Privacy Policy

Last Revised: August 2021

Overview

Exercism is an online platform designed to help you improve your coding skills through practice and mentorship.

Our platform comprises of a web site is located at https://exercism.org (and associated subdomains) and a command line application (CLI).

We’re deeply committed to providing you with a safe and secure online platform for you to develop your software coding skills.

Exercism is run and managed by Exercism ("We", "Us"), a not-profit-company registered in the UK with Company Number 11733062. You might also want to read:

Our approach to your privacy is very straightforward to understand.

  1. We do not collect more personal information than we need
  2. We will not share any data you give us (e.g. your email address) with other third parties
  3. We try to give you as much control about what information you share. For instance, we offer facilities to have an anonymous handle/user name if you want, and we don't require you to create a public profile.

It is important to note that any code submissions you make and any feedback you give may be made publicly available under a Creative Commons license. However, using our privacy tools, you can decide if you want this content to be identifiably linked to you.

The information we collect

Information collected during account registration

During registration we collect some information about you, such as your name and email address. If you choose to sign up with a 3rd Party (e.g. GitHub OAuth) we will capture your name and email address from that service.

During sign-up you will also be asked to create a handle, which will act as a username for any content you share on the site. There is no requirement for your Handle to be personally identifiable.

We use your name and email to send you notifications and updates (if you choose receive them) and any important Platform notices.

Information we collect while you use our online Services

We may collect usage information about your use of our Service, such as the number of problems you have attempted, the number of videos you have viewed, and the amount of time spent to complete a problem. This enables us to better tailor educational experiences that are most appropriate for you.

This information may include:

  • The URLs of the page you are visiting
  • Some information about your browser's version and operating system
  • Information about your location (based on your IP address)

We use a number of 3rd party tools/services to collect this information, you can get information about them (including how to opt-out) of these services by visiting the following pages.

  • Google analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
  • Hotjar: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out

GDPR

Please refer to our Data Protection Policy for details on how we honour or Data Protection commitments.

Cookies

Please refer to our Cookie Policy for details on the cookies we store.

How we use the information we've collected

To understand, improve, and develop our Platform and associated services. As detailed in our values, we aim to build a positive and caring community to help people improve their programming skills. In support of these aims, we may use the data we collect to improve the quality of our Users' learning and feedback. This may include performing data analysis on anonymized datasets.

Sharing and transferring data

We do not rent or sell any Personal Information that we collect with third parties.

If you choose to publish personal information on our Platform (such as, for instance, your name on a public profile page), you will remain responsible and in control of that information. You should NOT include personal information in your code solutions or feedback comments.