Coursera Privacy Notice

This is Coursera's privacy policy explaining how the online learning platform collects and uses your personal data, including your name, email, payment details, course progress, quiz scores, and browsing behavior. The most important thing to know is that Coursera shares your learning activity and personal data with universities and companies whose courses you take, and those third parties may have their own privacy policies that apply to your data. You can exercise rights to access, correct, delete, or download your personal data by visiting your account settings or contacting privacy@coursera.org.

This document is Coursera's Privacy Notice governing the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data from users of Coursera's online learning platform, with legal bases including consent, legitimate interests, and contractual necessity under applicable frameworks including GDPR and CCPA. The most significant obligations include Coursera's collection of a broad range of data — including identity, payment, usage, learning activity, and inferred profile data — combined with its obligation to provide users data subject rights such as access, correction, deletion, and portability. Notable provisions include sharing personal data with university and enterprise partners (Content Providers and Campuses) who may independently process learner data, and the use of personal data to build learner profiles for personalization and marketing; the scope of third-party sharing with institutional partners may exceed reasonable consumer expectation in an educational context. The policy engages GDPR (EU/EEA users), UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA (California residents), and FERPA (student records in institutional contexts), with Coursera acting as both data controller and, in enterprise/campus contexts, potentially as a data processor on behalf of institutional clients. Material compliance considerations include ensuring adequate GDPR Art. 6 legal bases for all processing activities, maintaining valid SCCs or equivalent transfer mechanisms for international data transfers, and assessing whether institutional data sharing arrangements require additional FERPA-compliant data use agreements.