Skillshare shares your name, email address, country, device information, and detailed learning activity data with the teachers whose classes you take or interact with.
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Students may not expect that individual third-party teachers, who are independent creators rather than Skillshare employees, receive personally identifiable information including email addresses and behavioral data about how long they watch specific content.
Your name, email address, and detailed viewing behavior for specific classes are shared with the individual teachers who create that content, meaning third-party instructors have access to identifiable student engagement data beyond aggregate statistics.
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"To facilitate interactions between our Teachers and users, we share with Teachers data that we have about users concerning content users access, purchase, or request information about, so Teachers can improve their content for you and other students. This data may include things like your name, email address, country, browser language, operating system, device settings, the site that brought you to the Services, and certain activities on the Services, like how many minutes you have watched and for what class or other content.Excerpt from Skillshare's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages FERPA considerations to the extent Skillshare is used in educational institution contexts, though Skillshare's consumer-facing nature may place it outside FERPA's direct scope in many use cases.
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Students may not expect that individual third-party teachers, who are independent creators rather than Skillshare employees, receive personally identifiable information including email addresses and behavioral data about how long they watch specific content.
Your name, email address, and detailed viewing behavior for specific classes are shared with the individual teachers who create that content, meaning third-party instructors have access to identifiable student engagement data beyond aggregate statistics.
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