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MIT Bootcamps provides educational opportunities via online courses and programs to individuals, teams, universities, and companies across the world. Our goal is to help accelerate the pace of innovation by providing a global community with access to the highest quality education. This Privacy Statement explains how MIT Bootcamps collects, uses, and processes personal information about our learners.
We collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal information about you, which we have grouped together as follows:
We collect information, including Personal Information, when you, or your employer transmits Personal Information on your behalf, enroll, create and maintain a profile and user account, participate in online courses, register for a paid certificate, send us email messages, complete an entrance or exit survey, and/or participate in our public forums and social media.
We also collect certain usage information about learner performance and patterns of learning. In addition, we track information indicating, among other things, which pages of our Site were visited, the order in which they were visited, when they were visited, and which hyperlinks and other user interface controls were used.
We may log the IP address, operating system, and browser software used by each user of the Site, and we may be able to determine from an IP address a user's Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity. Various web analytics tools are used to collect this information. Some of the information is collected through cookies (small text files placed on your computer that store information about you, which can be accessed by the Site). You should be able to control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your web browser. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our cookies, many functions and conveniences of this Site may not work properly.
We currently collect financial information from individual registrants; however, when you register and pay for a course, you will be directed to our third party payment processor and the submission of your payment information will be subject to the terms of that third party processor’s privacy statement
We collect, use and process your personal information (1) to process transactions requested by you and meet our contractual obligations; (2) to facilitate MIT Bootcamps’s legitimate interests, and/or (3) with your explicit consent, where applicable. Examples of the ways in which we use your personal information are as follows:
If you have concerns about any of these purposes, or how we communicate with you, please contact us at bootcamps-support@mit.edu. We will always respect a request by you to stop processing your personal information (subject to our legal obligations).
We will share information we collect (including Personal Information) with third parties as follows:
In cases where we share or disclose your Personal Information: (1) the third party recipients are required to handle the Personal Information in a confidential manner and to maintain adequate security to protect the information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, and destruction; and (2) we will only disclose and share the Personal Information that is required by the third party to fulfill the purpose stated at the time of collection. In addition, we may share aggregated information that does not personally identify you with the public and with third parties, including but not limited to researchers and business partners.
MIT Bootcamps is designed to protect Personal Information in its possession or control. This is done through a variety of privacy and security policies, processes, and procedures, including administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that reasonably and appropriately protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the Personal Information that it receives, maintains, or transmits. Nonetheless, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and therefore we do not guarantee its absolute security.
We consider your relationship with the MIT Bootcamps community to be lifelong. This means that we will maintain a record for you until such time as you tell us that you no longer wish us to keep in touch. After such time, we will retain a core set of information for MIT Bootcamps’s legitimate purposes, such as archival, scientific and historical research and for the defense of potential legal claims.
You have the right in certain circumstances to (1) access your personal information; (2) to correct or erase information; (3) restrict processing; and (4) object to communications, direct marketing, or profiling. To the extent applicable, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation provides further information about your rights. You also have the right to lodge complaints with your national or regional data protection authority.
If you are inclined to exercise these rights, we request an opportunity to discuss with you any concerns you may have. To protect the personal information we hold, we may also request further information to verify your identity when exercising these rights. Upon a request to erase information, we will maintain a core set of personal data to ensure we do not contact you inadvertently in the future, as well as any information necessary for MIT archival purposes. We may also need to retain some financial information for legal purposes, including US IRS compliance. In the event of an actual or threatened legal claim, we may retain your information for purposes of establishing, defending against or exercising our rights with respect to such claim.
By providing information directly to MIT, you consent to the transfer of your personal information outside of the European Economic Area to the United States. You understand that the current laws and regulations of the United States may not provide the same level of protection as the data and privacy laws and regulations of the EEA.
We may change this Privacy Statement from time to time. If we make any significant changes in the way we treat your personal information we will make this clear on our website or by contacting you directly.
The controller for your personal information is MIT. We can be contacted at dataprotection@mit.edu.
This policy was last updated in July 2020.