Coursera Terms of Use

This document is Coursera's Terms of Use, governing access to and use of Coursera's online learning platform, courses, certificates, and related services, and is structured as a binding contract between Coursera, Inc. and any individual or institutional user who accesses the platform. The agreement states that users grant Coursera a broad, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute any content they submit, and the terms authorize Coursera to suspend or terminate accounts at its sole discretion for violations of its Honor Code or other policies. The intellectual property license granted over user-submitted content is stated without an explicit expiration tied to account closure, and the agreement asserts a mandatory arbitration clause with class action waiver that, if enforceable, would channel most disputes to individual arbitration rather than court proceedings; enforceability of such waivers varies by jurisdiction, particularly in the EU where mandatory arbitration in consumer contracts may not be permitted. As an education platform handling student records and learning data, the terms engage FERPA considerations for users accessing Coursera through institutional arrangements, and the platform's international user base means GDPR obligations apply to EU and EEA users, while California residents may have distinct rights under CCPA; the document references Coursera's separate Privacy Policy for data handling details. Compliance teams should note the interaction between Coursera's B2B arrangements with enterprise and campus licensees and the individual terms, as the document indicates that enterprise or campus agreements may layer additional or superseding obligations on top of these baseline terms.