Skillshare Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs Skillshare's collection, use, and disclosure of personal data across its Services, including the recently acquired Superpeer platform, and is effective April 12, 2024, with stated legal bases including contractual necessity, legitimate interests, consent, and legal obligation. The policy authorizes collection of a broad range of personal data including identifiers, usage data, learning behavior, payment information, tax data, and third-party inferences; the terms also authorize sharing this data with service providers, teachers, business partners, advertising networks, and in connection with corporate transactions. Notably, the policy explicitly states that by agreeing to it users consent to session replay tools such as Crazy Egg, HotJar, and Microsoft Clarity capturing and recording user activity, which is an operationally specific disclosure not universally present in comparable platforms; the policy also discloses that third-party data providers supply demographic, interest-based, and advertising inferences that are attributed to users and combined with directly collected data. The policy engages GDPR for EU/EEA users, CCPA and related California law, and state privacy laws for Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Montana, Texas, Virginia, Utah, and Nevada; it also references COPPA with respect to users under 13, and its use of YouTube API Services engages Google's API terms. Compliance teams should note that the policy's reliance on broad legitimate interests as a processing basis, combined with extensive third-party data enrichment and session replay consent embedded in policy acceptance, may require evaluation under GDPR's consent and legitimate interests balancing requirements and various US state privacy opt-out obligations.