Terms of Use
Open Yale Courses is an online information service provided by Yale University (Yale). By using this web site, you agree to be bound by the terms of use (the Terms) described below.
- Modification of These Terms of Use
- Copyright
- Course License
- Non-Commercial Use of Open Yale Courses and Materials
- Copyright Complaints
- Trademarks
- Purpose
- Privacy
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Modification of These Terms of Use
Yale reserves the right to change, at any time, in its sole discretion, the Terms under which Open Yale Courses is offered. Your continued use of Open Yale Courses constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. You are responsible for reviewing these Terms on a regular basis.
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Copyright
Open Yale Courses is owned and operated by Yale. All materials within Open Yale Courses are owned by Yale, the original Yale authors and/or third-party copyright owners (i.e., individuals or organizations not affiliated with Yale) and are protected by U.S. laws and international treaties.
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Course License
Most of the lectures and other course material within Open Yale Courses are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us). Course material under copyright held by a third party may be subject to additional intellectual property notices, information or restrictions. Please refer to the Credit section of the lectures and course material to identify third-party material, as such material may pose additional restrictions.
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Non-Commercial Use of Open Yale Courses and Materials
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of Yale courses. The Open Yale Courses materials are provided on this site for non-commercial purposes only. Non-commercial purposes means that you may not sell, profit from, or commercialize Open Yale Courses, the materials or content within or works derived from them. For example, Yale considers any use of Open Yale Courses and its content for the purpose of deriving profit to be prohibited commercial use.
Note that there are additional requirements (attribution and share alike) as set forth in the license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us) applicable to most of the sites content, and additional restrictions as to some third-party material as set forth in the Credit section of the lectures.
Please email any inquiries about acceptable use of Open Yale Courses and materials to open.courses.support@yale.edu
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Copyright Complaints
Yale respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that users of this material do the same. With respect to copyrighted material owned by third parties, Yale has obtained permission to use this content from the copyright owner or has proceeded with use under the fair use doctrine. If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, Yale urges you to submit notice to open.courses.support@yale.edu with the following information: (i) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (ii) the URL of the location containing the material that you claim is infringing; and (iii) your address, telephone number, and email address. Open Yale Courses will promptly remove any material that is determined to be infringing on the rights of others.
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Trademarks
Yale, Yale University, and associated trademarks, servicemarks, logos and design elements are owned by Yale University. All rights reserved. http://www.yale.edu/licensing/
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Purpose
Open Yale Courses does not grant degrees or certificates. Nor does it offer direct access to Yale faculty. Open Yale Courses aims to expand access to educational materials of a selection of Yale courses for those who wish to learn. Its purpose is not to duplicate a Yale education.
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Privacy
Yale is committed to protecting your privacy. Yale does not collect personally identifiable information unless it is voluntarily provided. If you voluntarily provide contact information such as an email address, Yale might use it to inform you of changes to Open Yale Courses or to survey use or opinion of the site. At your request, Yale will remove contact information from its files.
Yale also uses cookies to collect certain anonymous information to evaluate use of and access to Open Yale Courses and its content and to improve the site. However, cookies are not required to use this web site. Disabling cookies will not affect access to Open Yale Courses and its content.
Yale will not share personal information gathered on this web site with any other parties, except as is reasonably determined to be required by law or by governmental authority, or as necessary to provide services in accordance with the Terms of Use and/or Course License Agreement. It is Yales intention to protect against improper use of personal information.Any questions or concerns about this privacy policy should be directed to: open.courses.support@yale.edu.
