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Privacy Policy

Name of the service 

TETRIS Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) 

 

Description of the service 

The TETRIS 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 TETRIS (Project Number: 2021-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000030199, https://ecourse.sports-tetris.eu/). It offers free web-based courses to physical education teachers and students and any other interested persons with a sports background. 

Data controller 

TETRIS consortium 

 

Contact Details 

The organization authorized to communicate on behalf of the consortium in matters related to this service, is Research Innovation and Development Lab, ReadLab, Greece. The relevant Project Manager is Katerina Triantafyllidi, who can be reached atkaterina@read-lab.eu 

 

Personal data processed 

Specific information is needed in order to register with this service. The minimum information required is: 
- Email 
- Full name 
- Public username 
- Password 
- Country or Region of residence 

(Personal Information Group A) 

You can also support education research by providing additional information during the registration or after an account has been created in the system, you will be able to enrich your profile with further information. 
- Gender 
- Time Zone 
- Highest level of education completed 
- Year of Birth 
- Preferred Language 

(Personal Information Group B) 

If you want to promote your accomplishments (relating to courses of this platform) you can use the links to the social media. To do so you could insert your social media links information: 
- Twitter Link 
- Facebook Link 
- LinkedIn Link 

(Personal Information Group C) 

When you participate in courses through this platform, information regarding your participation and performance are retained. Such information is: 
- Number and name of enrolled courses 
- Time of enrolment to the courses 
- Time spent on the courses 
- Completion time of the courses 
- Performance on quizzes 
- Answers to questionnaires 
- Certificates of completion 
- Questions and comments posted on the chat function 
- Questions and feedback received through other communication channels of the platform 
- Time spend on videos or other course material 

(Personal Information Group D) 

 

Why we process this information 

TETRIS Partners use information, including Personal Information, to carry out the following purposes per group of Personal Information: 

Personal Information Group A 
- Create an account for you in order to gain access to this Platform. The information of this Group is mandatory and without it no account can 
be created. (Needed to perform the service). 
- Offer and improve products and services. This includes enabling you to navigate the TETRIS VLE, to enrol and participate in courses and programs on the TETRIS VLE and to learn effectively in such courses and programs. 
- Communicate with you. This includes answering your course and platform questions, notifying you of course and TETRIS VLE maintenance and updates, marketing to you about related subjects. 

Personal Information Group B 
- Comply with the requirement of the Grant Agreement no. 2021-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000030199, for the European-Commission-funded project TETRIS (Project N°: 0030199). The design of this project (through which you have access to the relevant courses) demands the measurement of specific numbers. The information of this Group covers the majority of these Key Performance indicators [KPIs]. 

Personal Information Group C 
- Facilitate the promotion of your achievements to the public through social media interconnections. This information is optional. 

Personal Information Group D 
- Operate and improve the TETRIS VLE. This includes creating and improving features that support the TETRIS community and enable TETRIS VLE usage at scale. This also includes personalizing the TETRIS VLE, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs. 
- Communicate with you. This includes answering your course and platform questions, notifying you of course and TETRIS VLE maintenance and updates, marketing to you about course offerings, programs, news, and related products and services of TETRIS project, and as permitted under applicable law, sending you communications about news and events 
- Support scientific research including, for example, in the areas of Regenerative Agriculture. This includes collaborating to enable and conduct research about how learners access and master course materials online. Where necessary to extract these conclusions, all personal information is anonymized. 
- Develop and maintain the security and performance of the TETRIS VLE. This includes tracking TETRIS 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 TETRIS VLE. Track TETRIS 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 actionregarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, security or technical issues, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of TETRIS VLE, or others, and as otherwise required by applicable law. 

No Automated individual decision-making, including profiling takes place regarding your personal information and your experience within this Platform. 

 

Third parties to whom personal data is disclosed 

The partners of the consortium, the European Commission, the host of the platform for facilitating the above-mentioned purposes. 

 

Data retention 

We will retain your personal data for the duration of the project, as mandated by the relevant grant agreement 
After this period, your data will be irrevocably deleted. 

 

Data subject rights 

You have the following rights to your data: 
- Right of access by the data subject 
- Right to rectification 
- Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) 
- Right to restriction of processing 
- Right to data portability 

 

How to exercise your rights 

You can modify your information, access your data and remove all your information and profile through the platform. 
(Log in to your account and change any information or remove the account through the Account Setting tab.) 

If you need to have access to all the information, we process for you or to request restriction of processing, data portability or further information regarding your Personal information please contact us at:Research Innovation and Development Lab, ReadLab, Greece. 

The relevant Project Manager is Katerina Triantafyllidi, who can be reached atkaterina@read-lab.eu 

 

Complaint to the relevant authority 

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority.