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Last Updated: 08/24/2021

Note for California Residents: This Privacy Policy and the related Cookie Notice describes how we process your Personal Information and your rights and choices over our processing. In addition, the Notice for California Residents section referenced below, contains specific details related to your rights under California law, including your right to opt out of “sales” of Personal Information.

This Privacy Policy applies to websites (collectively, “Websites”), owned and operated by Turnitin, LLC (“Turnitin,” “we,” “us”).  It does not apply to our education products, which are governed by the policy available here.  This policy describes how we may collect, use, and disclose personal information from visitors to our Websites (“you,” “your”). It also describes your choices regarding use, access, and changes to your personal information. 

By accessing or using Turnitin Websites, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Websites.                    

In addition to reviewing this Privacy Policy, please also review our Website Terms of Use  because the Website Terms of Use and all its terms and conditions are an agreement between you and us.

Contents

Information We Collect

When you visit our Websites, we may collect certain personal information from you (“Personal Information”), which is information that identifies or reasonably relates to a specific person or household, or that is otherwise defined as personal information, personal data, or protected data under applicable laws.

If you request information about our education products or ask a question of our customer support team, we will ask you to provide certain Personal Information so that we may respond to your request. This may include information such as your first and last name, physical address, work email address, telephone number, job role, institution name, institution type and country. If you choose to join our Educator Network, we will also ask you for a password to help secure your account.


A Note About Children

Our Websites are intended for a general audience, and not for individuals under the age of 13 or otherwise under the age of consent in each region in which we operate (“children,” “child”).  We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children.  Should we learn that we have inadvertently collected Personal Information from a child, we will take steps to promptly delete it.

Usage Information and Cookies:

As is common with many websites, when you access our Websites, our servers automatically collect the Internet Protocol (“IP”) address associated with your computer. We may also collect additional information such as a browser type and version, the operating system of your device and language, country, as well as areas in the Websites you visit most frequently and when. If you log into your Educator Network account, we also collect the login timestamp. This information is used to help us administer the Websites, remember your preferences, and diagnose technical problems.  We also analyze the information for aggregate trends about how our Websites are used and to help improve our Websites. 

To collect this information, we use the following technologies: 

Cookies. Cookies are small data files sent by a website and stored on the computer or device at the request of that site. Cookies store information related to a user's browser to enable us to recognize the browser on return visits to our Websites and to remember your preferences. 

Pixel tags. A pixel tag (also referred to as a “clear gif” or “web beacon”) allows us to track the online usage patterns of the Websites and to understand which links are clicked. When we send you emails that you have opted into, pixel tags also allow us to track which emails are opened. This information is used to help us improve the Websites. 

HTML5 Storage. HTML5 storage or local storage allows us to distinguish your device from others and to remember information that might be important for the functioning of the Websites, such as to remember your location preference or your logged in state. Typically, HTML5 storage is only deleted if all Internet history, cache, and cookies are deleted. Check your browser controls for information on how to delete your HTML5 storage.

Third Party Cookies and Tracking:

We use third-party service providers to assist us in collecting and understanding usage information and serving advertising. Most browsers can be set to detect browser cookies and to let a user reject them, but refusing cookies may affect certain features of our Websites that are provided for your convenience.

A list of companies that use cookies on our Websites, the services they provide, and information on how you may opt out of certain cookies is included in the section on “Cookies Served on Our Websites.” To make choices about cookies placed by us or our third parties on our Websites, you may do so by visiting our choice center. If you do not/no longer want to have cookies placed on your browser by third parties, many of them also offer ways to opt out. To learn more about browser cookies, including how to manage or delete them, refer to the “Tools,” “Help,” or similar section of your web browser.

We do not serve targeted advertising on our Websites; however, when you use the Internet, we and our third parties, as well as unaffiliated third parties including ad networks, web analytics companies and social networking platforms may use tracking technologies such as those described above, to collect information about your online activities over time and across our and other websites. We and they may use this information to measure the effectiveness of our advertising and to target advertisements for products and services that may interest you.

 This information may be used to provide advertisements for products and services that may interest you, and those companies may use cookies, clear GIFs and other tracking technologies.       

As with most sites, we do not honor “do not track” signals transmitted by web browsers as there is no industry standard for implementing such programs. For more information about third-party advertisers and how to prevent them from using your information, visit the NAI’s consumer website at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices, https://www.aboutads.info/choices/, or https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/.  If you do want to opt out using these tools, you need to opt out separately for each of your devices and for each web browser (such as Chrome, Edge Firefox, Safari or others) that you use on each device.  To find out more about DNT, please visit http://allaboutdnt.com.  Note that DNT is different than the Global Privacy Control (GPC), which we do respond to in certain territories, such as Europe and California.  To find out more about GPC, please visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.

