses and potential misuses of the
+     site. </li>
+ <li>To publish information gathered about <i>MITx</i>
+     access, use, impact, and student performance but only as non-personally
+     identifiable data.</li>
+ <li>To send you updates about online courses offered by <i>MITx</i>
+     or other MIT events or to send you email messages about Site maintenance
+     or updates.</li>
+ <li>To archive this information and/or use it for future
+     communications with you.</li>
+ <li>As otherwise described to you at the point of
+     collection. </li>
+</ul>
+
+<p> In addition to the above situations where your information may be
+shared with others, there is also the possibility that <i>MITx</i>
+will affiliate with other educational institutions and/or
+that <i>MITx</i> will become a (or part of a) nonprofit entity
+separate from MIT.  In those events, the other educational
+institutions and/or separate entity will have access to the
+information you provide, to the extent permitted by FERPA.
+
+<h2>Sharing with Third Parties</h2>
+
+<p>We may share the information we collect with third parties
+as follows:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li> With service providers or
+contractors that perform certain functions on our behalf, including processing
+information that you provide to us on the Site, operating the Site or portions
+of it, or in connection with other aspects of <i>MITx</i> services. These
+service providers and contractors will be obligated to keep your information
+confidential.</p>
+
+<li> With all users and other visitors
+to the Site, to the extent that you submit post comments or other information
+to a portion of the Site designed for public communications. As provided in the
+Terms of Service, we may provide those postings to students in future offerings
+of the course, either within the context of the forums, the courseware, or
+otherwise, for marketing purposes, or in any other way. If we do use your postings,
+we will use them without your real name and e-mail (except with explicit
+permission), but we may use your username. </p>
+
+<li>To connect you to other users of the Site. For instance, we
+may recommend specific study partners, or connect potential student
+mentees and mentors. In such cases, we may use all information
+collected to determine who to connect you to, but we will only connect
+you by username, and not disclose your real name or e-mail address to
+your contact. </p>
+
+<li> To respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process, in
+response to a request for cooperation from law enforcement or another
+government agency, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
+illegal activities, suspected fraud, or to enforce our user agreement
+or privacy policy, or to protect our rights or the rights of
+others.</p>
+
+<li> As otherwise described to you at the point of collection or
+pursuant to your consent. For example, from time to time, we may ask
+your permission to use your Personally Identifiable Information in
+other ways. In the future, <i>MITx</i> may have an alumni association,
+resume book, etc. We may offer services where it is possible to
+verify <i>MITx</i> credentials. </p>
+
+<li> For integration with third party services. Videos and other
+content may be hosted on YouTube and other web sites not controlled
+by <i>MITx</i>. We may provide links and other integration with social
+networks, and other sites. Those web sites are guided by their own
+privacy policies. </p>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Personalization and Pedagogical Improvements</h2>
+
+<p>Our goal is to provide current and future visitors with the best
+possible educational experience. To further this goal, we sometimes
+present different users with different versions of course materials
+and software. We do this to personalize the experience to the
+individual learner (assess the learner's level of ability and learning
+style, and present materials best suited to the learner), to evaluate
+the effectiveness of our course materials, to improve our
+understanding of the learning process, and to otherwise improve the
+effectiveness of our offerings. We may publish or otherwise publicize
+results from this process, but only as non-personally-identifiable
+data. </p>
+
+<h2>Changing Our Privacy Policy</h2>
+
+<p>Please note that we review our privacy practices from time to time,
+and that these practices are subject to change. We will publish notice
+of any such modifications online on this page for a reasonable period
+of time following such modifications, and by changing the effective
+date of this Privacy Policy. By continuing to access the Site after
+such changes have been posted, you signify your agreement to be bound
+by them. Be sure to return to this page periodically to ensure
+familiarity with the most current version of this Privacy Policy. </p>
+
+<h2>Privacy Concerns</h2>
+
+<p>If you have privacy concerns, or have disclosed data you would
+prefer to keep private, please contact us
+at <a href="mailto:privacy@mitx.mit.edu">privacy@mitx.mit.edu</a>. </p>
+
+<p> Effective Date: February 6, 2012
+
+  </div>
+</section>