What Course Hero's terms say

D privacy grade · coursehero.com · Learning

Course Hero's terms of service and privacy policy have 5 rated points: 0 serious, 2 bad, 2 worth knowing and 1 good. 4 apply whenever you use the site, signed in or not; 1 only once you have an account.

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Signed in or not

Whenever you use Course Hero

Bad 2

You are tracked via web beacons, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting

Cookie policy: "Course Hero Companies and our third-party providers, including those who provide website statistics on the use of our Services and those who provide interest-based advertising services, use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) for a variety of purposes."
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A secure, anonymized record of your data may be kept for analytical purposes after the data retention period ends

The service may keep a secure, anonymized record of your data for analytical purposes even after the data retention period

Privacy policy "We may further retain information indefinitely in a de-identified, anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally, as described in the policy and permitted under applicable privacy laws."
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Worth knowing 2

Do Not Track (DNT) headers are ignored and you are tracked anyway even if you set this header

Do Not Track (DNT) headers are ignored and you are tracked anyway even if you set this header.

Cookie policy: "Because of our use of Cookies, our Services do not support Do Not Track requests at this time."
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Your personal data may be aggregated into statistics

Your personal data is aggregated into statistics

Privacy policy: "We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the personal data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user."
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With an account

If you have a Course Hero account

Good 1

You can opt out of receiving promotional communications

You can opt out of promotional communications

Privacy policy: "Alternatively, you can opt-out of receiving marketing communications either through your account settings or by contacting us (see Contact Us section below). "
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The documents

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