Cookies Served on Our Websites:


Our Websites places first party cookies on your browser, and we allow third parties to also place cookies on your device. The difference between a first party cookie and a third party cookie relates to the control of the party who serves the cookie. A first party cookie is a cookie set by the Website or domain you are visiting. A third party cookie is set by a domain other than the one you are visiting, operated by a separate company (not by us). While we may allow third parties to access the website to place these cookies on users’ devices, we do not retain control over the information supplied by the cookies, nor do we retain access to that data. This information is controlled wholly by that third party and subject to their privacy notice.

Cookies are further categorized as follows:

  • Strictly necessary cookies: Strictly necessary cookies are required to browse our Websites and use certain Website features. If you disable strictly necessary cookies, the functionality of the Websites will be affected. Where applicable, the legal basis for the collection of information through the use of strictly necessary cookies is legitimate interests of us or third party service providers that help us operate the Websites. More information on the balancing test supporting our legitimate interests is available upon request.

  • Functional cookies: Functional cookies enable us to store the selections and settings made by you (for example, your country or account preferences). If you disable these cookies, the functionality of the Websites may be affected. Where applicable, the legal basis for the collection of information through functionality cookies is your consent.

  • Analytics and Advertising cookies: Analytics cookies allow us to collect information on how our Websites are used and the nature of our user base. This includes whether a user has visited the Websites previously, the overall Website usage, and areas that users prefer on the Websites. This allows us to improve the performance of the Websites and your experience. Advertising cookies provide us with some of the same information that we collect from analytics cookies, and also allow us to serve advertising about our education products to you that we believe may interest you after you have visited our Websites, and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising. If you disable such cookies you will not receive advertising based on your visits to our Websites. Where applicable, the legal basis for the collection of such information by analytics and advertising cookies is your consent.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Host Cookie Description
developers.turnitin.com XSRF-TOKEN This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.
www.turnitin.com session-id Session Cookies are used by the server to store information about user page activities so users can easily pick up where they left off on the server's pages. Identifies the current session and the user.
www.turnitin.com, turnitin.com XSRF-TOKEN This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.
www.smartrecruiters.com, subscriptions.smartrecruiters.com AWSALBCORS This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing.
www.smartrecruiters.com, subscriptions.smartrecruiters.com AWSALB AWS ELB application load balancer
www.turnitin.com laravel_session This cookie is set by the Statamic CMS to identify a session instance for the user.
www.turnitin.com OptanonAlertBoxClosed This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.
turnitin.com OptanonConsent This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.

Functional Cookies

Host Cookie Description
www.turnitin.com, go.turnitin.com _atuvc, _atuvs These cookies are associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms.
supportcenter.turnitin.com force-stream Used to properly route server requests within Salesforce infrastructure for sticky sessions.
supportcenter.turnitin.com sfdc-stream Common Salesforce Cookie
supportcenter.turnitin.com Pctrk Used to count page views by unauthenticated users against license usage.
supportcenter.turnitin.com force-proxy-stream Salesforce cookie that ensures client requests hit the same proxy hosts and are more likely to retrieve content from cache.
turnitin.com lang There are many different types of cookies associated with this name, and a more detailed look at how it is used on a particular website is generally recommended. However, in most cases it will likely be used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language.
vimeo.com __cf_bm This is a CloudFoundry cookie associated with Vimeo.
tu101912p.searchunify.com connect.sid This is a session ID cookie set by SearchUnify.

Analytics Cookies

Host Cookie Description
turnitin.com __utmc This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. In this older versions this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie.
turnitin.com __utmb This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behavior and measure site performance. This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30 minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor.
turnitin.com _utmt This cookie is set by Google Analytics. According to their documentation it is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes
turnitin.com _utmz This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behavior and measure site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
turnitin.com _gat_UA- This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
turnitin.com _utma This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behavior and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It is used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customized by website owners.
turnitin.com _gid This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. Google Analytics. Used to distinguish users.
turnitin.com _ga This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports. By default, it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customizable by website owners.
Vimeo.com Vuid These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player on websites. This cookie allows Vimeo to collect analytics data such as how long a viewer has watched the video.

