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 Skillshare 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. The FTC Act and applicable US state privacy laws, including CCPA's right to know about disclosures of personal information, are relevant. For EU/EEA users, sharing of personal data including email addresses with teachers as third parties requires a disclosed legal basis under GDPR. Enforcement authorities include the FTC, state attorneys general, and EU/EEA data protection authorities. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. Teachers on Skillshare are independent third-party creators rather than Skillshare employees or verified data processors, which creates ambiguity about the contractual and data protection obligations that govern their receipt and use of student personal data. The policy does not specify what data handling obligations teachers accept when receiving this information. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU/EEA users' personal data including email address shared with teachers outside the EU/EEA may require adequate transfer mechanisms. California residents have CCPA rights to know about disclosures to third parties. The policy's description of teachers as a category in the service providers list is potentially ambiguous given their independent third-party status. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Legal teams should assess whether teachers receive personal data as data processors under a data processing agreement or as independent data controllers, and should confirm that appropriate contractual terms govern teachers' receipt and use of student data including restrictions on secondary use. The absence of explicit detail on teacher data handling obligations is a due diligence flag for enterprise customers using Skillshare in employee training contexts. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should evaluate whether students are provided sufficiently prominent notice that their identifiable data, including email addresses, is disclosed to individual independent teachers rather than only to Skillshare as a platform. Privacy rights request workflows should confirm they can address student requests to restrict or object to this specific disclosure. Enterprise customers should confirm whether their agreements with Skillshare include any limitations on teacher-level data access for enrolled employees.
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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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