Effective May 1, 2018
This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website, except where stated otherwise.
What is SMART?
SMART provides an online learning platform, which instructors can use to setup classes and assignments for students to create and analyze models that show relationships between various concepts that they are learning about. SMART adds a dynamic visual element to learning concepts in various fields, and it is useful for any subject and learners of all ages. SMART can be used on most modern web browsers (at http://smart.cehd.gsu.edu/contact).
1. Personal Information
Personal information pertains to information that can be used to identify an individual person, which can include his or her name, email address, affiliated school or organization, username, password, the name of your teachers, or any other information that you provide to us while using the SMART website or communicating with us through any other means.
2. Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
SMART (also referred to as "We" in this document) and Georgia State University are the sole owners of the information collected on this website. We will not sell or lease this information to anyone.
We may use information about SMART’s usage, SMART users, and excerpts of class files and projects as part of data collection in our academic research and promotional materials for SMART, but we will not use personally identifiable data (such as names and emails) for our research and promotion without your consent. If you want to be exempted from SMART research, you will need to contact us through our contact form (http://smart.cehd.gsu.edu/contact).
Your personal information (such as your username and email) may appear to other users of SMART (like class instructors and other users that can view your assignments).
We will use personal information to contact you about your SMART account, inform you of changes to our terms of service and privacy policy, and answer inquiries you send to us. You will need to contact and inform us if you do not want us to communicate with you. Please use our contact form (http://smart.cehd.gsu.edu/contact)) for any of the following purposes:
- To opt out of having any future correspondence from us.
- To find out what data we may have about you.
- To have us delete any data we have about you.
- To state your concerns about our usage of your data.
If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people to us, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
3. Registration
In order to use the SMART website, users must create an account and provide accurate personal information (such as their name and email address). This information will be used to contact you about updates to the service we provide on our site.
4. Security
We take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information. Your personal data will be protected on and offline in a secure environment.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, then you should contact us immediately via the SMART contact form (http://smart.cehd.gsu.edu/contact) or by email (mkim120@gsu.edu).
5. External Links
This website may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices of on other sites. You are responsible for knowing the privacy policy of any third party websites that collect personally identifiable data.
6. Surveys and Feedback
On occasion, we may invite SMART users to fill out a survey about their user experience or we may request feedback from users in some other way (like focus groups). Participation in surveys and other activities is completely voluntary. You may choose to take the survey or not participate in any way. The information requested in these surveys and other activities may include personally identifiable information (like your name and school affiliation). Survey data and other requested feedback will be used for monitoring and improving this website, and it may also be used as part of academic research. If a survey or other opportunities to give us feedback will be used for academic research, then we will notify you of this before you participate.
7. IP Address
Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services. We use IP addresses for the purposes of providing support for the internal operations of the Services, such as calculating usage levels, diagnosing server problems, and administering the Services. We may also derive your approximate, general, location from your IP address.
8. Cookies
We may use "cookies" on this site, which are a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is not linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through the following means.
Contact form: http://smart.cehd.gsu.edu/contact
Email: Dr. Min Kyu Ki, mkim120@gsu.edu
Mail: Dr. Min Kyu Kim Learning Technologies Division, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 3978, Atlanta, GA 30302-3978.