Advertising Cookies

Host Cookie Description
turnitin.com _uetvid This is a cookie utilized by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.
turnitin.com _gclxxxx Google conversion tracking cookie
turnitin.com _gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Google Analytics Used to throttle rate requests.
turnitin.com _uetsid This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user..
go.turnitin.com Pardot Cookie name associated with services from marketing automation and lead generation platform Pardot.
www.turnitin.com, go.turnitin.com visitor_id45292-hash, visitor_id#####, legacy-session-id This is a cookie pattern that appends a unique identifier for a website visitor, used for tracking purposes. The cookies in this domain have a lifespan of 10 years.
addthis.com Xtc This domain is owned by AddThis. AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted behavioral advertising.
addthis.com Uvc Tracks how often a user interacts with AddThis.
S7.addthis.com __atuvc, _atrfs, _atuvs These cookies are associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms.
linkedin.com lidc This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
linkedin.com bscookie Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
linkedin.com Bcookie This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media.
linkedin.com UserMatchHistory This cookie is used to track visitors on multiple websites to deliver, retarget, and measure performance of more relevant ads
linkedin.com AnalyticsSyncHistory Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms analytics cookie took place for users in the designated countries.
linkedin.com, ads.linkedin.com Lang
pardot.com visitor_id##### This is a cookie pattern that appends a unique identifier for a website visitor, used for tracking purposes. The cookies in this domain have a lifespan of 10 years.
pardot.com lpv45292
pi.pardot.com pardot Cookie name associated with services from marketing automation and lead generation platform Pardot.
youtube.com CONSENT This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
YouTube.com YSC
YouTube.com VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites. It can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface.
Bing.com MUID This cookie is widely used by Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded Microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking.
turnitin.com _fbp Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
c.bing.com SRM_B This domain is owned by Mircosoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing.
twitter.com personalization_id This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.
ipredictive.com cu This domain is owned by Adelphic, a USA based company engaged in mobile and cross-device programmatic online advertising.
linkedin.com li_sugr This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
linkedin.com li_gc This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
twitter.com personalization_id This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.
youtube.com __Secure-YEC YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
turnitin.com tuuid This cookie is used for analytics and advertising services provided by Demandbase products.
turnitin.com tuuid_lu This domain is owned by USA based company Demandbase, which provides technology for B2B marketing.

How We Use and Disclose Your Personal Information:

We do not access or disclose your Personal Information except as noted at the time that we request it, when you choose to share your information in our Educator Network, or as listed below.

To administer our Websites: to maintain and administer our Websites and the Educator Network accounts, to ensure service quality, and to protect the security of our Websites, including via support, services and security provided by our third party providers. Our legal basis for these practices is fulfillment of our legitimate interests, to enable us to perform our obligations and provide you with access to our Websites, and to change our business.
To communicate with you: including to respond to your requests, resolve a support issue, notify you about changes to the Websites, and to otherwise communicate with you and solicit feedback on your product experience. Our legal basis for these practices is fulfillment of our legitimate interests, to enable us to perform our obligations and provide you with access to our Websites, and to change our business.
To generate and manage log-in credentials: to create the Educator Network account, provide log in credentials, and authenticate members of the Educator Network. Our legal basis for these practices is fulfillment of our legitimate interests, to enable us to perform our obligations and provide you with access to our Websites, and to change our business.
In the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, assignment, bankruptcy, or similar business change: we may need to transfer your Personal Information to that re-organized entity or new owner after the sale or reorganization for them to use in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Our legal basis for these practices is fulfillment of our legitimate interests, to enable us to perform our obligations and provide you with access to our Websites, and to change our business.
In relation to a known or suspected violation of our terms of use, fraud prevention or other unlawful use: including to share Personal Information with entities assisting us in investigation and as may be required by applicable law. Our legal bases for these practices are to fulfill our legal obligations and legitimate interests, such as to allow us to ensure the legality of our Websites and to cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities.
In connection with legal or regulatory obligations: We may use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary to protect our rights or the rights and safety of our users, or as necessary in the event of a court order, regulatory inquiry or other lawful request. Provided, however, that unless legally prohibited, we will direct any such request to you or notify you before responding unless to do so would prejudice the prevention or detection of a crime. Our legal bases for these practices are to fulfill our legal obligations and legitimate interests, such as to allow us to ensure the legality of our Websites and to cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities.
With your consent, to provide you with marketing materials: to provide you with updates and offers about our products. At any time, you may unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing communication by using the link labeled “unsubscribe” available in each email communication or by contacting us at tiisupport@turnitin.com. Our legal basis for these practices is your consent where such consent is required.

