Name of the service

BYOD Online Course

Description of the service

The BYOD Online Course service is both a Content and a Learning Management System, based on the open courseware development platform Open edX (openedx.org), delivered in the context of the European-Commission-funded project BYOD (Project N°: 2021-1-PL01-KA220-SCH-000034458

, Grant Agreement no. 2021-1-PL01-KA220-SCH-000034458, https://byod-learning.eu/). It offers free web-based courses in Math education.

Data controller

BYOD consortium

Personal data processed

-Full name

-Email address

-Country or region of residence

-Year of birth

-Level of education completed

-Public username

-User password

How your information is used

BYOD Partners use information, including Personal Information, to carry out the following purposes:

Operate and improve the BYOD VLE – This includes creating and improving features that support the BYOD community and enable BYOD VLE usage at scale. This also includes personalizing the BYOD VLE, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs.

Create, administer, provide, and teach courses – This includes creating and improving the delivery of massive open online courses and programs on BYOD VLE. This also includes personalizing courses, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs and assessing your performance and awarding certificates.

Offer and improve products and services – This includes enabling you to navigate the BYOD VLE, to enroll and participate in courses and programs on the BYOD VLE and to learn effectively in such courses and programs.

Develop and maintain the security and performance of the BYOD VLE – This includes tracking BYOD VLE outages and creating software solutions, detecting violations of the Honor Code and Terms of Service, and monitoring uses, misuses, and potential misuses of the BYOD VLE.

Communicate with you – This includes answering your course and platform questions, notifying you of course and BYOD VLE maintenance and updates, marketing to you about course offerings, programs, news, and related products and services of BYOD project, and as permitted under applicable law, sending your communications about news and events of the BYOD project that may be of interest to you.

Support scientific research including, for example, in the areas of cognitive science and education – This includes collaborating to enable and conduct research about how learners access and master course materials online, with the goal of improving course outcomes.

Track BYOD VLE usage against goals and mission – This includes performing analytics to evaluate access to and performance in courses and course-related products and services and to report aggregate usage information (not Personal Information) to Partners and the European Commission.

Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations – This includes responding to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; and investigating, preventing, or taking action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, security or technical issues, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of BYOD VLE, or others, and as otherwise required by applicable law.

Third parties to whom personal data is disclosed

None

How to access, rectify and delete the personal data

Contact the support at  euskybridge@groupinternational.org

To rectify the data released by your Home Organisation, contact your Home Organisation's IT helpdesk

Data retention

Personal data is deleted on request of the user

Data Protection Code of Conduct

The processing of personal data shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).