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These rights are legally enforceable under GDPR and similar laws — if Coursera fails to respond adequately, you can escalate to your national data protection authority.
Coursera collects extensive personal data including learning behavior, assessment results, payment information, and device identifiers, and the policy permits sharing subsets of this data with institutional clients such as employers and universities, advertising partners, and third-party service providers. Learners enrolled through employer or campus programs should be aware that their course activity and performance data may be visible to the sponsoring organization, which may affect how they approach platform use. You can adjust marketing communication preferences and exercise data rights including access, deletion, and portability by contacting privacy@coursera.org or visiting your account settings.
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If you are a California resident, you may have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). These rights may include: the right to know about personal information collected, disclosed, or sold; the right to delete personal information collected from you; the right to opt-out of t...
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information. These rights may include: The right to know what personal information we have collected about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which we collected i...
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"Depending on your location and subject to applicable law, you may have rights with respect to your personal data, including: the right to access personal data we hold about you; the right to request rectification of inaccurate data; the right to request erasure of your personal data; the right to restrict our processing of your personal data; the right to data portability; and the right to object to our processing of your personal data.— Excerpt from Coursera's Coursera Privacy Notice
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