How You May Modify Your Information

If you would like to review, correct, update or request that we delete Personal Information you have provided to us, please contact us at tiisupport@turnitin.com and specify what you would like to review, correct, update or have deleted.

Third Parties

We may engage with third parties to facilitate our delivery of our Websites and to provide certain features on our behalf, such as data hosting, analytics, content delivery, maintenance, email and marketing management, security and similar functions. These third parties may require a limited amount of information, including Personal Information, in order to deliver their services. 

We may also retain, use and share aggregated demographic information that is not linked or linkable to Personal Information for legally permissible purposes.

Links

Our Websites contain links to third party websites, including social networking websites.  The fact that we link to a website is not an endorsement or representation of an affiliation with that website. We do not control third party websites or their privacy practices. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. Other sites follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information you submit to them. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.

Turnitin Educator Network

To the extent an “Educator Network” section appears on the Websites, you may read, comment and share blog posts within such section.  Any comments you post in this area may be read, collected and used by others.  You may also log onto third party social networking websites via social network sharing widgets to share, comment or recommend blog posts.  The social network sharing widgets may provide information to their associated social networks or third-parties about your interactions with our web pages that you visit, even if you do not click on or otherwise interact with the plug-in or widget. Information is transmitted from your browser and may include an identifier assigned by the social network or third party, information about your browser type, operating system, device type, IP address, and the URL of the web page where the widget appears. If you use social network tools or visit social networking sites, you should read their privacy policies to learn what information they collect, use, and share.

Security

We implement commercially reasonable physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to help protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your Personal Information.  We host Personal Information in secure, cloud-based environments that use firewalls, encryption and other industry-standard technologies in an effort to prevent interference or access from outside intruders. The Internet, however, is not perfectly secure and we are not responsible for security breaches not reasonably within our control.

We also require unique account identifiers and passwords for our Educator Network that must be entered each time you sign into the Educator Network. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Educator Network user name and password. If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your account credentials or suspect a security breach, notify us at tiisupport@turnitin.com.

Data Retention

We retain Personal Information for as long as is necessary to provide you with access to our Websites or as long as is permissible under applicable law, including as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, comply with applicable industry standards, and protect the security of our Websites.

Opt-Out Policy

We may send you emails with information about our products that we believe may be of interest. You may opt out of receiving these email messages from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link found at the bottom of every email that we send or by contacting us at tiisupport@turnitin.com.

We do not send email messages on behalf of third parties.


Notice For California Residents

California residents have certain rights with respect to their Personal Information, as described below. Before we may fulfill your requests, we are required by law to verify your identity in order to prevent unauthorized access to your data.

In the case of rights requests in relation to our Websites, this may require us to confirm your identity by asking you to verify certain information previously provided by you, or other methods as practicable.

Right to Know and Access Information: You may access Personal Information we maintain about you using the methods provided below. If we grant your request, we will provide you with a copy of the Personal Information we maintain about you in the ordinary course of business. This may include what Personal Information we collect, use, or disclose about you. We may not fulfill some or all of your request to access as permitted by applicable law. 

Deletion of Information: You may request that we delete your Personal Information. Depending on the scope of your request, we may refrain from granting your request, as permitted by applicable law. For example, we may be legally required to retain your Personal Information in our business records. You may submit a deletion request using the methods provided below .

Right to Opt Out of “Sale” of Personal Information: You may opt out of what California law considers to be the “sale” of your Personal Information, which for our Websites, means transfer of your Personal Information to certain third parties for their or for others’ commercial purposes, including advertising purposes. California residents may opt out of this practice by clicking on the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link available on the footer of our Websites and follow the instructions.  

Authorized Agent: California residents may use an authorized agent on their behalf to exercise a privacy right discussed above. If you are an authorized agent acting on behalf of a California resident to communicate with us or to exercise a privacy right, you must be able to demonstrate that you have the requisite authorization to act on behalf of the resident and have sufficient access to their laptop, desktop, or mobile device to exercise these rights digitally. If you are an authorized agent trying to exercise rights on behalf of a Turnitin user, please contact us at the contact information below with supporting verification information, which includes a valid Power of Attorney in the State of California, proof that you have access to the consumer’s interface, and proof of your own identify.

To Exercise Your Rights

Website: To exercise the rights described above, please contact us using the information below. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding your California rights or this privacy policy, you may contact us using the contact information below.

Please note that your exercise of the above rights is subject to certain exemptions to safeguard the public interest (e.g., the prevention or detection of crime) and our interests (e.g., the maintenance of legal privilege). We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. Requests to exercise these rights may be granted in whole, in part, or not at all, depending on the scope and nature of the request and applicable law. Where required by applicable law, we will notify you if we reject your request and notify you of any reasons we are unable to honor your request.

Non-discrimination: We shall not discriminate or otherwise penalize anyone for exercising their rights under this Privacy Policy.

Categories of Personal Information we collect • Online identifier, Internet Protocol address
• Personal Information limited to your name under subdivision (e) of California Business and Professions Code Section 1798.80
• Internet or other electronic network activity information related to your use of our website.
• If you choose to schedule a call with Turnitin, we will collect identifiers such as a first and last name, work email, phone number.
• If you choose to send us an inquiry regarding our products, we will collect your professional or employment related information, such as your job title, institution name.
Categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected We collect the Personal Information directly from you.
Business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling Personal Information We collect your Personal Information to operate the Websites, respond to your requests and for the following business purposes:
• Maintaining or servicing the website and providing customer service.
• Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity.
• Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Sending you marketing communications
• Inferences drawn from your use of our website are used by third parties for their commercial interests.
Categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information We may share your Personal Information – specifically your IP address, device ID or similar online identifier, with certain third parties, such as social networks and advertising networks. This information is used in serving the advertising you see after you’ve visited our website and may also be used by the third parties for their own commercial interests.
Categories of third parties with whom we may “sell” Personal Information Advertising, marketing, and social media companies which may use your Personal Information for their targeted advertising purposes or other commercial purposes, which California law considers to be a “sale” of Personal Information.
Specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected • Internet Protocol address, device ID
• Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with our website.
• If you choose to provide it: first and last name, work email, phone number

California “Shine the Light” Rights

If you are a resident of California, you may request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information (if any) for marketing purposes.  To make such a request, please contact us at: Turnitin, LLC, 2101 Webster St., Suite 1900, Oakland, California 94612.


Additional Information for Users from the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, and the United Kingdom (UK): If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that your Personal Information will be transferred to, processed and stored in the United States and Canada.

When you access our Websites, we function as a “data controller” under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). In some cases, we will ask for your consent so that we may process your personal information. In other circumstances, we may rely on a different lawful basis, as explained in the section, “How we Use and Disclose Your Personal Information.

By submitting your Personal Information, you acknowledge that we may transfer, process and store your information in this way. Wherever the information is, it will be treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable privacy laws of the United States. These laws may be different from the privacy laws in your country. However, this does not change our commitments to safeguard your privacy and we will comply with all applicable laws relating to the cross-border disclosure of your Personal Information. Where required, we will implement Standard Contractual Clauses with our third parties or rely on such other transfer mechanisms to ensure that the transfer of your Personal Information outside of your country is lawful. You may request details of the transfer mechanisms that we rely on to transfer personal information outside of your country by emailing us at tiisupport@turnitin.com.

Additional Data Rights

Please note that the rules in your country may provide you with additional rights or may limit these rights.  In all cases, our provision of the rights will comply with the applicable laws.

If you are based in the EEA, for example, you may have the right to access, update or correct your Personal Information, to request deletion of such Personal Information, and to object to certain processing, including that related to marketing, to receive a machine-readable copy of the Personal Information concerning you that you provided to us or request us to transfer such data to an applicable third party in certain circumstances. 

In addition, where you provided your consent for our processing of your Personal Information, you may withdraw such consent by contacting us using the details provided in the “Contact” section. You may also restrict how we use your Personal Information while a complaint is being investigated. 

Your exercise of these rights is subject to certain exemptions to safeguard the public interest (e.g.  the prevention or detection of crime) and our interests (e.g., the maintenance of legal privilege). If you contact us to exercise any of these rights, we will verify your request and respond within thirty days.

Updates to This Policy:

As our Websites evolve, we may make changes to this Privacy Policy. We will alert you to changes by providing notice within the Website or otherwise as required by law. The “last updated” note at the top of this policy indicates when it was last revised, and updates will become effective when they are posted.  

Contact:

If you have any concerns or complaints about how we handle your Personal Information, or if you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

2101 Webster St., Suite 1900
Oakland, California 94612
866 816 5046
legal@turnitin.com

If you have concerns or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or our data handling procedures, you may have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Our Data Protection Officer may be reached at DPO@Turnitin.com.